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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Arthur Greenleigh papers

    The Arthur Greenleigh papers contains correspondence, reports, and various other records created by Arthur Greenleigh from the period of 1943 to 1956. From 1943-1946, Greenleigh served with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), and from 1946-1956, Greenleigh served with the United Service for New Americans (USNA) and the United Hias Service (HIAS). The reports and correspondence from his years at the JDC focus on assisting Jewish displaced persons during and after World War II. The reports give status updates and activities of the JDC, while the correspondence is with both...

  2. Walter and Elizabeth Richards family papers

    The Walter and Elizabeth Richards family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, restitution files, and subject files documenting a German Jewish family from Berlin, some family members’ escape to Argentina, the United States, and England, the deaths of Elizabeth Richards’ parents at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, and postwar efforts to receive restitution for confiscated money and property. Biographical materials include a 1922 German citizenship form for the Lewin family, employment information for Gyuri Olah, Hans Reich, and Walter Richards, emigration forms...

  3. Association des Israelites Pratiquants. Association of Orthodox Jews Kehillat Haharedim (RG 340)

    Records of the Kehillat Haharedim (Association des Israelites Pratiquants. Association of Orthodox Jews). Consist of correspondence, letters, list of refugees and internees, lists of students, lists of members of Kehillat Haharedim in Paris, bulletin of the organization, financial records, questionnaires, statistical reports, and minutes. Most of records constitute of correspondence with children's homes, internees of camps, rabbis, with the organizations as: the Union générale des israélites de France (UGIF), Hias-Ica Emigration Association (HICEM), World Union OSE (OSE), Federation de ...

  4. John and Alice Morawetz papers

    1. Alice and John Morawetz collection

    The papers consist of 58 photographs, certificates, identification cards, and correspondence concerning the experiences of Alice Tauscher and Hans Morawetz [donors] in Austria, Trinidad, and the United States from the 1920s through the 1940s.

  5. Betty Sklow papers

    The Betty Sklow papers contain correspondence written by Betty Sklow and her daughters Charlotte Rosenthal and Helene Sklow. The letters contain detailed description of Betty Sklow’s experiences aboard the MS St. Louis in 1939, her disembarkation in the Netherlands, her experiences negotiating travel to the United States, and her journey to the United States aboard the SS Pennland in 1940. The papers also include photographs of Betty Sklow and her husband Hermann Sklow, as well as a printed cabin plan for the MS St. Louis, February 1939. Betty Sklow’s letters written aboard the MS St. Louis...

  6. Leather tallit pouch made by an inmate in a Dutch detention center

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Leather tallit bag made by Fritz Silberschmidt in Zeeburgerdijk quarantine center in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in fall 1939. Fritz looked after an elderly orthodox rabbi who was ill and dying. The rabbi entrusted Fritz with his tallit, the prayer shawl that was his only possession and had been in his family for generations. Fritz saved and used the tallit for High Holidays for the rest of his life, and was buried in it upon his death in 1991. Fritz made shoes in the camp and secretly sewed this pouch from leather scraps he saved from work. It was pig leather, but Fritz felt since it was the o...

  7. UNRRA selected records AG-018-035 : Philippine Mission

    Selected files of the Philippine Mission: Correspondence, telegrams, UNRA registration cards, questionnaires, interviews, affidavits for refugees, and UNRRA agreements and polices related to displaced persons desiring repatriation: Displaced Persons-Chinese in Rabaul 1944-1949, as well as Displaced Persons, European, 1944-1949. Some files relate to Jewish refugees after the war, and the repatriation of Austrian and German Displaced Persons in the Philippines. Including are addresses of tracing bureaus in Europe and description of the tracing programs of the major organizations: National Tra...

  8. The Archives of the World ORT Union Head Office

    Files of the headquarters of World ORT Union in Geneva, which signed an agreement in 1981 with the Central Archives to deposit the material in Jerusalem. The collection includes minutes, organization statuses, correspondence, bank statements, reports and plans, published journals, bulletins, pamphlets, printed booklets, photographs, video materials, and press clippings, and various materials related to emigration, education, welfare, administration of the Jewish communities on international scale.

  9. Szabo family papers

    The Szabo family papers document the Holocaust experiences of the Szabo family of Vienna, Austria, including Viktor Szabo’s imprisonment in Dachau after Kristallnacht, his death in Zasavica in 1941, his daughter Nelly Szabo Ullman’s account of Kristallnacht, and her immigration to the United States in May 1939. Material related to Nelly Szabo Ullman consists of a handwritten account in German of the German-annexation of Austria (Anschluss) and Kristallnacht, written fall 1939, along with an English translation she produced in 1996. Material related to Viktor Szabo includes 3 letters written...

  10. Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer

    1. Löwenstein and Stern families collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn625670
    • English
    • a: Height: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) b: Height: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm) | Width: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm)

    Black document case acquired and used by Julius Loewenstein (born Löwenstein) after immigrating to the United States following the end of World War II (1939-1945). The case was used to hold his US naturalization certificate and important insurance papers. After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, many anti-Jewish laws severely restricted the daily lives of nineteen-year-old Julius, his parents, Siegmund and Sophie Löwenstein, and older brother, Alfred. Julius made his way to Switzerland as a refugee in August 1938. During the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, Siegmund ...

  11. Pair of black leather lace-up ice skates owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Hanni Sondheimer Vogelweid family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518999
    • English
    • 1946
    • a: Height: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) b: Height: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm)

    Pair of ice skates kept by 17 year old Hanni Sondheimer when she and her family fled Lithuania in February 1941. "I couldn't bring much, and I loved ice skating and I could take my ice skates because I thought in America you can ice skate." Hanni, her parents, Moritz and Setty, and her 14 year old brother, Karl, fled Kaunas due to the Soviet occupation in 1940. They planned to emigrate to the United States, but visa restrictions made them take a difficult route through Russia to Japan. Classified as stateless refugees when they reached Japan in March 1941, they were deported to Shanghai whe...

