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  1. Travel sewing box with 16 floss spools carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Lilli Schischa Tauber family collection

    Travel sewing kit with a decorated box with 16 spools of thread bought for 11 year old Lilli (Karoline) Schischa to take on the Kindertransport from Austria to Great Britain on July 13, 1939. In March 1938, Nazi Germany marched into Austria and made it part of the Third Reich. Jewish persecution. The clothing store owned by Lilli's parents, Wilhelm and Johanna, in Wiener Neustadt was seized. Lilli'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 Lilli o...

  2. Treatment of refugees in the United Kingdom

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several informations from different organizations regarding the topic of the treatment of refugees in the United Kingdom. British organization collaborate closly with each other and represent all of their practical experience in dealing with refugees. A coordinating Committee for refugees in the United Kigdom has also been formed. Besides that there is a close cooperation between British and other organizations. The information given by other organizations are all regarding the refugee question. For example how they can organize themselves better, how they can help and rea...

  3. 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.

  4. Trunk

    1. Lore Gotthelf Jacobs collection

    Trunk sent to England for Lore Gotthelf Jacobs who left Frankfurt-am Main, Germany, on the Kindertransport.

  5. Trunk

    1. Lore Gotthelf Jacobs collection

    The trunk was sent to England to Lore Gotthelf Jacobs who left Frankfurt-am Main, Germany, on the Kindertransport Rectangular form constructed of brown textile-covered wood; lid attached to base by metal hinges and clasps; four wooden support bards attached by metal nails on all sides; metal footing along all edges; two leather handles attached at center on left and right sides;"L.J." and"12" painted on top of lid; interior covered by biege paper; blue canvas and metal straps attached to interior

  6. Trunk sent to an Austrian Jewish youth after he fled

    Trunk sent to Rudolf Lappe, 19, who fled Chemnitz, Germany, for Great Britain not long after Hitler was appointed Chancellor in January 1933. Rudolf left without any prior preparation in order to get out before the borders were closed in April 1933. Later that year his father sent him this trunk with clothing in it. His father was imprisoned on racial grounds. He was released after several weeks, but was not allowed to practice his profession of law. He emigrated to England in May 1939. Rudolf returned in 1948 to the Soviet occupied zone.

  7. Trunk used by a former German Jewish concentration camp inmate and aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Wooden trunk used by John and Alice Redlich Fink for travel to the US. Alice was a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany after the war. Alice left Nazi Germany in 1938 for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, left for the Bergen-Belsen dp camp to care for children and young women. Her mother, father, brother, and grandmother were all murdered in Auschwitz. She met and married Hans Finke, a fellow German Jewish relief worker, at the camp...

  8. Trunk used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Wooden trunk used by John and Alice Redlich Fink for travel to the US. Alice was a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany after the war. Alice left Nazi Germany in 1938 for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, left for the Bergen-Belsen dp camp to care for children and young women. Her mother, father, brother, and grandmother were all murdered in Auschwitz. She met and married Hans Finke, a fellow German Jewish relief worker, at the camp...

  9. Two dried flower bundles preserved by an Austrian Jewish Kindertransport refugee

    1. Erich Kupferberg family collection

    Dried flowers saved in an envelope by Erich Kupferberg, who at age seven was sent by his parents Baruch and Hedwig from Vienna to London in early 1939 on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany on March 12, 1938, anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to ostracize the Jewish population. The Kristallnacht pogrom that November was especially brutal in Vienna. Most synagogues were destroyed and Jewish shops and homes were vandalized. Great Britain agreed to admit refugee children under 17 from Germany and German annexed territories and aid societies c...

  10. Two-sided drawing of a man reading and two figures sitting by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn128
    • English
    • 1942
    • pictorial area: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm) overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)

    Double-sided pencil drawing of inmates in Les Milles internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy, France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for ...

  11. Two-sided drawing of a portrait of a woman and several abstract portraits by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn126
    • English
    • 1941
    • overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm)

    Double-sided ink drawing of a realistic old woman on one side and 10 abstract portraits on the opposite side, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee while detained in the Hotel Terminus du port in Marseilles, France. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy, France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under...

  12. Two-sided drawing of bunk space and two men by by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn113
    • English
    • 1940
    • overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm)

    Double-sided sketch of a bunk and two men in Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for Jewi...

  13. Two-sided drawing of men in a canteen and a portrait of a woman by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn119
    • English
    • 1940
    • a: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm) b: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm)

    Drawings of men in a canteen and a woman at Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for Jewis...

  14. Two-sided drawing of railroad tracks and women carrying a bucket by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn75
    • English
    • 1940
    • a: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) b: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm)

    Two ink drawings, one of railroad tracks, the other of woman carrying a bucket in Gurs internment camp by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became...

  15. Two-sided drawing of women awaiting transport and at Gurs internment camp by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn84
    • English
    • a: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) b: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm)

    Two-sided pencil drawing of women at Alençon transit center and women at Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became ...

  16. Two-sided drawing of women in barracks and woman doubled over by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn104
    • English
    • 1940
    • a: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) b: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.125 inches (15.557 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.125 inches (15.557 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm)

    Two-sided drawing of women in Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for Jewish refugees. Li...

  17. The Tythrop Institute: copy papers re appeal for funds

    This collection of copy papers deals with the project of a group called the Langham Committee, whose object was to put to work several hundred German, Austrian and Czech Jewish refugees on the renovation of a delapidated manor House and grounds, Tythrop House. For a system of block guarantees a small band of young people came together calling themselves 'the Langham Committee' which has been able to ensure that some 200 working class men and girls are able to enter Great Britain.This copy appeal and account documents the committee's activities. 929/3 is a narrative account of its activities...

  18. Ullrich Remak papers

    1. Ullrich Remak collection

    Correspondence, personal identification documents, immigration documents, newsletters, and other documents related to the immigration of Ullrich Remak from Breslau, Germany to Scotland on a Kindertransport in 1939, his subsequent life at the Birkenward Hostel in Skelmorlie, Scotland, and efforts by his mother, Nanni Remak, to emigrate from Germany to Palestine. The collection largely consists of material created or collected by Remak in relation to his time at the Birkenward Hostel, with the bulk of this material dating from 1939 to 1942. Although there are government-issued identification ...

  20. UNRRA red cloth patch with acronym worn by a refugee aid worker

    1. Michel Shadur family collection

    Patch worn by Michel Shadur when he worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in Germany from 1945-1947. He worked as a supply officer for the Wurttemburg district and as a director of a displaced persons camp for Jewish refugees in Backnang. Michel left Germany in 1935 because the Nazi government's anti-Jewish policies were making it difficult and dangerous to live and work there. His wife, their 2 children, 8 year old Joseph and 4 year old Benita, and his mother joined him in Antwerp, Belgium, in January 1936. However, after the Germans occupied Belgiu...