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  1. canceled British postage stamp acquired by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Peter Victor family collection

    canceled British 2.5 shilling postage stamp acquired by Peter Victor when he lived as a refugee in Shanghai, China, from 1938-1947. Peter, 18, left Berlin for Shanghai in 1938 to escape the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi-led government. His parents, Carl and Elsa, arrived in Shanghai in 1939. Carl died in 1940 and Elsa in 1942. Shanghai was liberated by the United States Army on September 3, 1945. With the aid of the American Joint Distribution Committee, Peter emigrated to America in December 1947.

  2. Appenzeller and Dukes families papers

    1. Appenzeller and Dukes families collection

    The Dukes and Appenzeller families papers include a 1945 autobiographical essay by Erna Appenzeller; birth certificates, a marriage certificate, a tax document, passports, and naturalization papers for William, Irma, and Erna Appenzeller; photographs of the Dukes and Appenzeller families and their friends; a 1940 postcard from Irma’s sister Frieda Grün and her husband Rudolf; and restitution files documenting William Appenzeller, Irma Dukes Appenzeller, and Erna Appenzeller (Ernie Kent) from Vienna, their immigration to the United States, and their efforts to receive restitution for losses ...

  3. Vakar family collection

    The Vakar family papers consist of correspondence, memoirs, manuscripts, news clippings, postcards, and other documents and materials related to the immigration of the Vakar family from France to the United States in 1940-1941, as well as the role of the American aid workers who helped them, Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Collection includes postcards and correspondence from the period of their immigration, later memoirs written by various members of the family recounting their experiences during their escape and their arrival in the United States, as well as news clippings and other material ...

  4. Skirt made by a German Jewish woman to demonstrate her sewing capabilities

    1. Elfriede Gerson Hillelsohn collection

    Maroon wool sampler skirt made by Elfriede Hillelsohn in Hamburg, Germany, to prove her sewing skills prior to her work in a Nazi uniform factory. Elfriede trained as a seamstress in Weener, Germany, before moving to Hamburg in 1936. While in Hamburg, Elfriede belonged to a German-Jewish youth movement where she met and soon became engaged to Kurt Hillelsohn. After Kristallnacht in November 1938, Kurt immigrated to the United States and Elfriede and her mother moved in with his family. During this time, Elfriede worked as a forced laborer in a German uniform factory. With financial support ...

  5. Eva and Otto Pfister papers

    Accretion to the Eva and Otto Pfister Papers including correspondence, documents, booklet, papers, clippings, translations, pamphlets, leaflets, speeches, writings, tickets, passes, photos, and other materials.

  6. Aluminum wardrobe trunk used by a German Jewish emigrant family

    1. Bruno Einstein family collection

    Aluminum wardrobe trunk used by Bruno Einstein, his wife Frieda, and their five year old son Dieter for their November 1939 journey to the United States. On Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938, Bruno and his brother Arthur were arrested in their hometown of Fellheim, Germany, and sent to Dachau concentration camp. Both were released in early January 1939. The family received visas for the United States, sponsored by Bruno’s maternal aunt Frieda Jeffries. Bruno, Frieda, and Dieter left Germany for Genoa, Italy in 1939, then sailed to New York in November. Bruno’s brother, Arthur, and sister, M...

  7. Legion Condor

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die überlieferten Schriftgutsplitter stammen aus Rückführungen aus den USA und Großbritannien an die Dokumentenzentrale des Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes. Von dort wurden sie 1968 an das Militärarchiv abgegeben. Bestandsbeschreibung Vom Stab der Legion Condor liegen zwei Bände eines persönlichen Kriegstagebuchs (KTB) des ersten Generalstabsoffiziers Hauptmann Christ von Januar bis Juni 1938 und von Januar bis März 1939 überliefert. Von den Einheiten der Legion liegen nur wenige Sachakten vor, darunter das KTB der Ln.-Abteilung 88 vom 5. November 1936...

