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  1. Turkish coffee finjan used by a Yugoslavian family

    1. Gaon family collection

    Small finjan (also called a cevze) owned by a member of the Gaon family in Yugoslavia during the Holocaust. The Gaon family, Menachem (Mento), his wife Lottie and their son Izzica, lived in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia when Germany and its allies invaded and occupied Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941. Central Yugoslavia, including Sarajevo, was formed into the independent state of Croatia, ruled by the Ustasa. Soon after occupation, Mento and Lottie were arrested and sentenced to fifteen days hard labor. Later that year, the family escaped to the city of Split in the Italian-occupied zone where they woul...

  2. Small copper tray with a landscape scene owned by a Yugoslavian family

    1. Gaon family collection

    Small tray owned by a member of the Gaon family in Yugoslavia during the Holocaust. The Gaon family, Menachem (Mento), his wife Lottie and their son Izzica, lived in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia when Germany and its allies invaded and occupied Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941. Central Yugoslavia, including Sarajevo, was formed into the independent state of Croatia, ruled by the Ustasa. Soon after occupation, Mento and Lottie were arrested and sentenced to fifteen days hard labor. Later that year, the family escaped to the city of Split in the Italian-occupied zone where they would be safe. The Italian a...

  3. Small handmade wooden boot owned by a Yugoslavian family

    1. Gaon family collection

    Small, wooden shoe owned by a member of the Gaon family in Yugoslavia during the Holocaust. The Gaon family, Menachem (Mento), his wife Lottie and their son Izzica, lived in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia when Germany and its allies invaded and occupied Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941. Central Yugoslavia, including Sarajevo, was formed into the independent state of Croatia, ruled by the Ustasa. Soon after occupation, Mento and Lottie were arrested and sentenced to fifteen days hard labor. Later that year, the family escaped to the city of Split in the Italian-occupied zone where they would be safe. The I...

  4. Hand carved miniature wooden bucket owned by a Yugoslavian family

    1. Gaon family collection

    Small, wooden bucket owned by a member of the Gaon family in Yugoslavia during the Holocaust. The Gaon family, Menachem (Mento), his wife Lottie and their son Izzica, lived in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia when Germany and its allies invaded and occupied Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941. Central Yugoslavia, including Sarajevo, was formed into the independent state of Croatia, ruled by the Ustasa. Soon after occupation, Mento and Lottie were arrested and sentenced to fifteen days hard labor. Later that year, the family escaped to the city of Split in the Italian-occupied zone where they would be safe. The...

  5. Small metal coffeepot used by a Yugoslavian family

    1. Gaon family collection

    Small coffeepot owned by a member of the Gaon family in Yugoslavia during the Holocaust. The Gaon family, Menachem (Mento), his wife Lottie and their son Izzica, lived in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia when Germany and its allies invaded and occupied Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941. Central Yugoslavia, including Sarajevo, was formed into the independent state of Croatia, ruled by the Ustasa. Soon after occupation, Mento and Lottie were arrested and sentenced to fifteen days hard labor. Later that year, the family escaped to the city of Split in the Italian-occupied zone where they would be safe. The Ital...

  6. Fred Strauss papers

    The Fred Strauss papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Fred Strauss’ attendance at the Israelitische Waisenanstalt school in Frankfurt, his inclusion in a Kindertransport from Frankfurt to Paris in 1939, his life as a child refugee in OSE homes in France, his immigration to the United States as part of an USCOM children’s transport from Lisbon in June 1941, his mother’s death in 1943, his move to New York, and his enlistment in the United States Army. Biographical materials include identification papers, travel papers, and m...

  7. Eva and Otto Pfister papers

    1. Eva and Otto Pfister collection

    The Eva and Otto Pfister papers consist of diaries and immigration files documenting German Jewish refugee Eva Pfister’s experiences in France and New York, her efforts on behalf of her non-Jewish German refugee husband, Otto Pfister, and their socialist colleagues, and the anti-Nazi work of the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). Eva’s four diaries document her teenage years in Goldap, her life as a refugee in France separated from Otto, interned in Gurs, waiting in Montauban for her opportunity to emigrate, her escape over the Pyrénées to Lisbon, and her immigration to the Un...

