Jacob and Nehemiah Robinson collection

Identifier: irn86036
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn86036

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Karin Sibrava-Cherches, the great niece of Dr. Jacob Robinson and Nehemiah Robinson.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a typewriter, correspondence, documents, identity paperwork, notes, photographs, and published material related to the experiences of Jacob and Nehemiah Robinson and their family before the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and Lithuania and during and after the Holocaust in Lithuania and the United States, where they emigrated in 1940.

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Underwood typewriter with Cyrillic keys used by an emigre Jewish lawyer and politician
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn109079
- English
- 1925
- overall: Height: 9.125 inches (23.178 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Depth: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Underwood cast iron typewriter Model No. 5(E) with a Cyrillic keyboard brought by Dr. Jokubas (later Jacob) Robinson when he and his family left Kaunas, Lithuania, in May 1940 for the United States. It was manufactured in the US, it had a No.46 to mark it for a foreign market. Jokubas, a lawyer and politician, was a defender of Jewish interests throughout Europe. In September 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. Robinson was deeply involved in integrating the large Jewish refugee population in Lithuania. In December 1940, Jokubas, his wife Klara, daughters Athalie and Vit...
Oral testimony of Jacob Robinson
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn699803
- English
- 8 sound cassettes (120 min.),
- Updated 7 months ago
Oral testimony of Nehemiah Robinson
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn699804
- English
- 2 sound tape reels,
- Updated 7 months ago
Jacob Robinson papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn86034
- English
- 1915-1977
- boxes oversize box 11 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The Jacob Robinson papers include personal and professional papers created and collected by Dr. Jacob Robinson, mainly as part of his work at the Institute for Jewish Affairs in New York City during and after World War II. The collection largely relates to legal and academic discussions about the Holocaust, war crimes trials, and reparations. The personal photographs are largely pre-war photographs of the Robinson family in Lithuania during the 1920s and 1930s, with a few wartime and post-war snapshots and professional portraits. The personal papers consist of some educational documents and...

Jacob and Nehemiah Robinson collection

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Underwood typewriter with Cyrillic keys used by an emigre Jewish lawyer and politician

Oral testimony of Jacob Robinson

Oral testimony of Nehemiah Robinson

Jacob Robinson papers