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  1. The Papers of Georg and Max Bredig

    This collection of mixed media contains manuscripts, photographs, publications, artifacts and works of art collected and owned by Georg and Max Bredig. The collection documents Georg Bredig's scientific training and rise to prominence as a gifted physical chemist in pre-World War II Germany. In contrast, the scope of the collection takes a dramatic shift after the Nazi rise to power in 1933. As a result of Bredig's Jewish descent, his scientific career and very way of life was brought to an abrupt halt. These documents describe the Bredig family's struggle to survive the horrors of Nazi-occ...

  3. Miscellaneous

    1. Raphael Lemkin Papers

    Contains biographical material, material on the Nuremberg trials, the Nobel Peace Prize, copies of Military Government in Europe, a photocopy of portions of Axis Rule in Occupied Europe and miscellaneous memoranda and printed material dealing with Nazi concentration camps, refugees, the Cold War, and religious magazines.

  5. Relief and Rescue Departments

    1. World Jewish Congress

    Contains files of WJC departments engaged in relief and rescue work. The series includes files from the Relief Department, Department of European Jewish Affairs, Rescue Department, and Relief and Rehabilitation Department. Files of the Secretary-General of the WJC are included among the files of the Rescue Department director, since Aryeh L. Kubowitzki fulfilled both positions. In the WJC collection, rescue materials were often found interfiled with general Relief Department files. Since the Rescue and Relief Departments were closely related in function and were merged in 1945, the material...

  6. James G. McDonald collection

    The James G. McDonald collection consists of diary entries, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and printed materials documenting McDonald's work as chair of the Foreign Policy Association, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, chairman of President Roosevelt's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Jewish Problems in Palestine and Europe, U.S. Special Representative to the Jewish State, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel. The collection also includes a name plate for Ambassador McDonald and a bible presente...

  7. Franka and Samuel Baral family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Franka and Samuel Baral and their three children, Aneta, Jim, and Martin, as refugees from German occupied Poland, including several years spent living in hiding, chiefly in Hungary, during the Holocaust.

  8. Henry and Rose Basch collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Henry and Rose Basch as Jewish refugees in Shanghai, China, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  9. Kalman and Pauline Barakan collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Kalman and Pauline Pajes Barakan in Poland during and after the World War II, including their repatriation and lives in Łódź until 1968, when they again became refugees and immigrated to the United States.

  10. Alfred and Bronislawa Majzner collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alfred and Bronislawa Majzner in Poland and as refugees in the Soviet Union before, during, and after World War II.

  11. Ephraim Robinson family collection

    The collection consists of children's clothing, a duvet cover, a glass slide projector, glass slides, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Ephraim Robinson and his family as refugees during the Holocaust, as residents of Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany, and as immigrants to the United States in the postwar period.

  12. Harold Minuskin family collection

    The collection consists of a billfold, currency, documents, oral history compact discs, photographs, and postcards relating to the experiences of Shlamke and Shanke Orlinsky Minuskin, their two young sons, Henikel (Harold) and Kalmanke, and their extended families in prewar Zhetel, Poland, in the Zhetel ghetto and the surrounding forests with the partisans during the Holocaust, and as refugees in Germany and then the United States after the war, and a billfold, day planner, and photographs relating to the experiences of Lew Minuskin who was in Siberia during the war.

  13. Eric Bergtraun collection

    The collection consists of scrapbooks, photographs and photo albums, log books, biographical materials, badges, and uniforms relating to Boy Scout activities of Eric Bergtraun and other Jewish refugees in Shanghai, China.

  14. Isaac Bitton collection

    Consist of materials concerning the situation of Portuguese Jews during and after the Holocaust. Among the topics covered are emigration to Palestine, the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, and the Nahariya memorial to Jewish refugees. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Dorit B. Whiteman collection

    Contains university report card (Meldungsbuch) issued in 1938 in Vienna, Austria, to Edwin Bader, father of the donor, as a replacement for the original issued in 1910-1915; a photocopy of a note about proper behavior handed out to newly arrived refugees in England in 1938; and video recordings of the 1988 reunion of former Nuremberg-Fuerth refugees. Mr. Frank Harris arranged the reunion.

  16. Eric W. Zielenziger family collection

    The collection consists of an armband, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Eric Zielenziger and his family in prewar Berlin, Germany, then as refugees in Paris, France, and Amsterdam, Netherlands, before and during World War II and in Amsterdam after the war.

  17. Blumenstein family collection

    Consists of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to the experiences of the Blumenstein family in Vienna, Austria, on board the MS St. Louis, in hiding in Holland, and their efforts to flee Nazi-occupied Europe. Includes a photograph of the donor's father in Sosua, Dominican Republic and a photograph taken in a Quaker camp for refugees in Havana, Cuba.

  18. Erna and Herman Meyer collection

    The collection consists of a wallet and documents relating to the experiences of Erna Landau before the war when she emigrated from Rhede, Germany, to Great Britain in 1938 and of photographs relating to the experiences of Herman Meyer and his extended family in the Netherlands and then in Kenya where they lived as refugees during World War II.

  19. Meyerstein family collection

    Papers document the expereinces of Meyerstein family before and during World Warr II. Included in the papers is a marriage license issued to Hilda Schickler and George Meyerstein Ellen Cohen's parents in Milan, Italy on May 18, 1935; a driver's license issued to George Meyerstein in Gotha Germany; an entry ticket for a bullfight that Hilda and George Meyerstein attended in 1941 while refugees living in Spain; a passanger's list for the Marqus de Comillas that included the Meyerstein family; newspaper clippings and a newspaper that mentions Ellen Meyerstein [Ellen Cohen]; a testimony written...

  20. Bob Levitan collection

    Consists of documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, and an oral history related to Hyman Robert (Bob) Levitan, a World War II veteran who became the captain of the SS Ben Hecht and illegally transported a group of refugees, mainly Holocaust survivors, to Palestine in 1947. The ship was intercepted by British warships and the passengers and crew were imprisoned. The crew was released after six months, while the refugees were eventually allowed into Palestine. The collection includes photographs taken on the ship and in prison, newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, and documents relat...