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  1. Eva and Otto Pfister papers

    Accretion to the Eva and Otto Pfister Papers including correspondence, documents, booklet, papers, clippings, translations, pamphlets, leaflets, speeches, writings, tickets, passes, photos, and other materials.

  2. Painted wooden spice box kept by by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Hannah Kronheim Deutch collection

    Olive wood spice tower with cloves carried by 17 year old Hannah Kronheim when she left Bochum, Germany, on the Kinderstransport [Children's Transport] in 1939. The box was made in Palestine and used for years by her family. A spice (besamim) box is used during the Havdalah, or separation ceremony, at the end of Shabbat every week. The box is filled with a fragrant spice, such as cinnamon or cloves, and is passed around so that everyone can be be rejuvenated by the sweet smell. Hannah left soon after Kristallnacht, November 9 and 10, 1938, when the synagogue behind her home was set on fire....

  3. Gold ring with pink stones received by a refugee in a displaced persons camp upon the birth of her daughter

    1. Bernice, Morris, and Sarah Kirsch collection

    Ring given to Bronia Kirsch in 1946 on the occasion of the birth of her daughter, Sarah, while she was living in the displaced persons camp in Ansbach, Germany. The ring has a setting for a large stone, but it was already missing when Bronia received the ring. She believed the stone had been removed by the Germans. She met and married Morris Kirsch, also a displaced person from Poland, in 1945 in Feldafing, Germany. The family emigrated to the United States in 1950.

  4. Gold link chain necklace received by a refugee in a displaced persons camp upon the birth of her daughter

    1. Bernice, Morris, and Sarah Kirsch collection

    Necklace given to Bronia Kirsch in 1946 on the occasion of the birth of her daughter, Sarah, while she was living in the displaced persons camp in Ansbach, Germany. She met and married Morris Kirsch, also a displaced person from Poland, in 1945 in Feldafing, Germany. The family emigrated to the United States in 1950.

  5. Child's yellow skirt with heart patches made for an abandoned hidden child by her rescuer

    1. Aliza Bar collection

    Yellow skirt with hearts and rickrack made for 6 year old Elzbieta Schwarzwald in 1944 in Lwow, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine), by Regina Mandel. In September 1939, Lwow was occupied by the Soviet Union; in June 1941, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviets and Lwow was occupied by the Germans. There were numerous pogrom and thousands of Jews were murdered. The Germans moved them into a ghetto where Ela's mother died of typhus. After March 1942, deportations to death camps were frequent and Ela's father escaped with Ela and his sister. He found a non-Jewish Polish couple who took Ela into their home in ...

  6. Przodownikom Pracy [Socialist Hero of Labor] lapel medal issued to a Jewish official postwar

    1. Kalman and Pauline Barakan collection

    Przodownikom Pracy [Socialist Hero of Labor] medal in the shape of a 7 point star awarded by the Polish government in the 1950s to Kalman Barakan for his exemplary work for the Polish National Enterprise for Foreign Trade in Łódź, Poland. When Germany invaded Poland in June 1941, Kalman Barakan was a 30 year old lawyer in Bialystok. His home was destroyed and he had to move into a Jewish ghetto and do rough manual labor. He escaped in 1943 and lived in hiding, constantly on the move. In August 1943, the ghetto was destroyed; Kalman’s entire family was murdered in a death camp. In July 1944,...

  7. Adult's pith helmet acquired in India during the journey to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Pith helmet acquired by Jerzy Klein in January 1941 during the long journey to the United States after he, his wife, Nadzieja, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and Nadzieja's aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugos...

  8. Child's pith helmet acquired in India during the journey to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Child’s flower patterned pith helmet acquired in India for 3 year old Joanna Klein in January 1941 during the long journey to the United States after she, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtaine...

  9. Child's pink silk cabbage rose patterned dress brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Child's pink silk dress with a lace neckline that belonged to 3 year old Joanna Klein when she, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece to Turkey. ...

