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  1. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note, acquired by a female forced laborer

    1. Ruth Kittel Miller family collection

    Scrip valued at 5 kronen, acquired by Ruth Kittel while she and her sister, Hannelore, were living with their Jewish mother, Marie (Maria), and Catholic father, Josef, in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. On September 19, 1941, 14 year old Ruth picked-up government mandated Judenstern or Star of David badges from the Office of the Jewish Organization because she, Hannelore, 17, and Maria had to wear one at all ti...

  2. Opera glasses and case owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee

    1. Leopold and Herta Stoer family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn612079
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) b: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) c: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)

    Opera glasses with mother-of-pearl panels brought to the United States by Herta Schwarzbart Stoer when she emigrated from Vienna, Austria, in February 1939. Herta lived in Vienna with her parents, Arthur and Pauline Schwarzbart, and four siblings: Hilda, Fritz, Ella, and Hansi. In August 1914, Arthur was selected to fight in World War I, and three months later, he died of tetanus. As a result, Pauline had to close the lingerie business they ran together before the war. Her daughter, Hilda began making and selling children’s clothing. Pauline’s younger children, Fritz, Ella, Herta, and Hansi...

  3. Jewish children at Whittingehame Farm School, 1939

    Color scenes of Whittingehame Farm School filmed by an unnamed teacher at the school. Between 1939 and 1941 Viscount Traprain (Robert Balfour, nephew of Lord Balfour, author of the Balfour Declaration) sheltered 160 Jewish children from Austria, Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia as part of the Kinderstransport program. The children lived in the Whittingehame mansion and learned Hebrew and agriculture subjects that would be useful in Palestine, where they were intended to settle after the war. When the school closed in 1941 most of the children were at least 17 and remained in the UK. Some...

  4. Koplowitz and Shlafer families papers

    Consists of pre- and postwar photographs of Michael and Dina (née Schlafer) Koplowitz and relatives, formerly of Łódź, Poland, as well as documents relating to the couple's experiences while living as displaced persons in Germany and their later immigration to Israel. Included are IRO documents, a copy of Michael Koplowitz's birth certificate, Michael and Dina's marriage certificate, a statement of witnesses attesting to the identity of Dina Koplowitz, a letter in Yiddish, and an Israeli identity document issued to Michael Koplowitz. The collection also includes a photocopy of Dina's sist...

  5. The Jolly Boys recordings

    Side A: Kabootar (Khatibi) ["La Paloma" by Sebastian de Iradier (c. 1860)] - Columbia G.P. 107/CO 189. Side B: Yasseman (Fakoor) ["Solamente una vez" by Agustin Lara (1941)] - Columbia G.P. 107/CO 191. An instrumental recording featuring Polish popular jazz band, "The Jolly Boys," exiled to Iran. The performers include Stanislaw Sperber, Sonia Vartanian, Ghanbary, F. Socolow, and Igo Krischer. The Jewish band found unexpected sanctuary in Tehran, where they had been invited to perform at the future Shah’s wedding party (in the summer of 1939), and where they continued to perform as a group ...

  6. Rose Goldberg Zarembski papers

    Consists of correspondence written by Rose (Rochel) Goldberg, later Zarembski, to family members in the United States. The letters were authored while Rose was living in a displaced persons camp in Straubing, Germany. Rose was a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, Majdanek, and other camps. Also included are newspapers clippings listing Rose as a Holocaust survivor looking for relatives after the war.

  7. Stripounsky family papers

    1. Joseph Strip family collection

    The Stripounsky family papers consist of identification, education, immigration, and military papers, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and writings documenting the flight of Menachem (Nathan) and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel from Nazi-occupied Belgium to France in 1940 and from France to the United States in 1941 and Joseph Strip’s military service in 1945 and 1946. Biographical materials consist of identification papers, student records, ration cards, military records, employment records, citizenship records, and immigration records documenting the Str...

  8. Lübschütz and Urman families papers

    The Lübschütz and Urman families papers consist of documents and correspondence of the Lübschütz and Urman families, formerly of Schönebeck, Germany and Vienna, Austria, and later of the United States. Included is a certificate awarding Julius Lübschütz the Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer (Honor Cross); a Kinderausweis (child identity document) issued to Jutta Lübschütz (later Judy Urman); a copy of a document issued by the Japanese Consulate-General permitting Jutta Lübschütz entry to Shanghai; a postwar postcard from the Red Cross informing the Lübschütz family that Ruth Lübschütz Nathan was ...

