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  1. Fork given to a Polish Catholic forced laborer by liberating US troops

    1. Stanislaw Kozler family collection

    Fork given to Stanislaw Kozler by the American military after liberation.

  2. Records relating to the Committee for Refugee Education

    Includes essay written by refugee students studying English in a program provided by the Committee for Refugee Education after World War II. The essays describe experiences of new life in the United States, memories of persecution and imprisonment in concentration camps, and liberation. Also included are samples of teaching materials used in the English lessons and a 18 December 1949 letter written by one of the English instructors.

  3. Martin and Emma Jonas papers

    1. Emma Jonas family collection

    The papers relate to the experiences of the Jonas family during the Holocaust and consist of photographs from Deggendorf DP camp, poetry about the Glimmer factory in Theresienstadt, identification cards, and medical documents.

  4. Sam Katz photographs

    The collection consists of 11 photographs taken at Zeilsheim displaced persons camp near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Three of the photographs depict a Zeilsheim demonstration for the independence of Israel, and one photograph depicts the police department at Zeilsheim.

  5. Solomon Manischewitz photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs taken in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Most of the photographs depict the students and staff of the Henrieta Szold Hebrew School in Zeilsheim where Solomon Manischewitz taught and the Zeilsheim High School. The collection also includes images of festivities held at Zeilsheim on May 15, 1948, when Israel was proclaimed an independent state.

  6. Meyerstein family collection

    Papers document the expereinces of Meyerstein family before and during World Warr II. Included in the papers is a marriage license issued to Hilda Schickler and George Meyerstein Ellen Cohen's parents in Milan, Italy on May 18, 1935; a driver's license issued to George Meyerstein in Gotha Germany; an entry ticket for a bullfight that Hilda and George Meyerstein attended in 1941 while refugees living in Spain; a passanger's list for the Marqus de Comillas that included the Meyerstein family; newspaper clippings and a newspaper that mentions Ellen Meyerstein [Ellen Cohen]; a testimony written...

  7. B. Diane Clulow photograph collection

    The collection consists of two photographs depicting a train with people sitting in the first car leaning out of the open door and holding an Israeli flag; a man is standing on the tracks in the distance. Handwritten inscription on the verso of one of the photographs: "Displaced persons in Germany going home to Belgium."

  8. Dorothy Wilonsky photograph collection

    This collection consists of seven photographs of Robert Wilonsky who worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and his family in Munich, Germany after World War II. One photograph depicts Sam Moseson, Robert's brother, Dorothy and Robert Wilonsky, and their daughter, Mona, on the eve of their immigration to the United States in 1949.

  9. Palestine Post newspaper article about the Nyassa

    The newpaper clipping is an article entitled "Refugees sing 'Hatikvah' as ship comes in," written by Ernst Aschner, discussing the arrival in Haifa of 750 men, women, and children who fled to Portugal and sailed from Lisbon to Palestine aboard the ship Nyassa; the newspaper is identified as "Palestine Post" and dated 1 February 1944.

  10. Schulhof family collection

    Correspondence, documents, photographs, album, and printed material, related to the history of the families of Joseph and Charlotte (nee Poras) Schulhof, and their son, Peter, originally of Prague, Czechoslovakia, documenting their emigration in 1940, following the German occupation of their homeland, and their time living as refugees in Shanghai and Tianjin (Tientsin), China, from 1940-1948, prior to their immigration to the United States. Also includes photographs (8), from family album of Peter Schulhof, that were sent subsequent to the initial shipment, depicting Schulhof, his parents, ...

  11. Selected pamphlets from the Australian Jewish Historical Society

    This collection contains pamphlets and files of the United Jewish Overseas Relief Fund from 1943 to 1952, information from Jews in China, and information from the Bermuda Conference on Refugees. Other pamphlets are by the New South Wales Board of Deputies.

  12. Julien Engel papers

    1. Julien Engel collection

    The papers consist of two photographs of Julien Engel and his family in Antwerp, Belgium, and after they fled to Nice, France as well as a collection of documents relating to Ruth Engel donor's paternal aunt and her journey from Germany to Palestine via France in 1945.

  13. Selected records from the Austrian State Archives collection NS-Vermittlungsstelle

    Contains compensation claims made by the so-called Legionäre (illegal Austrian Nazis who found refuge in Nazi Germany before 1938, and returned after Austria’s annexation to Nazi Germany), by heirs of killed or executed Austrian Nazis, and others.

  14. Collection of various testimonies, diaries and memoirs (O.33), 1942-1992

    This collection consists of miscellaneous statements containing, primarily, written testimonies, memoirs and diaries handed over by private individuals to Yad Vashem since its creation.

  15. Bert and Else Coles narrative

    Consists of a typed narrative, 2 pages, written by Ron Coles, the son of Bert and Else Coles, in 2010. In the narrative, Mr. Coles describes the early life of his parents in Germany, their marriage in 1932, their emigration to Panama in June 1938 and from there, to Cali, Colombia, where they spent the war. Mr. Coles also describes the family's 1946 emigration to the United States.

  16. Harold Minuskin family collection

    The collection consists of a billfold, currency, documents, oral history compact discs, photographs, and postcards relating to the experiences of Shlamke and Shanke Orlinsky Minuskin, their two young sons, Henikel (Harold) and Kalmanke, and their extended families in prewar Zhetel, Poland, in the Zhetel ghetto and the surrounding forests with the partisans during the Holocaust, and as refugees in Germany and then the United States after the war, and a billfold, day planner, and photographs relating to the experiences of Lew Minuskin who was in Siberia during the war.

  17. US military ID tags issued to German refugee and soldier in Counterintelligence Corps

    1. Ernest Fiedler collection

    Military dogs tags issued to Ernest Fiedler, who served in the the United States Army Counterintelligence Corps. He and his family left Nazi Germany for the US in 1938.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Kindertransport: German Jewish Kids in England

    First boatload of 200 German Jewish children arriving from Holland coming down gangplank each wearing tag around neck which is checked. Good CUs as first girls then boys come down. Photographers and journalists take pictures. Shot of ship "Prague." Children board buses for Dovercourt holiday camp. 01:03:34 Arrival at camp, kids carry in their luggage. INT, kids playing ping pong. Children eating in dining hall. Good CUs.

  19. Helena Rubinstein affidavit

    Consists of one typed affidavit, in English, dated May 27, 1941, attesting that Helena Rubinstein (born Helena Gourielli), president of the cosmetics company Helena Rubinstein, Inc., was submitting the affidavit in support of the immigration of Rubin and Dina Lewinson, who where then in Cannes, France. The affidavit lists other refugees sponsored by Ms. Rubinstein and describes her means to support them should they be given American visas. The Lewinsons did not ultimately immigrate to the United States, though they did survive the war.

  20. Oral history interview with Albert Davis