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  1. Prayers of the Israelites Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah prayer book given to a German Kindertransport refugee by her father

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for the first and second day of Rosh Hashanah inscribed with a message to Lore Baer for her 13th birthday by her father, Hellmuth Baer, while he was in Shanghai, China. Lore was living with her father and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertranspor...

  2. Prayers of the Israelites Yom Kippur prayer book given to a German Kindertransport refugee by her father

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for the first evening and second day of Yom Kippur inscribed with a message to Lore Baer for her 13th birthday by her father, Hellmuth Baer, while he was in Shanghai, China. Lore was living with her father and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertra...

  3. Prayer Book for the Holidays Prayer Book for Passover Passover prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for the first and second day of Passover that belonged to Lore Baer’s brother Max and is inscribed with his name. Lore was living with her father, Hellmuth, and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertransport. Lore’s brother Max was studying in Italy,...

  4. Prayer Book for the Holidays Prayer Book for the Feast of Weeks Shavuot prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for Shavuot that belonged to Lore Baer’s brother Max and is inscribed with his name. Lore was living with her father, Hellmuth, and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertransport. Lore’s brother Max was studying in Italy, and came to visit her in Eng...

  5. Prayer Book for the Holidays Prayer Book for the New Year (Rosh Hashanah) New Year prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for the first and second day of Rosh Hashanah that belonged to Lore Baer’s brother Max and is inscribed with his name. Lore was living with her father, Hellmuth, and mother, Hedwig, in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertransport. Lore’s brother Max was studying in ...

  6. Prayer Book for the Holidays Prayer Book for the Evening of Reconciliation (Maariv Yom Kippur) Prayer Book for the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) Gebetbuch für den Versöhnungstag Evening of Reconciliation prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for Yom Kippur that belonged to Lore Baer’s brother Max and is inscribed with his name. Lore was living with her father, Hellmuth, and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertransport. Lore’s brother Max was studying in Italy, and came to visit her in ...

  7. Prayer Book for the Holidays Prayer book for Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) Prayer book for the Closing and Joy Celebration (Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah) Gebetbuch für das Schlusz- und Freudenfest Feast of Tabernacles prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah that belonged to Lore Baer’s brother Max and is inscribed with his name. Lore was living with her father, Hellmuth, and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertransport. Lore’s brother Max was studying i...

  8. Speculum owned by a German emigre and US Army medic

    Speculum used by Dr. Bruno Lambert, who immigrated to the United States from Nazi Germany in 1938, and served in the United States Army Medical Corps during the war. Bruno attended medical school in Germany from 1932-1937, but was not allowed to receive a diploma as a Jew under the Nazi regime. He transferred to a university in Switzerland, and earned a Doctorate of Medicine in July 1938. With the help of Margaret Bergmann, Bruno immigrated to the US in August. Margaret was a Jewish athlete who was banned from competing in the Olympics by the Nazi authorities, and subsequently immigrated to...

  9. UNRRA selected records AG-018-037 : South West Pacific Area Office (SWPAO)

    Selected files of the UNRRA Headquarters Office-Subject Files: Mainly files on the displaced persons and war relief matters.

  10. UNRRA selected records AG-018-004 : Bureau of Areas

    Selected files of the Executive Office, Office of Country Mission Affairs, and European Mission Affairs: Agreements to establish various country missions, postwar relief plans, reports, polices and analysis on displaced persons, health and medical requirements, field and intelligence reports and statistics on country field missions, European mission affairs, and miscellaneous correspondence.

  11. UNRRA selected records AG-018-011 : European Regional Office (ERO). Subject Files

    Selected files relating to displaced persons operations in British Zone (BAOR) and the Australian United Jewish Overseas Relief Team: correspondence, statements of accounts.

  12. UNRRA selected records AG-018-036 : Latin America-Procurement Offices

    Selected files of the Latin America Procurement Offices: Correspondence of the government officials of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador; financial reports and budget planning; displaced persons matters and press information.

