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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. 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 17 year old Hanni Sondheimer when she 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. Hanni, her parents, Moritz and Setty, and her 14 year old brother, 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 Japa...

  2. Pao Chia red striped armband worn by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Hanni Sondheimer Vogelweid family collection

    Armband issued to Moritz Sondheimer by the Japanese occupation authorities of the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai where he lived from 1941-1945. Moritz was required to serve in Pao Chia, a civil and ghetto defense force composed of foreign and Chinese males, aged 20 to 45. 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. Classified as stateless refugees wh...

  3. Albert Dov Sigal gouache and gold leaf painting of a seated man gazing at a large golden lion and another man with his finger raised in admonishment

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    Gouache created by Albert Dov Sigal when he lived in Israel from 1948-1958. The stylized, abstract composition in gold and brown has an image of a man seated before a large golden lion with a cloth in its bared teeth. Next to the lion stands a man with his forearm raised, finger pointing upward. In 1939, Sigal was arrested by the fascist, antisemitic Romanian government and assigned to a forced labor battalion that repaired and built roads and railways. He started an underground art school with a group of friends and was active in the Romanian resistance. On December 27, 1947, the family sa...

  4. UNRRA selected records AG-018-009 : Italy Mission

    Correspondence, memos, statistics, publications, circulars, bulletins, financial documents, and reports relating to the Displaced Persons Operations, medical care, education and recreation, vocational trainings, emigration and resettlement.

  5. Blue and silver HIAS pin worn by a Jewish Latvian youth postwar

    1. Jack Ratz collection

    HIAS badge worn by 19 year old Isaak Racs (later Jack Ratz) during his October 1947 journey from Bremen to the United States. On July 1, 1941, Germany invaded Latvia. That summer, Isaak was forced into the Riga ghetto with his parents, Moses and Tema, and three younger brothers, Rafael, Chona, and Aron. On December 8, his mother and brothers were executed during the liquidation of the ghetto. Isaak and his father were forced laborers in the small ghetto, until they were sent to Lenta labor camp in 1943. Around August 1944, Isaak and Moses were sent to Stutthof concentration camp. In October...

  6. Max Amichai Heppner papers

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    The Max Amichai Heppner papers consist of address books and calendars, correspondence, lessons and notes, personal and travel narratives, photographs, printed materials, scrapbooks titled “Remembrance of the Holocaust,” subject files, and writings documenting the Heppner family from Berlin, their prewar refuge in Amsterdam, their wartime refuge on Harry and Dina Janssen’s farm, their liberation, their immigration to the United States, and their efforts to assist and publicly recognize the Janssen family. Address books and calendars include wartime calendars and address books used by the Hep...

  7. Shanghai Volunteer Corps nightstick issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Wooden truncheon issued to Ernst (Ernest) Heppner, in late 1940, as a member of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps (SVC). Founded in 1854, the SVC was under the command of British officers and reinforced the International Settlement’s municipal police. He became a driver for the transport company. Even though he had no prior driving experience, Ernst passed his test at the end of 1940. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else, and near his half-brother, Heinz. Following the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, and Hein...

  8. Blanket issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Blanket issued to Ernst (Ernest) Heppner in Shanghai, China, by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in August 1945. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else, and near his half-brother, Heinz. Following the Kristallnacht program in November 1938, and Heinz’s subsequent arrest, the family began looking at emigration options. Eighteen-year-old Ernst and his mother secured passage on a ship to Shanghai, China, where they arrived in March 1939. Ernst soon got a job working for a toy store...

  9. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Badge issued to Ernest G. Heppner, in late 1940 or early 1941, as a member of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps (SVC). Founded in 1854, the SVC was under the command of British officers and reinforced the International Settlement’s municipal police. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else, and near his half-brother, Heinz. Following the Kristallnacht program in November 1938, and Heinz’s subsequent arrest, the family began looking at emigration options. Eighteen-year-old Ernst and his mother secured passage on a ship t...

  10. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Badge issued to Ernst (Ernest) Heppner, in late 1940 or 1941, as a member of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps (SVC). Founded in 1854, the SVC was under the command of British officers and reinforced the International Settlement’s municipal police. He became a driver for the transport company. Even though he had no prior driving experience, Ernst passed his test at the end of 1940. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else, and near his half-brother, Heinz. Following the Kristallnacht program in November 1938, and Heinz’...

  11. Hilbert Margol papers

    The Hilbert and Howard Margol papers consist of Margol family wartime correspondence and German postcards acquired by Howard and Hilbert Margol after VE Day. The Margol family correspondence consists of a letter with envelope sent to Mrs. Sarah Margol from US Army Major General Edwin M. Watson, Secretary to the President, in response to her letter sent on June 8, 1944 with concerns about the assignments of her twin sons. The letter is written on White House stationary and dated June 12, 1944. Also included are photocopies of two letters sent to Mrs. Margol in response to her June 8, 1944 le...

  12. UNRRA red felt patch with acronym worn by a refugee aid worker

    1. Michel Shadur family collection

    Patch worn by Michel Shadur when he worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in Germany from 1945-1947. He worked as a supply officer for the Wurttemburg district and as director of a displaced persons camp for Jewish refugees in Backnang. Michel left Germany in 1935 because the Nazi government's anti-Jewish policies were making it difficult and dangerous to live and work there. His wife, their 2 children, 8 year old Joseph and 4 year old Benita, and his mother joined him in Antwerp, Belgium, in January 1936. However, after the Germans occupied Belgium ...

