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1. Period counterfeit Palestinian Currency Board money, 5 Palestine pound note
2017.628.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.628.21
Date:
use: after 1939 April 20-before 1948 September 15
…Period counterfeit Palestinian Currency Board money, 5 Palestine pound note…
2. 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…
3. Menczel, Kahn and Reichnitzer family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.276.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1891-circa 1948
…). Wilhelm left Vienna for Palestine in 1933 and was joined by Fanny in 1934. Fanny briefly returned to Vienna to finish her degree at the University of Vienna…
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 … Frieda Reichnitzer (d. circa 1923). Wilhelm left Vienna for Palestine in 1933 and was joined by Fanny in 1934. Fanny briefly returned to Vienna to finish…
4. 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…
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. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
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… Palestine and were placed in Kibbutz Sha’ar HaAmakim. Around 1941, Yehuda was conscripted into a forced labor battalion. He managed to escape from his labor…
7. Cukier and Cohen families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.586.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-circa 1946
… to Palestine before World War II. His son Jakub Cukier served in the Polish Army with his older, unnamed brother. They were both later imprisoned in…
8. 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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9. 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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10. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.22.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1983
bulk: 1930-1948
… Jewish Agency for Palestine in connections with the immigration of Jewish refugees stranded in the Far East.” In July 1941, he served as member of the…
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 …, Leon traveled to Shanghai, China to establish the “Far Eastern Committee representing the Jewish Agency for Palestine in connections with the immigration…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. Korant and Schwalbe families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.367.1
Date:
inclusive: 1888-2019
bulk: 1888-1988
… Berlin. He lived in Tehran and tried to open a dental practice before moving to Palestine in 1935. No longer having his dental equipment, he worked as a…
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 … Korant), Herbert Schwalbe, and their relatives in Berlin, Teheran, and Palestine as well as their immigration and settlement in the United States…
14. Miriam and Ruth Renzer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.341.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1937-approximately 1948
…Collection of correspondence, postcards, and photographs, including letters between Ruth Renzer in Palestine and her sister Miriam in England. Ruth…
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. 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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17. 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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18. 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…
19. Herbst family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.133.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-circa 2000
bulk: 1940-1955
… and other Jewish refugees boarded a ship to Haifa, Palestine in October 1940. They were denied entry by the British authorities, and deported to…
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 … States in 1940, Adolf’s attempt to get to Palestine, and subsequent deportation to Mauritius in 1940, and Sara’s deportation from Vienna to Izbica transit…
20. Margosis family papers
2018.209.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2018.209.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2015
… Iran where he gained citizenship. Schendel joined him in Iran and then they went to Palestine before returning to Europe and settling in Brussels…
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 …, Portugal, from Anna and Willy in Barcelona, Spain (1944) and Palestine (1944-1948); correspondence and writings regarding Isaac’s journalism career…