  8. Bela Gondos family papers

    1. Bela Gondos family collection

    The Bela Gondos family papers consist of biographical materials, refugee and emigration papers, and writings documenting Bela, Anna, and Judith Gondos of Budapest and their journey aboard the rescue train organized by Rezső Kasztner, internment at Bergen-Belsen, transfer to Switzerland, and immigration to the United States. Biographical materials include birth and marriage certificates, identification papers, citizenship documents, education and professional records, foreign worker and air raid worker certificates, and inoculation records documenting Bela, Anna, and Judith Gondos and Bela’s...

  9. Plastic doll named Zsuzsi carried by a young Hungarian Jewish girl on the Kasztner train

    1. Bela Gondos family collection

    Celluloid Schildkrot doll named Zsuzsi carried by 7 year old Judit Gondos when she left Budapest with her parents Bela and Anna on the Kasztner train in June 1944. Judit received the doll from her parents for Chanukah in 1942. After arguments and many tears, she was allowed to take the doll on the train if she carried it herself. The doll’s dress was lost long ago. Jews were increasingly persecuted by the Nazi-influenced Hungarian regime. Bela worked on 2 or 3 forced labor battalions until released in 1942 because he was a physician. On March 19, 1944, Germany invaded Hungary and the author...

  10. Red and yellow floral handkerchief carried by a young Hungarian Jewish girl on the Kasztner train

    1. Bela Gondos family collection

    Floral handkerchief carried by 7 year old Judit Gondos when she left Budapest, Hungary, with her parents Bela and Anna on the Kasztner train in June 1944. It was a gift from her maternal aunt, Iren (Pircsi) Havas, in prewar Bekes. Jews were increasingly persecuted by the Nazi-influenced Hungarian regime. Bela worked on 2 or 3 forced labor battalions until released in 1942, because he was a physician. On March 19, 1944, Germany invaded Hungary and the authorities prepared to deport all the Jews from Hungary to concentration camps. In mid-May, Bela heard about the Kasztner train, negotiated b...

  11. Child Care Division

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Relief and Rescue Departments

    Box D71. Folder 1. Rescue, 1942-1944 May Box D71. Folder 2. Rescue, 1944 June-1946 February Box D71. Folder 3. Gutman, William, report on destitute children, 1945 May Box D71. Folder 4. Rescue of children in France, reports by Riegner, Gerhart M., and list of children, 1945 Box D71. Folder 5. Jewish children in Christian homes, Poland, Besserman case, 1945-1950 Box D71. Folder 6. Jewish children in non-Jewish homes, 1945-1953 Box D71. Folder 7. Correspondence, 1945-1946 Box D71. Folder 8. Minutes, agendas, correspondence, reports, lists, 1945-1948 Box D71. Folder 9. Correspondence and minut...

  12. Rescue Department

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Relief and Rescue Departments

    Included are files of Aryeh L. Kubowitzki and Rudolf Glanz, together with inquiries and locations concerning missing Jews and records of rescue work in post-war Europe. Box D104. Folder 1. List of incoming mail and cables, 1944 July 21-November 9 Box D104. Folder 2. Kubowitzki, Aryeh L., 1944-1946 Box D104. Folder 3. Rescue Committee minutes, 1944-1945 Box D104. Folder 4. Sephardic communities correspondence, 1942-1943 Box D104. Folder 5. Women's Institute of Jewish Studies, 1943 December-1944 February Box D104. Folder 6. Peace Aims Planning Committee, 1941-1944 Box D104. Folder 7. Post-war...

  13. American Friends Service Committee records relating to humanitarian work in France

    The collection pertains to the activities of the American, British, and French Quakers in France and North Africa, from 1933-1950. The collection encompasses the Paris-based office of the Commissioner for Europe, the AFSC's liaison with the Allied occupation governments in Germany, Austria and North Africa as of 1943; and the Quaker delegations in Paris, Bordeaux, Caen, Le Havre, Lyon, Marseille, Montauban, Perpignan, and Toulouse. The materials consist of official correspondence, minutes of meetings, interviews with officials; weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and quarterly reports from delegatio...

  14. American Friends Service Committee records relating to humanitarian work in North Africa

    The collection documents work done by the Refugee Service and the Displaced Persons Service of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), to provide humanitarian relief to refugees and displaced persons in North Africa. The bulk of the collection consists of the correspondence of AFSC delegates in North Africa with AFSC representatives in Europe and America and with committees and organizations working with the Quakers. The collection further includes reports documenting the Quakers' projects in North African camps, and financial and administrative issues. The reports may contain name l...

