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  1. Goldstein family papers

    The Goldstein family papers, 1914-1982, contain photographic postcards of Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) serving as a German soldier in World War I; four photographs of Herman, Rita, and Heinz Goldstein (b. 1928) at a celebration aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939; a printed wedding invitation for Herman Goldstein and Rita Goldstein (née Grubner, 1893-1979) held on November 6, 1927 at the Lutzow Strasse Synagogue in Berlin; and a typed letter regarding the publication of the book "Voyage of the Damned," April 18, 1974. Also included are newspaper clippings and magazine articles relating to the MS ...

  2. Erika Lewin Weinblum papers

    The Erika Lewin Weinblum papers document the efforts of Erika Lewin Weinblum in her role as the secretary of the Emergency Committee for Parents and Children of European DPs in Shanghai. The Emergency Committee series contains mainly correspondence to members of Congress and various political bodies including the White House, Department of State, and the United Nations. The correspondence concerns amendments to legislation that would permit Jewish displaced persons in China to immigrate to the United States. The personal items series contains various documents for Erika Lewin Weinblum that ...

  3. Isidor and Fanny Bieder papers

    1. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection

    The papers consist of six photographs and documents relating to the experiences of the Bieder family in Vienna, Austria, before World War II and their flight from Austria to the United States via Palestine and Greece in 1939. The documents include two land deeds issued to Isidor Bieder for property purchased in Haifa, Palestine, in 1933, a "Reichsfluchtsteuerbescheid" issued for monies paid by Isidor Bieder to leave Vienna, a document stating that the Bieder family were citizens of Vienna, two documents listing property confiscated from the Bieder family, and a permit for the Bieder family ...

  4. Mirjam Zelwer Papers

    The Marie Zelwer papers include a diary, autograph book, and post-war documents relating to Marie Zelwer’s post-war experiences aboard the SS Exodus in 1947 and her life in Germany at the Bad Aibling IRO Children's Village, an International Refugee Organization (IRO) camp. The collection also includes an English translation of "And the Ram Was Not Caught in the Thicket: The Life of Avraham 1939-1944." In her diary Marie writes about her experiences aboard the SS Exodus in 1947 and her return to Germany and eventual immigration to the United States. The diary includes several poems and song ...

  5. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen, acquired by Kindertransport refugee

    1. Gustav J. Meyer collection

    Scrip, valued at 5 [funf] kronen, of the type distributed in German occupied Czechoslovakia acquired by Gustav Meyer. Gustav was sent to safety on a Kindertransport from Germany to Great Britain ca. 1938. Inmates in Theresienstadt were not allowed to have currency. The SS ordered the Jewish Council to design scrip for use only in the camp. Notes were printed in 7 denominations: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100. The scrip was issued to create a false appearance of normalcy. There was little to obtain with it. The camp was in operation from November 24, 1941 until early May 1945. Approximately 140,00...

  6. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen, acquired by Kindertransport refugee

    1. Gustav J. Meyer collection

    Scrip, valued at 2 [zwei] kronen, of the type distributed in German occupied Czechoslovakia acquired by Gustav Meyer. Gustav was sent to safety on a Kindertransport from Germany to Great Britain ca. 1938. Inmates in Theresienstadt were not allowed to have currency. The SS ordered the Jewish Council to design scrip for use only in the camp. Notes were printed in 7 denominations: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100. The scrip was issued to create a false appearance of normalcy. There was little to obtain with it. The camp was in operation from November 24, 1941 until early May 1945. Approximately 140,00...

  7. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone, acquired by Kindertransport refugee

    1. Gustav J. Meyer collection

    Scrip, valued at 1 (eine) krone, of the type distributed in German occupied Czechoslovakia acquired by Gustav Meyer. Gustav was sent to safety on a Kindertransport from Germany to Great Britain ca. 1938. Inmates in Theresienstadt were not allowed to have currency. The SS ordered the Jewish Council to design scrip for use only in the camp. Notes were printed in 7 denominations: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100. The scrip was issued to create a false appearance of normalcy. There was little to obtain with it. The camp was in operation from November 24, 1941 until early May 1945. Approximately 140,000...

