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  1. Salad plate with a floral design carried by Kindertransport refugee

    1. Ina Felczer collection

    Decorated children’s plate manufactured by Porzellanfabrik Bareuther & Co. and carried by 10-year-old Ina Felczer on a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] to Leeds, England, in late June 1939. Before the war, Ina lived with her parents, Victor and Hannah, in Berlin, Germany. Both were Polish Jews who had lived in Berlin since the 1920s. Victor was a chemist, and Hannah co-owned a dressmaking shop. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, and authorities throughout Germany quickly began suppressing the rights of Jews and boycotting their businesses. In th...

  2. Salamon K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salamon K., who was born in Nizhna Apsha, Czechoslovakia (presently Dubrava, Ukraine) circa 1915, one of nine children. He recalls Hungarian occupation in 1940; compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion; postings in Budapest, Munkacs, and the Soviet Union; digging trenches; transfer to an indoor position after demonstrating his carving skills; watching soldiers burn a building filled with sick, elderly Jews; transfer to Kiev, then L'viv; being assigned to cover mass graves filled with murdered Jews near a Polish town; returning to Nizhna Apsha; his family not ...

  3. Salek and Anny Rosendorn papers

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Salek and Anny Rosendorn, both originally from Łódź, Poland, including their lives as refugees in the Neustadt displaced persons camp from 1945-1947 and their immigration to La Paz, Bolivia in 1947. The collection primarily consists of identification cards and documents regarding Salek’s work with the Jewish Welfare Committee, the International Welfare Advisory Council, and the Central Jewish Committee. Other material includes poems authored by Anny on Jewish Committee stationary, a certificate identifying her as a former prisoner of Stut...

  4. Salm family papers

    The Salm family papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, emigration and immigration records, and restitution papers documenting the Salm family of Cologne, Germany and their immigration to the United States. The papers primarily consist of biographical materials and emigration and immigration records of Kurt and Meta Salm’s immigration to the United States in 1937, and Kurt’s parents David and Anna Salm’s immigration to the United States in 1940. Biographical materials include birth, marriage and death certificates; identification papers; military papers of David Salm, includi...

  5. Salomea G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomea G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1933, the youngest of three sisters. She recalls attending a Jewish kindergarten; being terrified in the streets; her parents' separation in 1936; her father's institutionalization for mental illness; her mother seeking sponsorship for emigration from her brother in Australia; her oldest sister's emigration in 1938; her father's incarceration in Buchenwald after release from the asylum; her mother obtaining his release providing he left for Shanghai; his four-week stay with them during which she felt safe and surrounded b...

  6. Salomon and Fried Hess: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Salomon and Frieda Hess who emigrated to South Africa in 1939 whilst their disabled son Alfred Hess stayed behind at a psychiatric hospital until he was deported in 1942.Personal papers Including correspondence with the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Association of Jews in Germany) regarding legal guardianship and payment of maintenance costs for Alfred Hess as well as the management of their financial assets in preparations for emigration. Also included are papers relating to a restitution claim by Salomon and Frieda Hess.

  7. Salomon Berenholc papers

    The Salomon Berenholc papers concern Salomon Berenholc, a young French Jew who was arrested with his family after fleeing France and illegally crossing the border into Spain in 1942. After a brief internment in a Spanish prison, the family was released and ultimately immigrated to the United States in 1943 by way of Lisbon, Portugal. These papers are comprised of a diary Salomon kept during his efforts to flee France between 1942 and 1943 and documents from the post-war era regarding his and his brother, Victor’s education. The diary details their journey and the conditions of Salomon's cel...

  8. Salomon family papers

    The Salomon family papers consists of correspondence and emigration and immigration files documenting Hermann, Edith, and Brigitte Salomon’s unsuccessful efforts to immigrate to the United States from Berlin. The collection also includes correspondence from Marianne Adler, Hermann and Edith’s daughter, and Elsbeth Stern, Hermann’s sister, documenting their efforts to bring their family to the Unites States. Salomon family correspondence includes wartime letters among Hermann, Edith, and Brigitte Salomon to Marianne Adler and Elsbeth Stern about Hermann, Edith, and Brigitte’s efforts to immi...

  9. Salomon Pfeffer papers

    The Salomon Pfeffer papers consists of a Military Government Residence Certificate for Salomon Pfeffer, dated August 7, 1945; an image of Salomon Pfeffer taken in fromt of the Landsberg hospital in 1949; and 1 roll of negatives of an unidentified concentration camp taken by Salomon Pfeffer.

