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  1. Wristwatch with red band and a red pouch taken by a German Jewish girl on a Kindertransport

    1. John and Gisela Marx Eden collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn149054
    • English
    • a: Height: 7.375 inches (18.733 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) b: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 5.125 inches (13.017 cm)

    Wristwatch with a red band and a red cloth case brought by 14 year old Gisela Marx on a Kindertransport from Dulken, Germany, to Great Britain in August 1939. Gisela’s parents, Erna and Leopold, purchased the watch for Gisela’s journey. The Nazi regime, in power since 1933, persecuted the Jewish population. Leopold, a former diplomat and WWI veteran, and Erna, a member of a wealthy, landowning family, thought their status would protect them, but in 1939, they decided to send Gisela to safety. The friend paid to care for her never showed up, and she was sent to live with an Orthodox rabbi, a...

  2. Self-portrait by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn150
    • English
    • overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) pictorial area: Height: 17.750 inches (45.085 cm) | Width: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm)

    Self-portrait of Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee at Gurs internment camp. 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 refugees. Lili, originally from ...

  3. Portrait of a seated woman drawn by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection

    Ink portrait of a seated woman 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 refugees...

  4. Portrait of a woman by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn152
    • English
    • 1941
    • overall: Height: 13.250 inches (33.655 cm) | Width: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.680 inches (27.127 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm)

    Drawing 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 refugees. Lili, originally from Berlin, moved to Paris in 1938...

  5. Portrait of an older man by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn153
    • English
    • 1941
    • overall: Height: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) pictorial area: Height: 12.620 inches (32.055 cm) | Width: 9.330 inches (23.698 cm)

    Drawing 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 refugees. Lili, originally from Berlin, moved to Paris in 1938...

  6. Drawing of a woman sleeping on her back by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn154
    • English
    • 1940
    • overall: Height: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) pictorial area: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 17.750 inches (45.085 cm)

    Drawing of an exhausted woman at 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 refugees....

  7. Spanish Refugee Woman Portrait in profile of a woman by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn155
    • English
    • 1940
    • overall: Height: 11.120 inches (28.245 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.620 inches (26.975 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)

    Drawing 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 refugees. Lili, originally from Berlin, moved to Paris in 1938...

  8. Drawing of a scene outside barracks by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn156
    • English
    • 1940
    • overall: Height: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) pictorial area: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 17.750 inches (45.085 cm)

    Drawing of an outdoor scene at Gurs internment camp 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 refugees. Lili, or...

  9. Drawing of a man by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn157
    • English
    • 1940-1942
    • overall: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 17.250 inches (43.815 cm) pictorial area: Height: 13.120 inches (33.325 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)

    Drawing 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 refugees. Lili, originally from Berlin, moved to Paris in 1938...

  10. Drawing of an ox-drawn wagon by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection

    Drawing 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 refugees. Lili, originally from Berlin, moved to Paris in 1938...

  11. Drawing of a seated man by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection

    Drawing 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 refugees. Lili, originally from Berlin, moved to Paris in 1938...

  12. or Navarrenx? Drawing of a street scene by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn160
    • English
    • 1941
    • overall: Height: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) pictorial area: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 17.750 inches (45.085 cm)

    Drawing of a street scene by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee at Hotel Terminus du Port, Marseille, France. 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...

  13. Outside Camp de Gurs (?) Bagnoles de l'Orne (?) The Grounds Outside Camp De Gurs Watercolor and ink landscape by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn161
    • English
    • 1940
    • overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) pictorial area: Height: 17.750 inches (45.085 cm) | Width: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm)

    Watercolor and ink landscape, 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 refugees. Lili, originally from Be...

  14. Drawing of woman reading outdoors by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn162
    • English
    • overall: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 7.380 inches (18.745 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.120 inches (15.545 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm)

    Ink drawing of an older woman reading a book outside drawn in Gurs internment camp 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 cente...

  15. Wilhelm Baumann papers

    1. Wilhelm Bauman collection

    The Wilhelm Baumann papers consist largely of correspondence, immigration documents, educational records, identification documents, newspapers, and ephemera; related to the emigration of Wilhelm Baumann and his parents from their native Austria in 1939, his life in the United Kingdom and subsequent classification as an enemy alien, his subsequent deportation to Australia in 1940 on the Dunera, and his experiences in two internment camps in New South Wales and Victoria (Camp Hay and Camp Tatura). The collection also contains an extensive selection of his correspondence with other German and ...

  16. Woodcut portrait of Leo Baeck owned by a Jewish Polish girl

    1. Julie Keefer family collection

    Woodcut portrait of Leo Baeck, owned by Julie Keefer, a Jewish Polish girl who was in hiding during the Holocaust with her grandfather. Baeck was a Rabbi and intellectual theologian who emerged as an important symbolic and political leader of German Jewry before and during World War II. Baeck helped other Jews emigrate from Germany and fought for Jewish rights. In 1943 he was deported to Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto labor camp, where he gave lectures on philosophy and religion and became a leader among the camp’s Jews. In June 1941, when Julie was two months old, her hometown, Lvov, Pola...

  17. Watercolor painting of a courtyard given to an UNRRA official

    1. Rachel Greene Rottersman collection

    Watercolor painting of a courtyard in the city of Markgröningen, Germany, painted by artist Richard Kiwit (or Kivit) and gifted to Rachel Greene Rottersman, director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Aglasterhausen Children’s Center, in Unterschwarzach, Germany. Markgröningen is a city located 20 kilometers northwest of Stuttgart, and about 60 kilometers south from Aglasterhausen. Richard Kiwit was a well-known Estonian illustrator who moved to Germany in 1944. His daughter, Dagmar Elisabeth Kiwit (later Moder), was a pediatrician, and following the wa...

  18. Watercolor painting of farm fields given to an UNRRA official

    1. Rachel Greene Rottersman collection

    Watercolor painting of farm fields in the German countryside, painted by artist Richard Kiwit (or Kivit) and gifted to Rachel Greene Rottersman, director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Aglasterhausen Children’s Center, in Unterschwarzach, Germany. Richard Kiwit was a well-known Estonian illustrator who moved to Germany in 1944. His daughter, Dagmar Elisabeth Kiwit (later Moder), was a pediatrician, and following the war worked as a Medical Officer at Aglasterhausen Children’s Center. The children’s center opened in October 1945, and employed UNRRA per...

  19. Watercolor painting of a street scene given to an UNRRA official

    1. Rachel Greene Rottersman collection

    Watercolor painting of a bridge and road to the village of Unterschwarzach, painted by artist Richard Kiwit (or Kivit) and gifted to Rachel Greene Rottersman, director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Aglasterhausen Children’s Center, in Unterschwarzach, Germany. Richard Kiwit was a well-known Estonian illustrator who moved to Germany in 1944. His daughter, Dagmar Elisabeth Kiwit (later Moder), was a pediatrician, and following the war worked as a Medical Officer at Aglasterhausen Children’s Center. The children’s center opened in October 1945, and empl...

  20. Painting of a large estate given to an UNRRA official

    1. Rachel Greene Rottersman collection

    Watercolor painting of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Aglasterhausen Children’s Center, in Unterschwarzach (now Schwarzach), Germany, painted by artist Richard Kiwit (or Kivit) and gifted to Rachel Greene Rottersman, director of Aglasterhausen. Richard Kiwit was a well-known Estonian illustrator who moved to Germany in 1944. His daughter, Dagmar Elisabeth Kiwit (later Moder), was a pediatrician, and following the war worked as a Medical Officer at Aglasterhausen Children’s Center. The children’s center opened in October 1945, and employed UNRRA personnel...