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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

    Calling card for Fanny Beit found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  2. Guggenheim and Smali families papers

    The Guggenheim and Smali families papers consist of correspondence, memoirs, photographs, and a receipt documenting the Guggenheim family from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the Smali family from Merkinė, Lithuania. Correspondence includes a letter written by Malka Pugacka Smali from a Cyprus detention camp in 1947 describing a scene she witnessed in the Kovno ghetto in 1942 in which a little girl’s grandmother suggested miracles were still possible. The memoirs were written by Malka Pugacka Smali between the 1950s and 1980s and describe life in Lithuania, the Kovno ghetto, and her immigra...

  3. Camillo Adler papers

    The collection consists of three manuscripts written by Camillo Adler between 1943-1945. Der Käfig (The Cage), in German, is a semi-autobiographical work related to life in Vienna in the 1920s. Mensch ohne Heimat (Man Without a Country), in German with an English translation, is an autobiographical work related to Adler's life in Lyon, France, from the outbreak of World War II to his enlistment in the French Foreign Legion. It was originally published as a serial in a Swiss newspaper. Ich bin ein Fluechtling (I am a Refugee), in German with an English translation, is an account of Adler's e...

  4. Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR Związek Patriotów Polskich w ZSRR (Sygn.130)

    Selected records of the Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR (ZPP) and the Organizing Committee of Polish Jews in the Soviet Union Included are minutes, correspondence, personal files of organization activists and members, various name lists, newsletters related to the repatriation of the Polish population, statistical data on field work, regional and local units of the Union of Polish Patriots, memories, albums and photographs of Polish emigrants in USSR.

  5. Topas family papers

    The Topas family papers include identification documents and photographs relating to George Topas and the Topas family of Warsaw, Poland. The papers include Sura Etta Topas’ Polish passport, 1939-1941; a photostat copy of Sura Etta Topas’ birth certificate; a photostat copy of the marriage certificate of Sura Etta Topas (née Ferszt) and Icek Jakob Topas; and a letter of recommendation for George Topas written by Max B. Harding, Major, 345th Field Artillery Battalion, November 25, 1945. The Topas family photographs include a group photograph of the Topas family and the Goldfarb family, Sura ...

  6. UNRRA selected records AG-018-008 : European Regional Office (ERO). Registry Files

    Selected records of the UNRRA European Regional Office (ERO), Registry Files relating to: legal matters affecting UNRRA Missions, assistance to displaced persons and prisoners of war, relations with allied governments (Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, Middle East, Egypt, Ethiopia, Brazil, China, Iran, Austria); mission reports from particular countries, Relief Services Conferences, Londin,1946; allegations against UNRRA administration; UNRRA Program of Op...

  7. Leonie Roualet papers

    1. Leonie Roualet collection

    The collection consists of documents and correspondence regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Leonie Roualet, an American imprisoned in the Vittel internment camp in France. Included is corresondence of Leonie's sister Henriette Roualet with various U.S. government agencies trying to locate Leonie and her mother, two wartime letters exchanged between Leonie and Henriette, Leonie's DP card, and documents related to her post-war involvement with the Red Cross.

  8. Nathan Rapoport personal archives (RG-95-80) נתן רפופורט

    The collection consists of diaries, an interview with Nathan Rapoport conducted by Ellen Kurtz, his biography by Stella Corraine-Lieber, a list of his work, notebooks, newspapers clippings, articles and correspondence. Includes also photographs of the artist's works.

  9. Zonligt family papers

    1. Zonligt family collection

    The Zonligt family papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Zonligt family from Belgium and their Blitz relatives from the Netherlands, their migration to France in 1940, their immigration to the United States in 1940 and 1941, and Gerard Zonligt’s work as an UNRRA officer at the Wels displaced persons camp. Biographical materials include identification papers, banking records, ration cards, and immigration records documenting the Blitz and Zonligt families in Belgium, their migration to France in 1940, and their immigration to the United Stat...

  10. John and Dorothy Fried Goldmeier papers

    1. John and Dorothy Goldmeier collection

    This collection relates to Hans (John) Goldmeier, who was sent from Germany to England at age 10. Though his older brother emigrated with him, and parents later followed, John was separated from them (due to work, school, and the death of his father) for the majority of the war. He formed strong bonds with those caring for him and his schoolmates at the Stoatley Rough boarding school, many of whom were also Jewish refugees. The collection highlights include John’s schoolwork at Stoatley Rough, where he reflected on the war and his own refugee status, and many reminiscences of other “Roughia...

  11. Frederic Zeller papers

    1. Frederic Zeller collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Frederic Zeller of Berlin, Germany including his escape from Berlin by train in 1938 and his experiences as a refugee in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Preston, Lancashire, England. Included are illustrated diaries, biographical material, photographs, and correspondence including letters sent by his father Heinrich Zeller from the Gurs and Saint-Cyprien concentration camps in France. Biographical materials includes a family book (Familien Stambuch), birth certificates, diaries, and papers documenting his time in the refugee camp in R...

