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  1. Small coffeepot and bowl with embossed designs used by a Yugoslavian family

    1. Gaon family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn596821
    • English
    • a: Height: 5.125 inches (13.017 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 2.875 inches (7.302 cm) b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Diameter: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm)

    Coffeepot and bowl 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. Norbert Vos-Obstfeld. Collection

    This collection contains: the French ID card of Chuma Rajzel Galant-Holcman ; pre-war family photos of the extended Obstfeld-Fleischer and Zwaaf-Vos families, including childhood, wedding and vacation photos ; photos of the Obstfeld-Zwaaf family after fleeing to France during the war; photos of Norbert Vos and his mother Lea Zwaaf while hiding in Kortrijk with the Verhage family ; photos of Elisabeth alias Lilly Zwaaf and her husband Maurice Da Cunha living in India during the war ; post-war photos of Norbert, his mother Lea Zwaaf and his stepfather Emiel Vos ; photos of Emiel Vos’s deporte...

  13. Ink drawing of a Paris street scene created by a Jewish refugee in the US

    1. Lucie Eisenstab Porges family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522524
    • English
    • 1950
    • overall: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) pictorial area: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)

    Ink illustration of a busy Parisian intersection created by Peter Paul Porges in 1950. In March 1939, Peter, 12, was sent from Vienna, Austria, to France on a Kindertransport. He lived in Chateau de la Guette, a refugee children's home supported by the Rothschild family. When Germany invaded France in May 1940, the children were evacuated south to La Bourboule. In April 1942, Peter was captured trying to enter illegally into Spain and was imprisoned in Rivesaltes internment camp. He escaped and, in January 1943, was smuggled into Switzerland. In May 1945, he met Lucie Eisenstab while attend...

  14. Omega wristwatch worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train

    1. Bela Gondos family collection

    Omega steel wristwatch worn by Dr. Bela Gondos when he was deported from Budapest, Hungary to Bergen-Belsen on the Kasztner train with his wife Anna and 7 year old daughter Judit in June 1944. He purchased the watch in 1940 or 1941 and it was not confiscated by the Germans because it was made of steel, not gold. 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 ...

  15. James G. McDonald collection

    1. James G. McDonald collection

    The James G. McDonald collection consists of diary entries, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and printed materials documenting McDonald’s work as chair of the Foreign Policy Association, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, chairman of President Roosevelt’s Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Jewish Problems in Palestine and Europe, U.S. Special Representative to the Jewish State, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel. McDonald’s diaries take the form of dictations he made to his staff, who typed and mai...

  16. Adler family papers

    1. Denes and Janos Adler family collection

    The Adler family papers document the Holocaust experiences of brothers Denis and János Adler, originally of Szeged, Hungary, and members of their extended families. The collection contains correspondence, biographical materials, immigration documents, restitution claims, and photographs regarding pre-war family lives; Denis’s emigration from Szeged in 1939; János’s conscription into the Hungarian Labor Service that accompanied German troops during the invasion of the Soviet Union, and his subsequent wounding and imprisonment in the field hospital in Alexajewka-Nikolajewka; the imprisonment ...

  17. American Friends Service Committee Refugee Assistance Case Files

    Consists of more than 20,000 case files created and maintained by staff and volunteers with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker relief and rescue organization. The files are concerned primarily with the sponsorship of individuals for immigration to the United States and the process of their adjustment to America, including job-hunting and the placement of young adults in colleges and training programs. The collection contains a wealth of detail on individual refugees, the bulk of whom were fleeing Nazism, including their experiences before or during the war and the effor...

  18. Felix and Flory Van Beek correspondence

    Collection of documents, correspondence, receipts and papers relating to Holocaust survivors Felix Levi and his wife Flory (later known as Felix and Flory Van Beek) in Rotterdam, Netherlands to friends and family including Felix's brother Hugo and Theo in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and New York; bound in binder; dated 1946-1948; in German, Dutch and English.

  19. Metz and Oberlaender families papers

    1. Metz and Oberlaender families collection

    The Metz and Oberlaender families papers consist of documents, correspondence, photographs, biographical materials, and immigration materials related to the Metz family, originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany and to the Oberlaender family, originally of Fürth and Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Gabrielle Metz and Hardy Oberlaender met in Frankfurt, were married in Chicago, and were eventually joined by many of their family members in the United States. The papers of both families are especially valuable to researchers because both sides of the correspondence are represented: the first family ...

  20. UNRRA selected records AG-018-009 : Italy Mission

    Correspondence, memos, statistics, publications, circulars, bulletins, financial documents, and reports relating to the Displaced Persons Operations, medical care, education and recreation, vocational trainings, emigration and resettlement.