  12. Jewish Community in Tarnopol Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska w Tarnopolu (Sygn. 110)

    Documents concerning charity foundations of: Abe Eberman, Feiga Chaja Königsberg, Dawid Francoz, Abraham Kittner, Milka Karpf, Majer Weissglas, Jakub Czosnowski, Jakub Eberman, Salomon Eberman, Sina Fröhlich, Ester Brüner, Mojżesz Parnas, S. Marmorka, Mojżesz Katz, Złata Raisa Dudak, Horowitz, Kurfürst, Markus Eliasz Günsberg, M. Weissglas, Rudolf Gall, Melchior Axlerad, Saul Parnass, Rywka Peller, Józef Perl, Jakub Schmierer, Ozjasz Kaminker, Łukaczer, Jekl Luftig, Hersz Lille, Pasia Ruchla Safier, Mariem Kammerling-Hirschorn, Samuel Schulbaum, Izydor Weissglas.

  13. Jewish Committee in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Komitet Żydowski w Ostrowcu Świętokrzyskim (Sygn. 359)

    This collection includes circulars of the Jewish Committee in Kielce, correspondence (including correspondance with local Polish authorities), a list of Jews from Ostrowiec living in Bergen-Belsen, memebers of the Jewish committee in Munich (Germany), minutes of meetings, numerous documents related to the recovery of property lost during the war, in addition to medical certificates, statistical data of the Jewish population in Ostrowiec.

  14. County Jewish Committee in Tarnów Powiatowy Komitet Żydowski w Tarnowie (Sygn. 365)

    This collection contains materials refering to the everyday life of members of the Jewish committee in Tarnów and the functioning of the committee, including correspondence, a list of Jews living in Tarnów in 1949, a list of items in clothing store from 1947, as well as numerous financial documents regarding assistance provided.

  15. Stanisław Kot collection Archiwum Stanisława Kota

    Papers of Stanisław Kot, a Polish historian and politician. The collection includes: official and private correspondence addressed to Stanisław Kot, records on the political, military, economic and social conditions of Polish citizens in Poland during the Nazi occupation, on Polish citizens in exile in the United Kingdom, France, Romania and Hungary, including the USSR (eastern territories of the Second Polish Republic), files related to the organization and operation of the Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile, Polish diplomatic missions and other Polish institutions operating on ...

  16. Jewish survivors in Yugoslavia photographs

    Collection of photographs depicting groups of Jewish Holocaust survivors in Yugoslavia after World War II. Includes images of survivors standing near empty rail cars that had transported Jews to the camps, as well as photos taken on the train tracks; also includes large group photo of refugees with a flag reading "Lochamei Ha Ghetaot' in Hebrew characters

  17. Yehuda Zerzy Singer papers

    The Yehuda Zerzy Singer papers contain a handwritten diary, photographs, and documents relating to Yehuda Zerzy Singer’s experiences in Poland and Russia during World War II and his life in Palestine after his arrival with the "Teheran Children." The collection includes school certificates, a postcard, identification cards, and photographs of Yehuda in Kibbutz Ein Harod. The diary was written, in Polish, by Yehuda from September 1, 1939, the day of the invasion of Nazi Germany into Poland, until the beginning of 1942, about one year prior to his arrival in Palestine. The diary documents the...

  18. Personal papers of Holocaust survivors in Argentina

    Contains four small collections of personal documents, photographs, correspondence of survivors to Argentina: 1. Klippel-one file from the office of Jose Moskovits pertaining to Leon Klippel and his sister Bella Scner (geb. Klippel) consisting of 60 pages & photos. (See also RG-72.006M & RG-72.035) 2. Vogel: documents donated by Maurizio Vogel's family consisting of about 200 pages documenting the efforts by Mr. Vogel, who had fled from Nazi Germany to Argentina with his son, to rescue his wife who remained behind in Germany in order to take care of her ailing mother. Includes perso...

  19. Fundación IWO Archive-Idisher Visnshaflekher Institute in Argentina Archivo de la Fundación IWO-Instituto Científico Judío en Argentina

    This collection contains organizational records, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. Files are arranged at the folder level. The documents relate to the arrival of survivor artists, correspondence with artists, writers and other personalities in the aftermath of World War II, cultural activities and publishing projects of survivors.

  20. Felix and Flory Van Beek correspondence

    Collection of documents, correspondence, receipts and papers relating to Holocaust survivors Felix Levi and his wife Flory (later known as Felix and Flory Van Beek) in Rotterdam, Netherlands to friends and family including Felix's brother Hugo and Theo in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and New York; bound in binder; dated 1946-1948; in German, Dutch and English.