  8. Комитет по делам еврейской эмиграции (ГИЦЕМ) (г. Париж)

    • Emigration Association (HICEM)
    • Komitet po delam evreiskoi emigratsii GITsEM HIAS JCA

    The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories. The inventories are arranged according to structure. The collection contains the HICEM charter (January 1935); accounts of HICEM activities for 1926-39; circulars to HICEM branch offices (1933-40) on rules for filling out a central card file of émigrés; on conditions of emigration to Uruguay, Ecuador, Haiti, and other countries, and on procedures for statistical calculation of émigré data; minutes of sessions of the HICEM administrative council for 1930, 1934-39, as well as of the HICEM commission on émigré doctors for 1934-35, ...

  9. Laced leather billfold with a painted harbor owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Peter Victor family collection

    Decorated leather billfold acquired by Peter Victor when he lived as a refugee in Shanghai, China, from 1938-1947. The name of his wife, Berta Manis Victor, is inscribed inside the wallet. They met in the United States after Peter's emigration from Shanghai in December 1947, and married in 1951. Berta left Germany for the US in 1938. Peter, age 18, left Berlin for Shanghai in 1938 to escape the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi-led government. His parents, Carl and Elsa, arrived in Shanghai in 1939. Carl died in 1940 and Elsa in 1942. Shanghai was liberated by the United States Army on Septe...

  10. Porges family papers

    The collection consists of documents and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of the Porges family of Vienna, Austria. Includes pre-war family photographs, identification documents, and paperwork related to immigration to the United States in 1946.

  11. Albersheim family papers

    The Albersheim family papers consist of biographical, photographic, and printed materials documenting Walter Albersheim from Billerbeck, Germany before World War II, his photography studios in Barcelona and Amsterdam during the Nazi years, his efforts to avoid deportation during the Holocaust, the liberation of Amsterdam, and Albersheim’s immigration to the United States with his wife and daughter after the war. Biographical materials include birth, registration, marriage, and business records related to Walter Albersheim, a photocopy of his personal narrative in German and an English trans...

  12. Otto Pankok woodcut of a Sinti man in a hat

    1. Otto Pankok collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8526
    • English
    • 1948
    • overall: Height: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm) | Width: 25.125 inches (63.818 cm) pictorial area: Height: 11.375 inches (28.893 cm) | Width: 12.125 inches (30.798 cm)

    Woodcut portrait of a Sinti man, Papelon, created by Otto Pankok, a German artist persecuted by the Nazi regime. In the 1920s, he was part of the avant garde Junge Rheinland group with Otto Dix, Gert Wollheim, Karl Schwesig, and Adolf Uzarski. Around 1930, Pankok became fascinated by the itinerant life led by Roma and Sinti, and exhibited his first series of portraits in 1932 at the Dusseldorf Kunsthalle. Under the Nazi regime which came to power in 1933, art and culture had to serve to promote national socialist ideology. Modern art was denounced as a tool of the international Jewish consp...

  13. Otto Pankok woodcut of a Sinti woman

    1. Otto Pankok collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8530
    • English
    • 1960
    • overall: Height: 38.000 inches (96.52 cm) | Width: 25.125 inches (63.818 cm) pictorial area: Height: 26.000 inches (66.04 cm) | Width: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm)

    Woodcut portrait of a Sinti woman created by Otto Pankok, a German artist persecuted by the Nazi regime. In the 1920s, he was part of the avant garde Junge Rheinland group with Otto Dix, Gert Wollheim, Karl Schwesig, and Adolf Uzarski. Around 1930, Pankok became fascinated by the itinerant life led by Roma and Sinti, and exhibited his first series of portraits in 1932 at the Dusseldorf Kunsthalle. Under the Nazi regime which came to power in 1933, art and culture had to serve to promote national socialist ideology. Modern art was denounced as a tool of the international Jewish conspiracy. I...

  14. Otto Pankok woodcut of a Sinti man

    1. Otto Pankok collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8529
    • English
    • 1960
    • overall: Height: 38.250 inches (97.155 cm) | Width: 25.250 inches (64.135 cm) pictorial area: Height: 21.625 inches (54.928 cm) | Width: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm)

    Woodcut portrait of a Sinti man created by Otto Pankok, a German artist persecuted by the Nazi regime. In the 1920s, he was part of the avant garde Junge Rheinland group with Otto Dix, Gert Wollheim, Karl Schwesig, and Adolf Uzarski. Around 1930, Pankok became fascinated by the itinerant life led by Roma and Sinti, and exhibited his first series of portraits in 1932 at the Dusseldorf Kunsthalle. Under the Nazi regime which came to power in 1933, art and culture had to serve to promote national socialist ideology. Modern art was denounced as a tool of the international Jewish conspiracy. In ...

