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1. Child’s coat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.1
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
2. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.2
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
3. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers
2003.385.1 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2003.385.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1968
… Ciecierska’s experiences in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and during the Warsaw Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war as…
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 … Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war. The papers also document her husband Stanislaw Ciecierski and his…
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4. Fanny Auerbach papers
1995.A.0365 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0365
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-circa 1985
…Fanny Auerbach and her husband John, were German Jews living in Cologne, Germany. As John attended dental school, Fanny worked at the Abram Frank…
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 … German Jew who escaped Germany in 1935, and Malchen Banner, a young woman who Fanny helped raise while Fanny worked at an orphanage in Cologne, Germany…
5. White cloth armband worn by a Roman Catholic Polish firefighter in Warsaw
2014.450.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.3
Date:
use: 1939 September 27-1944 August 07
… countryside villa with his mother and brother when Germany invaded western Poland on September 1, 1939. They could hear bombs being dropped, and decided to…
6. German Rentenbank, 1 Rentenmark note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.3
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
… was not aware of the rise of Nazism and persecution of Jews in Germany until the German army invaded Poland on September 1. In response, Ludwik and…
7. Minna Aspler papers
1999.267.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.267.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1946
… Wahlwinkel, Germany. She moved to the Landsberg DP camp, married its deputy director, Moe Aspler, from Montreal, and moved home to Canada with him. The couple…
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 … photograph a Warsaw classroom, and one postwar photograph of Minna with friends in Wahlwinkel, Germany. Languages: English, German, Yiddish Administrative…
8. Herman Taube papers
1992.A.0081.2 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0081.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2012
… in nursing. He was called for duty as a medic in the Polish Army in August 1939. Germany defeated Poland by early October, the retreating Polish Army…
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 … Gershon hoped he would become a rabbi, but Herman pursued a career in nursing. He was called for duty as a medic in the Polish Army in August 1939. Germany…
9. Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter papers
2014.413.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 64
Document | Accession Number: 2014.413.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1956
…Wilhelm Stahl (1890 - ?) was a non-Jewish German born on April 18, 1890 in Sulzheim, Germany to “Marg.” [Schneider] Stahl (d. 1926) and Christoph…
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 … relating to the forced sale of Jewish assets in Frankfurt, Germany, postcards, as well as photographs of Wilhelm Stahl and family, Walter Lewalter, and…
10. Teacup and saucer with blue and pink flowers carried by Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.5_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.5 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
11. Tortoiseshell pencil box and lid carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.3 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
12. Regina and Halina Goldwag papers
2014.426.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.426.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1895-2008
bulk: 1944-1949
… was not aware of the rise of Nazism and persecution of Jews in Germany until the German army invaded Poland on September 1. In response, Ludwik and…
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 … Göppingen, Germany, and depictions of Regina and Halina’s immigration to the United States onboard the SS Marine Flasher in 1946. Languages: Polish, English…
13. Floral pillow cover carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2005.492.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.12
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
14. Kim family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.360.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1983
bulk: 1929-1941
… United States. Jacob, aware of rising Antisemitism in Germany, was concerned about the family’s safety and was insistent that the Kims, particularly Betty…
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 ….360.1 Creator: Kim (Family : Berlin, Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box, 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
15. Walter Rudy Horenstein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.664.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2002
undated: 
… provided by his father. He learned in June 1941 that the war between Germany and the Soviet Union had started. As a Soviet citizen, he was ordered to report…
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 … father. He learned in June 1941 that the war between Germany and the Soviet Union had started. As a Soviet citizen, he was ordered to report for internment…
16. Drafting kit with 18 drawing implements used by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.4 l-q front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.4 a-s
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
17. Rudolph Daniel Sichel papers
2003.149.1 Box 6 Folder 15 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2003.149.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-1978
bulk: 1934-1952
…Rudolph Daniel Sichel (1915-1978) was born in Frankfurt, Germany to clothing store owner Ernst Sichel (1874-1962) and Frieda Sichel (nee Oppenheimer…
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 … persecution of his family under Nazi Germany. Languages: English, German, French Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored…
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18. Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection
2000.506.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 65
Document | Accession Number: 2000.506.1
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1949
… with his sisters in the Weiden displaced persons camp in Germany. Abram eventually immigrated to the United States in March, 1947. In 1948 he was…
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 … Gelbart, wearing a concentration camp uniform and a cap. Dated June 1945; location: Altenburg, Germany. 3) Arthur Abram Gelbart, at the age of 16 years…
19. Salad plate with a floral design carried by Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.6
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
20. Pin box and 57 straight pins carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.14
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…