Jacob and Nehemiah Robinson collection

• 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...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn699803
• English
• 8 sound cassettes (120 min.),
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn699804
• English
• 2 sound tape reels,
• Updated 7 months ago

• 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...