  15. Otto Pankok woodcut of a Sinti woman in a striped dress

    1. Otto Pankok collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8527
    • English
    • 1960
    • overall: Height: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm) | Width: 25.125 inches (63.818 cm) pictorial area: Height: 11.375 inches (28.893 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)

    Woodcut portrait of a Sinti woman in a striped dress, Kitzla, created by Otto Pankok, a German artist persecuted by the Nazi regime. In the 1920s, he was part of the avant garde Junge Rheinland group with Otto Dix, Gert Wollheim, Karl Schwesig, and Adolf Uzarski. Around 1930, Pankok became fascinated by the itinerant life led by Roma and Sinti, and exhibited his first series of portraits in 1932 at the Dusseldorf Kunsthalle. Under the Nazi regime which came to power in 1933, art and culture had to serve to promote national socialist ideology. Modern art was denounced as a tool of the intern...

  16. Otto Pankok woodcut of a Sinti woman with freckles

    1. Otto Pankok collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8528
    • English
    • 1960
    • overall: Height: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm) | Width: 25.250 inches (64.135 cm) pictorial area: Height: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm) | Width: 16.625 inches (42.228 cm)

    Woodcut portrait of a freckled Sinti woman, Raklo, created by Otto Pankok, a German artist persecuted by the Nazi regime. In the 1920s, he was part of the avant garde Junge Rheinland group with Otto Dix, Gert Wollheim, Karl Schwesig, and Adolf Uzarski. Around 1930, Pankok became fascinated by the itinerant life led by Roma and Sinti, and exhibited his first series of portraits in 1932 at the Dusseldorf Kunsthalle. Under the Nazi regime which came to power in 1933, art and culture had to serve to promote national socialist ideology. Modern art was denounced as a tool of the international Jew...

  17. Selected records of the Unitarian Service Committee and the Universalist Service Committee

    Contains selected records of the Unitarian Service Committee and Universalist Service Committee relating to relief efforts and assistance to Jewish and non-Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution before, during and after World War II in a number of countries throughout the world, including France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, England, Switzerland, and Portugal. The collection includes mainly correspondence, reports, case files, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia, posters, and clippings related to the humanitarian work of the Unitarian and Universalist Service Committees, ...

  18. Itzkowic-Goldberg family. Collection

    This collection contains: a pre-war photo of Salomon Itzkowic posing with friends in a car ; one postcard and four letters sent by Esther Goldberg and her children Achim Itzkowic, Berthold Siegmund Itzkowic and Arthur Itzkowic in Antwerp to their husband and father Salomon Itzkowic in the Saint-Cyprien and Argelès-sur-Mer internment camps in France (August to December 1940) ; Salomon Itzkowic's certificate of registration in the United Kingdom, 1946 ; a post-war statement by Salomon Itzkowic on his family history.

  19. Tadeusz Geisler. Collection

    The collection contains: cutlery (spoon, fork and knife) used by Tadeusz Geisler during his internment at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp ; two strips of fabric with a red triangle, the letter P and Tadeusz Geislers prisoner number at Sachsenhausen (90175) ; three patches of cloth depicting Polish and French flags ; three small pieces of bread, saved by Tadeusz Geisler during a death march in 1945 ; a prototype of a violin bridge - the Geisler-comb - developed by Thadé Geisler; a photocopy of the patent accorded to Thadé Geisler for his violin bridge in 1966 ; three post-war photos, in...

  20. Fischler-Hollander family. Collection

    This collection contains: 177 postcards sent by family members and friends from Antwerp to Abraham Fischler in Portugal in 1940-1941; documents regarding Abraham Fischler’s stay in Portugal and Cuba, including visa; a postcard sent in May 1945 by Abraham Fischler while in Cuba to his parents’ house in Antwerp, unaware of their deportation; post-war correspondence between Abraham Fischler in Cuba and family members and neighbours in Antwerp regarding the fate of Abraham’s parents Mojzesz Fischler and Serka Hollander and his siblings Sonia Laja, Hudes, Beila Ruchla, Munisz and Jozef Fischler;...