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1. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.5
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
… unit deployed for Europe on October 6, 1944, and arrived in Marseilles, France, on October 20. In December 1944, Bruno was awarded the Bronze Star for…
2. French collaborationist anti-Bolshevist propaganda poster
1990.333.31 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.31
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942-1944
Title:
Le Socialisme contre le Bolchevisme
Alternate Title:
Socialism against Bolshevism
…France…
3. Presentation box for medal awarded to a French children’s home director
1992.72.1 b top
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.1 b
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
… conscripted for forced labor. In 1938, Juliette fled to Pau, about 31 miles over the border in France. In 1939, Juliette was recruited by Marguerite de Felice…
4. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… envelopes documenting mail systems and prisoners in ghettos and camps in Germany, Poland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia. This series also…
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 … and camps in Germany, Poland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia. This series also includes scrip from the Łódź ghetto and the camps at…
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5. Unused factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Juif, owned by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.2
Date:
issue: after 1942 June 07-1944 August
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
6. David Zalc collection
2014.158.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.158.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1945
…Contains documents issued to David Zalc [donor’s father], including a 1942 document issued by “Asurances Sociales” to David Zalc in Trets, France…
7. Karliner family papers
1999.3.32 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1999.3.32
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-1951
… disembarked in France in June 1939. Joseph, Martha, and Ilse were sent to Mirebeau, France. Walter, Herbert, and Ruth were placed in Villa Helvetia an Oeuvre de…
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 … Karliner family in Germany before World War II, aboard the MS St. Louis, in France while in hiding at Oeuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) homes, and during…
8. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
2018.448.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1950
… listen to music, and her religious feelings would be genuine. Following her graduation from high school in 1926, she studied in France at Nancy University…
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 … immigration files documenting German Jewish refugee Eva Pfister’s experiences in France and New York, her efforts on behalf of her non-Jewish German refugee…
9. Morton N. Cohen collection
1990.297 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.297
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-1945
… well as a typed manuscript of the history of the 95th Infantry Division. The photographs reveal scenes from the Division’s travel throughout France…
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 …’s travel throughout France, Germany, and Holland. Of particular note are photographs of the arrest of Franz Von Papen, former Vice-Chancellor of Germany…
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10. Anne-Gilberte Stemmer Hercberg collection
2017.192.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2017.192.1
Date:
creation: circa 1938-1944
…Anne-Gilberte was born on July 30, 1938 in Metz, France to Malka Tannebaum (b. May 5,1911, Przeworsk, Poland) and Charles Salomon Stemmer (b. April…
11. Simon Jeruchim papers
2001.328.41 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2001.328.41
Date:
inclusive: 1930-circa 2011
bulk: 1930-1956
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Simon Jeruchim was born on December 25, 1929, in Paris, France, to Samuel and Alice Szpiro Jeruchim. Samuel was born on December 24, 1898, in Ostrow…
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 … gare de Lyon"; and his 58-page typed memoir with computer illustrations entitled “Hidden: The Jeruchim Family Saga in France and Under the Nazi…
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12. Julius Goldstein papers
1990.244.29 Box 4 Folder 1 Image 350
Document | Accession Number: 1990.244.29
Date:
inclusive: approximately 1942-1984
…, France, and Germany from 1942-1946 and visited Dachau two days after its liberation.…
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 …, photographs, printed materials, and a scrapbook documenting Goldstein’s military service with the 64th Fighter Wing in Italy, France, and Germany during World…
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13. Watercolor painting of a domestic scene by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.4
Date:
depiction: 1933 June-1947 October
Artwork Title:
Villiers-sur-Morin
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
14. Epstein family collection
2013.457.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2013.457.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1979
bulk: circa 1920-1947
… in Vienna. Their daughter Monique Goss (neé Epstein 1941- ) was born on April 29, 1941 in Toulouse, France. Prior to World War II, Julian worked as…
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 … and Margarete married on March 28, 1920 in Vienna. Their daughter Monique Goss (neé Epstein 1941- ) was born on April 29, 1941 in Toulouse, France…
15. Electric retinoscope used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.3
Date:
manufacture: 1893-1945
acquired: after 1932
… unit deployed for Europe on October 6, 1944, and arrived in Marseilles, France, on October 20. In December 1944, Bruno was awarded the Bronze Star for…
16. Claude Zaidenband papers
2014.239.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2014.239.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1950
… home with their children, and the family were conservative Jews. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940, and the family escaped to Grépiac, France, a small…
17. US Army pouch for a shoe shine kit issued to Milton Emont
2018.565.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.2
Date:
use: 1943 March 05-1946 April 16
… both France and Germany. In 1945, he was able to complete eight weeks of graduate coursework in French and French literature at the Sorbonne and…
18. Black yarmulke owned by Milton Emont and likely used during World War II
2018.565.3 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.3
Date:
use: approximately 1943-approximately 1946
… both France and Germany. In 1945, he was able to complete eight weeks of graduate coursework in French and French literature at the Sorbonne and…
19. Freud family papers
2010.401.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2010.401.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2004
bulk: 1919-1954
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… May 1940, Sophie heard that the population from northern France was leaving in a panic because the Germans had broken through the Maginot Line, which…
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 … Walter Freud’s pre-war experiences in Austria and fleeing to France and England. The collection also includes material relating to Ernestine and Sophie…
20. Fred Strauss papers
2015.533.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2015.533.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1947
… orphanage sent on a larger transport to Paris, France, organized by the orphanage. He and the other children who kept kosher spent a few weeks at the…
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 … Frankfurt to Paris in 1939, his life as a child refugee in OSE homes in France, his immigration to the United States as part of an USCOM children’s transport…