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  1. Newspaper ad paste-up for a circus by a German Jewish female designer

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Paste-up for a newspaper advertisement for a Zirkus (circus) with a photograph of lions created by Nelly Rossmann in Frankfurt around 1930. A paste-up or mechanical was a camera ready copy of a design prepared for photographing to make a printing plate. 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 ...

  2. Newspaper ad paste-up for the Muller Circus by a German Jewish female designer

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Paste-up for a newspaper advertisement for the Muller Circus featuring an elephant created by Nelly Rossmann in Frankfurt around 1930. A paste-up or mechanical was a camera ready copy of a design prepared for photographing to make a printing plate. 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 publi...

  3. 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...

  4. Study sketch of a church exterior by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Pencil study of a church exterior 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-Ge...

  5. Calligraphy samples and portfolio by a refugee from Nazi Germany

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Portfolio containing samples of calligraphy 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 str...

  6. Illustrated handmade children's book by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Illustrated handmade book with a children's story created by Nelly Rossmann. The cover has a collage of marching boys dressed as soldiers. 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 ...

  7. Illustrated handmade book made as a birthday tribute for a friend of the artist

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Illustrated handmade book created by Nelly Rossmann as a birthday tribute for a 70-year-old friend. Each page has a drawing with a handwritten poem. 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 ...

  8. Red leather sketchbook used by a German Jewish female designer

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Sketchbook used by 18 year old Nelly Schwabacher Germany in 1917-18. It is filled with pencil and ink sketches, mostly of everyday items and people. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Germany became a police state and anti-Jewish legislation was enacted. Nelly was a Quaker, but had been born Jewish. In 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nelly ...

  9. Fritz and Adelaide Kauffmann papers

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection

    The Fritz and Adelaide Kauffmann papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and restitution files documenting the Kauffmann’s, particularly their time in Shanghai between 1931 and 1949. Biographical materials include address books, financial records, diaries, citizenship records, identification papers, medical records, student records, personal narratives, travel documents, estate documents, and business records for the Kauffmann’s company Merchants & Traders. Correspondence includes letters between Fritz and Adelaide and with their familie...

  10. Oval locket with 2 photos of a young woman owned by emigres in Shanghai

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection

    Silver locket with photos that belonged to Fritz Kauffmann or his wife Adelaide. Fritz was a German Jewish businessman, who lived in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949. Adelaide was a non-Jewish British citizen and active partner in his business. Adelaide and Fritz were married on January 23, 1941, in Shanghai. Fritz 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 f...

  11. Handmade wooden hanukiah with Hebrew inscription made by Kindertransport refugees

    8-branched Hanukkah menorah with central holder for the 9th candle made for Louis Judah and Etty Cohen by 3 male student refugees at the Whittingehame Farm School in East Lothian, Scotland. One evening, the students requested that Mr. Cohen and his family come to the school and, in a heartfelt ceremony, presented the handcrafted menorah to the couple to thank them for what they had done for them. Judah and Etty were governors of the school, and members of the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation which established the school in 1939. Its mission was to care for German and Austrian Jewish children a...

  13. Transcript of oral history interview with Charlotte Gellar Brown

  14. Les Salter papers

    1. Les L. Salter collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Ludwig Salzer (later Les Salter), originally of Vienna, Austria, as a refugee in Shanghai, China. The collection includes biographical materials and identification papers, immigration documents, correspondence, and photographs. Biographical materials include Les’s Boy Scouts Association membership card, a Shanghai vaccination certificate, a document regarding the attempt of Les’s father Hugo Salzer to send him money in Shanghai, and a clipping. Immigration paperwork includes Les’s 1938 ticket and menus from the SS Conte Rosso, the ship h...

  15. Girl pointing at the moon depicted in a sketch by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Erika Rybeck collection

    Drawing created by Erika Schulhof during her participation in an art therapy group in the United States after the war. Erika explains that: "This recalls my father's comforting words before I left Austria. He said we would both be looking at the same moon from different parts of the world. So then, as drawn, I look at the moon in Aberdeen, Scotland, when Nazi planes are flying overhead and there are machine gun bullet holes on the ground, but I look at the moon and think of my father." Erika was the only child of an assimilated Jewish couple, Dr. Friedrich and Gertrude Schulhof. Her father ...

  16. 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.

  17. Joseph and Rosalie Holler papers

    1. Joseph and Rosalie Holler Collection

    The Joseph and Rosalie Holler papers include biographical materials, correspondence, reparation files, photographs, printed materials, and children’s books documenting the Hollers’ lives in Stettin, Germany and their immigration to the United States in 1939. Biographical materials document the lives of Joseph and Rosalie Holler and Rosalie Holler’s mother, Gisela Walker. Records include a World War I military card, birth and marriage certificates, immigration records, and recommendations. Additional items include an appraisal of Gisela Walker’s jewelry and permission to take it with her, he...

  18. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521020
    • English
    • 1938-1939
    • a: Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Depth: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) b: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Depth: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)

    Imperial IIA small piano accordion and case belonging to Hilde Anker, 13, who took it with her on a Kindertransport from Berlin to Great Britain on June 12-14, 1939. Hilde's sisters, Eva, 17, and Dodi, 15, were also sent away by their parents, Georg and Gertrud, on the same Children's Transport. In 1933, Hitler's Nazi regime implemented policies to persecute the Jewish population. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in early November 1938, Georg decided the family must leave. The girls applied for spots on the Kindertransport and George's brother Leo in England agreed to look after them. Eva was...

  19. Trudy Kirchhausen Turkel papers

    1. Kirchhausen family collection

    The papers consist of approximately 30 documents relating to the Kirchhausen family's life in Heilbronn, Germany, and their emigration to the United States.

  20. Henry Schmelzer papers

    1. Henry Schmelzer collection

    The papers are related to Henry Schmelzer's journey from Austria to England via Kindertransport in 1938 and his stay in England during World War II.