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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Monogrammed leather binder made for Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps

    1. Louis J. Walinsky collection

    Brown leather secretary's notebook presented to Louis J. Walinsky, Director of ORT vocational training schools in Europe in 1947. It contains blotting paper and was made in an ORT Esslingen displaced persons camp class in Germany, and stamped with the camp name and his initials. After the war, ORT opened vocational training schools in displaced persons camps, the first in Landsberg am Lech in August 1945. The schools trained Holocaust survivors in practical skills such as metalworking, carpentry, dress making, and mechanics, so they could establish new lives after they immigrated. Louis, a ...

  2. ORT shoulder badge owned by the Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps

    1. Louis J. Walinsky collection

    ORT insignia shoulder patch owned by Louis J. Walinsky, Director of ORT vocational training schools in displaced persons camps in Europe in 1947. It was for uniformed personnel and worn at the ORT Headquarters in Munich, Germany. After the war ended in May 1945, ORT opened vocational training schools in dp camps, the first in Landsberg am Lech in August. The schools trained Holocaust survivors in practical skills such as metalworking, carpentry, dress making, and mechanics, so they could establish new lives after they immigrated. Louis, a teacher and economist, began working for American OR...

  3. Silver brooch of a 3 masted ship given to Director, ORT schools, DP camps

    1. Louis J. Walinsky collection

    Brooch of a 3 masted ship engraved ORT Ebelsburg given to Louis J. Walinsky, the Director of ORT vocational training schools in Europe in 1947. It was made in Ebelsberg displaced persons camp in Austria. After the war, ORT opened vocational training schools in dp camps, the first in Landsberg in August. The schools trained Holocaust survivors in practical skills such as metalworking, carpentry, dress making, and mechanics, so they could establish new lives after they immigrated. Louis, a teacher and economist, began working for American ORT Federation in 1947. He was sent to Europe to work ...

  4. ORT stickpin presented to Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps

    1. Louis J. Walinsky collection

    Gold stickpin with the ORT insignia given to Louis J. Walinsky, Director of ORT vocational training schools in displaced persons camps in Europe in 1947. It was made by ORT participants in a dp camp in the US occupation zone in Germany. After the war ended in May 1945, ORT opened vocational training schools in dp camps, the first in Landsberg in August. The schools trained Holocaust survivors in practical skills such as metalworking, carpentry, dress making, and mechanics, so they could establish new lives after they immigrated. Louis, a teacher and economist, began working for American ORT...

  5. Handmade wooden checkers set presented to Director, ORT schools, DP camps

    1. Louis J. Walinsky collection

    Hand crafted parquet checkerboard with a pull-out drawer and 21 checkers given to Louis J. Walinsky, Director of ORT vocational training schools in displaced persons camps in Europe in 1947. It was made by ORT participants in a dp camp in the US occupation zone in Germany. After the war ended in May 1945, ORT opened vocational training schools in dp camps, the first in Landsberg in August. The schools trained Holocaust survivors in practical skills such as metalworking, carpentry, dress making, and mechanics, so they could establish new lives after they immigrated. Louis, a teacher and econ...

  6. Set of 10 patterns for menswear

    1. Ilie Wacs collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn517218
    • English
    • 1943-1945
    • a: Height: 16.380 inches (41.605 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) b: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 16.620 inches (42.215 cm) c: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 16.620 inches (42.215 cm) d: Height: 13.880 inches (35.255 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm) e: Height: 13.880 inches (35.255 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm) f: Height: 13.880 inches (35.255 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm) g: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm) h: Height: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm) i: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm) j: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm)

    Group of men’s clothing patterns created by Moritz Wacs for his tailor’s shop in Shanghai. The Wacs family left Vienna for Shanghai soon after Kristallnacht in November, 1938. Nazi Germany had annexed Austria in March 1938 and the persecution of Jews was increasingly violent. In 1943, the Japanese, who controlled Shanghai, forced most Jewish refugees into ghettos. Conditions were very harsh, but Ilie’s family survived the war.