  12. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

    Calling card for Stefany Hammerschidt found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  13. Chaim Kozienicki papers

    1. Chaim Kozienicki collection

    The papers consist of 71 photographs relating to the Kozienicki family before World War II in Łódź, Poland, immediately after liberation in Sweden, and in Atlit camp after arriving in Palestine. Also included in the papers are a photograph album and three identification cards issued to Chaim Kozienicki by the government of Palestine.

  14. Silver floral embossed candlestick acquired by a former Kindertransport refugee

    1. John and Gisela Marx Eden collection

    Silver embossed candlestick, one of a pair, with 2013.476.4, owned by John Peter Eden (formerly Hans Eibuschitz), who escaped Czechoslovakia on a Kindertransport in 1939. The candlesticks were possibly brought to the United States before the war by John’s grandmother. After Germany invaded and annexed Czechoslovakia in March 1939, 12 year old Hans, and 9 year old brother Steven were sent to Great Britain on a Kindertransport. Hans was placed in private boarding schools. After graduation, he attended the London School of Economics to study actuarial science. In 1944 or 1945, he began trainin...

  15. Silver floral embossed candlestick acquired by a former Kindertransport refugee

    1. John and Gisela Marx Eden collection

    Silver embossed candlestick, one of a pair, with 2013.476.3, owned by John Peter Eden (formerly Hans Eibuschitz), who escaped Czechoslovakia on a Kindertransport in 1939. The candlesticks were possibly brought to the United States before the war by John’s grandmother and given to him later. After Germany invaded and annexed Czechoslovakia in March 1939, 12 year old Hans, and 9 year old brother Steven were sent to Great Britain on a Kindertransport. Hans was placed in private boarding schools. After graduation, he attended the London School of Economics to study actuarial science. In 1944 or...

  16. Royal Air Force sweetheart's wings pin acquired by a Czech Jewish Kindertransport refugee

    1. John and Gisela Marx Eden collection

    Sterling silver Royal Air Force sweetheart's wings pin acquired by 17 year old Hans Eibuschitz, a Jewish Czech refugee, while he was in training with the British Royal Air Force from about 1944 to 1945. A sweetheart pin was given to loved ones by soldiers, and were not issued by the RAF. After Germany invaded and annexed Czechoslovakia in March 1939, 12 year old Hans, and his 9 year old brother Steven were sent to Great Britain on a Kindertransport. Hans was placed in private boarding schools. After graduation, he attended the London School of Economics to study actuarial science. In 1944 o...

  17. U.S. herald for the film, “The Seventh Cross” (1944)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    United States herald for the film, “The Seventh Cross,” released in September 1944. Heralds were small, inexpensive flyers usually included as part of a film’s press kit. The film was based on a 1942 novel of the same name by German author, Anna Seghers, who fled from the Nazi authorities to Mexico. “The Seventh Cross” takes place in 1936, in Germany, when seven Jewish and political prisoners escape from a concentration camp. Six are caught, killed, and tied to makeshift crosses, but a seventh escapee manages to elude the soldiers. While seeking help, the protagonist comes across many ordin...

  18. One-sheet poster for the film, “The Seventh Cross” (1944)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    One-sheet poster for the film, “The Seventh Cross,” released in September1944. The film was based on a 1942 novel of the same name by German author, Anna Seghers, who fled from the Nazi authorities to Mexico. “The Seventh Cross” takes place in 1936, in Germany, when seven Jewish and political prisoners escape from a concentration camp. Six are caught, killed, and tied to makeshift crosses, but a seventh escapee manages to elude the soldiers. While seeking help, the protagonist comes across many ordinary Germans (many of whom were portrayed by real-life German refugees), who prove to have co...

  19. Silver sugar tongs carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Hannah Kronheim Deutch collection

    Sugar tongs carried by Hannah Kronheim, 17, who left Germany in 1939 on the Kinderstransport [Children's Transport]. She left soon after Kristallnacht, November 9 and 10, 1938, when the synagogue behind her home in Bochum was set on fire. She arrived in Harwich, England, on February 3, 1939. Hannah was older than most of the children, and no placement arrangements were made for her. She was housed in a boarding house, then a hostel until November 1940 when she was sent to Port Erin internment camp on the Isle of Man. Her mother, Ella Kronheim Mayer, left for Chile on August 25, 1939, with h...

  20. Rose embroidered tablecloth kept by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Hannah Kronheim Deutch collection

    Tablecloth with roses embroidered by her mother carried by 17 year old Hannah Kronheim when she left Germany on the Kinderstransport [Children's Transport] in 1939. Hannah left soon after Kristallnacht, November 9 and 10, 1938, when the synagogue behind her home in Bochum was set on fire. She arrived in Harwich, England, on February 3, 1939. Hannah was older than most of the children, and no placement arrangements were made for her. She was housed in a boarding house, then a hostel until November 1940 when she was sent to Port Erin internment camp on the Isle of Man. Her mother, Ella Kronhe...