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  1. XXX Corps patch worn by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    British Army XXX Corps patch worn by Norman Miller (previously Norbert Müller), a German Jewish refugee, during his service in the British Army from 1944 to 1947. The XXX Corps was attached to the 21st Army Group and participated in D-Day landings at Normandy and the invasion of Europe, known as Operation Overlord. 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 fo...

  2. Yad Vashem

    University course-debate at Yad Vashem. Shalmi Barmore, the Director of Education, stands in front of an assembly of military students after showing a film. Barmore and several students debate the resistance actions of the Jews during the Holocaust. They show concern that the Holocaust could happen again, in any country, including Israel. A student asks why the world appeared to be uninterested in helping the Jews during the Holocaust. Another student responds that the world was aware of what was occurring, but due to the violent situation they could not do more than accept refugees. A stud...

  3. Yakov E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yakov E., who was born in Poland in approximately 1930, the oldest of three children. He recalls his family's Zionism (an uncle had emigrated to Israel); antisemitic harassment; belonging to Gordonyah; his father's importance in the town; Soviet occupation; leaving on an evacuation train to Kazakhstan in 1941, the only Jewish family to do so (his father was not with them); stopping a few days in Saratov en route; difficulties being accepted by other Jews in Kazakhstan; knowing nothing about the Holocaust; receiving a package from relatives in Israel; attending school;...

  4. Yasha M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yasha M., who was born in Szczuczyn, Poland (presently Shchuchyn, Belarus) in 1920. He recounts attending school in Vilna; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; being sent to Lida to work in a factory; German invasion; fleeing with a friend to Baranovichy; traveling on a train with other Jews to the Warsaw ghetto; escaping; returning to Szczuczyn via Hrodna; forced agricultural labor; a round-up and mass killing of the Jews (he, his father and stepmother were selected for work); transfer to Lida in May 1942; working as a carpenter; escaping to the fore...

  5. Yehuda A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehuda A., who was born in Wu?rzburg, Germany in 1924. He recalls his family's liberal orthodoxy; attending school; antisemitic harassment and violence after Hitler's ascent to power; emigration with his family to Palestine in 1935; enlisting in the British army in 1941; smuggling arms and refugees to Palestine after his discharge; joining the Haganah in 1946, then the Palmah? in 1947; serving in the Israel-Arab War; meeting the poet Haim Gouri in the military; beginning to write poetry; marriage in 1949; and writing a novel resulting from his visit to Wu?rzburg and t...

  6. Yehuda Zerzy Singer papers

    The Yehuda Zerzy Singer papers contain a handwritten diary, photographs, and documents relating to Yehuda Zerzy Singer’s experiences in Poland and Russia during World War II and his life in Palestine after his arrival with the "Teheran Children." The collection includes school certificates, a postcard, identification cards, and photographs of Yehuda in Kibbutz Ein Harod. The diary was written, in Polish, by Yehuda from September 1, 1939, the day of the invasion of Nazi Germany into Poland, until the beginning of 1942, about one year prior to his arrival in Palestine. The diary documents the...

  7. Yellow cardboard badge with Croatian Z for Jew worn by a Sephardic Jewish man

    1. Leon Kabiljo collection

    Jewish paper identification badge with a Z for Zidov, Jew in Croatian, worn by Leon Kabiljo beginning in May 1941 after Yugoslavia was invaded and partitioned by the German led Axis Alliance in April. Leon and his wife Shary, Sephardic Jews, married the day of the invasion. They lived in Travnik, which had become part of the Independent State of Croatia under the Fascist Ustasa who viciously persecuted Jews, Serbs, and Muslims. Three times, Leon escaped being taken for forced labor. In December 1941, he acquired false papers and fled to Italian occupied Yugoslavia, where Shary joined him. I...

  8. Yellow cloth armband printed Deutsche Wehrmacht

    1. Gerald Schwab collection

  9. Yellow cloth Star of David badge with Juif for Jew worn by a Polish refugee in Paris

    1. Max Feld and Rose Feld-Rosman collection

    Star of David badge worn by 25 year old Raisa Steinberg Feld in Paris, France, from June 1942. Jews in France were required to wear these on their outer clothing at all times after May 1942; badges were often cut from a pre-printed roll. After Paris was occupied by Germany in May 1940, foreign Jews were in danger of arrest and imprisonment. Raisa and her husband, Max, both deaf, were Jewish refugees from Poland and Germany. In May 1941, Max was arrested and, in July 1942, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Raisa went into hiding with their 1.5 year old daughter, Esther, her ...

  10. Yellow cloth vest with 5 brass buttons owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection

    Vest that belonged to Fritz Kauffmann, a German Jewish businessman, who lived in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949. He was active in Jewish community aid efforts before and during World War II. In 1940, because of Nazi politics and the outbreak of war, he resigned from the German firm for which he worked and opened his own import/export business. He was deprived of his German citizenship in 1941 for being Jewish and living abroad. However, as a longtime resident and successful businessman in Shanghai, he was able to surmount wartime difficulties and assist the more recent Jewish refugees who ...

