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  1. Picture Magazine Danish periodical circulating illustrated news about the post-liberation period

    1. Knud Dyby collection

    An illustrated newspaper, Billed-Bladet, acquired by Knud Dyby while he was a member in several Danish underground resistance organizations during World War II. This was one of many publications that increased circulation due to increased demand for information as German authorities increased censorship in the final years of the war. In April 1940, Germany invaded and occupied Denmark, which prompted a growing demand for information about the war and the need for more newspapers. Many publications went underground for a time as part of a robust resistance and sabotage movement in the nation...

  2. Armband with a royal coat of arms issued to a Danish resistance member

    1. Knud Dyby collection

    Blue, red, and white armband with a medallion issued to Knud Dyby, a member of the Danish underground resistance, on May 4 or 5, 1945. The armbands, which appeared abruptly throughout Denmark, were issued by the Danish Freedom Council, Denmark's unofficial government-in-exile in England from July 1944 to May 1945. The armbands were meant to identify resistance members as legitimate combatants, rather than guerilla forces, to ensure they were protected under Geneva Convention rules defining combatants and how they should be treated by military forces. Denmark was occupied by Germany on April...

  3. White cotton tallit katan used by a Polish Jewish elder

    1. Shlomo Schiller family collection

    Tallit katan worn by Shlomo Schiller who fled Warez, Poland, with his family to the Soviet Union after the German invasion on September 1, 1939. A tallit katan is a religious garment worn by Jewish men with their daily dress. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Shlomo, his wife, Henia, his 20 year old daughter, Ania, and his 15 year old twin daughters, Klara and Pola, were evacuated from Kherson to Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains. When Chelyabinsk expelled refugees as untrustworthy residents, the family moved to Kopeysk. Shlomo lost his sight due to starvation, and was ho...

  4. Large white wool tallit with blue stripes well-used by a Polish Jewish elder

    1. Shlomo Schiller family collection

    Blue striped tallit gadol carried by Shlomo Schiller when he and his family fled Warez, Poland, to the Soviet Union after the German invasion on September 1, 1939. He prayed in this tallit, a prayer shawl worn by Jewish men during morning services, every day of his life until his death in 1964. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Shlomo, his wife, Henia, his 20 year old daughter, Ania, and his 15 year old twin daughters, Klara and Pola, were evacuated from Kherson to Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains. When Chelyabinsk expelled refugees as untrustworthy residents, the family...

  5. Unused yellow cloth Star of David badge with Juif for Jew issued in Paris

    1. Max Feld and Rose Feld-Rosman collection

    Unused Star of David badge owned by 25 year old Raisa Steinberg Feld in Paris, France, in May 1942. Jews in France were required to wear these on their outer clothing at all times after May 1942; badges were often cut from a pre-printed roll. After Paris was occupied by Germany in May 1940, foreign Jews were in danger of arrest and imprisonment. Raisa and her husband, Max, both deaf, were Jewish refugees from Poland and Germany. In May 1941, Max was arrested and, in July 1942, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Raisa went into hiding with their 1.5 year old daughter, Esther,...

  6. Yellow cloth Star of David badge with Juif for Jew worn by a Polish refugee in Paris

    1. Max Feld and Rose Feld-Rosman collection

    Star of David badge worn by 25 year old Raisa Steinberg Feld in Paris, France, from June 1942. Jews in France were required to wear these on their outer clothing at all times after May 1942; badges were often cut from a pre-printed roll. After Paris was occupied by Germany in May 1940, foreign Jews were in danger of arrest and imprisonment. Raisa and her husband, Max, both deaf, were Jewish refugees from Poland and Germany. In May 1941, Max was arrested and, in July 1942, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Raisa went into hiding with their 1.5 year old daughter, Esther, her ...

  7. World Jewish Congress Submissions to the United Nations and Other Agencies

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Political Department/Department of International Affairs

    Consists of memoranda, applications and reports prepared by the WJC and submitted to the UN and other agencies. These submissions pertain to issues such as human rights, statelessness, refugees, etc. Box B139. Folder 12. Index of United Nations chronological file, 1945-1949, undated Box B139. Folder 13. Memorandum Submitted to the United Nations Conference of International Organization at San Francisco, 1945 Box B139. Folder 14. Report of Executive of the United Nation Preparatory Committee, 1945 November Box B139. Folder 15. Stein, Kalman, Jewish Displaced Persons, answer from Sorieri, A.A...

  8. Red leather photograph case carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee

    1. Lilly Morawetz collection

    Dark red leather photograph display case carried by Lilly Morawetz in her backpack in 1939 when she fled German occupied Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) for France. She kept it with her while held in Gurs internment camp in 1940 and during her flight through Spain and Portugal to the US in 1941. After Germany annexed Austria in 1938, Lilly sent her youngest child, Margit, 16, to Paris. Lilly was visiting Margit that September when Germany annexed the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. She hurried back to Prague to sell their home. In March 1939, she was still in Prague when Germany anne...

