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1. Teardrop pendant with an engraved inscription
2015.563.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.2
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Italy.…
2. Leo Yeni papers
2012.483.1 Book Enclosure 5 Image 37
Document | Accession Number: 2012.483.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-2010
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Leo Yeni was born on January 7, 1920 in Milan, Italy, to Jewish parents, Isak and Pia Della Torre Yeni. Isak was born November 18, 1869, to Juda…
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 …. Processing history: Julie Schweitzer, February 2018 Biographical note Leo Yeni (1920-2011) was born in Milan, Italy, to Jewish parents, Isak (1869-1944) and…
3. Textile with embroidered names
2015.563.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.3
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Italy.…
4. Fellner family papers
2015.563.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.563.1
Date:
inclusive: 1865-circa 2014
bulk: 1901-1957
… search for ways to emigrate. He obtained a passport and on July 8, 1938 and flew to Italy. He stayed there over a year before obtaining papers to immigrate…
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 …, their time in makeshift refugee camps at Rhodes, Greece and the Ferramonti concentration camp in Italy. Languages: German, English, Hebrew, Italian…
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5. Handkerchief
2015.563.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.4
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Italy.…
6. Ze’ev Raveh Werba papers
Document | Accession Number: 2009.153.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2005
…. He joined a refugee group and made his way to the Adriatica displaced persons camp in Milan, Italy. Now called Zeev, he traveled throughout Italy…
7. Appenzeller and Dukes families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.517.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1893-1998
… his name to Peter Graham to protect him from Germans during the war. For six weeks in the summer of 1939, Italy allowed anyone with a valid passport…
8. Lehmann family papers
1995.A.0095 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 137
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0095
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1994
bulk: 1941-1946
… his position as manager of the Kunstverein. In 1938, Richard left Mannheim for Milan, Italy. Soon after his arrival, he received a visa for travel to…
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 … son, Richard, through their imprisonment at the Ferramonti concentration camp in southern Italy, and later as refugees in Fort Ontario. Included in…
9. Switzer family papers
2018.392.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.392.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2010
bulk: 1914-1955
… went to Susak, Italy. They remained there until April 1942 when the Italian government sent them to Aprica, Italy. In September 1943, as the German army…
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 … family, originally of Zagreb, Yugoslavia (Croatia) including their flight from Zagreb to Italy in 1941, their trek from Aprica, Italy to the Swiss border…
10. Kurt and Hennie Reiner papers
2018.299.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2018.299.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1996
undated: 
… live in Italy. They left Austria on 6 July 1939. This was the last time either of them would see their parents. They had permission to remain in Italy…
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 … photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of Kurt and Hennie Reiner of Vienna, Austria including their emigration from Vienna in 1939 into Milan, Italy…
11. Peçi family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.331.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1995
… Italian border city of Fiume/Rijeka they were forced to disembark. They boarded a small boat that took them to out to sea and to Italy. From there they took…
12. Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres papers
2016.204.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.204.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1998
bulk: 1943-1968
…, Tuvia had made his way to Milan, Italy. He worked with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee helping fellow survivors living in displaced…
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 … claims documenting the experiences of Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres in Poland, Lithuania, and Italy during the Holocaust, and their post‐war experiences…
13. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… their way to Lublin, where other Jewish survivors were gathered to receive help. They left Poland for Italy and stayed in the Santa Cesarea and Bari…
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 …. They left Poland for Italy and stayed in the Santa Cesarea and Bari displaced persons’ camps. In 1947, Rachel and Dina immigrated to the United States…
14. Roswell and Marjorie McClelland papers
2014.500.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 32
Document | Accession Number: 2014.500.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1995
bulk: 1940-1945
… to send overseas. Due to Roswell’s foreign language skills, he was recruited to go to Europe and direct an AFSC refugee relief office in Rome, Italy…
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 … schools, including schools in England and Switzerland. During the 1930s, he spent time in Italy and Germany, where he witnessed Adolf Hitler give a speech…
15. Ernest Braun papers
2017.649.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 57
Document | Accession Number: 2017.649.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-circa 2005
bulk: 1940-circa 1954
…) where his sister Nelly and her husband lived. By 1941 he had gone to Spalato, Italy, and then Rome. Using a false identity, Enrico di Carlo Bianchi, he…
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 …) Braun of Vienna, Austria, including his escape from Austria in 1938 to Yugoslavia and Italy, his immigration to the United States in 1944, and his time…
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16. Stolz and White families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.447.2
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2003
bulk: 1940-1960
… London. Benedick, who immigrated earlier, worked for the Refugee Children's Movement and supported Erika's stay. Leon fled to Italy in 1940 and sailed to…
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 … before the war. During the war, Leon and his future-wife Hermine fled to Italy and then Shanghai, where they remained until the invasion of the Japanese…
17. Gerda Buchheim Haas photograph and memoir
1999.A.0209 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0209
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1996
… a 1996 memoir describing her experiences growing up in Berlin, fleeing to Czechoslovakia in 1938 and eventually to Shanghai via Italy and France in…
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 … growing up in Berlin, fleeing to Czechoslovakia in 1938 and eventually to Shanghai via Italy and France in 1939, living in the Jewish ghetto under the…
18. Eva Ostwalt papers
2008.86.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.86.1
Date:
inclusive: 1862-2007
bulk: 1905-2007
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… his position due to his marriage to a Jew. Eva was awarded custody of Heidemarie, and the two moved to Merano, Italy, where they lived until 1938 when…
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 … custody of Heidemarie, and the two moved to Merano, Italy, where they lived until 1938 when Eva’s passport expired and she was forced to return to Germany…
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19. Levy-Saltiel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.144.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1998
…Prisoners of war--British--Italy--1940-1950.…
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 …A Desperate Escape Attempt From the POW Camp in Laterina, Italy "There was no way to stop him (I have not transcribed the previous tape yet so I do…
20. Lob family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.168.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2015
bulk: 1939-1954
…. Marcel was arrested in July 1943 by the Italian secret police (OVRA), and sent to a prison in Turin, Italy. In September 1944 he was sent to Bolzano…