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  1. Hecht family collection

    The collection documents the prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences of Arthur Hecht and his family, who primarily lived in Hörstein, Germany prior to WWII. Documents include birth and death certificates, a naturalization certificate, military discharge papers, a track award, and a 1946 clipping documenting Arthur’s reunification with his parents after their immigration to the United States. Original and copy print photographs include depictions of pre-war family life in Germany and life in the United States after immigrating, including Arthur’s time in the military.

  2. The Zionist Organization/The Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel-Central Office, London (Z4)

    Correspondence between the Zionist Organization, London and various individuals and organizations regarding the nature of a future state in Palestine, a proposal to the Zionist Organization of America, and Zionist organizations in Russia and Palestine, other matters, correspondence with Chaim Weizmann, minutes of meetings, outgoing letters, newspaper clippings, resolutions, Zionist congress proceedings, reports on the situation in Palestine and Jewish immigration, circulars of the Executive Committee, statistics, correspondence with various Zionist organizations in Nazi Germany, corresponde...

  3. Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers

    The Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers consists of five handwritten journals written by Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz (1903-1980) at the Feldafing displaced persons camp, dated May 1945 - August 1949. The papers also include five colorized photographs of portraits of the Hipszer family including Rajzla (Rejzla, née Krzesiwo) and her children Machla Hipszer (1931-1943), Gitla Hipszer (1937-1943), and Mina (Minca/Mincz, 1940-1943). The Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers consists of five handwritten journals written by Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz dated May 1945 - August 1949. The journals, written while Ilona was l...

  4. Klara Süss papers

    The collection includes a journal and accounting book kept by Klara Süss. Klara began her journal in 1941 while aboard the SS Navemar, waiting to immigrate to the United States. In the journal she recounts her experiences being forced from her home and sent to Camp de Gurs, living in Marseilles, and the process of obtaining visas. The collection also includes a translation of the journal, a German passport issued to Klara, American citizenship papers issued to Klara and her husband David Süss, and the leather wallet the certificates were housed in.

  5. Wooden folk art figurine of a Jewish freeloader

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Small, roughly carved, 19th-century wooden figurine of a Jewish schnorrer, a Judeo-German term for a Jewish beggar. A phrase on the figurine’s base may represent the sort of a line a schnorrer could use on a hesitant potential benefactor. Methuselah is a biblical figure renowned for his old age, and Strauss is likely a reference to a rich Jewish family of department store owners and bankers. By referencing those two names, the schnorrer may be implying that their mark is old and wealthy, and would not need or miss any money that the mark contributed to him. During the Chmielnicki pogroms in...

  6. Braunwasser family papers

    1. Inge Braunwasser Steinberger family collection

    The Braunwasser family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and restitution files documenting the Braunwasser family in prewar Vienna, Inge Braunwasser's immigration to the United States as one of the "50 children" rescued by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, her parents' immigration shortly after, and their new life in Alice, Texas. Biographical materials include identification papers; birth, marriage, naturalization, and death certificates; student records; employment records and letters of recommendation; name change records in accordance with Nazi laws about J...

  7. Bernard Frum papers

    The collection, spanning 1939-1992, consists of one memoir and a diary chiefly documenting life in France leading to and including war. The memoir of Renée de Monbrison (September 1939 to August 1944) is a bound copy typed in French. Entries describe time spent in Biarritz, an arrest in Hossegor, plans of fleeing to England, and her attempts to save her aunt, Loulou Warshawsky, from a camp near Tours. The memoir also includes copies of letters, documents, clippings, and post-war writings. Also included in the collection is one memoir typed in English by Colette Cahen d'Anvers Moore, entitle...

  8. Bath towel acquired by Polish Jewish woman after her escape during a forced march from Ravensbrück

    1. Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family collection

    Bath towel used by Franka Rosenblum, 25, that she stole from a Burgermeister's house in Sachsendorf, Germany, in April 1945 after her escape during a death march from Ravensbrueck concentration camp. She also took a blanket, 1993.27.33, a dress, and a blouse. Franka and her family lived in Zawiercie, Poland, which was invaded by Germany in September 1939. She was a forced laborer in a steel mill and involved with the resistance movement. On August 26, 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where she was shaved, given rags to wear, and tattooed with the number 56362. She worked in a ho...

  9. Wool blanket with a black, red, and cream plaid pattern acquired by a Polish Jewish woman after her escape during a forced march from Ravensbrück

    1. Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family collection

    Plaid wool blanket used by Franka Rosenblum, 25, that she stole from a Burgermeister's house in Sachsendorf, Germany, in April 1945 after her escape during a death march from Ravensbrueck concentration camp. She also took a towel, 1993.27.32, a dress, and a blouse. Franka and her family lived in Zawiercie, Poland, which was invaded by Germany in September 1939. She was a forced laborer in a steel mill and involved with the resistance movement. On August 26, 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where she was shaved, given rags to wear, and tattooed with the number 56362. She worked i...