  7. Leather billfold used by a German Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany to Canada

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    Billfold owned by Josef Zwienicki at the time of his emigration from Germany in 1939. Josef, his wife, and four children lived in Bremen as the Nazis rose to power. It was a predominantly non-Jewish city and there was popular support for increasingly punitive restrictions enacted against the Jewish population. On Kristallnacht in November 9-10, 1938, his wife, Selma, was shot and killed in their home by rioters. Josef appealed for help from relatives abroad. A cousin in Canada arranged for Josef and his four children, Avraham, Gerd (Jacob), Benno, and Liesel, to come to Canada as refugees. ...

  8. News from the UK Underground Danish periodical circulating news from the United Kingdom

    1. Knud Dyby collection

    An underground newspaper, Nyheder fra Storbritanien, acquired by Knud Dyby while he was a member in several Danish underground resistance organizations during World War II. This was one of many underground publications that grew out of increased demand for information as German authorities increased censorship in the final years of the war. In April 1940, Germany invaded and occupied Denmark, which prompted a growing demand for information about the war and the need for newspapers. Many underground publications were created as part of a robust resistance and sabotage movement in the nation....

  9. Picture Magazine Danish periodical circulating illustrated news about the liberation

    1. Knud Dyby collection

    An illustrated newspaper, Billed-Bladet, acquired by Knud Dyby while he was a member in several Danish underground resistance organizations during World War II. This was one of many publications that increased circulation due to increased demand for information as German authorities increased censorship in the final years of the war. In April 1940, Germany invaded and occupied Denmark, which prompted a growing demand for information about the war and the need for more newspapers. Many publications went underground for a time as part of a robust resistance and sabotage movement in the nation...

  10. Picture Magazine Danish periodical circulating illustrated news about the post-liberation period

    1. Knud Dyby collection

    An illustrated newspaper, Billed-Bladet, acquired by Knud Dyby while he was a member in several Danish underground resistance organizations during World War II. This was one of many publications that increased circulation due to increased demand for information as German authorities increased censorship in the final years of the war. In April 1940, Germany invaded and occupied Denmark, which prompted a growing demand for information about the war and the need for more newspapers. Many publications went underground for a time as part of a robust resistance and sabotage movement in the nation...

  11. Armband with a royal coat of arms issued to a Danish resistance member

    1. Knud Dyby collection

    Blue, red, and white armband with a medallion issued to Knud Dyby, a member of the Danish underground resistance, on May 4 or 5, 1945. The armbands, which appeared abruptly throughout Denmark, were issued by the Danish Freedom Council, Denmark's unofficial government-in-exile in England from July 1944 to May 1945. The armbands were meant to identify resistance members as legitimate combatants, rather than guerilla forces, to ensure they were protected under Geneva Convention rules defining combatants and how they should be treated by military forces. Denmark was occupied by Germany on April...

  12. White cotton tallit katan used by a Polish Jewish elder

    1. Shlomo Schiller family collection

    Tallit katan worn by Shlomo Schiller who fled Warez, Poland, with his family to the Soviet Union after the German invasion on September 1, 1939. A tallit katan is a religious garment worn by Jewish men with their daily dress. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Shlomo, his wife, Henia, his 20 year old daughter, Ania, and his 15 year old twin daughters, Klara and Pola, were evacuated from Kherson to Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains. When Chelyabinsk expelled refugees as untrustworthy residents, the family moved to Kopeysk. Shlomo lost his sight due to starvation, and was ho...

  13. Large white wool tallit with blue stripes well-used by a Polish Jewish elder

    1. Shlomo Schiller family collection

    Blue striped tallit gadol carried by Shlomo Schiller when he and his family fled Warez, Poland, to the Soviet Union after the German invasion on September 1, 1939. He prayed in this tallit, a prayer shawl worn by Jewish men during morning services, every day of his life until his death in 1964. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Shlomo, his wife, Henia, his 20 year old daughter, Ania, and his 15 year old twin daughters, Klara and Pola, were evacuated from Kherson to Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains. When Chelyabinsk expelled refugees as untrustworthy residents, the family...

