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  1. Pink and black floral patterned chiffon dress owned by a Jewish refugee from Austria

    1. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection

    Dress owned by Fanny Bieder who was forced to leave Vienna, Austria, with her husband, Isidor, and their two daughters, 14 year old Frieda and 10 year old Gertrude, in 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 family....

  2. Woman’s white cloth tailored jacket owned by a Jewish refugee during her escape from Vienna

    1. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection

    Jacket owned by Fanny Bieder who was forced to leave Vienna, Austria, with her husband, Isidor, and their two daughters, 14 year old Frieda and 10 year old Gertrude, in 1939. She acquired the jacket for her 1933 cruise to Italy and Palestine with her husband. 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 ...

  3. Red leather purse with decorative lacing carried by a Jewish refugee during her escape from Vienna

    1. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection

    Purse owned by Fanny Bieder who was forced to leave Vienna, Austria, with her husband, Isidor, and their two daughters, 14 year old Frieda and 10 year old Gertrude, in 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 family....

  4. Two-sided silk escape map of Western Europe acquired by German Jewish US soldier

    1. Rudolph Daniel Sichel collection

    Two-sided silk escape map of Western Europe carried by Rudolph Sichel, a Jewish refugee from Frankfurt, Germany, who was a US Army officer in Europe from July 1944-June 1946. In May 1936, unable to return to Germany from England because of anti-Jewish regulations, Sichel went to the US. His parents Ernst and Frieda joined him in 1940. In April 1943, Sichel enlisted in the Army and was sent to Camp Ritchie for military intelligence training. In July 1944, Sichel, Chief Interrogator, Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13, landed on Utah Beach in France, attached to the 104th Infantry, the...

  5. Tourist map of Kyoto used by Jewish refugee family

    1. Honigberg family collection

    The Kobe Municipal Office issued an English-language tourist guide to Kobe and its environs. The guide included this map used by Jewish refugees in Kobe.

  6. Markon family papers

    1. Alexander and Raya Magid Markon family collection

    The papers consist of documents, identification cards, photographs, and correspondence relating to the Markon family during the Holocaust.

  7. French Army ID tag worn by a Jewish Lithuanian emigre soldier

    1. Alexander and Raya Magid Markon family collection

    Dog tag issued to Owsiez (Alexander) Markon, a Jewish emigre from Lithuania, when he served in the French Army from 1927-29. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, France declared war on Germany. Alexander was recalled to the Army and served ten months on the Maginot Line. Germany invaded France in May 1940. After the surrender of France in June, Alexander was demobilized. He joined his wife, Raya, who had fled to Toulouse, where their son Alain was born in June 1941. The couple applied for US visas and received them in 1942. The family sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, and arrive...

  8. Newspaper clipping

    The clipping is from the "Evening Sentinel," dated Tuesday, August 1, 1939, Stoke-on-Trent, England, and shows two photographs of Czech refugee children from Teplice, Czechoslovakia, living at the Children's Homes in Penkhull, England, which were founded by Hanna Strasser donor's aunt. The children were the guests of the Czech Children's Refugee Committee. Pictured are: Hanna Strasser, Raja Strauss, Lisa Dasch, Hanna Frankel, Asaf Auerbach, Reuben Auerbach, Ralph Strauss, and Peter Feldstein.

  9. Lubinski family papers

    The papers consist of 21 photographs and 12 documents concerning the experiences of Susan Lubinski [donor], her sister, Steffi, and her parents, Margarethe and Arthur Lubinski, during their flight from Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), in 1939 to Shanghai, China, where they remained through the end of World War II.

  10. 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...

  11. Lucie Eisenstab papers

    1. Lucie Eisenstab Porges family collection

    The papers consist of four certificates from "Bibleschule," one photograph of Lucie Eisenstab (later Lucie Eisenstab Porges) with her parents Eisig and Jetta Eisenstab and sister Elfie in 1938 in Vienna, Austria; one photograph of Lucie with her father in Geneva, Switzerland after World War II; and one identification travel pass ("récépissé") issued to Lucie Eisenstab in 1942.

