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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  9. Selected records of the Shanghai Municipal Archives

    Contains records from the Shanghai Municipal Government, International Settlement, Education Department, Finance Department, Public Works Department, Public Health Department, and French Concession. Topics include: Jewish schools, Jewish journal, school fees, grants to schools for foreign children, the Jewish refugee kitchen, health facilities, the Jewish cemetery, registration of Jewish aid organizations, and annual reports of aid organizations. Also contains documents relating to Polish, Czechoslovak, and other European refugees.

  10. Zbąszyń photographs

    The collection consists of six photographs of Jewish refugees from Germany on the Polish-German border in Zbąszyń, Poland. On the verso, stamped by Roman Vishniac.

  11. Torczyner collection

    Contains documents about the activities of the Maccabi Aid Committee and the Maccabi World Union. The activities involved the 1939 organization of illegal transports of Jewish refugees travelling by boat on the Danube River from Vienna, Austria, across Hungary and Yugoslavia, to Palestine. Another activity was to find a place in Bolivia to settle hundreds of Jewish refugees. Includes an atlas of Bolivia. Also includes corresdondence between various members of the family living as refugees in Palestine, Shanghai, China, and Havana, Cuba. The Palestine branch of the Torczyner family are survi...

  12. Selected records from the Varese prefecture

    Contains documents related to the formulation and implementation of anti-Jewish racial laws in and around the areas of Piedmont and Lombardia, Italy. Also contains documents related to Jewish refugees in this area.

  13. Cast iron dutch oven pot from cafe used as rendezvous point by French resistance

    1. Cafe Beylier collection

    Dutch oven from cafe-coiffeur (cafe-hairdressing salon) of Mere Beylier in the village of Chateau-Cherviz, in the Limosin region of France. The cafe was near two orphanages operated by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants [OSE: Children’s Aid Society], Chateaus Chabannes and Montintin. Both homes sheltered Jewish children and other young refugees from deportations during the German occupation of France. The cafe, which was the town gathering place, also served as a resource center and temporary refuge for Jews and others who opposed the German occupation and the pro-German Vichy government. In...

  14. Stephanie Mayer collection

    The Stephanie Mayer collection consists of three photographs with inscriptions. The photographs show Stephanie Pringheim Mayer with friends on board the MS St. Louis in May 1939.

  16. Association of Immigrants from Poland, Tel Aviv (J20)

    Contains records of the Association of Immigrants from Poland that was active in Israel, 1942-1961. Includes meeting protocols, various name lists, questionnaires, and newspaper clippings relating to assistance to Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors by giving out loans, finding work, and reuniting families after the war. In addition, the organization created name lists of Holocaust survivors still remaining in Europe, and of those who immigrated to Palestine/Israel.

  17. Selected records from the Portuguese National Archives

    Contains selected records of Portuguese agencies under António Salazar's regime. Included in this collection are correspondence, reports, mostly relating to Jewish refugees and trade relations with other nations, the question of sending German Jewish refugees to Portuguese colonies, and the Salazar’s personal archives.

  19. Beatrice Maier papers

    The Beatrice Maier papers contains correspondence and a deposition. The correspondence consists of two letters, written by "Gerda," May and June 1939. The first letter, addressed to "Else," was written aboard the MS St. Louis; the second was written after arrival in Mirebeau, France. The letters describe experiences aboard the ship, their arrival in Havana and Florida. The deposition was prepared by Hugo Zivi of New York, addressed to the Badische Staatsanwaltschaft in April 1947, in which he describes events he witnessed during Kristallnacht in Mühlheim, Germany, and identifying by name th...

  20. David Reisfeld papers

    Documents pertaining to the efforts of David Reisfeld of New York City, who working with an American aid organization, the Humane Refugee Aid Society, Inc., sought to facilitate the immigration of several Jewish refugees from Austria to the United States in 1938-1939. Includes documentation about efforts to assist Karl Friedenthal (Vienna), Mr. and Mrs. Levi Hornstein (Vienna), and Hermann Singer (originally of Vienna, writing from Kitchener Camp, England).