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  1. Kippah buried for safekeeping while the owner lived in hiding

    Yarmulke, a skullcap worn by observant Jewish males, buried for safekeeping with other religious items by Johanna Baruch Boas while she lived in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, from 1942-1944. It originally belonged to her husband, Bernhard, who died in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. She brought it with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939 with her daughter’s family. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940 and soon there were frequent deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Johanna had a non-Jewish landlady who hid her in her attic. In December 1944, a few months after the li...

  2. Combination fur scraper and stretching block brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Isidor Muschel collection

    Wooden stretching block with embedded fur scraper brought with Isidor Muschel, his wife, Ida, and their daughter, Dorit, when they left Vienna, Austria, for the United States in 1938. Isidor, a master furrier, used this tool to stretch, shape, and prepare sections of animal fur for use in handcrafted garments. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Not long after, Isidor was publically humiliated in the street and later, he was arrested and taken to the train station where he escaped before he was deported. Ida’s mother, ...

  3. Schulder and Sons furrier’s knife brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Isidor Muschel collection

    Angled, Schulder and Sons fur knife brought with Isidor Muschel, his wife, Ida, and their daughter, Dorit, when they left Vienna, Austria, for the United States in 1938. Isidor, a master furrier, used this tool with replaceable blade to cut sections of tough animal fur and hide for use in handcrafted garments. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Not long after, Isidor was publically humiliated in the street and later, he was arrested and taken to the train station where he escaped before he was deported. Ida’s mother, ...

  4. Peaked cutting template brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Isidor Muschel collection

    Cardboard cutting template brought with Isidor Muschel, his wife, Ida, and their daughter, Dorit, when they left Vienna, Austria, for the United States in 1938. Isidor, a master furrier, used this peaked template to shape sections of animal fur for use in handcrafted garments. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Not long after, Isidor was publically humiliated in the street and later, he was arrested and taken to the train station where he escaped before he was deported. Ida’s mother, Rosa Rubel, helped Isidor, Ida, an...

  5. Peaked cutting template brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Isidor Muschel collection

    Cardboard cutting template brought with Isidor Muschel, his wife, Ida, and their daughter, Dorit, when they left Vienna, Austria, for the United States in 1938. Isidor, a master furrier, used this peaked template to shape sections of animal fur for use in handcrafted garments. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Not long after, Isidor was publically humiliated in the street and later, he was arrested and taken to the train station where he escaped before he was deported. Ida’s mother, Rosa Rubel, helped Isidor, Ida, an...

  6. Rectangular cutting template brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Isidor Muschel collection

    Cardboard cutting template brought with Isidor Muschel, his wife, Ida, and their daughter, Dorit, when they left Vienna, Austria, for the United States in 1938. Isidor, a master furrier, used this rectangular template to shape sections of animal fur for use in handcrafted garments. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Not long after, Isidor was publically humiliated in the street and later, he was arrested and taken to the train station where he escaped before he was deported. Ida’s mother, Rosa Rubel, helped Isidor, Id...

  7. Norman A. Miller family papers

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Correspondence, diary, and documents, belonging to Norman A. Miller (Norbert Müller), and documenting his family's life in Nürnberg, Germany; the effects of Nazi persecution during the 1930s, Miller's immigration to England via a Kindertransport, his service with the British Army during World War II, and his post-war life. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence Miller received from his family in Nürnberg between 1939 and 1941, describing their experiences, conditions there, and attempt to emigrate. Also included is a pocket diary that Miller began in 1939, postwar corresponde...

  8. Embroidered Fürth patch saved by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Embroidered, blue green patch belonging to Norbert Müller (later Norman Miller) a 15 year old German Jewish refugee who came to London, England in September 1939. The patch is likely related to the large Jewish High School he attended in Fürth, Germany. He lived in Nuremberg, but was required to take a streetcar to school in Fürth once Jewish children were banned from German public schools. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by l...

  9. XXX Corps patch worn by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    British Army XXX Corps patch worn by Norman Miller (previously Norbert Müller), a German Jewish refugee, during his service in the British Army from 1944 to 1947. The XXX Corps was attached to the 21st Army Group and participated in D-Day landings at Normandy and the invasion of Europe, known as Operation Overlord. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by local men with axes. In late August 1939, Norbert, managed to leave Germany fo...

