Elisabeth Orsten family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn37513
• English
• overall: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Miniature penknife given to 13 year old Elisabeth Ornstein by her parents Hilda and Paul after they were reunited in New York in 1940 during the war. Elisabeth and her family were from Vienna where the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 led to severe anti-Semitic persecution. Although they were practicing Catholics and did not identify themselves as Jews, they were Jews under Nazi law. After Kristallnacht in November 9, 1938, Elisabeth's parents decided to send the children out of the country. Elisabeth and Georg, 9 years, were given passage on a Kindertransport to England by the Quak...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn37514
• English
• overall: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Diameter: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Locket with her baby photo and her mother's initials given to 13 year old Elisabeth [Liesl] Ornstein by her mother Hilda after they were reunited in New York in 1940 during the war. Elisabeth and her family were from Vienna where the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 led to severe anti-Semitic persecution. Although they were practicing Catholics and did not identify themselves as Jews, they were Jews under Nazi law. After Kristallnacht in November 9, 1938, Elisabeth's parents decided to send the children out of the country. Elisabeth and Georg, 9 years, were given passage on a Kinder...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn37515
• English
• overall: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Miniature compass given to Elisabeth [Liesl] Ornstein, 13, by her parents Hilda and Paul after they were reunited in New York in 1940 during the war. Elisabeth and her family were from Vienna where the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 led to severe anti-Jewish persecution. Although they were practicing Catholics and did not identify themselves as Jews, they were Jews under Nazi law. After Kristallnacht in November 9, 1938, Elisabeth's parents decided to send the children out of the country. Elisabeth and Georg, 9, were given passage on a Kindertransport to England by the Quakers in ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524363
• English
• a: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) b: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) c: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) d: Height: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) e: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 12.125 inches (30.798 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Set of tableware including a soup spoon, teaspoon, fork, and knife inside a cloth roll given to 13 year old Elisabeth (Liesl) Orsten by her parents after they were reunited in New York in 1940 during the war. Elisabeth and her family were from Vienna where the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 led to severe anti-Semitic persecution. Although they were practicing Catholics and did not identify themselves as Jews, they were Jews under Nazi law. After Kristallnacht in November 9, 1938, Elisabeth's parents decided to send the children out of the country. Elisabeth and Georg, 9 years, wer...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn98646
• English
• boxes 2
• Updated 7 months ago

The Elisabeth Orsten papers include an autograph book, biographical materials, correspondence, a diary, photographs, printed materials, and school records documenting her childhood in Vienna, her departure for England on a Kindertransport with her brother, Georg, their care and education in England, the Ornstein family’s immigration to the United States, and her grandparents’ continued suffering in Vienna. The autograph book contains illustrations and signed poems by Elisabeth Orsten’s parents and friends in Vienna. Correspondence primarily documents arrangements for Elisabeth’s care in Eng...