  15. Tallit and storage pouch buried and recovered by a Dutch Jewish family

    1. Andries Roos family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn84505
    • English
    • a: Height: 54.500 inches (138.43 cm) | Width: 73.000 inches (185.42 cm) b: Height: 15.875 inches (40.323 cm) | Width: 17.750 inches (45.085 cm)

    Striped tallit and storage bag recovered by Leo Roos after the war. The tallit was a family heirloom that had belonged to Abraham Agsteribbe, Leo’s maternal great grandfather, who died in 1911. The tallit, a prayer shawl worn by observant Jewish men during morning services, had been buried by a relative underneath the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam in 1940, before the outbreak of war. On May 10, 1940, Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands where Andries lived with his wife, Rozet, 2 year old son, Leo, and brother, sister-in-law, and niece, Abraham, Rachel, and Leni Roos. In summer 1940, An...

  16. Pin issued to a camp survivor with Buchenwald memorial Bell Tower and flags

    1. Elja Heifecs collection

    Commemorative pin issued to Elja Heifecs, a former inmate of Buchenwald concentration camp, by the GDR (German Democratic Republic / East Germany) in 1969 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald on April 11, 1945. The pin is decorated with the memorial Bell Tower built on the site in 1958 by East Germany and the flags of the eighteen countries whose citizens were imprisoned and killed there during the Holocaust. In July 1941, Germany declared war on the Soviet Union and invaded Latvia which had been annexed by the Soviets in 1940. A vicious pogrom was unleashed u...

  17. Stolz and White families papers

    The Stolz and White families papers include biographical material, correspondence, school records, writings, restitution material, and photographs relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Erika Stolz and her parents, Leon and Rosa, originally of Vienna, Austria. At the beginning of the war Erika was sent on a Kinderstransport to Christian boarding school in England. Leon and Rosa were divorced in Austria before the war. During the war, Leon and his future-wife Hermine fled to Italy and then Shanghai, where they remained until the invasion of the Japanese Imperial Army. ...

  18. Netherlands, 1 gulden silver voucher, kept by a Dutch Jewish woman in hiding

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Dutch 1 (een) gulden note kept by Flory Cohen Levi in her pouch, see 1990.23.191, while she was in hiding in Amersfoort, Netherlands, from June 1942 to May 1945. Flora intended to send it to her mother Alijda, but Flora could not find her, so she always kept the pouch with her. Flora's mother Alidja had been deported to Auschwitz in September where she was killed. Flory met Felix Levi, a refugee from Hitler's Germany, in the mid-1930s. After Germany invaded Poland, Felix convinced Flora to flee. In November 1939, they sailed for South America aboard the SS Simon Bolivar, which was sunk by G...

  19. Netherlands, 1 gulden silver voucher, kept by a Dutch Jewish woman in hiding

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Dutch 1 (een) gulden silver voucher kept by Flory Cohen Levi in her pouch, see 1990.23.191, while she was in hiding in Amersfoort, Netherlands, from June 1942 to May 1945. Flora intended to send it to her mother Alijda, but Flora could not find her, so she always kept the pouch with her. Flora's mother Alidja had been deported to Auschwitz in September where she was killed. Flory met Felix Levi, a refugee from Hitler's Germany, in the mid-1930s. After Germany invaded Poland, Felix convinced Flora to flee. In November 1939, they sailed for South America aboard the SS Simon Bolivar, which was...

  20. Brown cloth bag with a red, white, and blue stripe carried by a hidden Dutch Jewish woman

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Brown bag with a Dutch flag stripe used by Flora Cohen to store her false papers while she was in hiding in Amersfoort, Netherlands, from June 1942 to May 1945. Flory met Felix Levi, a refugee from Hitler's Germany, in the mid-1930s. After Germany invaded Poland, Felix convinced Flora to flee. In November 1939, they sailed for South America aboard the SS Simon Bolivar, which was sunk by German mines. They were rescued by the British military and taken to a hospital in England. After recuperating for six months, they had to leave because Felix, a German, was considered an enemy alien. In May...