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  1. Sketch of a large ocean liner drawn by a former hidden child

    1. Charles A. Weingarten collection

    Sketch of a large ocean liner drawn by Charles (Charly) Weingarten, 4, circa 1944. Charles was born in 1941 in Italian occupied Nice, France, six months after his mother Margarethe was released from Gurs internment camp. She had fled Nazi Germany for France in the early 1930s. When Germany invaded in May 1940, she was jailed as an enemy alien, then released after the German victory. They lived openly until September 1943, when the Germans occupied southern France after Italy surrendered to the Allies. Margarethe got them false papers as Catholics, and they wore cross pendants (see records 2...

  2. Ernst Berl papers

    Correspondence, documents, printed articles, news clippings, documenting the experiences of chemical engineer Ernst Berl, following his removal from the faculty of the Technische Hochschule in Darmstadt, and his immigration to the United States in 1933. Included is correspondence with other emigre academics from Austria and Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, correspondence concerning attempts to help others immigrate from Austria and Germany and obtain academic positions in the United States, as well as materials documenting Berl's efforts to help persecuted Jews in Darmstadt with scholars...

  3. Stettner family papers

    This collection relates to the lives and emigration attempts of the Stettner family. As the family members were all born in different countries—Maximilian and his daughter Ilse in Czechoslovakia, Kathe in Austria, and Walter in Italy—they were under different refugee quotas and had different opportunities for immigration. The collection illuminates the hardships imposed by circumstances of birth and the difficulties each family member faced. The correspondence between the family members—in the United States, Trieste, the Netherlands, and Shanghai, is a highlight of the collection for resear...

  4. Star of David badge printed Jood worn by German Jewish boy

    1. Ronald W. Schonfeld collection

    Yellow cloth Star of David patch, with Jood for Jew, worn by Rene W. Schonfeldt, 10, in German occupied Netherlands beginning April 29, 1942, when he was interned in Westerbork transit camp. Jews were required to wear the badges to separate them from the general population, make them easy to identify, and humiliate them and signify their inferiority. Soon after Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, Rene's parents Hans and Hanna fled Berlin with their infant son to Hilversum, Netherlands. In May 1940, Germany occupied the Netherlands. In January 1942, Rene and his parents were interned in...

  5. Cartoon of Mickey and Minnie Mouse created prewar by a Romanian high school student

    1. Ladislaus Farkas collection

    Cartoon belonging to Ladislaus Farkas drawn by Kalman Wavrek depicting Mickey and Minnie Mouse. In 1922, Wavrek graduated from the Oradea Gymnasium in Romania with classmate Ladislaus Farkas. Ladislaus later received a Ph.D in chemistry and worked at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut fur Physikalische Chemie in Berlin, Germany. On April 7, 1933, a law was enacted forbidding Jewish civil servants from holding public positions. Farkas lost his job. He went to work in England, and then in 1935, emigrated to Palestine after accepting an offer from Chaim Weizmann to teach at Hebrew University. During ...

  6. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee

    1. Igor Belousovitch collection

    20 mark note receipt from the Łódź ghetto, one of 5 pieces of scrip given to Igor Belousovitch, a US soldier, in early April 1945 by a refugee walking west on the same road Igor's unit was taking east across Germany near Leipzig. As Igor was looking at the line of refugees, one looked over at him and they made eye contact. The man, emaciated and dressed in rags, walked over to Igor, reached in his pocket, pulled out several bills, and gave them to Igor. They exchanged a few words and then both continued on their way. The scrip was created in the Łódź ghetto, renamed Litzmannstadt, in German...

  7. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 50 mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee

    1. Igor Belousovitch collection

    50 mark note receipt from the Łódź ghetto, one of 5 pieces of scrip given to Igor Belousovitch, a US soldier, in early April 1945 by a refugee walking west on the same road Igor's unit was taking east across Germany near Leipzig. As Igor was looking at the line of refugees, one looked over at him and they made eye contact. The man, emaciated and dressed in rags, walked over to Igor, reached in his pocket, pulled out several bills, and gave them to Igor. They exchanged a few words and then both continued on their way. The scrip was created in the Łódź ghetto, renamed Litzmannstadt, in German...

  8. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 [zehn] mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee

    1. Igor Belousovitch collection

    10 [zehn] mark note receipt from the Łódź ghetto, one of 5 pieces of scrip given to Igor Belousovitch, a US soldier, in early April 1945 by a refugee walking west on the same road Igor's unit was taking east across Germany near Leipzig. As Igor was looking at the line of refugees, one looked over at him and they made eye contact. The man, emaciated and dressed in rags, walked over to Igor, reached in his pocket, pulled out several bills, and gave them to Igor. They exchanged a few words and then both continued on their way. The scrip was created in the Łódź ghetto, renamed Litzmannstadt, in...

  9. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee

    1. Igor Belousovitch collection

    1 mark note receipt from the Łódź ghetto, one of 5 pieces of scrip given to Igor Belousovitch, a US soldier, in early April 1945 by a refugee walking west on the same road Igor's unit was taking east across Germany near Leipzig. As Igor was looking at the line of refugees, one looked over at him and they made eye contact. The man, emaciated and dressed in rags, walked over to Igor, reached in his pocket, pulled out several bills, and gave them to Igor. They exchanged a few words and then both continued on their way. The scrip was created in the Łódź ghetto, renamed Litzmannstadt, in German ...

  10. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee

    1. Igor Belousovitch collection

    5 mark note receipt from the Łódź ghetto, one of 5 pieces of scrip given to Igor Belousovitch, a US soldier, in early April 1945 by a refugee walking west on the same road Igor's unit was taking east across Germany near Leipzig. As Igor was looking at the line of refugees, one looked over at him and they made eye contact. The man, emaciated and dressed in rags, walked over to Igor, reached in his pocket, pulled out several bills, and gave them to Igor. They exchanged a few words and then both continued on their way. The scrip was created in the Łódź ghetto, renamed Litzmannstadt, in German ...

