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  1. Handmade illustrated children's book created by an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Irene Rosenthal Gibian family collection

    Hand crafted illustrated children's book created by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  2. Cut-paper work created by an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Irene Rosenthal Gibian family collection

    Cut paper artwork created by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  3. Cut-paper work created by an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Irene Rosenthal Gibian family collection

    Cut paper artwork created by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  4. Handmade book illustrating the alphabet created by an Austrian refugee

    1. Irene Rosenthal Gibian family collection

    Hand crafted children's book with pictures representing each letter of the alphabet created by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  5. Handmade illustrated children's book created by an Austrian refugee

    1. Irene Rosenthal Gibian family collection

    Hand crafted children's book with handdrawn text and illustrations created by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  6. Wooden trunk used by a Jewish Austrian refugee

    1. Irene Rosenthal Gibian family collection

    Wooden trunk used by Irene Rosenthal when she fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  7. Pair of toddler's shoes owned by a Jewish child refugee

    1. Irene Rosenthal Gibian family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8691
    • English
    • a: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) b: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm)

    Pair of well worn toddler's shoes inscribed "Der Erste Schuh" [The First Shoe] brought with 3 year old Susanna Gibian and her father Otto when they fled Vienna, Austria, for the United States in September 1938. On March 12, 1938, German troops marched over the border into Austria and, the next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. Otto had a successful office equipment business, the Rex Company, which was confiscated by the Nazi government. He decided to leave because he wanted his daughter to have a normal life in...

  8. Portrait photograph by Judy Glickman of a Jewish Danish refugee

    1. Judith Ellis Glickman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41832
    • English
    • 1992
    • overall: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.120 inches (15.545 cm) | Width: 9.380 inches (23.825 cm)

    Black and white photographic print taken by Judy Glickman in 1992 of Victor Borge, a Danish humorist and pianist. Throughout the 1930s, Victor toured Europe; he played music and told anti-Nazi jokes. When the Germans invaded Denmark, Victor was performing in Sweden. He did not return to Denmark, but sailed from Finland on the USS American Legion, arriving in the United States on August 28, 1940. Germany occupied Denmark on April 9, 1940, but allowed the Danish government to retain control of domestic affairs. Jews were not molested and the German presence was limited. After the Germans inva...

  10. "We Came to America: Memories of a Refugee Child"

    Consists of one memoir, 81 pages with appendices, entitled "We Came to America: Memories of a Refugee Child" by Marlies Wolf Plotnik, written in 2005. In the memoir, Mrs. Plotnik describes her childhood in Darmstadt, Germany, her memories of Kristallnacht, her family history, her family's immigration to the United States through England in 1939,and her life in the United States. Includes copies of photographs, documents, and family trees.

  11. Metal hand stamp monogram brought with a German Jewish refugee

    1. Lewin and Levi family collection

    Hand stamp with the intertwined letters S and L brought with Simon Lewin when, with his wife Violet, their daughter Marion, and Violet's son, Rolf, fled Berlin, Germany, in late December 1938 for the United States.

  12. 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...

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jews, refugee relief, England

    A refugee couple being interviewed in German at Woburn House (staged). In BG can see others being assisted. They present passport documents. MCU of couple as husband speaks, CU of him as he speaks. Woman shyly stares down at table. Both speak German? CU profile of agent providing assistance. Two women processing documents concerning boarding and lodging of refugees.

  14. Internationale Vluchtelingen Organisatie [International Refugee Organization IRO] Internationale Vluchtelingen Organisatie

    • Nationaal archief
    • Z21075
    • Dutch
    • 1945-1953
    • 3.90 meter; 203 inventarisnummers.

    Het archief van de Nederlandse Delegatie van het Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees bevat voor de periode 1947-1957 gegevens over diverse aspecten van migratie en opvang. Het betreft stukken over de status van Joodse, Hongaarse en andere vluchtelingen en displaced persons; de opvang van vluchtelingen in Nederland; hulpverlening; rechtsherstel en rechtspositie; emigratiefaciliteiten in Zuid-Amerika, Canada en Nieuw-Zeeland; de regelingen t.a.v. vluchtelingen in de verschillende Duitse bezettingszones; richtlijnen voor de schadeloosstelling van Nazivervolgden; correspondentie en rapporte...

  16. More refugee children arrive from Germany - in time ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    More refugee children arrive from Germany - in time for Christmas. Small refugees with their packs and bundles on arrival at Liverpool Street.

  17. Comfort in three stages ........ A little boy refugee ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Comfort in three stages ........ A little boy refugee looks sympathetically at a little girl who gave way to tears at Southampton.

  18. Second party of refugee children arrives - 500 from ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Second party of refugee children arrives - 500 from Vienna seek shelter in England. Girl refugees with their bundles on arrival at Harwich.

  19. More refugee children arrive from Germany - in time ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    More refugee children arrive from Germany - in time for Christmas. Small refugees with their packs and bundles on arrival at Liverpool Street.

  20. Second party of refugee children arrives - 500 from ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Second party of refugee children arrives - 500 from Vienna seek shelter in England. A little girl refugee inspecting the label worn by a little boy at Harwich.