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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  3. Oral history interview with Samuel Kessel

  5. "One Million Dollar Campaign," broadside ("Yeshiva Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," New York)

    One broadside, titled "One Million Dollar Campaign," related to the fundraising efforts for the Yeshiva "Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," under the leadership of Rabbi Solomon Leib Halberstam (the Klausenburger Rabbi), with the purpose of establishing a Torah institute for Jewish refugees from Europe, in Brooklyn, New York, 1947. In addition to a new year's greeting, the broadside contains a letter in English and Yiddish encouraging the reader to donate to this project, with reproductions of various newspaper articles about it on the verso of the broadside.

  8. Chinese paper currency note, 100 yuan, acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Chinese bank note, 100 yuan, owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China.

  9. Chinese paper currency note, 1000 yuan, acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Chinese bank note, 1000 yuan, owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China.

  10. Shanghai International Settlement pin acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Pin owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China. It is embossed with the motto of the Shanghai International Settlement, All Joined in One.

  11. Chinese paper currency note, 100 yuan, acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Chinese bank note, 100 yuan, owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China.

  12. Chinese paper currency note, 100 yuan, acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Chinese bank note, 100 yuan, owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China.

  13. Chinese paper currency note, 100 yuan, acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Chinese bank note, 100 yuan, owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China.

  14. German anti-American propaganda film

    Statue of Liberty shots, FDR speaks, troops and mounted police battle strikers in various locations, wounded are picked up, rioters arrested. Workers smash windows in Detroit, coal strike in Pittsburgh and farmers dump milk during milk strike. Another large protest rally then CU of stills of American "Jews" including Major Rothschild, Untermeyer, Schiff, Frankfurter, Lehman, and (?)La Guardia. FDR speaking, footage from film "Grapes of Wrath," camps for refugees of Dust Bowl, shots of slums, footage of gangster Dillinger, other criminals, and Eleanor Roosevelt as fashion model.

  15. Prime Minister's Office: Confidential Correspondence and Papers (PREM 4). Selected records.

    The collection consists of selected correspondence files and reports from the Prime Minister's Office related to the Jewish situation in occupied Europe and the refugee situation in Palestine. Files originate from the record group PREM 4 at the National Archives, United Kingdom.

  16. Zdenko Bergl collection

    Consists of two false documents issued to Zdenko Bergl and his mother in Mirabella Eclano, Italy, in September 1943; four documents issued to Zdenko Bergl in the Cinecitta displaced persons camp near Rome, Italy, in 1946 and 1947; a photocopy of a certificate issued to Zdenko Bergl's father in 1940 in his hometown of St. Ivan Zabno in Croatia; a photograph of Zdenko Bergl and two friends in the Cinecitta DP camp in 1947; and a circa 1932 photograph of a brick factory, which belonged to Zdenko Bergl's father.

  17. Richard Scott Washington photograph collection

    The collection consists of 18 photographs taken or obtained by Richard Scott Washington, formerly Corporal, C Company, 42nd Tank Battalion, 11th Armored Division. The images were taken during World War II and depict Buchenwald concentration camp post-liberation as well as other sites of slave labor and refugees formerly under Nazi occupation.

  18. Phyllis Milstein collection

    The Phyllis Milstein collection consists of five photographs and an affidavit relating to Phyllis Frankiel Milstein and her family's experiences in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. The typed document in English served as an affidavit for the birth of Oskar Frankiel.

  20. Ann Curiel papers

    Consists of documents related to Vilma Avolia (b. 1921, later Wilma D'Urbino) and her mother, Fortunata D'Urbino (b. 1893), who survived the war as Jewish women in Italy. Includes a 1941 identity card identifying Vilma as a resident of the Comune di Catanzaro, a 1944 copy of Fortunata's birth certificate, a 1945 refugee and ration card for Fortunata (with photograph) and a document listing her as a resident of the Prato displaced persons camp in 1945.