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  1. Albert Dov Sigal watercolor sketch of a bearded man in a green chair and a family seated around a Passover table with a pencil sketch on the reverse

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    Watercolor painting created by Albert Dov Sigal when he lived in Israel from 1948-1958. It depicts an interior scene of a Jewish family with a bearded man in a red yarmulke seated in a green chair at the head of a table set for Passover, with a large lit candelabrum in the background. There is a preparatory pencil sketch on the reverse. In 1939, Sigal was arrested by the fascist, antisemitic Romanian government and assigned to a forced labor battalion that repaired and built roads and railways. He started an underground art school with a group of friends and was active in the Romanian resis...

  2. Albert Dov Sigal muted watercolor painting of a young woman, holding an infant, walking with her family on a seaside road based upon his arrival in Palestine

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    Watercolor painting created by Albert Dov Sigal based upon the experiences of his family as newly arrived emigrants to Palestine on February 22, 1948. It depicts the artist and his family as they arrive in their new home. It is an image of a man with bags, followed by two women, one with a baby, with a small village in the background. This was a preparatory sketch for a lithograph. See 1990.242.2 and 1990.242.4 for other versions of this scene. In 1939, Sigal was arrested by the fascist, antisemitic Romanian government and assigned to a forced labor battalion that repaired and built roads a...

  3. Albert Dov Sigal small red and green colored etching of a couple standing with heads touching next to a seated dejected man with a crown

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn5781
    • English
    • 1948-1958
    • overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) pictorial area: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm)

    Etched print created by Albert Dov Sigal when he lived in Israel from 1948-1958. It presents David standing with Michal, Saul's daughter, their heads touching; her arm is across his chest and he holds a lyre. Next to them is a downcast, bearded King Saul seated in a large chair. This is a preparatory drawing for a copper engraving. It is similar to the watercolor sketch, 1992.113.9. In 1939, Sigal was arrested by the fascist, antisemitic Romanian government and assigned to a forced labor battalion that repaired and built roads and railways. He started an underground art school with a group ...

  4. Albert Dov Sigal gouache painting of a yeshiva class with a teacher preparing to punish 1 terrified boy with a comically long belt as 3 watch

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    Gouache and watercolor painting created by Albert Dov Sigal when he lived in Israel from 1948-1958. It depicts, in a caricatured and light-hearted style, a schoolroom interior with a very large bearded teacher preparing to strike one boy with upraised arms with an extremely long strap while three other boys watch from a nearby table. In 1939, Sigal was arrested by the fascist, antisemitic Romanian government and assigned to a forced labor battalion that repaired and built roads and railways. He started an underground art school with a group of friends and was active in the Romanian resistan...

  5. Italie : Florence, ACEF

    Cette collection réunit une très riche documentation provenant des Archives de la communauté juive de Florence au sujet de la persécution antisémite à Florence sous le fascisme et notamment sous l'occupation nazie. Parmi les sujets majeurs, il est important de mentionner l'assistance accordée par la communauté juive florentine aux réfugiés juifs d'Allemagne (dès 1933) et l'institution des écoles privées juives suite à l'exclusion des élèves juifs de l'école publique nationale (dès 1938). Parmi les archives d'après-guerre, l'on compte de nombreux dossiers concernant les activités d'assistanc...

  6. Long section of black floral lace from the family business saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Karlsruher, Schweizer and Eisenmann family collection

    Long section of black floral French lace saved by 34 year old Irene Schweizer when she fled Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport with her 6 year old son Hans in July 1939, joining her husband in England. The lace was acquired by Irene’s father, Leonhard Regensburger (1858-1914), who was a silk and textiles merchant in France for many years before becoming a partner in a drapery manufacturing company in Plauen, Germany. When Hitler rose to power in Germany in 1933, Irene, Hans, and her husband Friedrich resided in Mannheim. Irene’s stepfather, Nathan Karlsruher, died that October and Irene’s mo...

