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1. Esther Lurie papers
1995.A.0989.1 Box 3 Folder 13 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.1 | RG Number: RG-24.022
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1995
… drawing and painting at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. Most of her family emigrated to Palestine in 1934 and Esther joined them there. She worked with…
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 … Royale des Beaux-Arts. Her family immigrated to Palestine in 1934. At the beginning of the war, while visiting her sister, Muta, in Lithuania, Esther was…
2. Klestadt family papers
2014.481.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.481.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2005
bulk: 1919-1942
…. Klestadt in 1935, and they honeymooned in Palestine, then returned to Düsseldorf. Fred was born in Düsseldorf on March 15, 1909 to Moritz and Rahel Aenne…
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 … honeymoon in Palestine in 1935 and letters exchanged between Fred and Thea after they arrive in the United States. There is also one brief letter from the Red…
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3. Jakob Ascher papers
2011.403.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2011.403.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1919-1960
…. They tried to immigrate to Palestine, but the restrictions of the British Mandate didn’t make it possible. Cousins in the United States sent invitations…
4. Egon Weiss papers
2011.128.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2011.128.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2009
bulk: 1920-1945
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… move to Pilsen. Emil and Olga feared that Egon was at risk of being taken because of his young age and decided to send him to Palestine so he could leave…
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 … Palestine so he could leave Czechoslovakia as soon as possible. They planned for Egon to join them in America once they received their paperwork. Egon…
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5. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
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… to Nuseirat, Palestine. In February 1944, the unit moved to Quassasin, Egypt. The Polish soldiers were fully trained now and, on February 18, Edward…
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 … of depression. Edward began to document events with sketches and watercolors. The Corps was in Habbaniya, Iraq in March 1943, in Nuseirat, Palestine in…
6. Itzhak Nachmani papers
2013.491.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 77
Document | Accession Number: 2013.491.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1967
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…, and Palestine. Pola and Alec made their way to Teheran and then Palestine where Ignacy rejoined them following his military service. He changed his…
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 … German-occupied Poland, his internment in a Soviet labor camp, his release into the Polish Army, and his service in Palestine, Egypt, and Iraq; a misdated…
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7. 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
… Palestine. On October 9, the ship's boiler exploded, and the ship broke in two off of a deserted island under Italian control. The passengers and crew were…
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 … from Vienna in 1938. In 1940, they booked passage on the SS Pentcho, a boat illegally sailing to Palestine. On October 9, the ship's boiler exploded, and…
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8. Ruth Rappaport papers
2012.431.1 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2012.431.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-1969
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… and wanted to go to Palestine, but Helene had family in Seattle, Washington, and wanted to go to America. In 1933 anti-Jewish decrees were passed that…
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 … collection also includes extensive correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to Ruth’s work and travels as a journalist in Palestine and Israel from…
9. Victor Bienstock papers
2016.499.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2016.499.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
bulk: 1938-1945
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… events from various locations (London, Cairo, Rome, and France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and…
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 … France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and the fate of Jews in Nazi occupied lands. The Victor…
10. Chaim Posner papers
2017.402.6 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.402.6
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1975
… Palästina Amt, the emigration office of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in Geneva and as the representative of the Jewish Agency Finance Department in Europe…
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 …, Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, and correspondents include several offices of the Palästina Amt, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, Chaim Barlas, Richard…
11. Hillel Storch papers
2017.526.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.526.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1985
… Palestine. Records include Franz Goering’s report about the release of Jewish during the White Buses operation, documents about Felix Kersten’s and Walter…
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 … rescue European Jewish along with the World Jewish Congress and the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Records include Franz Goering’s report about the release…
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12. John Stanley Grauel papers
1999.A.0218 Box 4 Folder 15 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0218
Date:
1917-1986
… joined the Christian Council of Palestine (later the American Christian Palestine Committee) in 1942, and in 1944 he joined the Haganah’s efforts to…
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 … Minister. He joined the Christian Council of Palestine (later the American Christian Palestine Committee) in 1942, and in 1944 he joined the Haganah…
13. Furman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.272.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1949
…Yitzhak Furman was born on 5 November 1934 in Petah Tikva, Palestine (Petah Tikva, Israel) to Hanoch Furman and Dina Flaumenbaun (b. 1907). He had…
14. Stephen Kornreich papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.247.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2018
bulk: 1921-1946
… attended architectural school in Bodenbach, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic). He went to Palestine in 1933, on a six-week visa, but decided to stay and work…
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 … Palestine from 1933-1938, and his service in the United States Army Air Corps. Included are identification papers, education and employment papers…
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15. Singer family collection
2017.664.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.664.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1971
…Palestine--Emigration and immigration.…
16. Friedler family papers
1999.47.3 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1999.47.3
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1959
…Jewish Agency for Palestine…
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 … Agency for Palestine Ebensee (Concentration camp) Hallein (Displaced persons camp) Jewish refugees--Austria. Refugees--Austria. Refugee camps--Austria…
17. Ullrich Remak papers
2014.425.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.425.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1973
bulk: 1939-1944
…, but eventually turning her efforts toward immigrating to Palestine, which she succeeded in doing, settling in Haifa and working there as a nurse from…
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 … Palestine. Languages: German, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please contact the…
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18. Joseph Birnberg and Mania Nussenbaum Birnberg papers
2014.412.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2014.412.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1993
…. He married Mania Nussenbaum, a survivor from Zborów, Poland, in 1947. They lived in the New Palestine DP camp and immigrated to the United States in…
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 … and photographs related to Mania, originally of Zborów, Poland (Zboriv, Ukraine), in the New Palestine DP camp in Salzburg. Languages: German, English…
19. Igo Krischer papers
2016.152.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.152.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-circa 1984
… called “The Jolly Boys.” During World War II, he lived in exile in Tehran, Iran and Palestine. After the war, he joined the Israel Defense Forces, and…
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 … during World War II, which he spent in exile in Iran and Palestine. Included is correspondence from his family who remained in occupied Poland…
20. Fred S. Gichner correspondence
1999.A.0078 Box 1 Folder 4 Folder 17
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0078
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1949
bulk: 1938-1941
…Jewish refugees--Palestine.…
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 … (Agency) Jewish refugees – Belgium – Antwerp. Jewish refugees – Palestine. Jewish refugees – Portugal – Lisbon. Jewish refugees – United States. Antwerp…