  9. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection

    1. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection

    The Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection focuses on the wartime experiences of Leon Ilultovich in Poland, Lithuania, Japan, and Shanghai, China. Materials in the collection include correspondence, visas, travel documents, medical records, identification records, newspapers, printed notices, ephemera, photographs, and photograph albums. The collection also includes photographs of the Ilutovich, Lindenbaum, and Landau families in Poland. The collection contains extensive biographical materials relating to Leon Ilutovich. These materials include identification documents, school records, medica...

  10. Duvet cover made from a US Army parachute by a Jewish family in a displaced persons camp

    1. Ephraim Robinson family collection

    Covering for a blanket made from a United States Army parachute by Ephraim and Sarah Robinson for their family in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany, where they lived from 1945-1948. Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Ephraim and Sarah fled east to Russian controlled territory. They lived in several places as the Soviet Union demanded that Jewish refugees keep moving further east. They had a daughter, Fay, in 1941, in Odessa, and Alice was born in 1944 in Romanovka. When the war ended in May 1945, they returned from Uzbekistan to Bessarabia, where they cr...

  11. Medal and a ribbon bar pin awarded to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn951
    • English
    • 1941-1945
    • a: Height: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) b: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)

    Badge awarded around 1945 by the British Boy Scouts Association to Ernst (Ernest) Heppner, a Jewish refugee in Shanghai. It was awarded by the British Red Cross for his direct (bed-to-bed) blood transfusion to a British woman, saving her life. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else. He also had an older half-brother, Heinz (Henry), who lived with his wife and young child. Following the Kristallnacht program and Heinz’s subsequent arrest in November 1938, the family began looking at emigration options. Seventeen-y...

  12. Red enamel permit tag in leather holder issued to a German Jewish refugee

    1. Hanni Sondheimer Vogelweid family collection

    Metal and leather identification tag issued to Moritz Sondheimer when he lived in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, from 1941-1945. The tag permitted the bearer to leave the ghetto for work and was color coded to denote the term of valid use. The pass would also include an identification photograph. Moritz, his wife, Setty, and their children, 17 year old Hanni and 14 year old Karl fled Kaunas, Lithuania, in February 1941 following the Soviet occupation in 1940. They planned to emigrate to the United States, but visa restrictions made them take a difficult route through Russia to Japan...

  13. Red enamel permit tag in leather holder issued to a German Jewish refugee

    1. Hanni Sondheimer Vogelweid family collection

    Metal and leather identification tag issued to 17 year old Hanni Sondheimer when she lived in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, from 1941-1945. The tag permitted the bearer to leave the ghetto for work and was color coded to denote the term of valid use. The pass would also include an identification photograph. Hanni, her parents, Moritz and Setty, and her 14 year old brother, Karl, fled Kaunas, Lithuania, in February 1941 following the Soviet occupation in 1940. They planned to emigrate to the United States, but visa restrictions made them take a difficult route through Russia to Japa...

  14. Pao Chia red striped armband worn by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Hanni Sondheimer Vogelweid family collection

    Armband issued to Moritz Sondheimer by the Japanese occupation authorities of the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai where he lived from 1941-1945. Moritz was required to serve in Pao Chia, a civil and ghetto defense force composed of foreign and Chinese males, aged 20 to 45. Moritz, his wife, Setty, and their children, 17 year old Hanni and 14 year old Karl fled Kaunas, Lithuania, in February 1941 following the Soviet occupation in 1940. They planned to emigrate to the United States, but visa restrictions made them take a difficult route through Russia to Japan. Classified as stateless refugees wh...

  15. Albert Dov Sigal gouache and gold leaf painting of a seated man gazing at a large golden lion and another man with his finger raised in admonishment

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    Gouache created by Albert Dov Sigal when he lived in Israel from 1948-1958. The stylized, abstract composition in gold and brown has an image of a man seated before a large golden lion with a cloth in its bared teeth. Next to the lion stands a man with his forearm raised, finger pointing upward. 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 resistance. On December 27, 1947, the family sa...

  16. UNRRA selected records AG-018-009 : Italy Mission

    Correspondence, memos, statistics, publications, circulars, bulletins, financial documents, and reports relating to the Displaced Persons Operations, medical care, education and recreation, vocational trainings, emigration and resettlement.

  18. Direction générale de la Sûreté Publique. Office des Étrangers (et précurseurs en droit). Surveillance des frontières.

    Ce fonds est divisé en séries portant sur le cadre juridique de la surveillance des frontières, des instructions générales, des visas et du contrôle à proprement parler des frontières, des dossiers classés par pays frontalier, par moyen de transport comme la voie terrestre, le chemin de fer, les voies aériennes et maritimes, ainsi que des documents concernant le contrôle effectué en collaboration avec d’autres services comme la gendarmerie et la douane. Les dossiers suivants sont de grand intérêt : n°28 : dossiers présentant les instructions aux gouvernements locaux et centraux concernant l...

