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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Käthe Fränkel collection

    Contains an identification card issued by the "International Committee for Granting Relief to European Refugees" in Shanghai, China; certifies that Käthe Fränkel, born in Eisleben, Germany is registered as a “bona-fide Emigrant." Includes a pamphlet entitled “Good-bye Mr. Ghoya,” printed in September 1945 by Friedrich Melchior as a parody of all the stumbling blocks that Kanoh Ghoya, the Japanese civil administrator of the Bureau of Stateless Refugees Affairs in Shanghai, put in the way of the Jewish refugees who were forced to reside in the Hongkew Ghetto in Shanghai from 1943-1945.

  2. Oral history interview with Herbert Meyer

  3. Hapag-Lloyd Collection

    The Hapag-Lloyd collection consists of a published map and cabin plan of the MS St. Louis, February 1937, and a copy print of a black and white photograph of the MS St. Louis.

  10. British Pathé Gazette -- St. Louis ship anchored off-shore

    Location unknown. Titles read: " REFUGEES WITHOUT A COUNTRY" LSs of the 'St Louis' ship with 900 hundred Jewish refugees on board. The commentator says that "900 Jews have found a haven at last. They crossed from Hamburg to Cuba. But in Havana they were refused entry and had to return to Europe and possibly to Hamburg, the city they dreaded. In every harbor, friends come out to give them words of cheer and sympathy while they appeal by radio to the democracies. Eventually, they are allowed to land in Holland, when some will go to Belgium and France, and others to England. So at last the wan...

  11. "Über Die Grenzen" issue

    1. Max K. Liebmann collection

    Consists of a copy of the Christmas 1945 issue of "Über die Grenzen," which was the last issue of the publication. "Über die Grenzen" was a periodical published by and for refugees and emigrants in labor and/or refugee homes in Switzerland during World War II. The newspaper includes articles written by refugees who found safety in Switzerland during the Holocaust. The articles discuss subjects such as economics, resistance, and the "Judenfrage." .

  12. Illegal Ship

    Night-time shots of refugees with large packs boarding rubber boats. Crowded onto deck, rushing into hold and covering selves with tarpaulin when British airplane flies overhead. Airplane is an RAF : Lancaster. British warship (destroyer) sited, Brits jump from their decks to refugee ship. English and Hebrew sign "Haganah Ship Unafraid" and "Jewish" flag raised.

  13. German troops

    German troops evacuate Finland. Refugees bound for Sweden on a road. Refugees with belongings at railroad station. German men and equipment in retreat on the Western front; they are loaded aboard ship and move out. Wounded loaded into ambulances. Engineers repair bridge. Destruction in Belgrade. Rocket barrage fired on the Russian front. German antitank and machine guns fired. Russian T-34 tanks advance. Bazookas destroy some. German tanks counterattack. Good combat footage, may have cut in some Russian footage.

  14. Private collection Hélène Benatar (Sig. P129)

    Contains personal papers of Hélène Benatar regarding her activities concerning Jewish refugees in Northern Africa (mostly in Morocco). The collection also contains interviews with Hélène Benatar and articles related to her.

  15. Board of the Jewish Community, Wilno (Fond 1232)

    Records of the Council of the Vilnius Jewish Community in Lithuania, reflecting the inter war period and beginning of World War II. The collection includes correspondence with local and government authorities, the Bureau of the Rabbi, the Chief of Police of the City of Vilnius, the Jewish Community Committee for Refugees, and Jewish communities across Lithuania regarding budgets and tax collection. Also includes reports, statistics, budget proposals, salaries of Jewish community officials, minutes, and certificates of war refugees.

  19. Home Office: Aliens Department: Internees Index (HO 396)

    Contains an alphabetical list of records of German, Austrian, and Italian nationals and their spouses who were interned or considered for internment in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia during World War II. Each record contains personal details of the individual and some information about their case. A digital copy of this collection is available via Ancestry.com.

  20. Foreign Office: General Correspondence, FO 371

    Contains correspondence relating to persecution and atrocities against Jews; refugees from Germany and Austria; disturbances in Palestine; the formation of a Jewish fighting force; immigration issues; German war criminals, and files on the conditions for Jews in occupied Europe including, Germany, Slovakia, Italy, Hungary, Iraq, and Poland.