  13. UNRRA selected records AG-018-035 : Philippine Mission

    Selected files of the Philippine Mission: Correspondence, telegrams, UNRA registration cards, questionnaires, interviews, affidavits for refugees, and UNRRA agreements and polices related to displaced persons desiring repatriation: Displaced Persons-Chinese in Rabaul 1944-1949, as well as Displaced Persons, European, 1944-1949. Some files relate to Jewish refugees after the war, and the repatriation of Austrian and German Displaced Persons in the Philippines. Including are addresses of tracing bureaus in Europe and description of the tracing programs of the major organizations: National Tra...

  14. UNRRA selected records AG-018-028 : Switzerland Mission

    Selected files of the Switzerland Mission (S-1405), 1944-1949: Records include statistics, correspondence, files of displaced persons, lists of children, offers of temporary asylum for children, movement of children to Switzerland, Red Cross actions and personal inquires requesting tracing of individuals, as well as reports on activities of the UN relating to refugees and displaced persons.

  15. Fighter against the Nazis Medal and box awarded to Jewish Brigade veteran

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn539563
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • a: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) b: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm)

    Fighter Against the Nazis medal and ribbon with box awarded to Shmuel Givol Gotthold. The ribbon was awarded on Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 7, 1967, and the medal several years later. Gotthold was a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, British Army, 2nd Jewish Battalion, Palestine Regiment. In the immediate postwar period he was stationed in the British Zone in Germany where he helped trace missing persons and aided refugees desperate to know whether their family members had survived. The Brigade was established by the British in September 1944. It included more than 5000 Jewish volunteers liv...

  16. British Defence Medal 1939-1945 ribbon awarded to Jewish Brigade veteran

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection

    British Defence Medal 1939-1945 ribbon awarded to Shmuel Givol Gotthold. Gotthold was a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, British Army, 2nd Jewish Battalion, Palestine Regiment. In the immediate postwar period he was stationed in the British Zone in Germany where he helped trace missing persons and aided refugees desperate to know whether their family members had survived. The Brigade was established by the British in September 1944. It included more than 5000 Jewish volunteers living in Palestine and was the only independent, national Jewish unit to serve in WWII. The unit served in combat du...

  17. Julius Hirsch family papers

    Manuscript drafts of song and poetry texts, mostly written for Jewish holidays, and used by various members of the family of Julius Hirsch, originally of Hamburg, Germany, circa 1935-1940. Some of the poetry may have been written while Hirsch was interned as an enemy alien in Great Britain in 1940-1941 at the Hutchinson camp on the Isle of Man, but much of it dates from earlier years. Collection also includes a printed sheet with lyrics and music of the "Hutchinson Camp Song," written by internees at the Hutchinson camp, 1940, as well as newspaper clippings from British newspapers, circa ea...

  18. Asch Family Papers

    1. Nestor Winters collection

    Contains two letters from the Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain, informing Mrs. C. Asch of London that members of the Asch family have been liberated in Theresienstadt and have returned to Berlin, August-September 1945.

  19. UNRRA selected records AG-018-006 : Balkan Mission and Middle East Office.

    Selected records of the Albania Mission, Bureau of Relief Services, 1944-46: correspondence, registration cards, statistics, policy and procedures, repatriation, and tracing and inquiry forms and other records relating to displaced persons, Albanian Prisoners of War, Albanians employed during the war, forced labors and deportees; Records of the Bureau of Requirements and Supply-Greek Relief Series-Joint Relief Commission 1944-1949: reports on medical supplies, food and care; Records of the Bureau of Finance and Administration-Central Registry Series, 1944-1949: correspondence, and intellige...

  20. UNRRA selected records AG-018-001 : China Office

    Selected records of the UNRRA China Office relating to Displaced Persons Operations, medical and agricultural rehabilitation in China, 1944-1949: reports, correspondence with Jewish Sephardic Committee, Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, lists of refugees, as well as records relating to repatriation, transportation, and tracing inquiries.