  12. 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...

  13. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee

    1. Igor Belousovitch collection

    1 mark note receipt from the Łódź ghetto, one of 5 pieces of scrip given to Igor Belousovitch, a US soldier, in early April 1945 by a refugee walking west on the same road Igor's unit was taking east across Germany near Leipzig. As Igor was looking at the line of refugees, one looked over at him and they made eye contact. The man, emaciated and dressed in rags, walked over to Igor, reached in his pocket, pulled out several bills, and gave them to Igor. They exchanged a few words and then both continued on their way. The scrip was created in the Łódź ghetto, renamed Litzmannstadt, in German ...

  14. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee

    1. Igor Belousovitch collection

    5 mark note receipt from the Łódź ghetto, one of 5 pieces of scrip given to Igor Belousovitch, a US soldier, in early April 1945 by a refugee walking west on the same road Igor's unit was taking east across Germany near Leipzig. As Igor was looking at the line of refugees, one looked over at him and they made eye contact. The man, emaciated and dressed in rags, walked over to Igor, reached in his pocket, pulled out several bills, and gave them to Igor. They exchanged a few words and then both continued on their way. The scrip was created in the Łódź ghetto, renamed Litzmannstadt, in German ...

  15. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 [zehn] mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee

    1. Igor Belousovitch collection

    10 [zehn] mark note receipt from the Łódź ghetto, one of 5 pieces of scrip given to Igor Belousovitch, a US soldier, in early April 1945 by a refugee walking west on the same road Igor's unit was taking east across Germany near Leipzig. As Igor was looking at the line of refugees, one looked over at him and they made eye contact. The man, emaciated and dressed in rags, walked over to Igor, reached in his pocket, pulled out several bills, and gave them to Igor. They exchanged a few words and then both continued on their way. The scrip was created in the Łódź ghetto, renamed Litzmannstadt, in...

  16. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee

    1. Igor Belousovitch collection

    20 mark note receipt from the Łódź ghetto, one of 5 pieces of scrip given to Igor Belousovitch, a US soldier, in early April 1945 by a refugee walking west on the same road Igor's unit was taking east across Germany near Leipzig. As Igor was looking at the line of refugees, one looked over at him and they made eye contact. The man, emaciated and dressed in rags, walked over to Igor, reached in his pocket, pulled out several bills, and gave them to Igor. They exchanged a few words and then both continued on their way. The scrip was created in the Łódź ghetto, renamed Litzmannstadt, in German...

  17. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 50 mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee

    1. Igor Belousovitch collection

    50 mark note receipt from the Łódź ghetto, one of 5 pieces of scrip given to Igor Belousovitch, a US soldier, in early April 1945 by a refugee walking west on the same road Igor's unit was taking east across Germany near Leipzig. As Igor was looking at the line of refugees, one looked over at him and they made eye contact. The man, emaciated and dressed in rags, walked over to Igor, reached in his pocket, pulled out several bills, and gave them to Igor. They exchanged a few words and then both continued on their way. The scrip was created in the Łódź ghetto, renamed Litzmannstadt, in German...

  18. Moshe Aurbach photograph collection

    The collection consists of 22 photographs documenting the life and experiences of Moshe Aurbach and his family in Będzin, Poland, before, during, and after the Holocaust as well as his time spent in Gersfeld displaced persons camp near Fulda, Germany, after World War II.

  19. Aron Zolty photograph collection

    The Aron Zolty photograph collection consists of 39 photographs relating to the experiences of Aron Zolty in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and in displaced persons camps in Hannover and Lübeck-Blankensee, Germany.

  20. David Kirszencwajg papers

    1. Kirszencwajg family collection

    The papers consist of letters and postcards written in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, by members of the Kirszencwajg family to Vilna, Poland, and Shanghai, China; documents relating to David Kirszencwajg and his life in Poland before World War II and his life in Shanghai, China, during the war; and photographs depicting David Kirszencwajg and his family in Warsaw, Poland, before World War II and later in Vilna, Poland, and Shanghai, China