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  1. Cobbler's hammer used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

    1. Simon Gelbart collection

    Cobbler's hammer used by Simon Gelbart, who was conscripted into the Soviet Army from 1943-1945 because of his shoemaking skills. Simon was a master shoemaker and kept his shoemaking kit with him all through the war. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Simon kept moving his family, his wife, Sara, and sons David, 9, and Haim, 5, east to escape persecution. Soon after they reached Soviet territory, the family was arrested and sent to Siberian Labor Camp #70, where a daughter was born. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, they were released. Due to a bombing raid on...

  2. Dark red shoe wax used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

    1. Simon Gelbart collection

    Dark red shoe wax used by Simon Gelbart, who was conscripted into the Soviet Army from 1943-1945 because of his shoemaking skills. He used the wax to coat threads and seal edges to prevent moisture leaks. During the war, when the family was starving in Russia, Simon's wife used some as a replacement for cooking fat. Simon was a master shoemaker and kept his shoemaking kit with him all through the war. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Simon kept moving his family, his wife, Sara, and sons David, 9, and Haim, 5, east to escape persecution. Soon after they reached Soviet territo...

  3. Brown shoe wax used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

    1. Simon Gelbart collection

    Brown shoe wax used by Simon Gelbart, who was conscripted into the Soviet Army from 1943-1945 because of his shoemaking skills. He used the wax to coat threads and seal edges to prevent moisture leaks. During the war, when the family was starving in Russia, Simon's wife used some as a replacement for cooking fat. Simon was a master shoemaker and kept his shoemaking kit with him all through the war. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Simon kept moving his family, his wife, Sara, and sons David, 9, and Haim, 5, east to escape persecution. Soon after they reached Soviet territory,...

  4. Egon Berg papers

    The Egon Berg papers consist of biographical materials and emigration and immigration papers documenting the marriage of Karl and Rosa Berg, their relocation to Kenya with Egon in 1939, and their immigration to the United States in 1947. Records include a wedding certificate, Rosa Berg’s German identification card and Kenyan certificate of registration, Kenyan customs forms, orders and restrictions to which the Bergs were subject in Kenya, and a letter of recommendation in lieu of passport for the Berg family.

  5. Leitz Stativ VI compound brass microscope, case, and accessories used by a Jewish family

    1. Gerard Fields family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522412
    • English
    • a: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 5.625 inches (14.287 cm) b: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Depth: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Diameter: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) c: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) d: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) e: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) f: Height: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.557 cm) | Depth: 7.375 inches (18.733 cm) g: Height: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) h: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) i: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) j: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm)

    Leitz brass compound microscope, with fitted case and accessories, that belonged to Gerard Fields. It is likely that the microscope was brought to the US by his father Edgar, a chemical engineer. Edgar and his wife Anna left Germany in 1933 for France rather than live under the Nazi regime. Germany occupied France in June 1940. After Edgar was demobilized from the French Army in 1941, he arranged for the family to go to the US. In December 1941, they sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, to Havana, Cuba, where they waited to receive US visas. In spring 1942, the family left for Chicago, joining Edg...

  6. Uri Orlev photograph collection

    1. Uri Orlev collection

    The collection consists of two photographs of Uri Orlev (born Jurek Henryk Orlowski) depicting him pre-war in Poland and post-war in Palestine.

  7. Pastel portrait of a young Polish Jewish boy

    1. Uri Orlev collection

    Colored pastel portrait of Kazimierz Orlowski at age 4 saved by his brother, Jurek. The portrait was created by Wilhelm Wachtel in 1937 in Warsaw. This may be a reproduction of the original. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, the boy's father, Maximillian, an officer in the Polish Army, was captured and held as a POW by the Soviets. In October 1940, Kazimierz, then 7, his brother, Jurek, 9, and their mother, Zofia, were forced into the Warsaw ghetto. In January 1943, Zofia was shot with the other patients in the hospital during an Aktion by German soldiers. Their Aunt Stefa o...

  8. Metis family papers

    1. Annette Metis Gallagher family collection

    The papers relate to the voyage of the MS St. Louis and include a scrapbook created by Dr. Felix Metis that contains telegrams sent from the MS St. Louis and newspaper clippings about the voyage; an insert about the voyage from the November 28, 1967, edition of "Look" magazine; and six photographs depicting Annette Metis [donor], her mother, Lotte, and her brother, Wolfgang, aboard the MS St. Louis.

  9. Pair of batim from a set of tefillin rescued after Kristallnacht and recovered postwar

    1. Bernhard Groeschel collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522430
    • English
    • a: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) b: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm)

    Two batim from a pair of tefillin used by Bernhard Groeschel. During the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938, the tefillin were thrown out of the window of his home in Forchheim, Germany. A neighbor saved only the batim and returned them to Bernhard’s wife, Rose, after the war. Tefillin are used by Jewish males during morning prayers. Bernhard was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp and released in December. In March 1939, Bernhard and Rose sent their 14 year old daughter, Irmgard, on a kindertransport to Basel, Switzerland. After war broke out in September 1939, Bernhard and Ro...

  10. Black velvet tefillin pouch embroidered BG rescued after Kristallnacht and recovered postwar

    1. Bernhard Groeschel collection

    Tefillin storage pouch used by Bernhard Groeschel. It is embroidered with his initials. During the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938, the pouch was thrown out of the window of his home in Forchheim, Germany, near Nuremberg. A neighbor saved the bag and returned it to Bernhard’s wife, Rose, after the war. Tefillin are used by Jewish males during morning prayers. Bernhard was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp and released in December. In March 1939, Bernhard and Rose sent their 14 year old daughter, Irmgard, on a kindertransport to Basel, Switzerland. After war broke out in Se...