  11. Stefi Geisel papers

    1. Gustav and Stefi Geisel collection

    The Stefi Geisel papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographic materials, printed materials, and writings documenting the lives of the Siegel and Geisel families in Germany before the war, Stefi and Gus Geisel’s immigration to the United States, and Walter Siegel’s experiences in the Netherlands before his deportation and death at Bergen Belsen. Biographical materials consist of yahrzeit calendars for Hedwig and Martin Moritz and Siegfried Siegel, death announcements for Hedwig Moritz and Walter Siegel, Gustav Geisel’s 1933 driver’s license, a birth certificate and ...

  12. Shlomo Adler papers

    The Shlomo Adler papers include documents and photographs relating to Shlomo Adler's family in Bolechow, Poland (now Bolekhiv, Ukraine) before, during, and after World War II. Photographs include pre-war images of Shlomo, his parents Dolek and Sara, and his sister Musia in Poland and at the Tarbut school in Bolechow, wartime photographs depict the Bolechow ghetto, and post-war images depict Zionist youth groups such as Gordonyah (Gordonia) in Bielsko-Biała, Poland and Noàr ha-Tsiyoni (Hanoar Hatzioní). Also pictured in pre-war photographs are Salim, Pepcia, and Alta Diamand and Jozik Adle...

  13. Wolf and Schlesinger families papers

    The collection documents the pre-war lives of Rudolf Wolf and Gretel Schlesinger Wolf and their families in Frankfurt, Germany, as well as their immigration and post-war experiences in the United States. Included are biographical materials such as identification papers, diaries, and genealogical research; pre-war correspondence along with war-time letters written from family and friends in Germany as well as those who fled; immigration papers; restitution papers; and pre-war and post-war photographs of family and friends in Frankfurt and the United States. The biographical materials primari...

  14. Egon Weiss papers

    The Egon Weiss papers consist of a diary written by Egon Weiss describing his 1940 voyage on the SS Milos, the explosion of the SS Patria, his internment in the Atlit detainee camp, and the following years in Jerusalem as well as a scrapbook containing biographical material and photographs relating to the Weiss family from approximately 1890 to 2009. The collection also includes correspondence between the family and information relating to the SS Patria and prisoners of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Egon Weiss began his diary after he arrived in Palestine in 1940 and the last entry was ...

  15. Gleitman family collection

    Collection of documents, copy prints, photographs and correspondence documenting the experiences of Joseph Gleitman, his wife Sura (Sally) Lazega, and their friends before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs; a large pre-war school photograph of Polish and Jewish students in Slakow; post-war documentation relating to the marriage of survivors Joseph Gleitman and Sally Lazega, and Joseph Gleitman's work managing a mill after the war; a pre-war letter written to Joseph Gleitman; documentation acquired prior to Joseph Gleitman's immigrat...

  16. Carl Lenneberg papers

    1. Carl Werner Lenneberg collection

    The Carl Lenneberg papers include biographical materials, immigration documents, a diary, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to Carl Lenneberg’s experiences aboard the MS St. Louis with his brother, Georg, and his future brother-in-law, Fritz Hilb. Included are documents detailing their emigration from Germany and correspondence and photographs relating to their plight aboard the St. Louis in 1939 as well as a diary Carl kept throughout the voyage. Biographical material includes a passport for Carl Lenneberg, photographic postcard and catalogs from the family store, and a certifi...

  17. Yellow cloth armband printed Deutsche Wehrmacht

    1. Gerald Schwab collection

  18. Porcelain souvenir dish of the Marchenbrunnen owned by a young German Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Ruth Dublon Grossmann collection

    Basket shaped porcelain souvenir dish owned by Rosa Dublon, who in 1936, at the age of 9, left Germany with her mother Erna and five year old sister Herta for the United States. The dish has a painted image of the Marchenbrunnen, or fairy tale fountain, located in Hofgarten park in Dusseldorf. After 1933, the Nazi dictatorship that now governed Germany increasingly persecuted Jewish residents. Rosa's parents Erna and Siegfried divorced in the mid-1930s and Erna and the girls moved to her hometown of Mertloch. Erna's sister Helen Lederer had lived in the United States since at least 1930. Sh...

  19. Brass knuckles acquired by a Jewish American soldier

    1. Walter Fried collection

    gray metal knucklebusters taken by Walter Fried, a US Army interrogator, from a Gestapo officer in the SS criminal police division whom he was interviewing. Walter, 25, and his family, who were Jewish, fled Austria shortly after it was annexed by Germany in March 1938 for America. Walter joined the Army in November 1943 and deployed with the 243rd Combat Engineer Battalion. In April 1945, Walter was transferred to the Counterintelligence Corps to be a translator. After Germany surrendered on May 7, Walter was transferred to War Crimes Investigating Team, Judge Advocate Section as a translat...

  20. German State criminal police warrant disc acquired by a Jewish American soldier

    1. Walter Fried collection

    Staatliche Kriminalpolizei [State Criminal police] bronze warrant disc [dienstmarken], ID number 1978, taken by Walter Fried, a US Army interrogator, from a Gestapo officer in the SS criminal police division whom he was interrogating. After Himmler centralized the police forces in the mid-1930s, this was the official identification badge, stamped with the individual officer's number. The badge had the authority of a warrant and once displayed during an arrest, investigation, or search, it ensured compliance. Walter, 25, and his family, who were Jewish, fled Austria for America shortly after...