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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. The Blues Drawing of two women sitting on stools by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn94
    • English
    • 1940
    • overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Width: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm)

    Ink wash drawing of two women sitting on stools in Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center fo...

  2. Blanket issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Blanket issued to Ernst (Ernest) Heppner in Shanghai, China, by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in August 1945. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else, and near his half-brother, Heinz. Following the Kristallnacht program in November 1938, and Heinz’s subsequent arrest, the family began looking at emigration options. Eighteen-year-old Ernst and his mother secured passage on a ship to Shanghai, China, where they arrived in March 1939. Ernst soon got a job working for a toy store...

  3. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Badge issued to Ernest G. Heppner, in late 1940 or early 1941, as a member of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps (SVC). Founded in 1854, the SVC was under the command of British officers and reinforced the International Settlement’s municipal police. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else, and near his half-brother, Heinz. Following the Kristallnacht program in November 1938, and Heinz’s subsequent arrest, the family began looking at emigration options. Eighteen-year-old Ernst and his mother secured passage on a ship t...

  5. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Badge issued to Ernst (Ernest) Heppner, in late 1940 or 1941, as a member of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps (SVC). Founded in 1854, the SVC was under the command of British officers and reinforced the International Settlement’s municipal police. He became a driver for the transport company. Even though he had no prior driving experience, Ernst passed his test at the end of 1940. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else, and near his half-brother, Heinz. Following the Kristallnacht program in November 1938, and Heinz’...

  6. Woman at Gurs Drawing of a seated woman reading a book by a German Jewish internee Frau A. a journalist? reading outside her barracks

    1. Lili Andrieux collection

    Ink drawing of a woman seated in a chair reading a book in Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment c...

  7. Shanghai Volunteer Corps nightstick issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Wooden truncheon issued to Ernst (Ernest) Heppner, in late 1940, as a member of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps (SVC). Founded in 1854, the SVC was under the command of British officers and reinforced the International Settlement’s municipal police. He became a driver for the transport company. Even though he had no prior driving experience, Ernst passed his test at the end of 1940. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else, and near his half-brother, Heinz. Following the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, and Hein...

  8. 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...

  9. Westerbork, Jewish transit camp Westerbork, Judendurchgangslager (Fond 250i)

    This collection contains documents relating to the Westerbork Jewish transit camp between 1942-1945, including are reports, maps and some photos as well as pre-war correspondence, and post-war court proceedings. The collections also contains documents on the refugee camp Westerbork between 1939-1942, as it was still under Dutch administration. A special component of the collection is called “Westerbork kartothek” containing lists of name and date of birth of deportees, their last official place of residence before leaving for Westerbork and the date of shipment from the camp. These lists we...

  10. Collection on Vught, concentration camp in Herzogenbusch (Collection Prisons and camps) Collectie gevangenissen en Kampen-deelcollectie Vught, Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch (Fond 250g)

    This collection contains documents relating to the Vught concentration camp in Herzogenbusch between 1943-1944. Including are documents, maps and some photos as well as pre-war correspondence and court proceedings.

  11. Gunther and Harry Rice correspondence

    The Gunther and Harry Rice correspondence consists of letters and postcards received by both Gunther Rice and his uncle Harry Rice, from family members living in Germany, Poland, and England. The correspondence mainly documents the efforts in trying to bring family members from Germany to the United States from 1938-1941. The correspondence collected by Gunther Rice are from his time living in Otwock, Poland and Cardiff, England, and consists mainly of letters written by his parents (Chiam and Lea Esther) and sister, Betti, while they lived in Zbaszyn and Lwow, Poland (L’viv, Ukraine). They...

  13. Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 10 haleru coin owned by a Hungarian Jewish youth and former concentration camp inmate

    1. Larry Gladstone family collection

    Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 10 haleru coin acquired by Ladislav Glattstein. The coin was minted in 1941 in the region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Nazi Germany on March 15, 1939. Ladislav, 18, and his family lived in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (Mukacheve, Ukraine), when it was annexed by Hungary in the fall of 1938. In 1942, Ladislav was conscripted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion. He was sent to Nagybana labor camp, and, in 1944, to the Ukraine and Balf labor camp. In January 1945, Ladislav was transported to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, and in March, via death m...

  14. Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR Związek Patriotów Polskich w ZSRR (Sygn.130)

    Selected records of the Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR (ZPP) and the Organizing Committee of Polish Jews in the Soviet Union Included are minutes, correspondence, personal files of organization activists and members, various name lists, newsletters related to the repatriation of the Polish population, statistical data on field work, regional and local units of the Union of Polish Patriots, memories, albums and photographs of Polish emigrants in USSR.

  15. Sommer family papers

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war correspondence sent to and from Julius Sommer of Frankfurt, Germany, as well as Sommer's own wartime reflections of his own experiences. Includes letters written to his son Richard in the United States and son Alfred in London, his reflections on the British consular officer, Smallbones, who assisted Jews in Frankfurt in the wake of Kristallnacht, including Sommer, who immigrated to the United States in February 1939. Also includes correspondence between Alfred and Rosemary Sommer in London to Alfred's parents in the United States, 1938-1941, inclu...

  16. Anvil-shaped paperweight given to a US soldier serving as a displaced persons camp administrator

    1. Irving Heymont collection

    Cast iron, anvil-shaped paperweight made by students in Landsberg displaced persons (DP) camp’s vocational school, and presented with gratitude to Major Irving Heymont in October 1945. Heymont, a 27-year-old Jewish American soldier, deployed to Europe and landed in France in January 1945. He served as a regimental operations officer with the 5th Regiment, 71st Infantry Division, nicknamed the Red Circle. On May 4, 1945, the 71st liberated Gunskirchen, a subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp system. After Germany’s surrender, Heymont’s battalion assumed control of the Landsberg DP cam...

  17. Hindu Boy Drawing of a young male internee by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection

    Drawing of a boy, arms around his knees, imprisoned in Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment cente...

  18. Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society passenger cards of the MS St. Louis

    The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society passenger cards of the S.S. [sic; actually M.S.] St. Louis were prepared to coordinate fundraising in support of individuals and families once the ship returned to Europe after an unsuccessful attempt to land in Cuba in 1939. The cards contain passenger information including names, locations, occupations, and status of immigration applications to the United States, if any. The cards also document the names of relatives in the United States and elsewhere, as well as money on deposit with the National Refugee Service on behalf of individual refugees.

  20. Silk matzah holder with a handpainted fruit and floral design for Passover created by a Jewish Polish refugee in Bergen-Belsen DP camp

    1. Leopold Schein collection

    Silk matzoh holder with pockets and a hand painted harvest design painted by Poldek (Leopold) Schein in 1948, when he was living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. It is made from parachute silk as a gift for his uncle Jacob who sponsored his immigration. It has an inscription to "Our beloved aunt and uncle Pepi and Leib Schein Belzen 1948." The paints were sent to him by hin uncle from the United States. Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939. Nineteen year old Poldek lived in Krakow with his parents Abraham and Mania, three brothers, Joseph, Herman, and Jacob, and t...