  12. Brown leather billfold used by a Latvian Jewish refugee and aid worker from Nazi Germany

    1. Michel Shadur family collection

    Wallet used by Michel Schadur (later Shadur) in Belgium, France, and Germany during and after the Holocaust. Michel left Germany in 1935 because the Nazi government's anti-Jewish policies were making it dangerous to live there. His wife, Manja, their 2 children, 8 year old Joseph and 4 year old Benita, and his mother joined him in Antwerp, Belgium, in January 1936. After the Germans occupied Belgium in May 1940, the family was forced to flee once more. Traveling by private car, they eventually made their way to Lisbon, Portugal. They sailed for New York on board the SS Exeter on February 21...

  13. Blue leather billfold used by a Latvian Jewish refugee and aid worker from Nazi Germany

    1. Michel Shadur family collection

    Dark blue leather wallet used by Michel Schadur (later Shadur) in Belgium, France, and Germany during and after the Holocaust. Michel left Germany in 1935 because the Nazi government's anti-Jewish policies were making it dangerous to live there. His wife, Manja, their 2 children, 8 year old Joseph and 4 year old Benita, and his mother joined him in Antwerp, Belgium, in January 1936. After the Germans occupied Belgium in May 1940, the family was forced to flee once more. Traveling by private car, they eventually made their way to Lisbon, Portugal. They sailed for New York on board the SS Exe...

  14. Samuel Kramer papers

    Consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs and similar materials collected by Samuel Kramer, an attorney who was legal counsel to Agudas Chasidei Chabad in Brooklyn, NY, and who worked closely with Rabbi S. Gourary and his father-in-law, the Lubavticher Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, in attempts to secure visas for several dozen rabbis and students of the Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva, first so that they could leave Lithuania for Japan, and then from Japan onward, 1940-1941. The “Correspondence” series is the largest component of the collection, and consists primarily of letters fr...

  15. Handcrafted commemorative coin medallion created for a US crew member on an illegal immigrant ship

    Small medal commissioned by Paul Kaye to memorialize the imprisonment of the crew and passengers of the illegal immigrant ship, Hatikvah, on May 18, 1947, after their capture at sea by the British on May 17 during a voyage to Palestine. It was carrying nearly 1500 Jewish refugees, mostly Holocaust survivors. The medal was made from a hand flattened Cyprian piaster coin by an artist, name unknown, that Paul met in the internment camp on Cyprus. It is etched with the names, Hatikvah and Cyprus, an image of the ship, and an image of the detention camp; the initials of Paul’s nephew, Joseph Ros...

  16. Watercolor of Rivesaltes internment camp created postwar by a nurse/rescuer who worked there

    Watercolor created by Friedel Bohny-Reiter in 1994 depicting the Rivesaltes internment camp in France where she worked for Suisse Secours aux Enfants [Swiss Aid to Children] as a nurse in 1941-1942. The Vichy regime, which governed unoccupied France, interned thousands of refugees in detention camps. By spring 1942, Rivesaltes was a central transit point for the frequent deportations of Jews to killing centers. Friedel dedicated herself to finding safe havens for children to save them from deportation. She placed many in orphanages operated by Secours Suisse and in 1943, was appointed co-di...

  17. Tobacco pipe with a bowl carved into the shape of Churchill’s head

    1. Salzmann family collection

    Tobacco pipe with a bowl shaped like Winston Churchill’s head acquired by the father in law of Berthold Salzmann from Germany during the Korean War. This pipe was carved from quality briar wood, the best material for pipes. Berthold and his sister Ernesta were medical students at the University of Vienna throughout the 1930s. On March 13, 1938 Germany annexed Austria and created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. Consequently, Berthold graduated but was unable to practice medicine and Ernesta was unable to graduate. Berthold was selected for a refugee program organized by the Cent...

  18. Tobacco pipe with a bowl carved into the shape of Hitler’s head

    1. Salzmann family collection

    Tobacco pipe with a bowl in the shape of Adolf Hitler’s head acquired by the father in law of Berthold Salzmann from Germany during the Korean War. This pipe was carved from quality briar wood, the best material for pipes. Berthold and his sister Ernesta were medical students at the University of Vienna throughout the 1930s. On March 13, 1938 Germany annexed Austria and created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. Consequently, Berthold graduated but was unable to practice medicine and Ernesta was unable to graduate. Berthold was selected for a refugee program organized by the Centr...

  19. Pipe with bowl carved in the shape of a bull’s head

    1. Salzmann family collection

    Bull’s head tobacco pipe acquired by Berthold Salzmann’s father-in-law in Germany during the Korean War. This pipe was carved from quality briar wood, the best material for pipes. Berthold and his sister Ernesta were medical students at the University of Vienna throughout the 1930s. On March 13, 1938 Germany annexed Austria and created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. Consequently, Berthold graduated but was unable to practice medicine and Ernesta was unable to graduate. Berthold was selected for a refugee program organized by the Central British Fund for German Jewry, and immig...

  20. Scene still for the film “The Illegals” (1948)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    American scene still for the film, “The Illegals,” which was released in the United States in July 1948. The docudrama depicts the attempted illegal immigration of Jewish refugees from Poland, through Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, and Italy to Palestine. Before reaching its destination, the ship is captured by the British and redirected to Cyprus. “The Illegals” was filmed on-location over a six-month period, about two months before the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the establishment of the state of Israel in May 1948. Britain had been given control of Palestine following...