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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  6. Jewish Community of Venice Selected records from the Comunita Israelitica di Venezia

    This collection contains material concerning the Jewish community of Venice, Italy, including documents about the census of Jews, racial discriminatory measures, Jewish refugees in Venice, and the charitable organization DELASEM (Delegazione Assistenza Emigrante Ebrei, Delegation for Assistance to Jewish Emigres), which supported the refugees.

  13. Ellis Gordon collection

    Invitation Card to a Gala Concert to aid the Danish Refugees in Sweden at the Metropolitan Opera House held on Thursday evening, February 17th, 1944. Lists participating artists, prices, special guests, contact for tickets. "There are about 11,000 Danish Refugees in Sweden who have fled Gestapo terror, they must be fed, clothed, housed until Denmark is free again. Denmark is not yet in the Nation-wide National War Fund Drive, as this unfortunately was closed before the latest tragedy to our country occurred, therefore this Benefit Concert has been arranged by Lauritz Melchior to help reliev...

  15. Catheryne Morgen photograph collection

    The collection consists of pages from a scrapbook that contain photographs of the Ilkovic family before World War II in Vrútky, Slovakia, and photographs of Catheryne after the war in Bad Gastein, Austria, and Lido di Roma, Italy.

  16. Lubinski family papers

    The papers consist of 21 photographs and 12 documents concerning the experiences of Susan Lubinski [donor], her sister, Steffi, and her parents, Margarethe and Arthur Lubinski, during their flight from Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), in 1939 to Shanghai, China, where they remained through the end of World War II.