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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Child's peach silk sleeveless dress with embroidered flowers brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Child’s sleeveless peach silk embroidered dress that belonged to 3 year old Joanna Klein when she, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece to Turke...

  2. Child's peach silk polka dot dress brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Child’s peach silk polka dot dress that belonged to 3 year old Joanna Klein when she, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece to Turkey. Up to this...

  3. Child's colorful print cotton dress with blue piping brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Child’s white cotton dress with colorful designs of small children and animals that belonged to 3 year old Joanna Klein when she, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through...

  4. Child's gray shearling embroidered mountaineer's craft coat brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Child's gray shearling embroidered mountaineer's craft coat purchased in 1939 for 3 year old Joanna Klein. The next year, on April 20, 1940, Joanna, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained tran...

  5. Child’s diamond patterned collar set brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41415
    • English
    • a: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) b: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)

    Child’s diamond patterned dog ear collar in 2 sections that belonged to 3 year old Joanna Klein when she, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece t...

  6. Child's silk Peter Pan collar with embroidered blue dots brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Child's detachable silk collar with embroidered blue dots that belonged to 3 year old Joanna Klein when she, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greec...

  7. Child's cotton twill collar with embroidered daisies brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Child's detachable cotton twill collar with embroidered daisies that belonged to 3 year old Joanna Klein when she, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and...

  8. Charles Weingarten papers

    1. Charles A. Weingarten collection

    The Charles Weingarten papers include biographical materials, correspondence (some illustrated), photographs, printed materials, and restitution files documenting Weingarten’s extended family, hiding with his mother under a false identity in Nice, France, during World War II, their postwar lives, and Weingarten’s unsuccessful efforts to obtain compensation for Holocaust-era claims. The collection also includes records documenting the family of Weingarten’s stepfather, Karl Delius. Biographical materials include real and falsified identification papers for Charles and Margarethe Weingarten, ...

  9. Aluminum wardrobe trunk used by a German Jewish emigrant family

    1. Bruno Einstein family collection

    Aluminum wardrobe trunk used by Bruno Einstein, his wife Frieda, and their five year old son Dieter for their November 1939 journey to the United States. On Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938, Bruno and his brother Arthur were arrested in their hometown of Fellheim, Germany, and sent to Dachau concentration camp. Both were released in early January 1939. The family received visas for the United States, sponsored by Bruno’s maternal aunt Frieda Jeffries. Bruno, Frieda, and Dieter left Germany for Genoa, Italy in 1939, then sailed to New York in November. Bruno’s brother, Arthur, and sister, M...

  10. Blue and pink embroidered cloth case made by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Ruth Mondschein Zimbler collection

    Embroidered cloth portfolio made by 10 year old Ruth Mondschein in the Netherlands after her parents sent her there on a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] from Austria on December 10, 1938. She used the portfolio to keep the letters she received from her parents, Hella and Markus. Her father was arrested on Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, and sent to Dachau concentration camp. He was released on the condition that he leave the country. He arranged for Ruth and her 6 year old brother, Walter, to escape on the first Kindertransport to the Netherlands. The children later were sent to ...

  11. Prayer book

    Prayer book for the first and second say of Sukkoth from the library of Isaac Ossowski, a prominent member of the Jewish community in Berlin, Germany, who emigrated in 1938 to avoid the increasing persecution of Jews by the government of Nazi Germany. It is a narrative of the culture, history, and traditions of the Hasidic movement. Rabbi Ossowski was head shochet [ritual slaughterer], mohel [practitioner of ritual circumcision], sofer [scribe], and hazan [cantor, musical prayer leader] at the Alte Shul [Old Synagogue]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933, increasingly severe sanc...

  12. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier

    1. Alfred Hirschfeld family collection

    SS cap badge with an eagle and oak wreath owned by Hans Hirschfeld, who left Germany at age twenty in 1939 for the US and later served in the US Army. From 1936 to 1945, this type of cap badge was worn by the SS-Ordnungspolizei, or order police, the regular uniformed police force in Germany, which included municipal and rural police, firemen, and the coast guard. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, Hans and his parents, Alfred and Maria, lived in Breslau, Germany, where Alfred was Director of the Chamber of Commerce. Maria was Protestant and Alfred was Jewish and Hans identified hims...

  13. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier

    1. Alfred Hirschfeld family collection

    SS cap badge with an eagle and oak wreath owned by Hans Hirschfeld, who left Germany at age twenty in 1939 for the US and, from 1941-1945, served in the US Army. From 1936 to 1945, this type of cap badge was worn by the SS-Ordnungspolizei, or order police, the regular uniformed police force in Germany, which included municipal and rural police, firemen, and the coast guard. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, Hans and his parents, Alfred and Maria, lived in Breslau, Germany, where Alfred was Director of the Chamber of Commerce. Maria was Protestant and Alfred was Jewish and Hans iden...

