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  1. Study sketch of an entrance with sculpted pediment by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Pencil sketch of an elaborate columned entrance with stairs created by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nel...

  2. Study sketch of fenced plots on a distant mountain drawn by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Pencil study sketch of houses and fields on hills created by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Following the Reichstag Fire in late February, Germany became a police state and anti-Jewish legislation was enacted. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish and in 1935, she was fired from her job due to a government decree that Jews could not work in the publishing industry. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for ...

  3. Study sketch of the facade of a house by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Pencil study of a house facade created by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Following the Reichstag Fire in late February, Germany became a police state and anti-Jewish legislation was enacted. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish and in 1935, she was fired from her job due to a government decree that Jews could not work in the publishing industry. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nelly ...

  4. Study sketch of two canal locks and landscape by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Pencil study of two canal locks created by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nelly still had strong pro-Germ...

  5. Study sketch of two cows by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Pencil study sketch of two cows in a pasture created by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nelly still had st...

  6. Study sketches of roosters drawn by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Pencil gesture drawings of various rooster poses created by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nelly still ha...

  7. Susi Cohn Podgurski papers

    1. Susi Podgurski collection

    The Susi Cohn Podgurski collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and other documents relating to Susi Cohn Podgurski, a Kindertransport child, and her family remaining in Berlin, Germany. All postcards and letters are addressed to Susi Cohn unless otherwise indicated. Letters are arranged in the order of receipt by Susi Cohn Podgurski. The collection also includes documents related to Martin Cohn’s dental practice.

  8. Swiss Federal Archives records

    Contains files concerning control of Jewish and other refugees coming into Switzerland; on activities of Swiss-Jewish rescue and charity organizations; on Swiss legations in various European countries reporting on relevant matters; on communications of the United States, Great Britain, and Germany; on establishment and operation of labor camps and homes for refugees, and the like. It includes material on Jewish self-help organizations in Switzerland, Jewish communities in Switzerland, and labor camps for Jews in Switzerland. Includes approximately 3,500 case files from the child refugee aid...

  9. Tablespoon with scratched initials used by a German Jewish concentration camp inmate

    Stainless steel tablespoon with scratched initials used by Hans Finke while imprisoned in Auschwitz and several subcamps: Gleiwitz, Sachsenhausen, Flossenbürg, and Bergen Belsen. Hans carried the spoon, a crucial piece of property, in his shoe during transfers, including a death march, from March 1943 until liberation in Bergen-Belsen in April 1945. Hans, his parents and his sister Ursula lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship from 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies. In February 1943, Hans, 23, an electrician, was a slave laborer for Siemens when he was hospital...

  10. Tallit katan brought to England by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Tallit katan belonging to Norbert Müller (later Norman Miller), a 15 year old German Jewish refugee who came to London, England in September 1939. A tallit katan is a religious garment worn by Jewish men and boys with their daily dress. 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 for London, with a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] two days prior to the st...

  11. Tallit owned by a German Jewish man

    1. Ilse and Horst (Harry) Abraham collection

    A tallit owned by a male member of Ilse Brilling or Horst Abraham’s family, and carried from Germany to Ecuador in the late 1930s. A tallit is a specialized shawl worn by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Following Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, anti-Jewish decrees and persecution made life in Germany increasingly difficult. Horst Abraham immigrated to Ecuador from Leipzig, Germany, in 1937, after hearing a rumor that he might be arrested. His parents, Nanette and David, and one of his two brothers, Kurt, joined him there later. In 1939, Ils...

  12. Tallit with Great Seal, Star of David and 10 commandments used by a US Army chaplain

    1. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    Tallit, or prayer shawl with embroidered insignia worn by Rabbi Judah Nadich for his work as a Jewish chaplain in the United States Army from 1942-1946. Designed per US Army regulations, the tallit has the US coat of arms above the Jewish chaplain's insignia: a Star of David and the tablets of law. Nadich arrived in Paris just after its liberation on August 24, 1944. He conducted the first religious service after liberation in the rue de la Victoire synagogue, and preached to the assembled congregation of Jewish GIs and survivors in both French and English. On Passover 1945, Nadich conducte...

  13. Teacup and saucer with blue and pink flowers carried by Kindertransport refugee

    1. Ina Felczer collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn34277
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • a: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Depth: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm) b: Height: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)

    Decorated children’s plate manufactured by Porzellanfabrik Bareuther & Co. and carried by 10-year-old Ina Felczer on a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] to Leeds, England, in late June 1939. Before the war, Ina lived with her parents, Victor and Hannah, in Berlin, Germany. Both were Polish Jews who had lived in Berlin since the 1920s. Victor was a chemist, and Hannah co-owned a dressmaking shop. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, and authorities throughout Germany quickly began suppressing the rights of Jews and boycotting their businesses. In th...

