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1. 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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2. 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…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Dr. Abba Silver speaks for the United Palestine Appeal
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Film | Accession Number: 2004.723.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4060 | Film ID: 2728
Film Title:
Building a New Hope
Date:
Event: 1938 March 22
Production: 1938
Duration:
00:03:32
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…JEWS…
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. The New York Times (New York, New York) [Newspaper]
Object | Accession Number: 1989.339.3
Date:
publication/distribution: 1938 November 12
Title:
The New York Times, November 12, 1938
… 'lies' will hurt Reich Jews; Arrests run to Thousands.…
9. Henckels table knife with a scalloped edge brought with German Jewish prewar refugee
2012.493.2 left
Object | Accession Number: 2012.493.2
Date:
emigration: 1938 September
… 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…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. Kurtz family and friends approach New York City
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Film | Accession Number: 2009.31.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4829 | Film ID: 2870
Film Title:
Our Trip To Holland, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, France and England 1938 -- David Kurtz -- home movies
Date:
Event: 1938 September 05
Duration:
00:01:28
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… mingling with local townspeople. Only approximately 80 of the 3,000 Jews living in Nasielsk in 1939 survived the war. One reel of 16mm film (14 minutes)…
13. US Foreign Service and diplomats; Good Neighbor Policy; recall of ambassador from Germany
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Film | Accession Number: 2006.73.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4512 | Film ID: 2820
Film Title:
Uncle Sam-The Good Neighbor
Date:
Production: 1938
Duration:
00:08:30
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…JEWS…
14. 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…
15. Max and Rose Feld papers
2005.602.1 Oversize 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2005.602.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-1989
bulk: 1905-1957
…Jews--France--History--20th century.…
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 … (1939-1945)—Deaf—France Jews--France--History--20th century. Jews—Deaf Jews—Germany—Berlin—Deaf. Deaf. Warsaw (Poland) Berlin (Germany) Paris (France…
16. Pelvic calipers used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.4
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
… freedoms of Jews, and boycotting their businesses. At the university, Jewish students were deemed “aliens,” and were no longer eligible to receive diplomas…
17. 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
… freedoms of Jews, and boycotting their businesses. At the university, Jewish students were deemed “aliens,” and were no longer eligible to receive diplomas…
18. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
2018.448.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1950
…Jews--Poland--Gołdap.…
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 …, circa 1940-1950 Indexing terms Pfister, Eva, 1910-1991 Pfister, Otto, 1900-1985 Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund. Gurs (Concentration camp) Jews…
19. Cantor’s black tufted hat worn by a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.7
Date:
use: after 1922-before 1952
… later, the occupation authorities decreed that all Jews six years and older were required to wear a yellow Star of David. Eva could no longer attend…
20. Table knife with a swastika given to a Polish Jewish girl during forced labor farm service
1988.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.1
Date:
manufacture: 1938
received: 1945 April
… briefly worked with the Judenrat in food distribution. In April 1943, the Germans lined up the Jews for a selection. Moshe and Fela, emaciated and weak…