  11. Erna and Herman Meyer papers

    1. Erna and Herman Meyer collection

    The papers consist of documents relating to the experiences of Erna Landau and her immigration from Rhede, Germany, to England from 1938 to 1939, photographs of Herman Meyer and his family in the Netherlands and then in Kenya where they lived as refugees during World War II.

  12. Leather wallet with 6 pockets used by a German Jewish refugee to hold wartime documents

    1. Erna and Herman Meyer collection

    Wallet used by Erna Landau to carry her documents during and after the war. Due to the escalating persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, Erna's parents, Arthur and Bertha, decided to send Erna and her younger sister Ruth from Rhede to Great Britain in June 1938. The war ended in May 1945. Arthur and Bertha had been deported from Germany to Riga, Latvia, where they were murdered. In June1947, Erna and Ruth emigrated to the United States.

  13. Jerzy Ogurek papers

    1. George Ogurek Zimmerman family collection

    The papers consist of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Jerzy Ogurek, originally of Katowice, Poland, and his family during the Holocaust.

  14. Wrist watch kept by a Hungarian Jewish concentration camp inmate

    1. George Ogurek Zimmerman family collection

    Wrist watch purchased by Karola Ogurek in Budapest, Hungary, around October 1943 after fleeing Kamionka, Poland, with her 10 year old son, Jurek, husband Alexander, and her parents Helene and Izak Fiszer. She kept the watch with her, even during incarceration in Auschwitz. In March 1944, after Germany invaded Hungary, the family tried to go to Slovakia but were arrested and turned over to the Germans. They were sent to a Polish POW camp, but released by the commandant. They went back and forth between Slovakia and Hungary seeking refuge. In April 1944, they were arrested and sent to Sered l...

  15. Rubber stamp from a Jewish refugee's postwar business

    1. George Ogurek Zimmerman family collection

    Rubber stamp used by Chaskiel Zimmermann for his apparel business in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, where he lived as a refugee after World War II. Chaskiel was deported from Sosnowiec, Poland, to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. He was liberated during a death march from Blechhammer slave labor camp in January 1945. Nearly his entire family was killed in Auschwitz. He married Karola Ogurek in Esslingen on December 6, 1947. Karola had fled Kamionka, Poland, in fall 1943, with her son Jurek, 10, husband Alexander, and parents Helene and Izak Fiszer. In April 1944, they were sent to Sered...

  16. Selected records of the Archives départementales du Tarn

    Contains records pertaining to the administration and functioning of the Saint-Suplice, Tarn, and Bren internment camps together with documents related to prisoner transfers to and between Gurs, Graulhet, Noé, Récébédou, Eysses, Septfonds, Nexon, and Le Vernet internment camps. Also includes documents pertaining to French Freemasons, Nomades (i.e. Roma-Sinti), and refugees in Tarn.

  17. Isidor and Fanny Bieder papers

    1. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection

    The papers consist of six photographs and documents relating to the experiences of the Bieder family in Vienna, Austria, before World War II and their flight from Austria to the United States via Palestine and Greece in 1939. The documents include two land deeds issued to Isidor Bieder for property purchased in Haifa, Palestine, in 1933, a "Reichsfluchtsteuerbescheid" issued for monies paid by Isidor Bieder to leave Vienna, a document stating that the Bieder family were citizens of Vienna, two documents listing property confiscated from the Bieder family, and a permit for the Bieder family ...

  18. Pair of men's white leather driving gloves carried by a Jewish refugee during his escape from Vienna

    1. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522457
    • English
    • 1939
    • a: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 4.620 inches (11.735 cm) b: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 4.380 inches (11.125 cm)

    Gloves owned by Isidor Bieder who was forced to leave Vienna, Austria, with his wife, Fanny, and their two daughters, 14 year old Frieda, and 10 year old Gertrude, in January 1939. After the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938, anti-Jewish laws were passed and Jews were targeted for persecution. Germans raided the family’s apartment, taking most of their valuables, and a little later, Isidor’s business was confiscated. During the November Kristallnacht pogrom, Isidor was arrested and beaten. As a condition of Isidor’s release from prison, he agreed to leave Austria with his ...

  19. Black patterned silk necktie owned by a Jewish refugee

    1. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection

    Necktie owned by Isidor Bieder who was forced to leave Vienna, Austria, with his wife, Fanny, and their two daughters, 14 year old Frieda, and 10 year old Gertrude, in January 1939. After the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938, anti-Jewish laws were passed and Jews were targeted for persecution. Germans raided the family’s apartment, taking most of their valuables, and a little later, Isidor’s business was confiscated. During the November Kristallnacht pogrom, Isidor was arrested and beaten. As a condition of Isidor’s release from prison, he agreed to leave Austria with his...

  20. Pair of men's black leather lace-up ankle boots owned by a Jewish refugee during his escape from Vienna

    1. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522459
    • English
    • 1938
    • a: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 3.870 inches (9.83 cm) | Depth: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm) b: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 3.870 inches (9.83 cm) | Depth: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm)

    Boots owned by Isidor Bieder who was forced to leave Vienna, Austria, with his wife, Fanny, and their two daughters, 14 year old Frieda, and 10 year old Gertrude, in January 1939. After the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938, anti-Jewish laws were passed and Jews were targeted for persecution. Germans raided the family’s apartment, taking most of their valuables, and a little later, Isidor’s business was confiscated. During the November Kristallnacht pogrom, Isidor was arrested and beaten. As a condition of Isidor’s release from prison, he agreed to leave Austria with his f...