  10. Metal pin made for a former concentration camp inmate with her prisoner number and the camps where she was held

    1. Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family collection

    Commemorative pin made for Franka Rosenblum, 25, by a friend after the war in Germany, around May 1945. The pin is engraved with the names of the concentration and labor camps in which Franka was interned from 1943-1945. Franka and her family were from Zawiercie, Poland, which was invaded by Germany in September 1939. She was a forced laborer in a steel mill and involved with the resistance. On August 26, 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where she was shaved, given rags to wear, and tattooed with the number 56362. She worked in a hospital, then in a Krupp ammunition factory. In ...

  11. Shames family collection

    The collection consists of pre-war photographs of the Shames family in Warsaw, Poland and post-war photographs in Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), Siberia, Berlin, Germany, Israel, and the United States. Includes two photographs of the family on a ship during their immigration to the United States. Some of the photographs are copy prints.

  12. Henry Kolber collection

    Consists of photographs and documents related to Henry Kolber's experiences as a refugee in post-war Switzerland and his immigration to the United States on the SS Drottningholm in 1947. Also includes a memory booklet signed by fellow refugees in 1945, a musical score entitled "Bitte um Menschwerdung" and letter dated 1950, both written by Rudolf (Ruedi) Schaerer.

  13. Salomon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomon R., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1925, one of three children of Polish émigrés. He recounts his father's death in 1933; attending public school and weekly Yiddish lessons; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; increasing antisemitism by right-wing extremists; housing German-Jewish refugees; German invasion in May 1940; registering as Jews when required to do so; recruitment by his brother-in-law to the Resistance at age fifteen; obtaining false papers; assignments delivering underground newspapers and smuggling people to northern France via Kortrijk (C...

  14. Bick family fonds

    Fonds consists of photograph albums, loose photographs, books, memoir, table cloth and official documents relating to the lives of members of the Bick family. Fonds has been arranged into the following series: Werner Bick memoir series (2002), Prayer books series (1868–1933), Bick family photographs series ([1891?]–[200-]), Siegfried and Johanna Bick emigration documents series (1938–1939) and Household object series ([before 1979]).

  15. Records of the Sephardic Jewish Community of Uruguay (Comunidad Israelita Sefaradí)

    Registers of birth, marriage and death certificates, photographs of activities, administrative material and correspondence, records relating to various events, registers of social assistance, and minutes of meetings.

  16. Schwarz family papers

    The collection documents the Hungarian Holocaust-era experiences of the extended Schwarz family, including George and Magdolna Schwarz, their daughter Mariette, and Magdolna’s sister Klári Kovács (née Haberfeld) and her husband László Kovács. Included are identification papers, immigration documents, and photographs.

  17. Textbook

    1. Manfred Lobel collection

    Textbook used by 10 year old Manfred Lobel in the Shanghai Jewish Youth Association School (SJYA). In 1940, Manfred fled to Shanghai from Berlin, Germany, with his parents, Gustav and Dora, and 14 year old brother Siegfried due to the Nazi persecution of Jews. Since his parents were born in Romania, exit visas for the United States did not seem to be an option because of the high quotas. In 1940, the family received permits to leave Germany for Shanghai. American troops entered the city on September 3, 1945. The family emigrated to the US in 1949.

  18. Langenscheidt's pocket dictionary Dictionary

    1. Salomon and Berg families collection

    Alfred Berg was a teenage boy living in Vienna with his parents and younger sister Charlotte when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. Alfred was targeted by bullies because of his Jewish heritage and on November 9-10 during the Kristallnacht pogrom, his father was arrested and later released by local police. In May 1939, Charlotte was one of fifty Jewish children from Vienna selected by Americans Gilbert and Eleanor Krauss to be rescued from the Nazis and taken to the United States. Days ...

  19. Dina Pollak Gabos papers

    1. Dina Pollak Gabos collection

    Calendar: issued by Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet L’Israel) for the Hebrew year 5710 (1949-1950); with images of symbols of the State of Israel; map of the State of Israel and a list of new settlements founded by JNF in Israel. In Italian; Membership ID: issued by The Zionist Organization in the South of Italy to Rifka Pollak, donor’s mother; dated” July 1, 1945 in Hebrew and English; Photographs: depicting a group of Jewish Holocaust survivors posing with the sign “HIAS of America” on their way to Palestine; dated: 1945; Bari, Italy and a makeshift synagogue in Bari, Italy in 1945; I...

  20. Frank Saalfeld: Family papers

    This collection comprises the following folders: (1868/1) birth and death certificates, residency permit and British embassy Tehran registration certificates, 1876-1945; (1868/2) correspondence to Margarethe from various correspondents, 1911-1926; (1868/3) correspondence to Margarethe from various correspondents, 1913-1924; (1868/4) correspondence to Margarethe from various correspondents, 1914-1933; (1868/5) correspondence to Margarethe from her sister, Hanna, 1918-1925; (1868/6) correspondence to Margarethe from Ruth Dammann, 1918-1932; 1868/7 correspondence between Margarethe and Hanna, ...