  7. UNRRA selected records AG-018-022 : Greece Mission

    Correspondence, press releases, individual stories, monthly and annual reports, field trip reports, statistics, and working materials on training courses. Records relate to the UNRRA assistance and relief to war refugees, displaced Jews, child welfare, food supplies for hospitals and orphanages. Includes files of displaced persons organized by regions.

  8. Bronze abstract sculpture with a marble base depicting a group of men, women, and children crowded into a boat, Exodus

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn516364
    • English
    • 1948
    • a: Height: 26.500 inches (67.31 cm) | Width: 31.500 inches (80.01 cm) | Depth: 15.250 inches (38.735 cm) b: Height: 15.875 inches (40.323 cm) | Width: 29.750 inches (75.565 cm) | Depth: 12.875 inches (32.703 cm)

    Sculpture created by Nathan Rapoport representing the voyage of the Exodus 1947. The sculpture depicts several figures gathered around a central bearded male figure positioned on a small sailing vessel. It is thought that Rapoport began drafting designs for this sculpture soon after the event and around the same time that he was creating his best-known work, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Memorial. However, the exact date and place of creation are unknown. The Exodus was a cargo ship that left France in 1947 intending to illegally transport 4500 Jewish Holocaust survivors to British ruled Pales...

  9. Appenzeller and Dukes families papers

    1. Appenzeller and Dukes families collection

    The Dukes and Appenzeller families papers include a 1945 autobiographical essay by Erna Appenzeller; birth certificates, a marriage certificate, a tax document, passports, and naturalization papers for William, Irma, and Erna Appenzeller; photographs of the Dukes and Appenzeller families and their friends; a 1940 postcard from Irma’s sister Frieda Grün and her husband Rudolf; and restitution files documenting William Appenzeller, Irma Dukes Appenzeller, and Erna Appenzeller (Ernie Kent) from Vienna, their immigration to the United States, and their efforts to receive restitution for losses ...

  10. Vakar family collection

    The Vakar family papers consist of correspondence, memoirs, manuscripts, news clippings, postcards, and other documents and materials related to the immigration of the Vakar family from France to the United States in 1940-1941, as well as the role of the American aid workers who helped them, Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Collection includes postcards and correspondence from the period of their immigration, later memoirs written by various members of the family recounting their experiences during their escape and their arrival in the United States, as well as news clippings and other material ...

  11. Carl Atkin papers

    1. Carl Atkin collection

    The Carl Atkins papers comprise documents and photographs related to the his work as the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration director of the Deggendorf displaced persons camp between 1945 and 1946. Materials include an illustrated song book, clippings from the camp’s newspaper, Deggendorf Center Revue, and a memory book created by members of the camp for Carl upon his departure in 1946. Several of Atkin’s identification cards are also included here, as are biographical materials, including a resume and partial memoir. The photographs in this collection include images of ...

  12. Rabbi Judah Nadich papers

    1. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    The Rabbi Judah Nadich papers consist of material related to Rabbi Nadich’s work as a Jewish chaplain in the United States Army from 1942-1945, and his work as the Senior Jewish Chaplain at SHAEF from 1945-1946 reporting to General Dwight D. Eisenhower on the conditions in former concentration camps and in displaced persons camps. Includes Rabbi Nadich’s wartime and post-war diaries and planners; publications given to Jewish soldiers; correspondence; statistical charts relating to Jewish displaced persons in postwar Germany and Austria; and information regarding Rabbi Nadich’s post-war work...

  13. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child

    1. Vera Lechtman collection

    Identification tag issued to five-year-old Marc Hoffmann in 1944 while in the care of a children’s home in Switzerland run by Margaret Locher, after escaping France with his mother, Helene, and father, Charles. The tag is engraved with his name and birthdate, the name of his foster parent, and the address of the home. Marc was born in Paris, France, to Polish parents. In the summer of 1942, fearing arrest and deportation, the family submitted a declaration for admission to Switzerland. They did not receive approval, and illegally crossed the border in October. They were placed together in C...