  19. extraditions n° 147 à 163 147. note résumée du dossier du Cabinet diplomatique du 24 janvier 1941 : demande d'extradition de certains réfugiés espagnols 148. note remise par la Cour d'Appel de Rabat au sujet des extraditions 149. lettre du procureur général de Rabat au Garde des Sceaux concernant les demandes d'extradition formées par le Gouvernement espagnol, 28 janvier 1942 150. liste des Espagnols réfugiés en zone française du Maroc qui ont été réclamés par le Gouvernement espagnol 151. arrêté résidentiel accordant l'extradition de Cipriano Mera Sanz, 3 février 1942 152. procès-verbal de remise de l'extradé ci-dessus aux autorités espagnoles, 20 février 1942 153. transmission du procès-verbal ci-dessus, 7 mars 1942 154. procès-verbal d'audition à la Cour d'Appel de Rabat d'Antonio Ferrer, José Colomar Juan, Marcos Torrès Colomar, objets de demande d'extradition, 14 mai 1941 155. arrêté résidentiel accordant l'extradition des trois ressortissants ci-dessus, 3 juin 1941 156-158. documents concernant la remise des trois ressortissants ci-dessus aux autorités expagnoles le 25 juin 1941 159. lettre du procureur général au Résident général signalant l'avis défavorable de la Cour d'Appel à l'extradition de José Vivas Lopez présenté à la place de José Vivas Pueyo, 14 janvier 1943 160. arrêt de la Cour d'Appel de Rabat émettant un avis défavorable à l'extradition de Antonio Perez Y Torreblanca, 29 septembre 1943 161. idem, avis défavorable à l'extradition de Alonzo Y Maillol José, 29 septembre 1943 162. idem, avis défavorable à l'extradition de Molina Diego, 29 septembre 1943 163. idem avis défavorable à l'extradition de Vidarte Y Rodriguez Joaquin, 29 septembre 1943

    1. Haute Cour de justice. Volume 8 Haute Cour de justice. Rép. num. détaillé dact., par M.-Th. Chabord, 11 vol., 2420 p. Volume 8 : 3w/251-3w/276
    2. général NOGUES résident général de France au Maroc
    3. Général Noguès. Dossier IV. Documents provenant de l'exécution de la commission rogatoire du 31 mai 1945 (voir 3W 260, n° 83)

  20. chemise intitulée "François en transit" (copies) 1 opinion du Maréchal Pétain sur Piétri 2 opinion de Laval sur Piétri 3 lettre de remerciement adressée à Piétri par le médecin capitaine Borch au nom des Français reçus à l'Ambassade le 14 juillet 1943 4 tg de Piétri à Laval concernant le comportement espagnol vis à vis des réfugiés français, 11 juin 1943 5 note verbale au ministère des Affaires extérieures à Madrid : remerciements pour la libération des internés français du camp de Miranda, intervention en faveur de 18 jeunes gens français internés à la prison de Lerida, 28 avril 1943 6 note verbale du ministère des Affaires extérieures espagnol à l'Ambassade de France à Madrid concernant l'ordre de fermeture absolue de la frontière à tous ceux qui ne sont pas en règle, 25 mars 1943 7 note téléphonique : dispositions concernant les Français inter nés de moins de 18 ans et de plus de 45 ans, 6 février (sans date d'année) 8 lettre de Piétri au ministre de la Guerre espagnol, s.d. 9 lettre de Piétri au comte de La Granja, délégué de la Croix Rouge espagnole, 1° février 1943 10 lettre de l'ambassadeur de France en Espagne au consul général de France à Saint Sébastien, 22 janvier 1943 11 visite de l'ambassadeur de France au ministre de l'Intérieur espagnol le 13 janvier 1943 12 tg de Piétri concernant l'aide apportée aux prisonniers de guerre évadés d'Allemagne par l'Union légionnaire d'Espagne, 26 novembre 1942 13 note verbale au ministère des Affaires extérieures à Madrid concernant la situation des ressortissants français entrés clandestinement en Espagne, 12 décembre 1942 14 note de l'ambassadeur de France en Espagne pour les consuls de France de Barcelone, Saint-Sébastien, Saragosse faisant part des déclarations du ministre de l'Intérieur espagnol relatives aux réfugiés français, 23 novembre 1942 15 réponse verbale du ministre de la Gobernacion à M. Piétri, même sujet, 24 novembre 1942

    1. Haute Cour de justice. Volume 10 Haute Cour de justice. Rép. num. détaillé dact., par M.-Th. Chabord, 11 vol., 2420 p. Volume 10 : 3w/310-3w/334
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