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  1. Upright domed traveling wardrobe trunk used by an Austrian Jewish family

    1. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection

    Trunk used by Fanny and Isidor Bieder and their daughters, 14 year old Frieda and 10 year old Gertrude, when they were forced to leave Vienna, Austria in January 1939. They shipped it to Haifa, Palestine, from Vienna in 1939 and used it when they eventually emigrated to the United States. It was purchased by them in 1933 for a cruise to Italy and Haifa, Palestine. 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’...

  2. Chrome Leica II 35mm camera used by a Yugoslav refugee to document his family's life in hiding

    1. Lea Herlinger Kaluzna family collection

    Chrome Leica 35mm camera used by Ivo Herlinger while he was living in hiding in Italy from 1941-1944. After Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia in June 1941, Ivo and his wife, Elsa, fled Zagreb to avoid internment in a German labor camp. They had to leave their 2 year old daughter, Lea, with an aunt. A few months later, using jewels they had sewn into the lining of their clothes, they paid a student to bring Lea to them in Trieste, Italy. The family spent the next three years hiding under false identities in Rome and other towns in Italy, where Ivo used his camera to document their daily life. ...

  3. Harpuder family papers

    1. Ralph Harpuder family collection

    The Harpuder family papers consists of documents, photographs, correspondence, membership and identification cards, newsletters, programs, certificates, newspaper clippings, memoirs, postcards, and photograph albums. This collection documents the experiences of the Harpuder family in Berlin, Germany and Shanghai, China. Also included are correspondence and reunion booklets for the Jewish survivors of Shanghai through the Rickshaw Shanghai Reunion, which occurred during the 2000s.

  4. Aron Zolty photograph collection

    The Aron Zolty photograph collection consists of 39 photographs relating to the experiences of Aron Zolty in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and in displaced persons camps in Hannover and Lübeck-Blankensee, Germany.

  5. Herbst family papers

    The Herbst family papers document the prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences of Manny Herbst, his siblings Bernard Herbst and Silvia Herbst, and his parents Adolf Herbst and Sara Herbst (née Weintraub), including the siblings’ immigration to the United States in 1940, Adolf’s attempt to get to Palestine, and subsequent deportation to Mauritius in 1940, and Sara’s deportation from Vienna to Izbica transit camp in 1942. Biographical material includes identification papers, immigration paperwork, and family genealogy materials. The bulk of the collection consists of letters sent from Adolf i...

  6. Hermann family correspondence

    The Hermann family correspondence consists of letters and postcards written by Sophie, Julius, and Gerda Hermann in Munich and Brussels, Paul and Ruth Bohrmann in New York, and Elise Bickart in Munich and shared with Kurt and Gertrude Hermann in Cuba and Florida. The correspondence relates news about the Hermann, Bickart, and Bohrmann families and their relatives and friends, condolences on Julius’ death, and efforts to bring Hermann and Bickart relatives to America.

  7. Ruth von Wild papers Nachlass Ruth von Wild (1912-1983)

    Private papers of Ruth von Wild (August 3, 1912 -April 26, 1983), a Swiss teacher and aid worker for refugees. The collection consists of a diary, diploma, certificates, correspondence, postcards and reports of holiday travels by former employees of the Swiss Working Community for Children of Spain (Ayuda Suiza, SAS) [Schweizerischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Spanienkinder], and for the Swiss Working Community for Children with Disabilities (SAK) [Schweizerischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Kriegsgeschädigte Kinder], personal photo albums on the activities of the children's colony of the Swiss Re...

  8. Ernest Braun papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Ernest (Eliezer) Braun of Vienna, Austria, including his escape from Austria in 1938 to Yugoslavia and Italy, his immigration to the United States in 1944, and his time living at the Fort Ontario refugee camp in Oswego, New York. Included is a small amount of biographical material; a false identification card from Italy; correspondence from his parents Josef and Gisela Braun and his sister Nelly Braun, all of whom perished during the Holocaust; writings; and photographs. Biographical materials include birth certificates, address books, a...

  9. Small suitcase carried by a Jewish boy from Berlin to England on a Kindertransport

    Small suitcase carried by thirteen year old Max Dobriner (later Geoffrey Dickson) in July 1939 when he was sent by his parents Julius and Hertha from Germany to Great Britain on a Kindertransport.

  10. Survivors with concentration camp tattoos; USO performance; Russian soldiers

    American soldier walking amongst fly bombs, low buildings in fields with tree cover. CU, bomb,“Nicht Auftreten” Title card: “So well concealed it was never bombed” 01:02:06 Title: “A British plane is consumed by explosion of ammunition train it strafed.” Bombed out plane filmed from vehicle on dirt road. Title: "Trees blown over from blast” Soldiers examine wreckage. “German field piece” Machine and camouflaged fence. 01:04:30 Title card: “Jewish girls from Italy, Belgium, Greece.” Female Jewish survivors near Rostow showing their prisoner tattoos. Girls in dresses, smiling showing their ar...

