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  1. Deutsches Jungvolk; KdF parade; Rothkirch in Vienna; Czech border; Refugees; Invasion of Poland

    Deutsches Jungvolk [German youngsters in the Hitler Youth - DJ] Young boys aged 8-14 in training, laughing, bugle, outdoor drills, eating, tent camp with flags. 10:07:40 Boys return to city with rucksacks, hop on streetcars. 10:07:53 Crowds gather for DJ demonstration outdoors near Berlin, boys drumming, tents with DJ flags, family members observe the boys' activities, wrestling. 10:09:30 The boys prepare to march in a parade, bugles with DJ flag. 10:10:28 Count Rothkirch sets up ladder with film camera for demonstration in Berlin. Pan, Brandenburg Gate with banner: "Fuehrer befiel wir folg...

  2. 19th century illustration depicting scenes of Jewish refugees waiting to immigrate

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Newsprint illustration, Judische Emigraten in Brody (Galizien), Jewish emigrants in Brody (Galicia) with 6 detailed, captioned vignettes of Jewish life in Brody, circa 1882, when it was a gateway to the west for thousands of Jews seeking to leave Eastern Europe. By May 1882, there were around 12,000 Jewish refugees in Brody. In 1772, Brody was annexed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire; from 1919-1939, it was part of Poland, and since the end of the war in 1945, it has been part of Ukraine. In 1880, Jews made up 75 percent of the population and it was an intellectual center and a thriving tradi...

  3. "Enemy Aliens": The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-1943

    1. Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds
    2. Exhibition records

    Sub-series consists of promotional materials, guest book, media coverage, exhibition catalogue, imaging licensing and permission documentation and other records to do with the "Enemy Aliens": The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-1943 exhibition, which ran from June 12, 2012 to October 11, 2013.

  4. Wooden box owned by a Japanese aid coordinator for Jewish refugees in Shanghai

    1. Koreshige Inuzuka collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522135
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.625 inches (11.748 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Depth: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm) b: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 14.125 inches (35.878 cm) | Depth: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm) c: Height: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Depth: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm)

    Dark brown, telescoping, wooden box owned by Koreshige Inuzuka, a naval Captain who served as the head of the Japanese Imperial Navy’s Advisory Bureau on Jewish Affairs in occupied Shanghai, China, from 1939 to 1943. In 1937, Japan occupied Shanghai and began to enact new policies regarding the territory’s interaction with increasing numbers of European refugees, especially Jews. As one of the Japanese military’s “Jewish experts” Koreshige was consulted to assist with refugee policies. Early in his career, he was exposed to western anti-Semitism and false claims of a Jewish plan for world d...

  5. Folding Fan owned by a Japanese aid coordinator for Jewish refugees in Shanghai

    1. Koreshige Inuzuka collection

    Wooden folding fan with Japanese characters owned by Koreshige Inuzuka, a naval Captain who served as the head of the Japanese Imperial Navy’s Advisory Bureau on Jewish Affairs in occupied Shanghai, China, from 1939 to 1943. In 1937, Japan occupied Shanghai and began to enact new policies regarding the territory’s interaction with increasing numbers of European refugees, especially Jews. As one of the Japanese military’s “Jewish experts” Koreshige was consulted to assist with refugee policies. Early in his career, he was exposed to western anti-Semitism and false claims of a Jewish plan for...

  6. Metal identification tag used by Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to the US

    1. Gustav and Stefi Geisel collection

    Identification tag that was owned by Stefi and Gustav Geisel. They had emigrated separately to the United States in 1938 to escape the harsh persecutions of Jews in Nazi Germany. They met in Chicago and married in 1942. Stefi had lived in Mosbach, Germany, with her parents and younger brother, Walter. In 1938, 18 year old Stefi Siegel was sent to live with relatives in Chicago. Her parents left for England that year and arrived in the US in 1943. Walter had been sent to the Netherlands; after Germany occupied the country in 1940, he was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp, then to Ber...

  7. Stool made by refugees from old wooden crates during the war

    1. Emilie Boit collection

    Stool made by refugees from old wooden crates during the war and covered with fragments of gray fabric cut from blankets brought back from the Gurs internment camp. The stool was left behind by Jewish refugees when they left the Coteau Fleuri.

  8. Stool made by refugees from old wooden crates during the war

    1. Emilie Boit collection

    Stool made by refugees from old wooden crates during the war and covered with fragments of gray fabric cut from blankets brought back from the Gurs internment camp. The stool was left behind by Jewish refugees when they left the Coteau Fleuri.

  9. Silver engraved candelabrum commemorating the Stolp synagogue saved by Jewish refugees

    1. Olga and Werner Leszynski collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn42970
    • English
    • 1895
    • overall: Height: 23.500 inches (59.69 cm) | Width: 15.250 inches (38.735 cm) | Depth: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) a: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Diameter: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) b: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 15.250 inches (38.735 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) c: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Diameter: 2.700 inches (6.858 cm) d: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Diameter: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) e: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Diameter: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm)

    Silver engraved candelabrum that Olga and Werner Leszynski brought with them when they fled Nazi Germany in March 1939. It is one of a pair of candelabra dedicated on the 25th Anniversary of the synagogue in Stolp, Germany (Slupsk, Poland). The synagogue, built in 1901-1902, was set on fire and destroyed by Nazi supporters during Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938. In early 1939, the scientific journal for which Werner worked sent him to Prague. He then sent for Olga and their 3 year old daughter, Ruth, who arrived in March. The Bohemia and Moravia region of Czechoslovakia, where Prague was lo...