  14. Organizational History and Activities

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Central Files

    Includes correspondence, minutes, publications, and reports related to the organizational and political activities of the WJC and its forerunner, the Committee of Jewish Delegations. Reports on the history and activities of the WJC from before its inception through the 1960s are also included in this subseries. Significant subjects covered include anti-Semitism, relief for refugees, and relations with the League of Nations. Box A1. Folder 1. Government interventions in: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Poland, and Romania, 1936-1939 Box A1. Folder 2. League of Nations, Commission on Interna...

  15. Three drawings created by an 11 year old girl about her trip on the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis

    1. Liesl Joseph Loeb collection

    Trio of drawings on one sheet of paper created by 11 year old Liesl Joseph in August 1939 shortly after arriving in England following the forced return of the MS St. Louis from Cuba. One drawing depicts the ocean liner; one marks each location the ship passed; one depicts the cottage lent to her family by the Rowntree family in England. Liesl and her parents, Josef and Lilly, left Germany soon after the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938. They left on the Hamburg-Amerika luxury liner, MS St. Louis, sailing for Havana on May 13, 1939. The plan was to wait there for permission to enter the...

  16. MS St. Louis floor plan

    1. Liesl Joseph Loeb collection

    Original floor-plan for the ship, MS St. Louis acquired by Liesl Joseph and her family, who were passengers on the ill fated voyage of the ocean liner in the spring of 1939. Liesl, 11, and her parents, Josef and Lilly, left Germany soon after the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938. They departed on the Hamburg-Amerika luxury liner, MS St. Louis, sailing for Havana on May 13, 1939. The plan was to wait there for permission to enter the US. But Cuban authorities denied entry to all but 28 of the 937 passengers. Josef chaired the passenger committee that tried to find a safe harbor. Liesl r...

  17. Records of the Geneva office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    The Geneva files of 1945-1954 constitute the documentary record of JDC’s global overseas operations in the immediate post-World War II (WWII) period. These files testify to the complex and multi-faceted nature of JDC’s global rescue and relief efforts, primarily focused on: resettling Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors around the world; facilitating the renewal of Jewish life in Europe; rebuilding Jewish communal institutions; and providing sustaining aid to the remnants of Jewish communities worldwide. The collection documents JDC’s work in over 70 countries. These records provide num...

  18. Prejzerowicz family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Prejzerowicz, originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Included is a postcard sent from Niche Prejzerowicz in Częstochowa, Poland, in 1940 to her brother, Josek Prejzerowicz, in Milan, Italy; photographic postcards depicting Berisch, Rachel, Niche, and Sara Prejzerowicz, and other relatives who perished during the Holocaust; and a family book ("Deutsches Einheits Familien Stammbuch") issued to Josek and Erna Prejzerowicz in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

  19. Hans Praschkauer papers

    1. Hans Praschkauer collection

    The Hans Praschkauer papers include biographical material, scrapbooks, writings, and printed material relating to Hans Praschkauer and his family’s pre-war life in Breslau, Germany (currently Wrocław, Poland) and their experiences in Shanghai after fleeing Germany in 1939. The collection also includes applications, medical and financial records, and ship information relating to their immigration to the United States in 1949. Biographical material includes vaccination certificates, membership cards, a birth certificate, identification cards, and photographs for Hans Praschkauer. The negative...

  20. Pair of men's black leather lace-up ankle boots owned by a Jewish refugee during his escape from Vienna

    1. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522459
    • English
    • 1938
    • a: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 3.870 inches (9.83 cm) | Depth: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm) b: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 3.870 inches (9.83 cm) | Depth: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm)

    Boots owned by Isidor Bieder who was forced to leave Vienna, Austria, with his wife, Fanny, and their two daughters, 14 year old Frieda, and 10 year old Gertrude, in January 1939. After the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938, anti-Jewish laws were passed and Jews were targeted for persecution. Germans raided the family’s apartment, taking most of their valuables, and a little later, Isidor’s business was confiscated. During the November Kristallnacht pogrom, Isidor was arrested and beaten. As a condition of Isidor’s release from prison, he agreed to leave Austria with his f...