  14. Teddy bear carried by a young boy on the Kindertransport

    Teddy bear received by 14 year old Jack Hellman as a child and carried with him on the Kindertransport in early 1939. When Jack was nine, his parents sent him away to boarding school in Frankfurt, Germany, to escape the vicious anti-semitism in his hometown, Tann. During the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, synagogues and Jewish businesses all over Germany were vandalized or destroyed. Soon after, the housemother of his boarding school petitioned Baron James de Rothschild in Great Britain to provide refuge for the 26 children in the school, as well as her own family. Rothschild ...

  15. Tefillin pair and embroidered pouch brought with a German Jewish refugee

    1. Richard Pfifferling and Ruth Pfifferling Knox family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn2965
    • English
    • a: Height: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) b: Height: 2.375 inches (6.032 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) c: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)

    Set of tefillin and embroided storage pouch brought with Richard Pfifferling when he left Dresden, Germany, for New York in September 1939. Richard received the tefillin, pouch, and other religious items as a gift for his bar mitzvah circa 1927. In 1933, the Nazi regime came to power and enacted laws that persecuted Jews. Richard and his brothers, Otto and Ernst, fled Germany but their parents, Alexander and Auguste, were unable to leave. Richard later served in the US Army during the war. Richard’s parents were deported to Riga, Latvia, in December 1941, and killed in Auschwitz in August 1...

  16. Teodor Diamant papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Teodor Diamant, originally of Turčiansky Svätý Martin (Martin, Slovakia), on the SS Pentcho, its shipwreck on the uninhabited island of Kamilonissi, while en route to Palestine, and his internment at a concentration camp on Rhodes and then the Ferramonti concentration camp in Tarsia, Italy. Included is a photograph album documenting his voyage on the ship and his internment in the camps. Other photographs document his military experience with a Czech unit in Great Britain, family and friends, and post-war experiences in London and the United State...

  17. Testimony of Alex Kraus, born in Bustino, Czechoslovakia, 1913, regarding his experiences during his escape from Czechoslovakia to France via Austria and Italy, in England and as a soldier in a Czechoslovakian Army unit in the British Army

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Alex Kraus, born in Bustino, Czechoslovakia, 1913, regarding his experiences during his escape from Czechoslovakia to France via Austria and Italy, in England and as a soldier in a Czechoslovakian Army unit in the British Army Jewish community life in Bustino, Carpathian Ruthenia. Escape to France via Austria and Italy with a group of Jewish refugees, 1939; Jewish participation in Czechoslovakian units in France; nationality problems; appointment of Jewish army chaplain, defeat and evacuation to England, 1940; Jews in Czechoslovakian units in England, 1940-1944; impact of antis...

  18. Testimony of Bruno Sax, born in Novy Hrozenkov, Czechoslovakia, 1917, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939, and his experiences as soldier in the British Army, in German captivity in Greece and in German camps

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Bruno Sax, born in Novy Hrozenkov, Czechoslovakia, 1917, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939, and his experiences as soldier in the British Army, in German captivity in Greece and in German camps Born in Czechoslovakia. Expulsion of Jewish students from Czechoslovakian universities, 1939; transfer of Czechoslovakian Jews to Eretz Israel; detention in Sarafand, 1939; settlement in Kfar Sirkin; refusal to join a Czechoslovakian Army unit in Eretz Israel, 1940; enlistment in the Jewish unit of the English Pioneer Corps; capture by the Germans in Greece, 1941; Jewish soldiers...

  19. Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain

    1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain Life in Vienna; attends a non-Jewish elementary school; coping with displays of antisemitism; attends a Jewish high school, until 1938; Anschluss; Kristallnacht; move of Hannah, her brother Issaschar Dov (Bernhard) and her sister Lisa (Ilse) to Great Britain, in the context of the Kindertransport; Life in Great Britain as a young Jewish refugee girl in non-Jewish surroundings; joins aliya training in Brosgrove, following activities in the Bachad youth movement; marriage to ...

  20. Testimony of Kurt Schick, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1918, regarding his experiences as a refugee in Shanghai, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in the Middle East, in Britain and in the Air Force

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Kurt Schick, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1918, regarding his experiences as a refugee in Shanghai, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in the Middle East, in Britain and in the Air Force Born in Czechoslovakia. Transfer of Jewish refugees from Prague to Shanghai, 1939; Jewish volunteers in Shanghai join Czechoslovakian units in the Middle East and in England, 1940; situation of the Czechoslovakian Air Force in England, 1941; due to heavy losses, more Jewish volunteers admitted; training in British Royal Air Force (RAF) centers; Jewish participation, 1943; percentage of J...