Rudy Appel collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn4822
• English
• overall: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 12.375 inches (31.433 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Antisemitic propaganda flyer found pinned to a wall and acquired by Rudy Appel in wartime France. The image depicts a louse-like caricature of a Jew and compares Jews to well-known diseases. This message draws upon centuries-old antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as dirty and vectors of disease. Pejoratives such as “dirty Jew” and antisemitic myths such as a Jewish odor caused by bad hygiene or a poor diet were common during the 19th century. Rudy was living with his parents and brother in Mannheim, Germany, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power in January 1933. Following the Kristalln...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn608011
• English
• 1939-1944
• folders 2
• Updated 7 months ago

The Rudy Appel papers include Red Cross form correspondence among Rudy Appel, his mother in Gurs, and his father in Philadelphia as well as photographs of the La Guespy children's home run by Secours Suisse aux enfants where Appel was sheltered during the war, the home's director Juliette Usach, and other children who stayed at the home.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn7087
• English
• 1941-1944
• overall: | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Diameter: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Medal awarded posthumously to Juliette Usach in recognition as a “Righteous Among the Nations,” by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel. Yad Vashem confers the honor on those who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Juliette Usach was a Protestant, Spanish doctor who fled to France in 1938 as a refugee of the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, she moved to the village of Chambon-sur-Lignon to become the director of a boarding house for Spanish mothers and children. After Germany’s invasion of France in May 1940, antisemitic legislation led to Jews being imprisoned in internment camps. ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn7088
• English
• 1941-1944
• overall: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Presentation box for medal awarded posthumously to Juliette Usach in recognition as a “Righteous Among the Nations,” by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel. Yad Vashem confers the honor on those who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Juliette Usach was a Protestant, Spanish doctor who fled to France in 1938 as a refugee of the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, she moved to the village of Chambon-sur-Lignon to become the director of a boarding house for Spanish mothers and children. After Germany’s invasion of France in May 1940, antisemitic legislation led to Jews being imprisoned ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn7089
• English
• 1941-1944
• overall: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Certificate awarded posthumously to Juliette Usach in recognition as a “Righteous Among the Nations,” by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel. Yad Vashem confers the honor on those who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Juliette Usach was a Protestant, Spanish doctor who fled to France in 1938 as a refugee of the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, she moved to the village of Chambon-sur-Lignon to become the director of a boarding house for Spanish mothers and children. After Germany’s invasion of France in May 1940, antisemitic legislation led to Jews being imprisoned in internment c...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn7090
• English
• 1941-1944
• overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Document case for a certificate (.2a) awarded posthumously to Juliette Usach in recognition as a “Righteous Among the Nations,” by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel. Yad Vashem confers the honor on those who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Juliette Usach was a Protestant, Spanish doctor who fled to France in 1938 as a refugee of the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, she moved to the village of Chambon-sur-Lignon to become the director of a boarding house for Spanish mothers and children. After Germany’s invasion of France in May 1940, antisemitic legislation led to Jews being ...