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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Rabbi Jacob G. Wiener papers

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    Collection of documents including war ration books and identification papers issued to Gerd Zwienicki (previous name of Rabbi Jacob G. Wiener) by the United States Government after his arrival in the United States after his escape from Nazi occupied Europe.

  2. Rabbi Jacob G. Wiener papers

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    Collection consists of documents, photographs, a wallet, and photocopies of documents pertaining to donor and family during and after the war.

  3. Zwienicki family papers

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    The papers consist of letters received by the Zwienicki family [donor's family] in Nazi Germany and following the Holocaust.

  4. Gerd Zwienicki papers

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    The papers relate to Gerd Zwienicki [donor], his father, Josef Zwienicki, and his life in Germany before the Holocaust. Included in the collection are documents, correspondence, term papers, notebooks and a speech relating to a Jewish school in Bremen, Germany, where Gerd Zwienicki was the principal and director.

  5. Josef and Ruth Rosenberg papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Josef and Ruth Rosenberg, both of whom were from Poland, interned in the Łódź ghetto, and liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they met and later married. The collection includes identification papers, immigration documents, restitution claims paperwork, and photographs taken at Bergen-Belsen from 1945-1947 along with some pre-war family photographs. The biographical materials include identification papers and immigration documents that both reflect their status as stateless refugees. The restitution claims ...

  6. Lieber and Löw families papers

    The Lieber and Löw families papers document the prewar experiences of George Lieber, originally of Vienna, Austra, and his family in Vienna, and Brussels, Belgium; the family’s wartime emigration from Europe to Lourenço Marques (Maputo, Mozambique) in 1941; and immigrations to the United States in 1945-1947. The bulk of the collection consists of biographical material, including identification papers, immigration records, and a small amount of correspondence; and photographs, including prints and annotated photograph albums. Series 1. Biographical material primarily consists of identificati...

  7. Heinz Praeger papers

    The Heinz Praeger papers include biographical materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting Heinz Praeger, his prewar life in Germany, and his wartime years as a refugee with his wife and son in Shanghai. Biographical materials include three copies of a brief biography of Heinz Praeger by Michael Carlon describing Praeger’s childhood in Berlin, antisemitic persecution in the 1930s, his imprisonment in Dachau after Kristallnacht, his relocation to Shanghai, meeting and marrying his wife, the birth of their son, the family’s immigration to the United States, and their lives in New...

  8. Leather suitcase used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn549447
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 19.500 inches (49.53 cm) | Depth: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) b: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 20.500 inches (52.07 cm) | Depth: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm) c: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)

    Small brown leather suitcase used by Fritz (later Fred) Strauss while part of a refugee transport of children from Germany between 1939 and 1941. In response to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and growing anti-Semitism in their small town, Fritz’s mother sent him, in 1936, to Frankfurt to attend school at a large Jewish orphanage. Within three years, anti-Semitism in Frankfurt had grown, and on March 8, 1939, Fritz was sent on a transport to Paris, France, with ten other children. Fritz and the other Orthodox children moved to new towns multiple times in the area around Paris, but managed to contin...

  9. Drawing of a couple in hiding reading a Bible

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  10. Jacob Barosin drawing of men standing near the fence in a labor camp

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  11. Pencil drawing

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  12. Pencil portrait of an elderly man by Jacob J. Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Pencil portrait drawn by Jacob Barosin while he was in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May 1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jacob was transported to Langlade, to s...

  13. Jacob Barosin drawing of people waiting in a town square

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  14. Jacob Barosin drawing of three people walking

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  15. Jacob Barosin drawing of a man hiding from the police

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  16. Jacob Barosin drawing of a man sleeping in a labor camp barrack

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  17. Jacob Barosin drawing of people looking at bombed building

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  18. Jacob Barosin drawing of a US jeep on a Paris street

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  19. Jacob Barosin drawing of the Nice promenade

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  20. Watercolor portrait of an elderly man by Jacob J. Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Watercolor painting depicting an older man created by Jacob Barosin in Esbly, a suburb of Paris, in 1947. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May 1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jacob was transported to Langlade, ...