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1. Abraham and Simone Slowes collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.355
Date:
inclusive: circa 1905-1991
… mainly Yiddish and Russian. Abraham graduated from the Jewish Technical High School in Vilna and left Vilna for Palestine at the age of 16 in 1930. He…
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 … Slowes; location: Haifa, Palestine; dated: December 28, 1933 .3 Photograph; image of Shoshana Róza Slowes Breitbord, Abraham’s sister, standing on the bank…
2. Abraham Atsmon papers
1999.A.0151 Box 4 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1994
… American sector of Germany. He intended to emigrate to Palestine and entered the Landsberg displaced persons camp. Atsmon was a political and social leader…
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 … to emigrate to Palestine and entered the Landsberg displaced persons camp. Atsmon was a political and social leader in the camp and helped create the…
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3. Basia and Morris Rubinstein papers
2014.168.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2014.168.2
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1951
bulk: 1945-1951
… Danish Red Cross on 26 April 1945. She was taken to a refugee camp in Solberga, Sweden where she was reunited with Morris. They moved to the New Palestine…
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 … post-war experiences of Basia (née Zajaczkowska) and Morris Rubinstein, who met and were married in the Kielce ghetto in 1942, in the New Palestine DP…
4. Carl Heinz Rosner papers
2016.308.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2016.308.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2010
bulk: 1930-1957
… Palestine, beginning with his grandparents in 1934. Carl’s parents divorced around 1935, and David returned to Romania, where he was born and had citizenship…
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 … immigrating to Palestine, beginning with his grandparents in 1934. Carl’s parents divorced around 1935, and David returned to Romania, where he was born and had…
5. Chambré and Elsoffer families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.286.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1994
bulk: 1920-1950
… arrived in Palestine. He contracted malaria and, while wandering the streets of Tel Aviv, met Ruth Edith Elsoffer. She took Ernest in and cared for him…
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 … repeatedly in Belgium, France, and Spain, prior to his release in 1943 and immigration first to Palestine, and then the United States. Included is extensive…
6. Deutscher family papers
2016.122.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.122.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2002
… selected to move to Palestine. He arrived on October 24, 1938 and went to Mikveh Israel agricultural school, and then Bnai Akiva yeshiva. He then joined the…
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 … Beile Deutscher’s documentation from Italy, and Erwin and Henia Deutscher’s documentation regarding immigration to Palestine and later the United States…
7. Dr. Arthur Kessler papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.183.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2007
bulk: 1922-1947
… place to another. The Kessler family went to Palestine in 1944 where Arthur published several articles on lathyrism and became the director of the Allergy…
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 … survived by going to Bucharest and moving from one place to another. The Kessler family went to Palestine in 1944 where Arthur published several articles on…
8. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
Special Collection:
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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…
9. 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
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 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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10. 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…
11. Eva Baumohl papers
2007.190.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.190.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-2007
…, Heini, Lina, Erna, Edith, and Max. The first four moved to Palestine during the 1930s. In the summer of 1938, Eva moved to Antwerp to live with her…
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 …, Erna, Edith, and Max. The first four moved to Palestine during the 1930s. In the summer of 1938, Eva moved to Antwerp to live with her married sister…
12. Eva Rindner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.645.1
Date:
inclusive: 1895-circa 2004
undated: 
… after the Anschluss. Her sister Hedwig immigrated to the United States around this time. Lola managed to secure travel visas to Palestine, and she and…
13. Fela and Chaim Perelman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.432.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-2001
… war she worked with Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre to house refugees and assist illegal immigration to Palestine. She was on the board of…
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 … Israélites Victimes de la Guerre to house refugees and assist illegal immigration to Palestine. She was on the board of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, which…
14. 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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15. Fischl and Gerstmann family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.319.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1988
… assistance of the Youth Aliyah organization. That was the last time she saw their parents. Alice took a train to Italy and sailed to Palestine where she lived…
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 … Czechoslovakia and Palestine after Alice was sent to Palestine in 1939 by her parents, as well as Eli Gerstmann and his family in Germany and their immigration to…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. 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…
19. James G. McDonald collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.220.1
Date:
inclusive: 1873-2010
… Inquiry on Jewish Problems in Palestine and Europe, a British and American committee charged with forming a policy on the admission of Jews into Palestine…
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 … Inquiry on Jewish Problems in Palestine and Europe, U.S. Special Representative to the Jewish State, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel. Languages: English…
20. 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…