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1. Anne-Gilberte Stemmer Hercberg collection
2017.192.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2017.192.1
Date:
creation: circa 1938-1944
…Anne-Gilberte was born on July 30, 1938 in Metz, France to Malka Tannebaum (b. May 5,1911, Przeworsk, Poland) and Charles Salomon Stemmer (b. April…
2. Card with 24 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.6
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… inside to collect her passport. In February 1939, she said goodbye to her sisters, and travelled to Cherbourg, France, before sailing to the US. In April…
3. Walter and Edith Schiff papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.600.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-1985
… lived in Berlin. In 1938 Walter fled Germany for France with Edith Moser, his future wife. Edith Moser was born on March 26, 1907 in Wilmersdorf to Ernest…
4. Hess family papers
2000.130.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2000.130.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1944
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. Louis in 1939. After the ship was denied entry in Cuba and returned to Europe, they disembarked in France. Vera and Ilse were sent to Villa Helvetia, an…
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 … Vera Hess’ voyage on the MS St. Louis, their disembarkation and experiences in France, and their eventual emigration to Cuba in 1941 and the United…
5. Hans Steinitz papers
1988.147.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1988.147.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Hans J. Steinitz left Germany for France in 1934, after Hitler's rise to power. He served briefly in the French army, but was arrested by the French…
6. Lakhovitzky family collection
2012.416.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2012.416.1
Date:
inclusive: 1902-1995
bulk: 1902-1942
… Istanbul, Turkey, on 17 June 1927, and immigrated to France the following year, arriving in Strasbourg in October 1928, where Natan found employment in a hat…
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 … (bulk, 1902-1942) Accession number: 2012.416.1 Creator: Lakhovitzky family (Strasbourg; France) Extent: 4 folders, 1 oversize folder Repository: United…
7. Efrem Ostrowsky family papers
1995.A.0306.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0306.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
… II, he was a specialist in deactivating landmines with the 103rd Infantry Division. His unit helped in the liberation of France, and was among the…
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 … concentration camp by Ostrowsky. The photographs depict Allied troops in Austria, France, and Germany, captured German soldiers, liberated concentration camp…
8. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
2018.448.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1950
… listen to music, and her religious feelings would be genuine. Following her graduation from high school in 1926, she studied in France at Nancy University…
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 … immigration files documenting German Jewish refugee Eva Pfister’s experiences in France and New York, her efforts on behalf of her non-Jewish German refugee…
9. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women
2017.480.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.5
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1920-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…. On August 1, Fritz was deported to Saint-Cyprien internment camp in France and later transferred to Drancy transit camp. His wife, Sidi, and son, Paul…
10. Simon Jeruchim papers
2001.328.41 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2001.328.41
Date:
inclusive: 1930-circa 2011
bulk: 1930-1956
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Simon Jeruchim was born on December 25, 1929, in Paris, France, to Samuel and Alice Szpiro Jeruchim. Samuel was born on December 24, 1898, in Ostrow…
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 … gare de Lyon"; and his 58-page typed memoir with computer illustrations entitled “Hidden: The Jeruchim Family Saga in France and Under the Nazi…
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11. Josef Baur papers
2017.675.1 Box 3 Folder 23 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.675.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1954
… landscapes were taken while Baur served throughout Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, and southern France. Some of the images directly…
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 … throughout Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, and southern France. Some of the images directly correlate with the images found within the two…
12. Epstein family collection
2013.457.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2013.457.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1979
bulk: circa 1920-1947
… in Vienna. Their daughter Monique Goss (neé Epstein 1941- ) was born on April 29, 1941 in Toulouse, France. Prior to World War II, Julian worked as…
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 … and Margarete married on March 28, 1920 in Vienna. Their daughter Monique Goss (neé Epstein 1941- ) was born on April 29, 1941 in Toulouse, France…
13. Edith Stein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.347.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1985
undated: 
… Antwerp. In May 1940 Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. The family fled Antwerp for France with Edith’s uncle Max Scheiner and his family in his bakery…
14. 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
… unit deployed for Europe on October 6, 1944, and arrived in Marseilles, France, on October 20. In December 1944, Bruno was awarded the Bronze Star for…
15. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… envelopes documenting mail systems and prisoners in ghettos and camps in Germany, Poland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia. This series also…
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 … and camps in Germany, Poland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia. This series also includes scrip from the Łódź ghetto and the camps at…
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16. Fred Strauss papers
2015.533.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2015.533.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1947
… orphanage sent on a larger transport to Paris, France, organized by the orphanage. He and the other children who kept kosher spent a few weeks at the…
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 … Frankfurt to Paris in 1939, his life as a child refugee in OSE homes in France, his immigration to the United States as part of an USCOM children’s transport…
17. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women
2017.480.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.6
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1920-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…. On August 1, Fritz was deported to Saint-Cyprien internment camp in France and later transferred to Drancy transit camp. His wife, Sidi, and son, Paul…
18. Freud family papers
2010.401.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2010.401.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2004
bulk: 1919-1954
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… May 1940, Sophie heard that the population from northern France was leaving in a panic because the Germans had broken through the Maginot Line, which…
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 … Walter Freud’s pre-war experiences in Austria and fleeing to France and England. The collection also includes material relating to Ernestine and Sophie…
19. Dr. Josef Kiefer scrapbooks
2016.432.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2016.432.1
Date:
creation: 1939-1940
… August 1939 and May 1940 in the areas of Saarbrucken, Oberstein, and Bad Homburg in Germany and the Moselle region in France. The scrapbooks include…
20. Watercolor painting of a domestic scene by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.4
Date:
depiction: 1933 June-1947 October
Artwork Title:
Villiers-sur-Morin
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…