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  1. Belt for a kittel [ceremonial robe] saved by a Czech Jewish refugee

    1. Frank Meissner family collection

    Long, narrow belt for a kittel, a ceremonial robe worn by a Jewish male, used by Norbert Meissner, who was president of the synagogue in Trest, Czechoslovakia, before and during the Holocaust. He and his wife, Lotte, and son, Leo, were deported to Theresienstadt in 1943. A year later, they were sent to Auschwitz death camp where they perished. The belt was preserved by his son, Frank. Frank, age 16, left Czechoslovakia in October 1939 because of the increasing Nazi persecution of Jews as Czechoslovakia was dismembered by Nazi Germany and its allies. With the encouragement of his family, he ...

  2. Blue striped tallit with embroidered Hebrew text used by a Czech Jewish refugee

    1. Frank Meissner family collection

    Embroidered tallit gadol, a prayer shawl worn by Jewish males during morning prayers, used by Franz Meissner. Frank, age 16, left Trest in October 1939 because of the increasing Nazi persecution of Jews as Czechoslovakia was dismembered by Nazi Germany and its allies. With the encouragement of his family, he left for Denmark with members of Youth Aliyah, a organization that helped people to emigrate to Palestine. In 1943, the Germans began to deport all Jews from Denmark. Frank was warned that the Gestapo was looking for him and he was smuggled on a fishing boat to Sweden. He had been recei...

  3. Red and black plastic cigarette holder used by a Czech Jewish refugee

    1. Frank Meissner family collection

    Cigarette holder used by Franz Meissner. Frank, age 16, left Czechoslovakia in October 1939 because of the increasing Nazi persecution of Jews as Czechoslovakia was dismembered by Nazi Germany and its allies. With the encouragement of his family, he left for Denmark with members of Youth Aliyah, a organization that helped people to emigrate to Palestine. In 1943, the Germans began to deport all Jews from Denmark. Frank was warned that the Gestapo was looking for him and he was smuggled on a fishing boat to Sweden. He had been receiving weekly letters from his family, even after their deport...

  4. Przodownikom Pracy [Socialist Hero of Labor] lapel medal issued to a Jewish official postwar

    1. Kalman and Pauline Barakan collection

    Przodownikom Pracy [Socialist Hero of Labor] medal in the shape of a 7 point star awarded by the Polish government in the 1950s to Kalman Barakan for his exemplary work for the Polish National Enterprise for Foreign Trade in Łódź, Poland. When Germany invaded Poland in June 1941, Kalman Barakan was a 30 year old lawyer in Bialystok. His home was destroyed and he had to move into a Jewish ghetto and do rough manual labor. He escaped in 1943 and lived in hiding, constantly on the move. In August 1943, the ghetto was destroyed; Kalman’s entire family was murdered in a death camp. In July 1944,...

  6. Painted wooden spice box kept by by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Hannah Kronheim Deutch collection

    Olive wood spice tower with cloves carried by 17 year old Hannah Kronheim when she left Bochum, Germany, on the Kinderstransport [Children's Transport] in 1939. The box was made in Palestine and used for years by her family. A spice (besamim) box is used during the Havdalah, or separation ceremony, at the end of Shabbat every week. The box is filled with a fragrant spice, such as cinnamon or cloves, and is passed around so that everyone can be be rejuvenated by the sweet smell. Hannah left soon after Kristallnacht, November 9 and 10, 1938, when the synagogue behind her home was set on fire....

  7. Silver sugar tongs carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Hannah Kronheim Deutch collection

    Sugar tongs carried by Hannah Kronheim, 17, who left Germany in 1939 on the Kinderstransport [Children's Transport]. She left soon after Kristallnacht, November 9 and 10, 1938, when the synagogue behind her home in Bochum was set on fire. She arrived in Harwich, England, on February 3, 1939. Hannah was older than most of the children, and no placement arrangements were made for her. She was housed in a boarding house, then a hostel until November 1940 when she was sent to Port Erin internment camp on the Isle of Man. Her mother, Ella Kronheim Mayer, left for Chile on August 25, 1939, with h...

  8. Rose embroidered tablecloth kept by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Hannah Kronheim Deutch collection

    Tablecloth with roses embroidered by her mother carried by 17 year old Hannah Kronheim when she left Germany on the Kinderstransport [Children's Transport] in 1939. Hannah left soon after Kristallnacht, November 9 and 10, 1938, when the synagogue behind her home in Bochum was set on fire. She arrived in Harwich, England, on February 3, 1939. Hannah was older than most of the children, and no placement arrangements were made for her. She was housed in a boarding house, then a hostel until November 1940 when she was sent to Port Erin internment camp on the Isle of Man. Her mother, Ella Kronhe...

  10. 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 ...

  11. 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...

  12. 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,...

  13. 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 ...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. Jews in several countries 1939

    1. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    The file contains a month by month survey of the Jews' situation in several European countries as well as in Palestine and of the refugees' problem all over the world. The first files are letters from the Jewish Central Information Office about the Jews in Italy. The other documents report about the Jews in Romania, the Jewish emigration policy and the official measures taken in favor of or against the Jews ; in the Baltic States and especially in Lithuania, about the virulent traders' anti-Jewish propaganda despite the official government position against anti-Jewish steps, the deteriorati...

  18. Aus der Emigration II

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the continuation of Curt Rosenberg's account of his life in Scotland after his flight from Nazi Germany including his legal struggles with his landlord. He describes life in London in 1942 and his work in the German Refugee Center in Glasgow. He also recounts a court hearing, the differences between German and British jurisdiction, and the difficulties refugees face when settling in foreign surroundings.

  19. The Kitchener Camp Review

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains two examples of the journal the 'Kitchener Camp' for refugees, a monthly Camp newspaper on the Isle of Man (self-governing crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland). Kitchener Camp was taken over by the Central British Fund of the Council for German Jewry (CBF) at the beginning of 1939 to rescue threatened Jews from Germany and Austria. Conditions for admission were that inmates must be aged between 18 and 40 and that they have a definite prospect of emigration overseas. The newspaper of the camp reports about the activities in the...

  20. The Refugees and Immigration

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A memorandum discussing the size of the refugee problem as well as arguments pro and against immigration. It further discusses the finance and retraining possibilities of refugees.Discribes the immigration policy and situation of Jewish immigrants in France and Palestine.