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1. 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
… was retreating, the Switzer family, along with 120 other Jews, left Aprica in the middle of the night and walked to the Swiss border where they were…
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 … photograph of Arthur, Frieda, and their son Steven Switzer in Aprica in 1943, a contemporary list compiled of the names of Jews who left Aprica in 1943 to seek…
2. Groszman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.95.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2010
… Margit’s sister Helén’s (1900-1944) husband Géza Abelesz (1896-1944). Their business was forced to close in 1940 after new laws prohibited Jews from the…
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 … was forced to close in 1940 after new laws prohibited Jews from the agricultural commodities business. The family moved to Budapest in Fall 1941. In…
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3. Bleier and Weisz families papers
2016.162.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.162.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2005
… House which sheltered around 2000 Jews until Budapest was liberated by the Russians in February 1945. After the war, she was reunited with her family who…
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 … 2,000 Jews until Budapest was liberated by the Russians in February 1945. After the war, she was reunited with her family who all survived. Due to…
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4. Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers
1998.A.0297 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0297
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1978
… in Czechoslovakia and deportations of Jews from Austria. The collection also includes two cardboard tags bearing Joseph Weiss’s name. Photographs…
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 … regulations imposed in Czechoslovakia and deportations of Jews from Austria. The collection also includes two cardboard tags bearing Joseph Weiss’s name…
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5. Richard Schifter family papers
2016.502.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2016.502.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1994
bulk: 1939-1948
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 … typescript about the history of Jews in western Europe, in German, unidentified author, circa 1947 http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
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6. 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…
7. Postwar Jewish Community Vienna collection
Document | Accession Number: 2019.29.1 | RG Number: RG-17.053
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1955
bulk: 1945-1955
… searches for individuals, restitution, care of Jews, missing persons, Jewish refugees and DPs.…
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 … from the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in Moscow, submitted by the World Jewish Congress New York April 1946 A/W 4057a Surviving Jews in Kielce District…
8. Pollak family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.555.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1951
… separate state under the leadership of Jozef Tiso. In the summer of 1941anti-Jewish legislation was introduced and Jews were not allowed to own businesses…
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 … Vera Markbreit’s grandparents. 30. Photographic postcard of a group of Slovakian Jews during their forced labor service in the Slovak Labor Battalion…
9. Akten der Anthropologischen Abteilung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien
Document | Accession Number: 2006.323 | RG Number: RG-17.010M
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1947
Alternate Title:
Records of the Department of Anthropology of the Natural History Museum Vienna
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… History Museum Vienna, including the physical measuring and examination of Jews in Vienna and Tarnó́w, persons of unclear racial lineage in Vienna, and…
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 …-hundred original three-part portrait photographs, taken as part of the racial science examinations of stateless Jews in the soccer stadium in Vienna in 1939…
10. Ross Baker collection
Document | Accession Number: 2006.265.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-2005
bulk: 1933-1938
… stripping Jews of their rights as citizens, including the right to vote. Ross filmed the widespread defacement and boycotting of Jewish businesses. There were…
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 … living in Austria and documents the Anschluss in 1938, the treatment of Jews, and the family’s experiences as a non-Jewish American family living in Vienna…
11. Piroska Berki and Gustave Balog family papers
2000.16 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.16
Date:
inclusive: 1873-1982
… discrimination she faced as a Jew living in Hungary. Gustave’s memoirs go into great detail about the family’s historical background. Gustave was a cousin of…
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 … discrimination she faced as a Jew living in Hungary. Gustave’s memoirs go into great detail about the family’s historical background. Gustave was a cousin of…
12. Charles Roman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.91.2
Date:
inclusive: 1894-circa 1953
bulk: 1940-1949
… the photographs consist of depictions of Charles and Marianne with a group of Jews fleeing France through the Alps to Valle Stura di Demonte, Italy in…
13. Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives Nantes : Embassies and Consulates
Document | Accession Number: 2019.423.1 | RG Number: RG-43.172
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1970
bulk: 1938-1946
… coming to trial for treason in post-war France, application of a Turkish wealth tax especially targeting Jews (the Varlık Vergisi), foreigners and Spanish…
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 …, application of a Turkish wealth tax especially targeting Jews (the Varlık Vergisi), foreigners and Spanish Republicans seeking refuge in France after the…
14. Kurt Schwarz papers
2015.580.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.580.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2001
bulk: 1938-1941
…, The Bellarosa Connection, which involves Billy Rose’s rescue of European Jews, was inspired by Kurt Schwarz’s story. As to Schwarz’s immediate family…
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 ….ushmm.org novel, The Bellarosa Connection, which involves Billy Rose’s rescue of European Jews, was inspired by Kurt Schwarz’s story. As to Schwarz’s immediate…
15. Records of the Jerusalem Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Document | Accession Number: 2019.6.1 | RG Number: RG-68.217M
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1952
… and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the JDC helped administer these camps and provide supplies. The JDC has aided millions of Jews in more than…
16. Oral history interview with Magda Weigl Heath
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.97.1 | RG Number: RG-50.626.0001
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2009
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Czech Republic--Břeclav.…
17. Richard Straus papers relating to restitution
Document | Accession Number: 1989.179 | RG Number: RG-28.009
Date:
1945-1974
…American Federation of Jews from Central Europe…
18. Archive of the Jewish Community Vienna-Vienna component collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.402 | RG Number: RG-17.007M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1982
Alternate Title:
Archiv der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien - Wiener Bestand
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… Religious Community of Vienna-was authorized in 1852 by the Austrian authorities to conduct religious, educational and charitable operations among Jews in…
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 … vom ’Office for Statistics and Information at the Organization of Jewish Refugees in Italy’) • 100658: ”List of Surviving Jews in Yugoslavia…
19. Theodore and Martha Burian papers
1995.A.0261 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0261
Date:
inclusive: 1885-1946
…Jews--Austria--Vienna.…
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 …://collections.ushmm.org Kindertransports (Rescue operations) Jews‐‐Austria‐‐Vienna. Jews‐‐Austria‐‐History‐‐20th century. Jews‐‐Czechoslovakia‐‐History‐‐20…
20. Philip Ellovich papers
1991.91 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1991.91 | RG Number: RG-10.025.01
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1980
… Miriam Gross (1903-1989) and had three children. The Ellovich family raised funds during World War II to help European Jews escape Nazi Germany. One of the…