  10. Silver engraved candelabrum commemorating the Stolp synagogue saved by refugees from Nazi Germany

    1. Olga and Werner Leszynski collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn42971
    • English
    • 1895
    • overall: Height: 22.875 inches (58.103 cm) | Width: 15.250 inches (38.735 cm) | Depth: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) a: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Diameter: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) b: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 15.250 inches (38.735 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) c: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Diameter: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) d: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Diameter: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) e: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Diameter: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm)

    Silver engraved candelabrum that Olga and Werner Leszynski brought with them when they fled Nazi Germany in March 1939. It is one of a pair of candelabra dedicated on the 25th Anniversary of the synagogue in Stolp, Germany (Slupsk, Poland). The synagogue, built in 1901-1902, was set on fire and destroyed by Nazi supporters during Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938. In early 1939, the scientific journal for which Werner worked sent him to Prague. He then sent for Olga and their 3 year old daughter, Ruth, who arrived in March. The Bohemia and Moravia region of Czechoslovakia, where Prague was lo...

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- World War I memorial at Vimy; French refugees, Belgium

    Several Frenchmen, some of whom wear the uniforms of high-ranking officers and some of whom are in civilian dress, visiting the Canadian World War I memorial at Vimy, France. They survey a vast fortification system dug into the earth and lined with sandbags. The camera focuses on a sign reading "Canadian Front Line, 1917." The scene switches to show soldiers (French?) marching across a town square, then back to the men inspecting the fortification. The men approach a huge structure that serves as the memorial. 01:21:44 Various views of ruins of buildings in the Flanders region of Belgium. C...

  12. "Refugees and Rescuers in Fascist and Post War Italy (1933-1946)"

    Consists of one manuscript, 94 pages, entitled "Refugees and Rescuers in Fascist and Post War Italy (1933-1946)" by Donato Grosser, based on the recollections and documents of his father, Bernardo (Berl) Grosser. In the manuscript, Donato Grosser describes the experience of Italian Jews and Jewish refugees in Italy in the 1930s, including information about the 1938 emigration of his father, Bernardo Grosser, who was from Kamionki Wielkie, but emigrated by way of France. In Italy, Grosser became one of the secretaries of the Genoa office of DELASEM (the Delegazione per l'Assistenz agli Emigr...

  13. Letter, requesting assistance for refugees, addressed to the Finnish Consul General in Yugoslavia

    The handwritten letter in German was written by Robert Klueger, an Austrian Jew from Donji Lapac, Croatia, to Paul Berkes, the donor's husband and Honorary Consul General of Finland in Yugoslavia (later Croatia), requesting assistance.

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees on the move in northern France and Belgium

    Refugees in northern France and Flanders. Refugees, mostly women and children sit in the backs of trucks, looking at the camera. A group of men and women stand with bicycles and wagons in front of the awning of a bar. Horse-drawn wagons drive off. French soldiers march through a town. A few spectators watch their progress and wave at the men. People with bundles strapped to bicycles stand on the street. A group of them move off down the street, watched by other people in the street. A nice shot of people wheeling their bundle-laden bikes past several destroyed buildings. Refugees on an open...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- French refugees, German prisoners, bombing of Paris

    The French army in action: tanks, soldiers shooting, dead horses by the side of the road. German prisoners behind barbed wire. Close-ups of individuals as they are questioned and registered by their French captors. Scenes of destroyed buildings shot from a moving vehicle; French soldiers attempt to shoot down a plane. Refugees traveling along a road. Women and children are helped from a truck. One woman is carried on a stretcher. Paris being bombed. Burning buildings, dead cows in a field. Badly destroyed houses, shops and cars. People pick their way through the rubble; a woman runs past a ...

  16. Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters) -- SS Aorangi arrives in Sydney with Jewish refugees

    63 Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria arrive at Sydney harbor in the ship SS Aorangi.

  17. Scourge of Humanity Poster of a giant Jew preparing to whip a line of refugees

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    This poster is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

  18. Personal files of the Zelikowski family, Jewish refugees from France who arrived in Switzerland, June 1944

    Personal files of the Zelikowski family, Jewish refugees from France who arrived in Switzerland, June 1944

  20. Reports on South America as a haven for refugees from Nazi Germany

    This collection of reports focuses on South America as a haven for German Jewish emigration. According to the editor's introduction they were published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Inc. with a view to being published in various (unspecified) newspapers. This particular edition was presumably written for the American market, since the reports are in English and are printed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, which was, by then, based in New York.The reports cover Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay and discuss the climate, geography, demographics and politics of each country. The first 3 reports...