  10. Child's peach silk sleeveless dress with embroidered flowers brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Child’s sleeveless peach silk embroidered dress that belonged to 3 year old Joanna Klein when she, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece to Turke...

  11. Child's peach silk polka dot dress brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Child’s peach silk polka dot dress that belonged to 3 year old Joanna Klein when she, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece to Turkey. Up to this...

  12. Child's colorful print cotton dress with blue piping brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Child’s white cotton dress with colorful designs of small children and animals that belonged to 3 year old Joanna Klein when she, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through...

  13. Child's gray shearling embroidered mountaineer's craft coat brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Child's gray shearling embroidered mountaineer's craft coat purchased in 1939 for 3 year old Joanna Klein. The next year, on April 20, 1940, Joanna, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained tran...

  14. Child’s diamond patterned collar set brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41415
    • English
    • a: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) b: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)

    Child’s diamond patterned dog ear collar in 2 sections that belonged to 3 year old Joanna Klein when she, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece t...

  15. Child's silk Peter Pan collar with embroidered blue dots brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Child's detachable silk collar with embroidered blue dots that belonged to 3 year old Joanna Klein when she, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greec...

  16. Child's cotton twill collar with embroidered daisies brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Child's detachable cotton twill collar with embroidered daisies that belonged to 3 year old Joanna Klein when she, her parents, Nadzieja and Jerzy, and her great-aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and...

  17. Charles Weingarten papers

    1. Charles A. Weingarten collection

    The Charles Weingarten papers include biographical materials, correspondence (some illustrated), photographs, printed materials, and restitution files documenting Weingarten’s extended family, hiding with his mother under a false identity in Nice, France, during World War II, their postwar lives, and Weingarten’s unsuccessful efforts to obtain compensation for Holocaust-era claims. The collection also includes records documenting the family of Weingarten’s stepfather, Karl Delius. Biographical materials include real and falsified identification papers for Charles and Margarethe Weingarten, ...

  18. Aluminum wardrobe trunk used by a German Jewish emigrant family

    1. Bruno Einstein family collection

    Aluminum wardrobe trunk used by Bruno Einstein, his wife Frieda, and their five year old son Dieter for their November 1939 journey to the United States. On Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938, Bruno and his brother Arthur were arrested in their hometown of Fellheim, Germany, and sent to Dachau concentration camp. Both were released in early January 1939. The family received visas for the United States, sponsored by Bruno’s maternal aunt Frieda Jeffries. Bruno, Frieda, and Dieter left Germany for Genoa, Italy in 1939, then sailed to New York in November. Bruno’s brother, Arthur, and sister, M...

  19. Blue and pink embroidered cloth case made by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Ruth Mondschein Zimbler collection

    Embroidered cloth portfolio made by 10 year old Ruth Mondschein in the Netherlands after her parents sent her there on a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] from Austria on December 10, 1938. She used the portfolio to keep the letters she received from her parents, Hella and Markus. Her father was arrested on Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, and sent to Dachau concentration camp. He was released on the condition that he leave the country. He arranged for Ruth and her 6 year old brother, Walter, to escape on the first Kindertransport to the Netherlands. The children later were sent to ...

  20. Official documentation regarding the activities of the Swedish government, the Swedish Red Cross and Raoul Wallenberg, on behalf of the rescue of Hungarian Jews; documentation dated, 1944-1947

    1. P.26 - Heiner Lichtenstein Collection - Documentation collected by a Journalist who wrote about the Holocaust and about Trials of Nazi War Criminals, 1952-1987

    Official documentation regarding the activities of the Swedish government, the Swedish Red Cross and Raoul Wallenberg, on behalf of the rescue of Hungarian Jews; documentation dated, 1944-1947 Volume One: - Documentation of anti-Semitic regulations, legislation and bans published starting, 20 March 1944, including the ban on the employment of Jews, the possession of property by Jews, and their deportation; - Details regarding the numbers of deported people according to areas and including a total of approximately 35,000 people, 10 May-10 June 1944; - Testimony [collective] of two Jews who e...