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61. Brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1949 November
… and tried as a collaborator by the Soviets. On October 25, 1949, Gertrud and Dorit immigrated to the United States on the USAT General Ballou. They…
62. Children's Crusade for Children fundraising collection can
2015.585.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.585.1
Date:
use: 1940 April 23-1940 April 30
…, he painted the Four Freedoms, a series of four paintings based on a speech by President Franklin Roosevelt. The paintings toured the United States in a…
63. Green drawstring cloth pouch brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.8
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Judy Gartner and Susan Oberfeld…
64. Identification case used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
2015.533.2 side b
Object | Accession Number: 2015.533.2
Date:
use: 1939-1941
… organized and sponsored by the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM), the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and…
65. Zippered leather medical bag used by an Austrian Jewish physician
2017.541.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.4
Date:
after 1935
… Ernesta and Berthold remained in the United States and worked as physicians.…
66. Large black wardrobe trunk used by German Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis
Object | Accession Number: 1998.65.1 a-f
Date:
use: 1939 May-1940 April
…, so they could then get visas for the United States. On May 13, 1939, Egon, Erna, and Edith left Hamburg on the MS St. Louis. Egon's cousin Liesl Joseph…
67. Square, brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.3
Date:
emigration: 1949 November
… and tried as a collaborator by the Soviets. On October 25, 1949, Gertrud and Dorit immigrated to the United States on the USAT General Ballou. They…
68. Painted tin container base owned by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.3
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
… restrictions became increasingly harsh. Hans’ brothers, Alfred and Erich, emigrated to the United States circa December 1938. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on…
69. Medical bag used by an Austrian Jewish physician
2017.541.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.3
Date:
use: after 1935
… Ernesta and Berthold remained in the United States and worked as physicians.…
70. Small suitcase with a metal handle used by a Jewish Austrian physician
2017.541.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.5
Date:
use: 1939 June-1940 June
… Ernesta and Berthold remained in the United States and worked as physicians.…
71. Engraved wooden box presented to a Lieutenant General of the SS by his troops
2005.525.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.525.2
Date:
found: after 1945 May-1946
commemoration: 1944 August-1945 February
… Arthur, 1912-?). In 1923, Salo immigrated to the United States as a student. Henry’s mother passed away before the remaining members of the Birnbaum family…
72. Imitation leather hatbox used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.4 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.4
Date:
use: 1949 November
… and tried as a collaborator by the Soviets. On October 25, 1949, Gertrud and Dorit immigrated to the United States on the USAT General Ballou. They…
73. Large flat top trunk monogrammed HB used by a German Jewish refugee
2004.321.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.321.2
Date:
emigration: 1939 March 28
… emigrated to the United States via the Eastern SS Lines. Hans Americanized his name to Henry. They arrived in Miami and were helped by the Jewish community…
74. Large flat top trunk monogrammed SB used by a German Jewish refugee
2004.321.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.321.3
Date:
emigration: 1939 March 28
… emigrated to the United States via the Eastern SS Lines. Hans Americanized his name to Henry. They arrived in Miami and were helped by the Jewish community…
75. Brown leather suitcase used by a Polish Jewish refugee family
2009.157.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.157.2
Date:
emigration: 1949 September
… August 18, 1949, the family accepted the offer of the International Refugee Organization (IRO) to resettle in the United States. They Americanized their…
76. Rucksack used by the Heppner family while going into hiding
1990.307.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.5
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 June
… United States. Max got very sick, and had to be hospitalized in the spring of 1945. After the northern part of the Netherlands was liberated in early May…
77. Small yellow suitcase used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport
2012.454.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.454.2
Date:
use: 1939 June
… immigration to the United States. She Flora left on the S.S. Britannic from Le Havre, France, arriving in April 1938 in New York City. She worked as a housemaid…
78. Multi-colored, cloth document cover used by Marietta Gruenbaum
2018.565.4 open
Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.4
Date:
use: after 1945 May 08
…’s aunt. After nine months, Marietta won a B’nai Brith scholarship to attend the University of Wisconsin in the United States. Her European diploma allowed…
79. White handkerchief pouch with gnomes carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.8
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
… United States, arriving eight days later in New York City. She went to live with her aunt in New Jersey, where she finished high school, found work, and…
80. Tortoiseshell pencil box and lid carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.3 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
… United States, arriving eight days later in New York City. She went to live with her aunt in New Jersey, where she finished high school, found work, and…