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1. Antisemitic poster featuring supposed warnings about Jews from Benjamin Franklin
1990.333.48 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.48
Date:
publication/distribution: 1939 February 09-1939 February 15
Title:
Vor 150 Jahren: “Ich warne Sie, meine Herren ...!” Hat der große Franklin Amerika vergeblich gewarnt?
Series Title:
Parole der Woche
Alternate Title:
150 years ago, I warn you gentlemen ... Has the great Franklin warned America in vain?
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…Antisemitic poster featuring supposed warnings about Jews from Benjamin Franklin…
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2. Isidor Gross papers
2012.433.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2012.433.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1997
bulk: 1936-1945
…. The family attended synagogue regularly and Isidore attended a Jewish school. In January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Jews were…
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 …, and United States Army service of German born Jew, Isidor Gross. After being arrested by the Gestapo in 1938, Isidor and his father Markus fled Aachen…
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3. Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Nowym Jorku (Sygn.493)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.71.1 | RG Number: RG-15.524
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1945
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate General in New York
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… minorities in Poland and in foreign countries, mainly Polish Jews in the US, activities of Jewish organizations and their contacts with the Polish authorities…
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 …, reports, correspondence, press clippings, notes, consular letters, and minutes related to minorities in Poland and in foreign countries, mainly Polish Jews…
4. Malz, Finkelstein, Rosenthal, Schwarz, and Rimalower family papers
1993.A.0005 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0005 | RG Number: RG-10.079
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1947
bulk: 1938-1947
…Contains correspondence, photographs, poems and various other documents relating to the persecution and incarceration of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe…
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 …: Contains correspondence, photographs, poems and various other documents relating to the persecution and incarceration of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe…
5. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1937-1949
Document | Accession Number: 2016.146.1 | RG Number: RG-68.191M
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1949
… with Nazi officials in an attempt to save Hungarian Jews from deportation to Auschwitz. This collection also contains documentation on AJJDC's extensive…
6. The Archives of the World ORT Union Head Office
Document | Accession Number: 2019.190.1 | RG Number: RG-68.219
Date:
inclusive: 1880-1970
bulk: 1920-1970
… Russian Jews by instructing them in trades and agriculture, including farming, sewing, and mechanics. During World War I (1914-1918), ORT provided…
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 … Union 1935- 6 (Paris 1937); David Lvovitch: Economic situation of the Jews in Poland and other Eastern European countries (American ORT, 1930's); Le…
7. Joseph Tenenbaum papers
Document | Accession Number: 1987.081 | RG Number: RG-21
Date:
inclusive: 1908-1990
… organization that promoted the boycott of German materials in the U.S. As president of the American and World Federation of Polish Jews, Tenenbaum visited Poland…
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 …-1941), an organization that promoted the boycott of German materials in the U.S. As president of the American and World Federation of Polish Jews…
8. Nazi propaganda poster denouncing the United States for criticizing Germany's Jewish policies
1990.333.47 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.47
Date:
publication/distribution: 1939 January 19-1939 January 25
Title:
Ein merkwürdiger katholischer Bischof...
Series Title:
Parole der Woche
Alternate Title:
Strange Catholic Bishop
Word of the Week
… persecution of German Jews and other individuals. He spoke at several anti-Nazi rallies in New York City, and served on the National Catholic Welfare Conference…
9. German-American Bund at Madison Square Garden
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Film | Accession Number: 2004.740.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4043 | Film ID: 2706
Film Title:
Ufa Tonwoche
Date:
Event: 1939 February
Production: 1939 March 08
Duration:
00:01:12
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…JEWS…
10. St. Louis, refugees
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Film | Accession Number: 2000.621.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2662 | Film ID: 2299
Film Title:
Bound for Nowhere: The St. Louis Episode
Date:
Event: 1939
Production: 1939
Duration:
00:10:14
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…The JDC produced this film to record what it thought would be a successful effort to save over 900 Jews, including 200 children, by sailing them from…
11. Decorated porcelain teacup saved by a German Jewish prewar refugee
2008.204.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.204.2
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
manufacture: 1815-1924
…, anti-Jewish legislation was in effect. The Nuremburg Race Laws were enacted in 1935, and life for Jews in Germany became increasingly difficult and…
12. Monogrammed silver ladle brought with a German Jewish prewar refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2008.204.4
Date:
emigration: 1939
manufacture: after 1800-before 1888
… that spring, anti-Jewish legislation was in effect. In 1935, as the Nuremberg race laws were passed and life for Jews in Germany became extremely…
13. Henckels table knife with a scalloped edge brought with German Jewish prewar refugee
2012.493.3 left
Object | Accession Number: 2012.493.3
Date:
emigration: 1939
manufacture: 1900-1939
… that spring, anti-Jewish legislation was in effect. In 1935, as the Nuremberg race laws were passed and life for Jews in Germany became extremely…
14. Henckels dinner knife brought with a German Jewish prewar refugee
2012.493.5 left
Object | Accession Number: 2012.493.5
Date:
emigration: 1939
… that spring, anti-Jewish legislation was in effect. In 1935, as the Nuremberg race laws were passed and life for Jews in Germany became extremely…
15. Monogrammed dinner knife brought with a German Jewish prewar refugee
2012.493.4 left
Object | Accession Number: 2012.493.4
Date:
emigration: 1939
… that spring, anti-Jewish legislation was in effect. In 1935, as the Nuremberg race laws were passed and life for Jews in Germany became extremely…
16. Theodore Frankel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.249
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1957
…Jews, Polish.…
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 … conservation. Indexing terms Frankel, Thedore, 1922-1971. Frankel, Harry, 1926-1994. Frankel, Max, 1896- Jews, Polish Jews—New York (State)—New York. Gdańsk…
17. Monogrammed dinner knife brought with German Jewish prewar refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2008.204.5
Date:
emigration: 1939
… that spring, anti-Jewish legislation was in effect. In 1935, as the Nuremberg race laws were passed and life for Jews in Germany became extremely…
18. Hess and Spier families papers
2016.461.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.461.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-2010
…Jews--Germany--Wolfenbüttel.…
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 …). Spier, Elisabeth (1930-2015) Steinberg, Siegfried. Hess, Oskar (1901-1976) Hess, Melitta (1906-1998) Topical headings Jews--Germany--Wolfenbüttel Jews…
19. Brown leather billfold brought with a German Jewish prewar refugee
2008.204.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.204.3
Date:
emigration: 1939
received: approximately 1930
… that spring, anti-Jewish legislation was in effect. In 1935, as the Nuremberg race laws were passed and life for Jews in Germany became extremely…
20. Skirt made by a German Jewish woman to demonstrate her sewing capabilities
Object | Accession Number: 2017.298.2
Date:
creation: after 1936-before 1941
… September, the Nazis announced the Nuremberg Laws, which excluded Jews from citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having relations with non-Jewish…