  14. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier

    1. Alfred Hirschfeld family collection

    SS cap badge with an eagle and oak wreath owned by Hans Hirschfeld, who left Germany at age twenty in 1939 for the US and later served in the US Army. From 1936 to 1945, this type of cap badge was worn by the SS-Ordnungspolizei, or order police, the regular uniformed police force in Germany, which included municipal and rural police, firemen, and the coast guard. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, Hans and his parents, Alfred and Maria, lived in Breslau, Germany, where Alfred was Director of the Chamber of Commerce. Maria was Protestant and Alfred was Jewish and Hans identified hims...

  15. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier

    1. Alfred Hirschfeld family collection

    SS cap badge with an eagle and oak wreath owned by Hans Hirschfeld, who left Germany at age twenty in 1939 for the US and later served in the US Army. From 1936 to 1945, this type of cap badge was worn by the SS-Ordnungspolizei, or order police, the regular uniformed police force in Germany, which included municipal and rural police, firemen, and the coast guard. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, Hans and his parents, Alfred and Maria, lived in Breslau, Germany, where Alfred was Director of the Chamber of Commerce. Maria was Protestant and Alfred was Jewish and Hans identified hims...

  16. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier

    1. Alfred Hirschfeld family collection

    SS cap badge with an eagle and oak wreath owned by Hans Hirschfeld, who left Germany at age twenty in 1939 for the US and later served in the US Army. From 1936 to 1945, this type of cap badge was worn by the SS-Ordnungspolizei, or order police, the regular uniformed police force in Germany, which included municipal and rural police, firemen, and the coast guard. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, Hans and his parents, Alfred and Maria, lived in Breslau, Germany, where Alfred was Director of the Chamber of Commerce. Maria was Protestant and Alfred was Jewish and Hans identified hims...

  17. Nazi Germany, 10 reichspfennig coin brought with a young German Jewish refugee

    1. Dorit Isaacsohn family collection

    German 10 pfennig coin brought with 16 year old Dorit Isaacsohn and her mother Gertrud during their November 1949 emigration from Berlin, Germany, to the United States. By the late 1930’s, Dorit’s parents had lost their livelihood because of the anti-Semitic policies of the Nazi regime. Dorit, age 6, was sent to Brussels on a Kindertransport in 1939. Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940 and Dorit was returned to her parents in Berlin in 1941. On February 27, 1943, Dorit and her family had to separate to go into hiding. Dorit stayed with a family friend, a cousin, and her father Julius in Ber...

  18. David Glick's trip to Europe 1936/37

    Reims, France. CU of a man with a long beard, and loose fitting clothing, holding a pigeon in his hand and feeding it, another pigeon rests on his other arm. MLS of a street in the city, a street lamp hangs from the corner of a building, and a sign above a doorway reads: "Champignons". VS, of the neighborhood, a cat running along a ledge of a building, rows of houses, three women dressed in traditional costumes with white pointed hats, a street corner with a restaurant called "Restaurant Jeanne-D'Arc," men sitting in a bar raising a glass to the camera, the owners of the bar smile and wave ...

  19. Bedcover used by a Jewish girl in a displaced persons camp

    1. Helen and Joseph Matlow family collection

    Ruffled bedcover with straps owned by Chana Matlowsky (later Helen Matlow) and used by her daughter, Fruma (later Fran Matlow), as a baby in Eggenfelden displaced persons camp in Germany, from 1948 to 1949. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland and gave the Soviet Union the eastern half, where Chana, her parents, Aaron and Dwora, her brother, Moshe, and their extended family lived in Zdzieciol (Dziatlava, Belarus). In summer 1941, Germany invaded eastern Poland. In December, Chana’s brother, Moshe, was sent to work in a forced labor camp in Dworzec (Dvarėts (Hrodzenskaia voblasts', Bela...

  20. Embroidered floral smock worn by a Jewish girl in prewar Poland

    1. Helen and Joseph Matlow family collection

    Colorful, embroidered peasant blouse given to Chana Minuskin (later Helen Matlow) by her maternal aunt in Zdzieciol, Poland (Dziatlava, Belarus), in 1935. Chana, wearing the blouse, is pictured in a photograph with her aunt, her cousin and her mother, Dwora (2003.193.1), taken in their hometown in 1935. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland and gave the Soviet Union the eastern half, where Chana, her parents, Aaron and Dwora, her brother, Moshe, and their extended family lived in Zdzieciol. In summer 1941, Germany invaded eastern Poland. In December, Chana’s brother, Moshe, was sent to ...