  13. UNRRA red cloth patch with acronym worn by a refugee aid worker

    1. Michel Shadur family collection

    Patch worn by Michel Shadur when he worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in Germany from 1945-1947. He worked as a supply officer for the Wurttemburg district and as a director of a displaced persons camp for Jewish refugees in Backnang. Michel left Germany in 1935 because the Nazi government's anti-Jewish policies were making it difficult and dangerous to live and work there. His wife, their 2 children, 8 year old Joseph and 4 year old Benita, and his mother joined him in Antwerp, Belgium, in January 1936. However, after the Germans occupied Belgiu...

  14. Rosenfeld family collection

    1. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin collection

    The Rosenfeld family collection consists of identification documents, restitution paperwork, correspondence, and photographs related to the Rosenfeld family of Adelsheim, Germany. The collection also relates to the Kindertransport experiences of Bertha, Edith, Ruth, and Esther Rosenfeld, and their lives in England during World War II. The identification documents includes Esther Rosenfeld and Bertha Rosenfeld’s travel documents, 1947; Esther Rosenfeld’s National Registration Identity Card, May 22, 1940 and her baggage tag, undated; and a probate court document related to Sol M. Alpher and t...

  15. White knitted lace doily with a center flower saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Karlsruher, Schweizer and Eisenmann family collection

    White knitted lace doily saved by 34 year old Irene Schweizer, when she fled Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport with her 6 year old son Hans in July 1939, joining her husband in England. The lace was acquired by Irene’s father, Leonhard Regensburger (1858-1914), who was a silk and textiles merchant in France for many years before becoming a partner in a drapery manufacturing company in Plauen, Germany. When Hitler rose to power in Germany in January 1933, Irene lived in Mannheim, with her husband, Friedrich Schweizer. Irene’s stepfather, Nathan Karlsruher, died in October 1933 and Irene’s mo...

  16. White floral netted lace rectangular doily saved a German Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Karlsruher, Schweizer and Eisenmann family collection

    White lace sample doily saved by 34 year old Irene Schweizer, who fled Germany on a Kindertransport with her 6 year old son Hans in July 1939, joining her husband in England. The lace was acquired by Irene’s father, Leonhard Regensburger (1858-1914), who was a silk and textiles merchant France for many years before becoming a partner in a linen manufacturing company in Plauen, Germany. When Hitler rose to power in Germany in January 1933, Irene lived in Mannheim, with her husband, Friedrich Schweizer. Irene’s stepfather, Nathan Karlsruher, died in October 1933 and Irene’s mother and half-si...

  17. Leather tag stamped with the US seal containing a photograph owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Karlsruher, Schweizer and Eisenmann family collection

    Small leather tag with a photograph presumably of her husband and son saved by Irene Schweizer, who fled Germany on a Kindertransport with her 6 year old son Hans in July 1939, joining her husband in England. When Hitler rose to power in Germany in 1933, Irene, Hans, and her husband Friedrich resided in Mannheim. Irene’s stepfather, Nathan Karlsruher, died that October and Irene’s mother and half-sister, Jella and Ruth Karlsruher, 11, moved in with them. In 1936, Friedrich was fired from his job as a bank manager because he was Jewish. During Kristallnacht on November 10, 1938, Friedrich wa...

  18. Mother of pearl opera glasses saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Karlsruher, Schweizer and Eisenmann family collection

    Mother of pearl opera glasses saved by Irene Schweizer when she fled Germany on a Kindertransport with her 6 year old son Hans in July 1939, joining her husband in England. When Hitler rose to power in Germany in 1933, Irene, Hans, and her husband Friedrich resided in Mannheim. Irene’s stepfather, Nathan Karlsruher, died that October and Irene’s mother and half-sister, Jella and Ruth Karlsruher, 11, moved in with them. In 1936, Friedrich was fired from his job as a bank manager because he was Jewish. During Kristallnacht on November 10, 1938, Friedrich was arrested and sent to Dachau. Their...

  19. Hauer and Honig families papers

    1. Hauer and Honig families collection

    The collection regards the Holocaust-era experiences of Gunter Hauer and his parents Dagobert and Gertrud Hauer, and Hella Honig (later Hella Hauer) and her parents Rosa and Herman Honig. Both families were originally from Berlin, Germany and the collection documents their pre-war lives in Berlin, immigration to Shanghai in 1939, and immigration to the United States in 1947. Included are identification documents, immigration paperwork, and photographs. Documents include papers regarding Dagobert Hauer’s service with the German army during World War I, Gunter Hauer’s identification cards for...

  20. Carl Heinz Rosner papers

    1. Carl Rosner Collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Carl Heinz Rosner of Hamburg, Germany including his stay at a Jewish orphanage from 1937-1942; the deportation Rosner and his brother Joseph to the Buchenwald concentration camp; and his life as a post-war refugee in Stockholm, Sweden. The collection also includes a small amount of material related to the experiences of his wife Frieda Rosner and her parents Zelman and Judith Zeidshnur of Wilno, Poland (modern day Vilnius, Lithuania). Included are biographical materials such as passports, naturalization certificates, birth certificates, ...