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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  6. Alisa Tennenbaum papers

    1. Alisa Tennenbaum collection

    Collection consists of photographs of Alisa Tennenbaum and friends in England at various homes where she lived after being sent on a Kindertransport from Vienna, Austria on August 22, 1939. Included are photos of Alisa's father who was in the Pioneer Corps in Britain and her mother who survived Ravensbrück and was sent to Sweden for rehabilitation. The papers also include a school report card issued to Alisa under her previous name, Liselotte Scherzer, in 1935/1936 in Vienna, Austria, and a baby photograph and duplicate ID photograph used on Alisa’s Kindertransport document.

  7. Veith family photographs

    Consists of Veith family photographs depicting Julius and Marie (née Oppenheimer) Veith and their son Franz Veith. Julius and Maria resided in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and were the parents of two sons, Franz and Erwin. All four Veith family members attempted to flee from Europe and from Nazi persecution. However, while Franz and Erwin were able to immigrate to the United States and England respectively, Julius and Marie remained in Netherlands as refugees for several year before they were deported to Sobibor in July 1943.

  8. Invitation to a Purim festivity, General Organization of Zionists "Theodor Herzl," Shanghai, 1940

    One printed leaflet, announcing a Purim event hosted by the youth of the General Organization of Zionists, "Theodor Herzl," in Shanghai, China, on 27 March 1940. The event was to take place at the Broadway Theatre on Wayside Road, and likely included the performance of a play titled "Zion and Ourselves" by Bruno Guttentag, a synopsis of which is given on the verso of this leaflet.

  9. Charles Barber photographs

    1. Charles Barber collection

    Consists of six pre-war and wartime photographs from the collection of Karoly (now Charles) Barber, originally of Budapest, Hungary and Herma Ellenboghen Barber, originally of Austria. Includes the 1930 wedding photograph of Karoly's parents, Aladar and Klari Perl Barber; a photograph of Jewish women on a swing set in Budapest; photographs of Austrian-Jewish refugees in Belgium and in Croatia; and a photograph of two Jewish brothers on vacation in Italy.

  10. Ettelson family collection

    Consists of a suitcase, wallet, photo album, photographs, newspapers, clippings, notebooks, documents, correspondence, ephemera, and other original material pertaining to the experiences of Ralph Ettelson who emigrated from Vilkaviskis, Lithuania to the Dominican Republic before the war. The collection includes correspondence and photographs pertaining to Ralph's mother, Itta Ettelson Shimenski, and his siblings Reveka and Max, who perished in the Holocaust. Additional photographs, correspondence, and clippings pertain to Jewish communities, and Jewish refugees, in the the Caribbean and Ral...

  11. Maria Klein papers

    1. Maria Klein collection

    The papers consist of photographs depicting Maria Klein, her mother, Estera Lifszyc, and her brother, Rubin Lifszyc, in Warsaw, Poland, before World War II, a driver's license ("Pozwolenie") issued to Rubin Lifszyc in 1938, and two telegrams sent on October 18, 1945, from the R.A.F. informing Maria Klein that her brother was confirmed missing when his plane crashed into the sea on a cross-country flight.

  12. Oral history interview with Judith Beker Meisel

  13. Seam ripper

    1. Gustav Rauner collection

    Part of a collection consisting of a stitching machine and accessories used by the Rauner (donor's) family for their mail order business of repairing silk stockings; used while they were living as German refugees in Tours, France, and later while they were living on false papers in Ste. Orse, France. Gustav Rauner (donor's father) brought the machine with him to the United States in 1946, with the hopes of continuing his business there.

  14. Seam ripper

    1. Gustav Rauner collection

    Part of a collection consisting of a stitching machine and accessories used by the Rauner (donor's) family for their mail order business of repairing silk stockings; used while they were living as German refugees in Tours, France, and later while they were living on false papers in Ste. Orse, France. Gustav Rauner (donor's father) brought the machine with him to the United States in 1946, with the hopes of continuing his business there.

  15. Sewing tool

    1. Gustav Rauner collection

    Sewing tool; plastic-handled metal tool with pointed tip. Part of a collection consisting of a stitching machine and accessories used by the Rauner (donor's) family for their mail order business of repairing silk stockings; used while they were living as German refugees in Tours, France, and later while they were living on false papers in Ste. Orse, France. Gustav Rauner (donor's father) brought the machine with him to the United States in 1946, with the hopes of continuing his business there.

  16. Sewing tool

    1. Gustav Rauner collection

    Sewing tool; wood handled metal tool with hook. Part of a collection consisting of a stitching machine and accessories used by the Rauner (donor's) family for their mail order business of repairing silk stockings; used while they were living as German refugees in Tours, France, and later while they were living on false papers in Ste. Orse, France. Gustav Rauner (donor's father) brought the machine with him to the United States in 1946, with the hopes of continuing his business there.

  17. Sewing tool

    1. Gustav Rauner collection

    Plastic tool; Pointed tip at one end, chisel tip at the other Part of a collection consisting of a stitching machine and accessories used by the Rauner (donor's) family for their mail order business of repairing silk stockings; used while they were living as German refugees in Tours, France, and later while they were living on false papers in Ste. Orse, France. Gustav Rauner (donor's father) brought the machine with him to the United States in 1946, with the hopes of continuing his business there.

  18. Sewing tool

    1. Gustav Rauner collection

    Plastic tool; Pointed tip at one end, chisel tip at the other. Part of a collection consisting of a stitching machine and accessories used by the Rauner (donor's) family for their mail order business of repairing silk stockings; used while they were living as German refugees in Tours, France, and later while they were living on false papers in Ste. Orse, France. Gustav Rauner (donor's father) brought the machine with him to the United States in 1946, with the hopes of continuing his business there.

  19. Crochet hook

    1. Gustav Rauner collection

    Part of a collection consisting of a stitching machine and accessories used by the Rauner (donor's) family for their mail order business of repairing silk stockings; used while they were living as German refugees in Tours, France, and later while they were living on false papers in Ste. Orse, France. Gustav Rauner (donor's father) brought the machine with him to the United States in 1946, with the hopes of continuing his business there.

  20. Sewing tool

    1. Gustav Rauner collection

    Plastic tool; Pointed tip at one end, chisel tip at the other. Part of a collection consisting of a stitching machine and accessories used by the Rauner (donor's) family for their mail order business of repairing silk stockings; used while they were living as German refugees in Tours, France, and later while they were living on false papers in Ste. Orse, France. Gustav Rauner (donor's father) brought the machine with him to the United States in 1946, with the hopes of continuing his business there.