  11. Alfred Jaretzki, Jr. papers

    Reports and correspondence from American attorney Alfred Jaretzki, Jr., reporting on visits to Vienna and efforts to work with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to assist Austrian Jews with emigration, 1938. Includes one report, undated, 11 pages, describing his trip to Vienna in June 1938, including meetings with American diplomats, journalists, members of the Viennese Jewish community, and non-governmental organizations. Among his contacts were Therese Bloch-Bauer, and her daughter Maria; Josef Löwenherz of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien; the American journalist Vin...

  12. Pen and ink desk set carved by Israel Haimovich in a British detention camp

    1. Israel Haimovich collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn607642
    • English
    • 1948
    • a: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) | Depth: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) c: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) d: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) e: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) f: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)

    Desk set with ink wells carved by Israel Haimovich while in a British detention camp in Cyprus in 1948. It is carved in the shape of the bridge that linked two of the camps and the inkwells are carved in the shape of the Nissen huts that housed the detainees, tents, and a guard tower. Israel was originally from Czechoslovakia, which was annexed by Nazi Germany and its allies in 1938-1939. Israel was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp. He was liberated by US troops on April 11, 1945. His siblings, mother, grandmother, wife, and son were all killed during the Holocaust. After recuperat...

  13. Löwenstein and Stern families papers

    1. Löwenstein and Stern families collection

    Documents and photographs regarding the experiences of Alfred Löwenstein and Lola Stern, both of whom separately fled Germany for Shanghai aboard the MN Victoria in 1939, survived the Holocaust in Shanghai, and later married in the United States. Also contains biographical information on their families, including the deaths of Alfred’s parents at Theresienstadt. Biographical materials of Alfred and Lola include German passports, employment references, identification cards, and documents related to immigration to the United States. There are documents related to Alfred’s parents, Siegmund an...

  14. St. Louis and Milwaukee Poster advertising the flagships of the Hamburg-Amerika Line

    1. German poster collection

    German advertisement poster for the Hamburg-America Line’s transatlantic liners, St. Louis and Milwaukee. On May 13, 1939, the St. Louis set sail from Hamburg, Germany with 937 passengers, almost all of whom were Jews fleeing the Third Reich. The majority of the passengers had applied for US visas, and planned to stay in Cuba until they could enter the United States. However, shortly before the ship set sail, Cuba invalidated the landing permits and transit visas of the Jewish refugee passengers. When the St. Louis arrived in Cuba on May 27, the Cuban government only allowed 28 passengers i...

  15. Society for Trades and Agricultural Labor (ORT) training at Marseilles

    In 1939, Roman Vishniac was commissioned to make a promotional film at a Society for Trades and Agricultural Labor (ORT) vocational training facility near Marseille. The film was never completed, and only outtakes have survived. ORT schools throughout Europe worked to train and certify Jewish refugees in whichever skills were most desired by host countries. When French military mobilization reduced the available agricultural manpower, ORT refugees provided labor, and also eased the immersion of these foreign workers into French society. ORT training activities. Group of men with suitcases w...

  16. Theodore Mattern family papers

    The collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other related documents, documenting the immigration of the Mattern (originally Matfus) family from Vienna, Austria in 1938-1939. Includes correspondence to Theodore Mattern, living in the United States, from his parents, Izak (Josef) and Olga, his grandmother, Leontine Loewy, and his sister, Kitty, during the various stages of their emigration from Europe, including the period that Mattern's parents spent in Shanghai prior to their immigration to the United States. Also includes photographs of the family during this period, earlier f...

  17. Debora Korolchuk Brenner papers

    The Debora Korolchuk Brenner papers include photographs taken in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp depicting Debora, her parents, family friends, and school groups, and an autograph book with signatures, notes, drawings, and pressed flowers collected by Debora Korolchuk while living the Föhrenwald DP camp.

  18. Nathan Schwalb collection

    The Nathan Schwalb collection includes correspondence, receipts, reports, and telegrams relating to Nathan Schwalb’s work as a union leader and delegate of the Hechalutz movement during World War II and his efforts to arrange rescue and aid operations. Correspondence and telegrams include letters and messages between Nathan and contacts, partners, and organizations regarding requests for aid, discussions of the ongoing operations, and updates on the war. Included in the correspondence are letters to Abraham Silberschein, representative of the Relief Committee for the War Stricken Jewish Pop...

  19. Ariel S. Cardoso papers

    1. Ariel S. Cardoso collection

    The Ariel S. Cardoso papers include identification papers, military papers, and photographs documenting Cardoso’s postwar emigration to Palestine and his military service in the Jewish Brigade. Identification papers include a displaced persons identification certificate, an Israel Labor Federation membership booklet, an Israeli identification card and passport, a driver’s license, a medical insurance booklet, and Israeli ration cards. Military papers include a copy of Cardoso’s attestation upon joining the Palestine regiment, his service and pay book, and his discharge book. Photographs dep...

  20. Pinchas Paul Hendel family papers

    1. Paul Hendel collection

    The collection includes photographs and correspondence relating to the Hendel family in Hrubieszów, Poland, identification cards, documents and pamphlets relating to immigration and naturalization, and an X-ray of Pinchas Paul from displaced persons camp.