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1. Hyman Robert Levitan collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.505.1
Date:
inclusive: 1946-2007
… the captain of the SS Ben Hecht and illegally transported a group of refugees, mainly Holocaust survivors, to Palestine in 1947. The ship was…
2. 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…
3. 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
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 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…
4. AG "Saloniki-Palästina", Saloniki (Fond 1437)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.42 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.42
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1941
Alternate Title:
Salonika-Palestine Corporation
…Salonika-Palestine Corporation…
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 …AG "Saloniki-Palästina", Saloniki (Fond 1437) Salonika-Palestine Corporation RG-11.001M.42 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul…
5. William Perl papers, series 1
Document | RG Number: RG-19.018.01
Subtitle:
records and photographs relating to illegal immigration of Jewish refugees to Palestine
…records and photographs relating to illegal immigration of Jewish refugees to Palestine…
6. Itzhak Nachmani papers
2013.491.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 77
Document | Accession Number: 2013.491.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1967
Special Collection:
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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. 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…
8. 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…
9. Mirjam Zelwer Papers
2015.235.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 49
Document | Accession Number: 2015.235.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1947-1952
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… returned to Poland in 1945 and Eta became ill. Marie’s aunt sent her and Sam to a kibbutz with the thought that they would immigrate to Palestine, but Eta…
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 … to a kibbutz with the thought that they would immigrate to Palestine, but Eta found her children and wanted to keep the family together. They lived in…
10. Andrey Freund papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.352.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1948
… Palestine and was discharged from that in June 1948.…
11. 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…
12. Seizure of the S. S. Dromit cargo
Document | RG Number: RG-08.002.03
Date:
1949-1951
…Jewish Agency for Palestine…
13. 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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14. Bergen-Belsen related records
Document | RG Number: RG-08.002
Date:
1945-1980
…The records relate to the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, displaced persons, the Belsen memorial, and Jewish emigration to the Palestine after the…
15. Regina Bochner Schweid papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.099 | RG Number: RG-10.027
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1940
… family were able to immigrate to Palestine or the Soviet Union, thus escaping the Holocaust; the fate of others left behind are unknown.…
16. 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…
17. Ruth Rappaport papers
2012.431.1 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2012.431.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-1969
Special Collection:
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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…
18. 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:
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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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19. 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…
20. Steinbach family letters
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0036 | RG Number: RG-10.074.01
…Rudi Steinbach was a German Jew who emigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1939. He later immigrated to the United States.…