  10. Royal Welch Fusiliers shoulder patch worn by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Royal Welch Fusiliers shoulder patch worn by Norman Miller (previously Norbert Müller), a German Jewish refugee, during his service in the British Army from 1944 to 1947. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by local men with axes. In late August 1939, Norbert, managed to leave Germany for London, with a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] two days prior to the start of World War II. Norbert was able to exchange letters with his...

  11. Intelligence Corps cap badge worn by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Intelligence Corps cap badge worn by Norman Miller (previously Norbert Müller), a German Jewish refugee, during his service in the British Army from 1944 to 1947. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by local men with axes. In late August 1939, Norbert, managed to leave Germany for London, with a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] two days prior to the start of World War II. Norbert was able to exchange letters with his family ...

  12. Royal Welch Fusiliers economy issue cap badge worn by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Royal Welch Fusiliers economy issue badge worn by Norman Miller (previously Norbert Müller), a German Jewish refugee, during his service in the British Army from 1944 to 1947. As World War II progressed, a shortage of brass, considered a strategic metal, led the British army to replace traditional brass cap badges with plastic economy ones. This change resulted in the conservation of a large quantity of brass for critical wartime use, such as munitions. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger s...

  13. Royal Fusiliers cap badge worn by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Royal Fusiliers cap badge worn by Norman Miller (previously Norbert Müller), a German Jewish refugee, during his service in the British Army from 1944 to 1947. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by local men with axes. In late August 1939, Norbert, managed to leave Germany for London, with a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] two days prior to the start of World War II. Norbert was able to exchange letters with his family unt...

  14. Circular identification tag worn by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Circular, compressed asbestos fiber dog tag worn by Norman Miller (previously Norbert Müller), a German Jewish refugee, during his service in the British Army from 1944 to 1947. Each soldier was issued 2 tags, hexagonal green and circular red, stamped with identical identifying information, including religion. The green tag was worn on a long neck cord with the red one attached to it on a short cord that could easily be removed without disturbing the other tag when a death had to be reported. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with ...

  15. Tallit katan brought to England by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Tallit katan belonging to Norbert Müller (later Norman Miller), a 15 year old German Jewish refugee who came to London, England in September 1939. A tallit katan is a religious garment worn by Jewish men and boys with their daily dress. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by local men with axes. In late August 1939, Norbert, managed to leave Germany for London, with a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] two days prior to the st...

  16. Rose Galek Brunswic papers

    1. Rose Galek Brunswic family collection

    The papers consist of documents and photographs relating to the persecution of Jewry in Nazi-occupied Poland, assistance rendered to Rose Brunswic by a member of the Polish resistance, Brunswic's deportation as a compulsory laborer to Germany and her life working in Germany under an assumed identity as a Polish Christian, her life as a displaced person in the American Zone of occupied Germany, her emigration to the United States, and her subsequent efforts to gain restitution on the grounds of health and loss of freedom.

  17. Theodora Basch Vrančić Klayman photographs

    1. Theodora Basch Vrančić Klayman collection

    The Theodora Basch Vrančić Klayman photographs consist of photographs of the Apler family, the Deutsch family, and the Basch families in Yugslavia, dating from 1924-1959. The photographs include candid and group photographs of various family members as well as Jewish children in hiding.

  18. Prayer Book for the Holidays Prayer Book for the New Year (Rosh Hashanah) New Year prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for the first and second day of Rosh Hashanah that belonged to Lore Baer’s brother Max and is inscribed with his name. Lore was living with her father, Hellmuth, and mother, Hedwig, in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertransport. Lore’s brother Max was studying in ...

  19. Prayers of the Israelites Yom Kippur prayer book given to a German Kindertransport refugee by her father

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for the first evening and second day of Yom Kippur inscribed with a message to Lore Baer for her 13th birthday by her father, Hellmuth Baer, while he was in Shanghai, China. Lore was living with her father and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertra...

  20. Prayer Book for the Holidays Prayer Book for Passover Passover prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for the first and second day of Passover that belonged to Lore Baer’s brother Max and is inscribed with his name. Lore was living with her father, Hellmuth, and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertransport. Lore’s brother Max was studying in Italy,...