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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Black checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Black windowpane checked dish towel monogrammed ES received as a wedding gift by Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt in 1933. It was one of a pair, and they received a matching red set as well. These towels were among the very few items that they were permitted to take with them when they left Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1939. The rest of the family's personal and household belongings were confiscated by German authorities. Fritz and Juliane, and Fritz's mother Selma and brother Rudolph fled Cologne in 1939. After Germany invaded Poland that September, even legal emigrants were det...

  2. Silver oak patterned tablespoon saved by German Jewish refugees

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Silver oak leaf patterned spoon, one of three spoons brought with Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt when they escaped Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1939. These spoons were among the very few items that they were permitted to take with them when they left Cologne. The rest of the family's personal and household belongings were confiscated by German authorities. Fritz and Juliane, and Fritz's mother Selma and brother Rudolph fled to Amsterdam in 1939. After Germany invaded Poland that September, even legal emigrants were detained as enemy aliens. Fritz was interned at Zeeburgerdijk q...

  3. Silver fiddle patterned tablespoon saved by German Jewish refugees

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Silver spoon with a fiddle thread pattern, one of three spoons brought with Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt when they escaped Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1939. These spoons were among the very few items that they were permitted to take with them when they left Cologne. The rest of the family's personal and household belongings were confiscated by German authorities. Fritz and Juliane, and Fritz's mother Selma and brother Rudolph fled to Amsterdam in 1939. After Germany invaded Poland that September, even legal emigrants were detained as enemy aliens. Fritz was interned at Zeebu...

  4. Silver fiddle patterned tablespoon saved by German Jewish refugees

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Silver spoon with a fiddle thread pattern, one of three spoons brought with Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt when they escaped Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1939. These spoons were among the very few items that they were permitted to take with them when they left Cologne. The rest of the family's personal and household belongings were confiscated by German authorities. Fritz and Juliane, and Fritz's mother Selma and brother Rudolph fled to Amsterdam in 1939. After Germany invaded Poland that September, even legal emigrants were detained as enemy aliens. Fritz was interned at Zeebu...

  5. Isaac Bitton collection photographs of Jewish refugees in Lisbon, Portugal

    1. Isaac Bitton collection

    Contains 12 gelatin silver copyprints of Jewish refugees in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1939 to 1944. Descriptions by Isaac Bitton [donor] are provided on the reverse side of each photograph.

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Germans arrive in Sudentenland; Sudeten refugees

    Big crowd mourning, (German) women in tears, talking. 03:43:18 Nazi speaker heard. 03:43:32 People in courtyard silently heiling. Pan, women cries as she heils. 03:44:23 Sad faces of children and women boarding streetcar. 03:44:41 Men on bicycles rush down street, men with QF ruined room. Border, gate going up, 03:45:06 grinning Nazis on horseback go through. Lots of marching Nazis, heiling (hesitant). 03:45:24 Nazis on carts, peasant women, flowers, heiling on cue, others being taught to heil. CU, elderly woman watches and does nothing. Goering with children. SS feeding people in square. F...

  7. "We Jewish Refugees in Italy" "Enquiry Results February 1946"

    1. Douglas Smith collection

    Consists of a copy of a book entitled "We Jewish Refugees in Italy: Enquiry Results, February 1946," published by the Organization of Jewish Refugees in Italy, Central Committee" in 1946, based on a survey of more than 12,000 Jewish refugees in post-war Italy. The text includes information about individual experiences, charts, and survey results.

  8. United Jewish Appeal fundraising film about the plight of Jewish refugees in Israel

    Title card reads, "UJA Report from Israel." Immigrants wave from a ship's deck while the narrator explains that these are Holocaust survivors arriving in Israel from Europe. Survivors disembark in Haifa as a crowd waits on the dock behind a fence. People sort through luggage and other belongings. A man stacks blankets and a woman searches for her baby carriage among several others. Items are loaded onto a truck which then takes immigrants to a camp. Dramatic CU of International Herald Tribune headlines: "Heavy Burden Of Immigrants Strains Israel," "Situation Called Explosive,"(article writt...

  9. Documentation pertaining to refugees who escaped Germany to the Argentine Pampas

    Contains copies of documents and correspondence, relating to Ludwig Rosenblatt and other members of Rosenblatt and Plaut families, documenting their emigration from Germany to Argentina; the founding of Colonia Avigdor; and related subjects. Also includes a book about Jewish Colonization Association in Argentina

  10. Invitation card to a Gala Concert to aid Danish refugees in Sweden

    1. Ellis Gordon collection

    Invitation Card to a Gala Concert to aid the Danish Refugees in Sweden at the Metropolitan Opera House held on Thursday evening, February 17th, 1944. Lists participating artists, prices, special guests, contact for tickets. "There are about 11,000 Danish Refugees in Sweden who have fled Gestapo terror, they must be fed, clothed, housed until Denmark is free again. Denmark is not yet in the Nation-wide National War Fund Drive, as this unfortunately was closed before the latest tragedy to our country occurred, therefore this Benefit Concert has been arranged by Lauritz Melchior to help reliev...