  14. Unused yellow cloth Star of David badge with Juif for Jew issued in Paris

    1. Max Feld and Rose Feld-Rosman collection

    Unused Star of David badge owned by 25 year old Raisa Steinberg Feld in Paris, France, in May 1942. Jews in France were required to wear these on their outer clothing at all times after May 1942; badges were often cut from a pre-printed roll. After Paris was occupied by Germany in May 1940, foreign Jews were in danger of arrest and imprisonment. Raisa and her husband, Max, both deaf, were Jewish refugees from Poland and Germany. In May 1941, Max was arrested and, in July 1942, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Raisa went into hiding with their 1.5 year old daughter, Esther,...

  15. Yellow cloth Star of David badge with Juif for Jew worn by a Polish refugee in Paris

    1. Max Feld and Rose Feld-Rosman collection

    Star of David badge worn by 25 year old Raisa Steinberg Feld in Paris, France, from June 1942. Jews in France were required to wear these on their outer clothing at all times after May 1942; badges were often cut from a pre-printed roll. After Paris was occupied by Germany in May 1940, foreign Jews were in danger of arrest and imprisonment. Raisa and her husband, Max, both deaf, were Jewish refugees from Poland and Germany. In May 1941, Max was arrested and, in July 1942, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Raisa went into hiding with their 1.5 year old daughter, Esther, her ...

  16. Red leather photograph case carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee

    1. Lilly Morawetz collection

    Dark red leather photograph display case carried by Lilly Morawetz in her backpack in 1939 when she fled German occupied Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) for France. She kept it with her while held in Gurs internment camp in 1940 and during her flight through Spain and Portugal to the US in 1941. After Germany annexed Austria in 1938, Lilly sent her youngest child, Margit, 16, to Paris. Lilly was visiting Margit that September when Germany annexed the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. She hurried back to Prague to sell their home. In March 1939, she was still in Prague when Germany anne...

  17. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection

    1. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection

    The Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection focuses on the wartime experiences of Leon Ilultovich in Poland, Lithuania, Japan, and Shanghai, China. Materials in the collection include correspondence, visas, travel documents, medical records, identification records, newspapers, printed notices, ephemera, photographs, and photograph albums. The collection also includes photographs of the Ilutovich, Lindenbaum, and Landau families in Poland. The collection contains extensive biographical materials relating to Leon Ilutovich. These materials include identification documents, school records, medica...

  18. Duvet cover made from a US Army parachute by a Jewish family in a displaced persons camp

    1. Ephraim Robinson family collection

    Covering for a blanket made from a United States Army parachute by Ephraim and Sarah Robinson for their family in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany, where they lived from 1945-1948. Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Ephraim and Sarah fled east to Russian controlled territory. They lived in several places as the Soviet Union demanded that Jewish refugees keep moving further east. They had a daughter, Fay, in 1941, in Odessa, and Alice was born in 1944 in Romanovka. When the war ended in May 1945, they returned from Uzbekistan to Bessarabia, where they cr...

  19. Medal and a ribbon bar pin awarded to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn951
    • English
    • 1941-1945
    • a: Height: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) b: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)

    Badge awarded around 1945 by the British Boy Scouts Association to Ernst (Ernest) Heppner, a Jewish refugee in Shanghai. It was awarded by the British Red Cross for his direct (bed-to-bed) blood transfusion to a British woman, saving her life. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else. He also had an older half-brother, Heinz (Henry), who lived with his wife and young child. Following the Kristallnacht program and Heinz’s subsequent arrest in November 1938, the family began looking at emigration options. Seventeen-y...

  20. Red enamel permit tag in leather holder issued to a German Jewish refugee

    1. Hanni Sondheimer Vogelweid family collection

    Metal and leather identification tag issued to Moritz Sondheimer when he lived in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, from 1941-1945. The tag permitted the bearer to leave the ghetto for work and was color coded to denote the term of valid use. The pass would also include an identification photograph. Moritz, his wife, Setty, and their children, 17 year old Hanni and 14 year old Karl fled Kaunas, Lithuania, in February 1941 following 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...