  8. Breth family papers

    The Breth family papers include biographical materials, correspondence, and a photograph album. The biographical materials document Czech Holocaust survivor Fred Breth and his wife and son, Adele and Steven, who fled Czechoslovakia for Sweden and America. Correspondence consists of letters between Fred and Adele and Fred’s parents, Ernst and Hermine Breth, and his sister and brother, Gertrude and Hans, who were still in Czechoslovakia. The photograph album contains photographs by Adele documenting her and Fred’s prewar travels. Biographical materials include birth certificates, education an...

  9. Grootkerk family papers

    1. Jack and Hedi Justus Grootkerk family collection

    The Grootkerk family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, personal narratives, photographs, and printed materials documenting Jacques and Hedi Grootkerk’s marriage in Amsterdam, Jacques’ flight to England via Spain and service in the Princess Irene Brigade, and Hedi’s flight to Switzerland via France. The bulk of the collection is comprised of love letters between Jacques and Hedi while they were separated during the war. Biographical materials include identification papers, ration books, military papers, and receipts documenting Jacques and Hedi Grootkerk’s refugee sta...

  10. Straight razor in a black plastic cover brought to Shanghai by an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Ralph Harpuder family collection

    Straight razor kept by Viktor Stummer when he fled from Vienna, Austria, to Shanghai, China, circa December 1938, following his release from Dachau concentration camp. He was imprisoned during Kristallnacht that November 9-10 and released after his sister secured him a ticket to Shanghai. He lived in the Hongkew ghetto and worked as a welder. Shanghai was liberated by the US Army on September 3, 1945. In 1949, Viktor emigrated to Canada and the next year he moved to the US where he married a fellow Shanghai refugee, Gerda Harpuder. They met in Hongkew in 1941 when Gerda asked Viktor to repa...

  11. Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet papers Nachlass Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (1916-2010)

    Private papers of Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (1916-2010), a Swiss helper and human rights activist. The collection consists of biographical materials, school photos, documents concerning honors, film and radio broadcast about Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet, reports from the Swiss Red Cross, applications concerning the child support of the Swiss Red Cross, handwritten and typed manuscripts "La Filière" und "Fluchtweg durch die Hintertür"', newspaper articles, photographs, audiovisual documentation from everyday life at the Château de La Hille, correspondence at the time of the Second World War, corr...

  12. Dublon family papers

    The Dublon family papers consists of a diary written in German regarding the Dublon family’s experiences aboard the MS St. Louis, May-June 1939; a translation of the diary in English; photographs of the Dublon and Heimann families, circa 1933-1939; and a postcard, 1936. The photographs include a photograph of a children’s kindergarten performance in Erfurt, Germany, circa 1933. The kindergarten was operated by Frau Topf. Lore Dublon is seated second from the left and Peter Heimann is the first boy on the left. A photograph of the Dublon and Heimann families in Finowfurt, Germany in 1937. Fr...

  13. Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers

    The Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers include correspondence, writings, genealogical materials, newspaper clippings, cardboard tags, and photographs documenting Joseph and Margaret Weiss’s immigration to the United States from Vienna via Czechoslovakia, France, and England in 1939 and their efforts to help their mothers emigrate from Prague and Vienna. Most of the correspondence is between the Weisses and their mothers Mathilde Goldstein in Vienna and Olga Weiss in Prague. Correspondence with Mathilde Goldstein sometimes includes Mathilde’s niece Bertha Reichmann, and correspondence w...

