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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Elizabeth and Bernard Kasmar collection

    Collection of Alzbieta and Bernhard Kasmacher (later Kasmar) in Vienna, Austria, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Includes Reisepasses, letters, birth certificates, US naturalization certificates, and newspaper clippings documenting the couple's journey from Vienna to England before arriving in the United States in 1940.

  2. Hand towel

    Paul Kuttner received the towel from his mother, Margarete Kuttner, before his immigration from Berlin, Germany, to Great Britain through Kindertransport in February 1939.

  3. Oral testimony of Gertrude Weinfeld Bettelheim

  4. Oral history interview with Leo Weinrieb

  5. Moritz Rubinstein papers

    The collection includes a Swiss refugee identification card for Moritz Rubinstein (born 1919), a businessman originally from Lublin, Poland, a document from a work camp for internees in Birmensdorf (Zürich), and a pamphlet addressed to refugees issued by the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police.

  6. Dawidua Schiff identification card

    1. Gabriele Derenberg Schiff collection

    The identification card ("Igazolvany- Legitymacj") was issued to Dr. Dawidua Schiff [donor's husband], born February 23, 1912, by the Polish-Hungarian Refugee Committee, Nr. 2201.

  7. John Koenig photographs

    1. John Koenig collection

    The collection consists of 66 photographs of John Koenig after liberation in Ziegenheim displaced persons camp and during his journey to the United States.

  8. Selected records from the State Archives of the Western-Kazakhstan Region in Uralsk

    Records related to the evacuation of civilians.

  9. Miriam Greenstein photographs

    1. Miriam Greenstein collection

    The collection consists of six photographs of Miriam and her parents, Zalmen and Ruth Kominkowski, in Poland and Sweden before and after World War II. Some captions in Polish are on the verso.

  10. Ba-derekh Cammino

    1. Miriam Brysk collection

    Consists of newspapers, in Hebrew, published in Italy (perhaps in a Displaced Persons camp) in 1947.

  11. Trunk used by a German Jewish refugee

    Trunk used by Ruth Linz's husband when he immigrated from Nazi Germany to the United States.

  13. Jewish refugee children, England, play in park

    Jewish refugee children playing in a park. MLS of kids dancing in a circle. Girl with a hoop. Group of children playing leapfrog. Children indoors with toys at table. CU girl with doll. CU boy writing letter. High angle view of long table and children eating soup. Eating at table.

  14. Oral history interviews of the documentary film "Under the Sky" collection

    Oral history interviews produced for the documentary film "Under the Sky," which features Jewish refugees who escaped the Second World War by way of Portugal.

  15. Pentcho photographs

    1. Pentcho collection

    Consists of 17 photographs depicting Jewish refugees on board the S.S.Pentcho, their stranding on the island of Camilla Nisi and later internment on Rhodes and at the Ferramonti concentration camp.

  16. Carola Michael papers

    1. Carola Michael collection

    The papers consist of a letter written by Selma Nussbaum, dated 26 March 1941, while aboard the MS Hie Maru and another letter written by Selma Nussbaum, dated 26 May 1941, in Seattle, WA, with notes from her husband, Max, and her daughter, Carola, added in blue ink.

  17. Werner Loval papers

    Contains photographs, school records, letters of reference, identification documents, and other material relating to Werner Loval's childhood and education in Bamberg, Germany, and his family's immigration to Ecuador.

  19. Eliezer Rozenfeld letters

    Consists of copies of letters, dated 1939-1941, in Hebrew and Hungarian, to Eliezer Rozenfeld, who was living in Palestine, from friends and family in Hungary. The original letters are believed to have been destroyed.

  20. Franka and Samuel Baral family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Franka and Samuel Baral and their three children, Aneta, Jim, and Martin, as refugees from German occupied Poland, including several years spent living in hiding, chiefly in Hungary, during the Holocaust.