  11. Yellow metal badge with Croatian Z for Jew worn by a Sephardic Jew

    1. Leon Kabiljo collection

    Yellow metal badge with a Z for Zidov, Jew in Croatian, worn by Leon Kabiljo beginning in May 1941 after Yugoslavia was invaded and partitioned by the German led Axis Alliance in April. Leon and his wife Shary, Sephardic Jews, married the day of the invasion. They lived in Travnik, which had become part of the Independent State of Croatia under the Fascist Ustasa who viciously persecuted Jews, Serbs, and Muslims. Three times, Leon escaped being taken for forced labor. In December 1941, he acquired false papers and fled to Italian occupied Yugoslavia, where Shary joined him. In September 194...

  12. Yellow plastic comb with cardboard case carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Lilli Schischa Tauber family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521885
    • English
    • a: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)

    Comb with case kept by 11 year Lilly (Karoline) Schischa when she was sent on a Kindertransport from Austria to Great Britain on July 13, 1939. It was a kit made for use while traveling. In March 1938, Nazi Germany marched into Austria and made it part of the Third Reich. Jewish persecution. The clothing store owned by Lilly's parents, Wilhelm and Johanna, in Wiener Neustadt was seized. Lilly's brother, Edi, age 24, left for Palestine in October 1938. Her father was arrested during the Kristallnacht pogrom that November, but released after ten days. Her parents were able to get Lilly out of...

  13. Yellow sport short listing concentration camps where the owner was imprisoned

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Yellow polo shirt that belonged to Hans Finke, a concentration camp survivor who became an aid worker after the war. The shirt was made for a survivor's reunion Hans attended after the war. Hans, his parents and his sister Ursula lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies. Jews were forced out of their jobs and their businesses were confiscated. In February 1943, Hans, 23, an electrician by trade, was a forced laborer for Siemens when he was hospitalized with appendicitis. On February 29, his parents were rounded up and deported...

  14. Yellow warning skull and crossbones pennant found by a concentration camp inmate after liberation

    1. Simcha Dimant collection

    German military issue, poison gas warning pennant found by Symcho Dymant after he was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945. The pennants were attached to a thin, iron rod and staked into the ground. They were used to mark off areas contaminated with dangerous gas, and later repurposed to warn against hidden landmines. The pennants were part of a set that included 20 flags each attached to a 60-cm-long iron rod, painted with red anti-rust paint, a roll of yellow tape, and a carrying pouch. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Symcho was living in Czesto...

  15. Yellow, rectangular patch on cloth backing worn by a German Jewish woman in a concentration camp

    1. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    Rectangular, yellow patch worn by Irene Silberstein while imprisoned at the forced labor camp Merzdorf from December 1944 to May 1945. Irene had to sew it to her outerwear, cutting out the brown tweed from behind. This served as a deterrent for escaping; if she tried to remove it from her clothes, the cut out would be visible and she would be easily recognizable. In the fall of 1942, Irene, her father, and her grandmother were deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. On September 28, 1944, Irene’s father was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. ...

  16. Yona and Foa family memoirs

    Two unpublished memoirs, related to the Holocaust experiences of the Yona and Foa families, of Turin Italy: “A Memoir of an Immigrant who Escaped the Holocaust in 1940,” by Eva Yona Deykin, 53 pages, typescript; and“Memoires of David Yona,” by David Yona, typescript, 223 pages. The memoir by Eva Yona Deykin relates the history of the families of both of her parents, David Yona and Anna Foa, their life in Turin after their marriage in 1932, the arrest of Anna Foa's brother, Vittorio Foa, for his anti-fascist activities in 1935, and his betrayal by the writer Pettigrilli (Dino Segre), who had...

  17. Yorgan L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yorgan L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. He recounts his father serving in World War I; attending Jewish school; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father losing his job; deportation of friends who were Polish citizens; Kristallnacht; participating in Habonim; collecting money for the Jewish National Fund; agricultural training on a kibbutz in Rüdnitz; moving to Paderborn; forced labor; learning his parents had been deported in December 1942; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in March 1943; transfer to Monowitz; slave labor; transfer to the hospital in Auschwit...

  18. Young girl's floral print romper worn by a hidden child

    1. Jacqueline Mendels Birn collection

    Romper worn by Jacqueline Mendels, age 6, when the family went into hiding in 1941 during the German occupation of France. Jacqueline, her older sister, Manuela, age 8, and their parents, Ellen and Frits Mendels, fled German-occupied Paris in 1942. They were French Jewish citizens who had to abandon their home and assume false identities. They found a safe place to live in hiding in the southern French village of Le Got. A son, Franklin, was born during this time. After the war ended in 1944, the family returned to Paris.

  19. Youth Aliyah and "Tehran Children" photographs

    Consists of 11 photographs documenting the arrival of Jewish children and youths in Palestine who were assisted in fleeing Nazi Europe with help from the Youth Aliyah organization founded by Recha Freier and the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Select photographs depict the arrival of the so-called "Tehran children" who lived as refugees in Iran prior to their immigration to Palestine.

  20. Youth Aliyah Department, Continental/European Office, Geneva - Paris, L58

    Contains records of the immediate post-war period of the Youth Aliyah. These records include correspondence regarding orphanages in Italy and France, records from the orphanages “Cambous” and “Rocquefort La Bedoule,” correspondence with the Youth Aliyah offices in Geneva, Marseille, Paris and Jerusalem, personal files, and other material. Also includes correspondence with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc. and the World Zionist Organization. Types of documents include lists of children, questionnaires, and various certificates (health reports, exit and entrance visas, em...