  11. Embroidered tea cozy used by Austrian Jewish refugees to store family correspondence

    1. Goldstein family collection

    Tea cozy used in Belgium by Regina Goldstein, the mother of twin boys, Bruno and Jack, to store correspondence and documents written by Goldstein family members in Debica and Opole, Poland, who were unable to escape their German occupied country. Most of them did not survive the Holocaust. Bruno and Jack were 6 years old at the time and used some of the letters for drawing paper. Their family fled Austria in 1939. Their father was deported to Gurs internment camp after the German occupation of Belgium in May 1940. The family avoided deportation in 1942,but at the end of 1942, their mother c...

  12. William Perl papers records and photographs relating to illegal immigration of Jewish refugees to Palestine

    Contains copies of documents relating to William Perl's involvement in illegal immigration efforts for Jewish refugees from various European countries during the Holocaust.

  13. Leather passport holder with Weimar eagle used by German Jewish refugees

    1. Annemarie Warschauer family collection

    Passport holder with a Weimar eagle used by Annemarie Warschauer, 19, or a family member when they left Germany for Shanghai, China, in 1940. The Nazi regime took power in 1933 and anti-Jewish policies to persecute Jews became law. In 1936, a Nazi thugs took her father from their home and killed him. In 1938, Annemarie married Egon Israelski. A few weeks later Egon was assigned to a forced labor camp and Annemarie volunteered to go with him. When Egon was injured, she had to work in a factory. After they promised to leave Germany, they were released from labor service. Along with Annemarie'...

  14. Denmark during WWII: Copenhagen; refugees escape by boat; underground printing press; Yalta

    MS, EXT Christiansborg Castle. INT, room with ornate table and chairs, empty now because the Danish government resigned. Shops/businesses, including a clothing store and a shoe store, sign reading "...pige Kofektion." Pan up building, where the National Freedom Council held illegal meetings. Memorial wreaths, flowers, ribbons with Danish commemorating fallen soldiers who died on August 29, 1943. View up street [seen in Story 828, Film ID 511] where Danish civilians bring flowers to the King on his 73rd birthday on September 26, 1943. CU, boy with raincoat. 00:06:37 At night, Danish Jews fle...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Embargo Japanese goods; refugees at Resettlement Office

    667 S: Relief campaign for China. On street, Chinese students collecting money on sidewalk; 03:03:12 "Buy nothing from Japan"; Embargo the aggressors. 03:03:58 Well-dressed women walking in street with many signs, against Japanese goods, against silk. Wear cotten, rayon, lisle. 03:05:18 MCU, women speakers with microphone, earnestly addressing the gathering. 03:06:49 667 V: People in waiting room. 03:09:07 CU glass door, "Resettlement Division", "National Coordinating Committee for Refugees and Emigres". 03:09:42 People waiting in line near "teller"; older men, women, children. Papers check...

  16. Records of the Danish Jewish Community : Refugees, travel of emigrants, postwar support (Group 10411)

    Selected records of the Danish Jewish Community. This contains the following collections from the Group No. 10411: The Secretary for Jews Post-War Support, including records relating to: address searches and refugee questionnaires, 1945-1950, various correspondence relating to postwar assistance, Hechaluz, and stateless persons, unaccompanied Jewish children youth Aliyah, as well as a list of Jewish who arrived in Sweden. 1945; The Committee for Jewish Agricultural Trainees: consisting of student lists and accounting statements, 1939-1942; The Chief Rabbi Max Friediger records consisting of...

  17. The fate of Jews, Polish refugees, in Russia: Mr. A. Dobkin's mission to Persia

    1. Jewish paper based ephemera

    Contains a document issued by the information bureau of the Jewish Agency, marked "Not for Publication." September 8, 1942. 11 pp,

  18. Newsreel clips: Einstein speech; Emigration; Jewish refugees in England and Australia; Palestine

    An assembled reel of news clips from Chronos, including: (1) Albert Einstein speech in English. (2) Arrivals and departures. Jews in the Palastinamt [Palestine Office] in Berlin, applying for emigration (see Photo Archives worksheet 64121 for still of this scene). (3) 01:06:59 HAS, refugees, journey by boat, CUs. (4) 01:07:15 Newsreel "Britain receives more of Hitler's refugees" Children. (5) 01:07:43 "Jewish refugee children" [Movietonews] shows Kindertransport arriving in England. (6) St. Louis ship (7) 01:08:27 "Jewish refugees reach Sydney" [Movietonews] Jews arrive on the ship SS Aoran...

  19. Archive of Ministry of Internal Affairs. Refugees from Germany Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken (BiZa)/Vluchtelingen Duitsland

    Records of the Bureau General Secretariat and Compatibility, the Bureau Armwezen/Vluchtelingen and the refugee camps Westerbork, the Lloyd-hotel (later Oostelijke Handelskade) in Amsterdam, the quarantine station Beneden-Heyplaat in Rotterdam and the Koninginnehoofd refugee camp in Rotterdam. The collection consists of records relating to financial and personnel matter, the construction and the layout of the camps. There are also weekly reports and strength records of camp residents, personal cards, sightings etc., and records relating to the Committee of Jewish Refugees, concerning the med...

  20. Pair of espadrilles used as part of a disguise by anti-fascist refugees fleeing France

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7154
    • English
    • a: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) b: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm)

    Espadrilles used as part of a disguise by anti-fascist refugees fleeing France. The town of Banyuls, France, was the beginning of an escape route for refugees fleeing France. The refugees fled on foot over the Pyrenees dressed in the costumes of the local peasants who wore such espadrilles.