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Country: United States

  1. Jews Land In Australia

    Huge ship arriving at Sydney's port with "700 Jewish migrants" aboard, waving from decks. CUs of people on board and on dock waving. Ledge of ship packed with people.

  2. Leon Shear photographs

    1. Leon Shear collection

    Consists of five photographs depicting Leon Shear and his friends and family members as refugees at the displaced persons camp in Feldafing, Germany, from 1945 to 1947.

  3. Passengers on the St. Louis

    CU "St Louis: Hamburg" written on ship's bow. LS ship from dock as ship enters harbor. Passengers walk down gangplank or are carried off on stretchers. Waving from dock. Boarding train.

  4. Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945

    "Witness Stand: Diverse Clips" Malmo: ambulance on a dock. Ferry station. Refugees go inland. Malmo ferry arrives. More women getting naked, bathing, getting new clothes, and getting disinfected.

  5. Kenneth and Margaret Lowe papers

    1. Kenneth and Margaret Lowe collection

    The papers consist of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Kurt Löwenstein in January 1939 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and one British travel document issued in London, England, to Margaret Pappenheimer [donor], a refugee from Nazi Germany.

  6. The Southern Israelite (Atlanta, Georgia) [Newspaper]

    The newspaper includes the headline article, "Joint Distribution Committee Speeds Aid to 300 Refugees in Tirana, Albania."

  7. Israel Ellen photographs

    1. Israel Ellen collection

    The collection consists of five photographs from the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.

  8. Melvin Goldfarb papers

    1. Melvin Goldfarb collection

    The papers consist of documents relating to Melvin and Estera Goldfarb and their experiences as displaced persons in Austria, including post-war certificates of vaccinations, letters stating their wartime experiences, and invoices for package deliveries. Also included is a post-war photograph of a memorial site.

  9. Jewish refugee children from Belsen in London

    Jewish teenage survivors of Belsen arrive at refugee center in London. Children eating in dining hall, dancing the Hora outside, arriving at Red Cross building, in classes.

  10. Dorit B. Whiteman collection

    Contains university report card (Meldungsbuch) issued in 1938 in Vienna, Austria, to Edwin Bader, father of the donor, as a replacement for the original issued in 1910-1915; a photocopy of a note about proper behavior handed out to newly arrived refugees in England in 1938; and video recordings of the 1988 reunion of former Nuremberg-Fuerth refugees. Mr. Frank Harris arranged the reunion.

  11. Suit

    1. Rose and Mayer Zar collection

    The suit was handmade for Mayer Zar in a DP camp.

  12. Suit

    1. Rose and Mayer Zar collection

    The suit was handmade for Rose Zar (Szoszana Zarnowiecki) donor's mother in a DP camp.

  13. Louis J. Walinsky papers

    1. Louis J. Walinsky collection

    The papers consist of photographs of vocational classes at World ORT Union schools located in DP camps in Germany after World War II.

  14. Victor Klapholz papers

    The papers include two photographs, an identification card for Victor Klapholz from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a document from the Jewish community at the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) DP camp in Fürth, Germany, and three false Polish documents used during World War II.

  15. Hechtkopf family papers

    1. Regina and Uscher Hechtkopf family collection

    The papers consist of documents relating to the Hechtkopf family during their time spent as displaced persons in Munich, Germany after World War II.

  16. Ticket

    The train ticket was given to Jadzia Liwer [donor] for passage from Yokohama-shi to Tokyo, Japan, and return; printed in black ink on recto and verso; recto background: printed red ink design; No 1418.

  17. Linda Marcus papers

    The papers consist of a letter from the Committee for the Defence of the Rights of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe in Paris, France, to the French Minister of the Interior on behalf of Lowy Isak Weitzner and an announcement ("In Neerland Roumt Israël") signed by O. Cahen.

  18. Lillian Bronner Glass papers

    The papers consist of two identification cards for Lillian Bronner [donor] and Eleanora Bronner [donor's mother] issued at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in N.Y.

  19. Anna Goldberg photograph collection

    The collection consists of ten photographs depicting Anna Goldberg and other young refugees in Die Jordan House orphanage in Feldafing displaced persons camp in Germany and in Bensheim displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II.

  20. New Year card

    The Rosh Hashana card depicts Dora and Israel Iwler holding their young daughter, Jeanne, between them; an image of a flower is in the upper right corner; Hebrew text reads: "L,Shana Tova Tikatevum" ("Happy New Year"); was created in Rome, Italy.