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  1. Ba-derekh Cammino

    1. Miriam Brysk collection

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

  2. Trunk used by a German Jewish refugee

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  10. Youth Aliyah: Copy documents re the Hascharah Training Centre, Braunton, Devon

    Account of the Hascharah training centre at Braunton, Devon, consisting of typescript notes, transcripts of letters and copies of letters and other documents with Fred Dunston's annotations22 pages English 

  11. Paula Albersheim: Personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of German Jew Paula Albersheim documenting her preparations for emigration to England in 1939.

  12. Kahn family: papers

    This collection contains the papers and photographs of Seligmann and Alice Kahn, a Jewish family from Heilbronn.

  13. Gerd Ledermann: letter regarding life in Nepal

    This collection contains a letter of a former Kindertransportee Gerd Ledermann reflecting on his new life in Nepal between 1986 and 1989.

  14. Joseph Yecheskel Helerman: postcard

    This collection contains a postcard from Joseph Yecheskel Helerman in Bodzanow, Poland, to his brother in London. Helerman refers to the dowry for a bride and to his brother-in-law, Moshe Oved (1885-1958), a London based jeweller and author.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. Kalman and Pauline Barakan collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Kalman and Pauline Pajes Barakan in Poland during and after the World War II, including their repatriation and lives in Łódź until 1968, when they again became refugees and immigrated to the United States.

  18. Otto and Hilde Egener collection

    Consists of documentation related to the lives of Otto and Hilde Rahmer Egener, German-Jewish refugees who escaped to Shanghai in 1939. Includes Otto Egener's Reisepass, marriage and immunization documentation, and a letter sent to Otto in 1942 from a friend just prior to his deportation to a concentration camp.

  19. Ephraim Robinson family collection

    The collection consists of children's clothing, a duvet cover, a glass slide projector, glass slides, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Ephraim Robinson and his family as refugees during the Holocaust, as residents of Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany, and as immigrants to the United States in the postwar period.