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  1. Ink drawing of sailboats near a dockside cafe by a refugee from Nazi Germany

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Ink sketch of boats in a harbor created in 1934 by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Nelly was a Quaker, but had been born Jewish. In 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. After Kristallnacht in November 1938, her parents left for England. Nelly sent her eight year old, Michael, to a Quaker school in the Netherlands, but she still had strong pro-German feelings and was not ready to leave. In 1939, she and Micha...

  2. Ink drawing of two barracks surrounded by tall grass by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn76
    • English
    • 1940
    • overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm)

    Ink drawing of two wooden barracks in Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for Jewish refu...

  3. Ink drawing of two girls barring a door created to illustrate a story by German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Ink illustration of 2 girls in front of a door created by Nelly Rossmann. It is one in a series of unpublished book illustrations. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November...

  4. Ink drawing of woman sleeping at Gurs internment camp by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn140
    • English
    • overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.747 cm)

    Ink drawing of a sleeping woman drawn in Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for Jewish r...

  5. Ink sketch of a canal lock by a German Jewish female designer

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Ink drawing a canal lock and house created by Nelly Rossmann circa 1935. There is a sketch of a seated figure on the reverse. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Following the Reichstag Fire in February, Germany became a police state and Jews were targeted for persecution. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish and, in 1935, she was fired from her job due to a government decree that Jews could not work in the publishing industry. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in N...

  6. Ink sketch of a factory and bridge along a river by a refugee from Nazi Germany

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Ink sketch created by Nelly Rossmann in 1934 of a factory and bridge on the Rhine River in Hamborn, Germany. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born and in 1935, she was fired from her job due to a government decree that Jews could not work in the publishing industry. After Kristallnacht in November 1938, her parents left for England. Nelly sent her eight year old, Michael, to a Quaker school in the Netherlands, but she still ha...

  7. Ink sketch of a sailboat with tied sail created by a German Jewish female designer

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Ink drawing of a sailboat in a harbor in Heraklion, Crete, created by Nelly Rossmann in 1934. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nelly...

  8. Ink sketch of a single tree on a coastline created by a German Jewish female designer

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Ink drawing of a tree on a shoreline with a house in the distance created by Nelly Rossmann in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1934. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her paren...

  9. Ink sketch of three marionettes drawn by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Ink drawing of marionettes of a devil, a jester and a man created by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nelly...

  10. Insert poster for the film “Sword in the Desert” (1949)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    U.S. insert poster for the film, “Sword in the Desert,” released in the United States in August 1949. Insert posters were a popular size of film posters, often framed and used in special, small displays within a theater lobby. The film follows an American cargo ship captain who finds himself stranded in a Jewish settlement after smuggling a group of illegal Jewish immigrants to British-controlled Palestine. Initially self-interested and unsympathetic to the refugees, the captain has a change in heart after he is captured, imprisoned, and later escapes with them. “Sword in the Desert” was th...

  11. Intelligence Corps cap badge worn by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Intelligence Corps cap badge worn by Norman Miller (previously Norbert Müller), a German Jewish refugee, during his service in the British Army from 1944 to 1947. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by local men with axes. In late August 1939, Norbert, managed to leave Germany for London, with a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] two days prior to the start of World War II. Norbert was able to exchange letters with his family ...

  12. Interned Refugees

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)

    Assistance to refugees from Germany and Austria, most of whom were Jewish, interned in Britain as "Prisoners of War" in May 1940 and transferred to Australia and Canada shortly thereafter.

  13. Internees of the Isle of Man

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains material regarding the internees of the Isle of Man (self-governing crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland). A stamp book released by the Central British Fund, including stamps and drawn examples of stamps are attached. In the stamp book it is mentioned that with everyone who participated on collecting or using these stamp Jewish kids will receive some help of the sales revenues. Furthermore informations about the situation of Jews and the generel political behaviour in different countries are published on some leaflets. Also the...