  10. Salomon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomon R., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1925, one of three children of Polish émigrés. He recounts his father's death in 1933; attending public school and weekly Yiddish lessons; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; increasing antisemitism by right-wing extremists; housing German-Jewish refugees; German invasion in May 1940; registering as Jews when required to do so; recruitment by his brother-in-law to the Resistance at age fifteen; obtaining false papers; assignments delivering underground newspapers and smuggling people to northern France via Kortrijk (C...

  11. Salomon W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomon W., who was born in Pu?tusk, Poland in 1930. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; the deaths of younger siblings; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw with his family; trying to return to Pu?tusk; learning en route that all Jews had been expelled to the Soviet zone; staying with a cousin in Ciechano?w; German book burnings; smuggling themselves to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone; attending Yiddish school; deportation to a refugee camp near Arkhangel?sk; attending school while his parents worked; moving briefly to Novosibirsk in mid-1941; living in Shymkent and Lenger...

  12. Salomon Windmuller collection

    The Salomon Windmuller papers document Windmuller’s life in Germany, internment in France, and immigration to the United States and consist of a school certificate, World War I commendation, Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten membership card, American immigration quota number, tax office clearance certificate, internment camp release certificate, transit pass, request for leave from the Gurs concentration camp, and an identification card renewal receipt as well as photocopies of a safe passage certificate, of a letter from the American Consulate in Marseille, and of a telegram confirming th...

  13. Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of SIG (the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    The documentation is from 1939-1950. Most of the documentation describes the activities of Saly Mayer as the (unofficial) representative of the JDC in Switzerland during World War II.Saly Mayer transferred JDC funds to persecuted Jews in Europe and Shanghai in different ways. He also distributed money for the care of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland. As part of his activities, he received information regarding what was happening in Europe against the Jews, for example in Slovakia (from the Bratislava Working Group). He was in contact with representatives and activists of various Jewish or...

  14. Sam and Regina Spiegel photograph albums

    1. Regina and Samuel Spiegel collection

    The collection consists of two photograph albums of Sam and Regina Spiegel, both of whom were survivors of Auschwitz and other concentration camps. One albums depicts the family from the 1940s-1960s. The other album depicts Sam and Regina's wedding in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in 1946.

  15. Sam and Susan Gasson papers

    1. Sam and Susan Gasson collection

    The papers relate to Sam and Susan Gasson's experiences as displaced persons after World War II and their immigration to the United States in 1948.

  16. Sam and Susan Weiss collection

    The Sam and Susan Weiss collection consists of documents and photographs related to the pre-war and post-war lives of Salomon (Sam) Weiss and Zuzana Lehrmanova (later Susan Weiss), both originally of Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia. The collection includes citizenship documents, identification documents, and immigration documents. The photographs include members of the Weiss family and the Lehrmanova family, most of whom did not survive the Holocaust.

  17. Sam Browne-style belt associated with Emile-Georges Maljean

    1. Maljean and Totman family collection

    Sam Browne-style belt with sword hanger associated with Emile-Georges Maljean, Prefect of Police in Toulon and Marseille during World War II. It is part of a collection documenting his experiences, and those of his family, prior to the war and later in German-occupied France. The collection addresses Maljean's resistance activities, the relief he offered to refugees, and his later role in Allied occupation of Vienna.

  18. Sam Katz photographs

    The collection consists of 11 photographs taken at Zeilsheim displaced persons camp near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Three of the photographs depict a Zeilsheim demonstration for the independence of Israel, and one photograph depicts the police department at Zeilsheim.

  19. Sam S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam S., who was born in Soko?o?w Podlaski, Poland in 1920, one of eleven children. He recalls his parents' butcher shop; attending cheder and Polish school; belonging to Betar; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1939, followed by a two-week Soviet occupation; leaving with the Soviets; traveling with a brother and sister to Maladzechna; German invasion in 1941; fleeing to Ivi?a?nets; a mass killing; the round-up of his brother's wife and children (he never saw them again); forced labor; transfer to Dvorets; slave labor; finding weapons abandoned by the Soviets;...

  20. Sample sheet to demonstrate 4 stamps used by a Dutch resistance member to forge identity cards

    1. Gerry van Heel collection

    Sample sheet with 5 stamps made from rubber stamps used by Gerry van Heel to forge documents for the Dutch resistance and for Jewish people living in hiding in Eindhoven, Holland. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. By summer 1942, the Germans were deporting Jews to concentration camps. Gerry and his wife Molly aided resistance efforts by hiding wounded English pilots, Dutch Army officers, and Jews. In the fall of 1942, Molly urged her friend, Dora Kann, to go into hiding. Molly and Gerald hid Dora's young daughters, 12 year old Elise and 8 year old Judith; their brothers, 14 ...