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  1. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    1. Adolph Blau family collection

    Scrip used by Adolph Blau and his family when they were imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. All currency was confiscated upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. Adolph, his wife, two children, and mother-in-law were deported from Vienna, Austria, in 1942. They lived in the camp until the International Red Cross took over administration of the camp from the Germans on May 2, 1945. The family then was transferred to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp in Germany where they lived until their immigration to the United Sta...

  2. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    1. Adolph Blau family collection

    Scrip used by Adolph Blau and his family when they were imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. All currency was confiscated upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. Adolph, his wife, two children, and mother-in-law were deported from Vienna, Austria, in 1942. They lived in the camp until the International Red Cross took over administration of the camp from the Germans on May 2, 1945. The family then was transferred to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp in Germany where they lived until their immigration to the United Sta...

  3. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    1. Adolph Blau family collection

    Scrip used by Adolph Blau and his family when they were imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. All currency was confiscated upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. Adolph, his wife, two children, and mother-in-law were deported from Vienna, Austria, in 1942. They lived in the camp until the International Red Cross took over administration of the camp from the Germans on May 2, 1945. The family then was transferred to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp in Germany where they lived until their immigration to the United Sta...

  4. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    1. Adolph Blau family collection

    Scrip used by Adolph Blau and his family when they were imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. All currency was confiscated upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. Adolph, his wife, two children, and mother-in-law were deported from Vienna, Austria, in 1942. They lived in the camp until the International Red Cross took over administration of the camp from the Germans on May 2, 1945. The family then was transferred to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp in Germany where they lived until their immigration to the United Sta...

  5. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    1. Adolph Blau family collection

    Scrip used by Adolph Blau and his family when they were imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. All currency was confiscated upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. Adolph, his wife, two children, and mother-in-law were deported from Vienna, Austria, in 1942. They lived in the camp until the International Red Cross took over administration of the camp from the Germans on May 2, 1945. The family then was transferred to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp in Germany where they lived until their immigration to the United Sta...

  6. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    1. Adolph Blau family collection

    Scrip used by Adolph Blau and his family when they were imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. All currency was confiscated upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. Adolph, his wife, two children, and mother-in-law were deported from Vienna, Austria, in 1942. They lived in the camp until the International Red Cross took over administration of the camp from the Germans on May 2, 1945. The family then was transferred to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp in Germany where they lived until their immigration to the United Sta...

  7. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    1. Adolph Blau family collection

    Scrip used by Adolph Blau and his family when they were imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. All currency was confiscated upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. Adolph, his wife, two children, and mother-in-law were deported from Vienna, Austria, in 1942. They lived in the camp until the International Red Cross took over administration of the camp from the Germans on May 2, 1945. The family then was transferred to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp in Germany where they lived until their immigration to the United Sta...

  8. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    1. Adolph Blau family collection

    Scrip used by Adolph Blau and his family when they were imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. All currency was confiscated upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. Adolph, his wife, two children, and mother-in-law were deported from Vienna, Austria, in 1942. They lived in the camp until the International Red Cross took over administration of the camp from the Germans on May 2, 1945. The family then was transferred to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp in Germany where they lived until their immigration to the United Sta...

  9. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    1. Adolph Blau family collection

    Scrip used by Adolph Blau and his family when they were imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. All currency was confiscated upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. Adolph, his wife, two children, and mother-in-law were deported from Vienna, Austria, in 1942. They lived in the camp until the International Red Cross took over administration of the camp from the Germans on May 2, 1945. The family then was transferred to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp in Germany where they lived until their immigration to the United Sta...

  10. Cesia Ritter papers

    The papers consist of 53 photographs of Cesia Ritter (née Honig) as a child before World War II and post-war photograph of her rescuers; an employment certificate for her father Naftali Honig in "Deutsche Dachpappenfabrik - Papapol" in Tarnow, Poland, in 1942; and identification card for Cesia Honig issued by ORT in Anvers, Belgium, in 1947; a copy of a letter written to Cesia's uncle in Palestine after the war; and a newspaper article from the New York Post on August 31, 1987.

  11. Babette and Justin Isner letter

    The Babette and Justin Isner letter was written by a Nuremberg couple in Boulogne and describes their unsuccessful attempt to immigrate to Cuba via the MS St. Louis and their plans to find refuge in France.

  12. Gerry Blumenfeld papers

    The papers consist of 33 photographs and a document relating to the experiences of Idek Blumenfleld [donor] during the Holocaust in Bedzin, Poland; Leipheim, Germany; Barletta, Italy; Tel-Aviv, Israel; and Melbourne, Australia.

  13. Israel Ellen photographs

    1. Israel Ellen collection

    The collection consists of five photographs from the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.

  14. Sarah Field photographs

    1. Sarah Field collection

    The collection consists of four photographs taken in the displaced persons camp in Ulm, Germany.

  15. Ellen Fletcher papers

    The collection consist of six report cards issued by the Mädchenvolksschule der jüdischen Gemeinde and one report card issued by the Joseph Lehmann-Schule in Berlin, Germany, to Ellen Auster.

  16. Silberman family collection

    The Silbermann family papers comprise correspondence and photographs documenting Curt and Else Silbermann and their families from Würzburg, Germany, before, during, and after the Holocaust. Extensive family correspondence to Curt and Else Silbermann, who had immigrated to the United States, relates news about life in Nazi and postwar Germany. Six photograph albums document Else Kleeman Silbermann and her family in prewar Germany. Correspondence primarily consists of letters to Curt and Else Silberman in the United States from his parents, Adolf and Ida Silbermann, and her mother, Therese Kl...

  17. Jacob Hennenberg papers

    1. Jacob Hennenberg collection

    The papers consist of two certificates and two letters of recommendation issued to Jacob Hennenberg relating to his experiences as a displaced person after World War II.

  18. "Dachau Concentration Camp: A Memoir"

    “Dachau Concentration Camp: A Memoir” is 29 page memoir written by Felix Klein, originally of Vienna, Austria. From 1938-1939, Klein was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp and Buchenwald concentration camp. Afterwards, he spent a year in England before immigrating to the United States in 1940. The memoir, found in Klein's personal papers after his death in 1994, describes his experiences in Dachau in the summer and fall of 1938.

  19. Man's short-sleeved linen jacket made in a displaced person's camp

    1. Morris Rosen collection

    Jacket made for 24-year-old Morris Rosen in the New Palestine displaced persons camp in Salzburg, Austria, after World War II, as he was preparing to emigrate to Palestine. The jacket was never worn. In 1939, the Germans occupied Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland, and established a Jewish ghetto, where Morris, his parents, and his 10 siblings were interned. From 1942-1944, the Germans transferred Morris through a series of camps in Germany and Poland. In 1945, Morris was in the Kretschamberg labor camp when the Germans decided to evacuate the inmates because the Soviet Army was advancing in the regi...

  20. Lottie Sidrer papers

    The papers consist of three photographs taken in the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech from 1947 to 1948; a news clipping announcing the birth of Eta Sidrer, Lottie’s daughter, on April 23, 1949; a certificate of marriage for Liowa and Lottie Sidere; and documents relating to immigration, relief organizations, and post-war lives of Lottie and Liowa Sidrer from 1947 to 1950.