  14. Red and white patch stenciled Buchenwald worn by a Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Simcha Dimant collection

    Red and white prisoner patch stencilled Buchenwald worn by 31 year old Symcho Dymant while he was an inmate in Buchenwald concentration camp from December 24, 1944, to April 11, 1945. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and occupied Czestochowa where Symcho lived with his wife Tonia and 3 year old son Aaron. The family was forced to move into the ghetto after it was established in April 1941. In spring 1942, the Germans decided to destroy the ghetto and began large scale deportations. Symcho escaped, probably in September. He assumed the identity of a non-Jewish Polish person and, ...

  15. White patch with prisoner number and name worn by a Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Simcha Dimant collection

    White cloth badge stencilled 15349123 worn by 31 year old Symcho Dymant while he was an inmate in Buchenwald concentration camp from December 24, 1944, to April 11, 1945. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Symcho was living in Czestochowa with his wife Tonia and 3 year old son Aaron. The family was forced to move into the ghetto after it was established in April 1941. Symcho escaped and, because he spoke German, was able to get a civilian job in a German military installation by assuming the identity of a non-Jewish Polish person. In September 1942, Tonia, Aaron, and the rest...

  16. Yellow warning skull and crossbones pennant found by a concentration camp inmate after liberation

    1. Simcha Dimant collection

    German military issue, poison gas warning pennant found by Symcho Dymant after he was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945. The pennants were attached to a thin, iron rod and staked into the ground. They were used to mark off areas contaminated with dangerous gas, and later repurposed to warn against hidden landmines. The pennants were part of a set that included 20 flags each attached to a 60-cm-long iron rod, painted with red anti-rust paint, a roll of yellow tape, and a carrying pouch. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Symcho was living in Czesto...

  17. Reichsadler insignia found by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate after liberation

    1. Simcha Dimant collection

    Unevenly cut, embroidered cloth patch with a gold Reichsadler, or Imperial Eagle, found by Symcho Dymant after he was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Symcho was living in Czestochowa with his wife Tonia and 3 year old son Aaron. The family was forced to move into the ghetto after it was established in April 1941. Symcho escaped and, because he spoke German, was able to get a civilian job in a German military installation by assuming the identity of a non-Jewish Polish person. In September 1942, Tonia, Aaron, a...

  18. Jewish Community of Salonika Jüdische Gemeinde Saloniki (Fond 1428)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    The collection contains registration documents of the Jewish community of Salonica (Thessaloniki), including meeting minutes of the Jewish Community Council; candidate lists for emigration; materials of the community's refugee committee; lists of refugees; applications for permission to relocate to Palestine, and documents on the life of Jewish settlers in Palestine; minutes and decisions of the Beth Din (mostly on damage cases); marriage contracts; financial accounts of charities; information about schools; diverse documents including rent receipts, a memorandum to the government regarding...

  19. Jack Garfein papers

    1. Jack Garfein collection

    The Jack Garfein papers document the Holocaust-era and post-war experiences of Jack Garfein (born Jakob Garfein), originally of Bardejov, Czechoslovakia (Bardejov, Slovakia), including his survival of several concentration camps including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, his life as a displaced person in Sweden, his career as a successful theater and film director, and his involvement in education and causes related to the Holocaust. The collection primarily consists of biographical material, correspondence, Holocaust subject files, and photographs. Biographical material includes documents and ...

  20. Wolf, Max Egon, MUDr.

    • MUDr. Max Egon Wolf / NAD 424
    • Národní archiv
    • 424
    • English
    • 1900-1942
    • Textual material 0,12 linear meters

    The personal archive of MUDr. Max Egon Wolf is a source for the knowledge of the Holocaust and the racial persecution of the Jewish population in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The fonds contains documents from 1939-1941, when the Wolfs faced racial persecution. Using one family as an example, it is possible to trace specific interventions in the life of the Jewish population by the Protectorate authorities - e.g. the levying of special taxes or property registration. The archival material in the fonds also shows the efforts of the Wolfs and their relatives to escape persecution, ...