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1. Opera glasses and case owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.2 a-c
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…Opera glasses and case owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee…
2. Card with 46 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.8 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.8 a-e
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…Card with 46 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee…
3. Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.5
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee…
4. 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
…Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women…
5. Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee…
6. 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
…Card with 24 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee…
7. Cup and saucer from a café run by Jewish Austrian family
2017.259.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.259.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1919-1938
manufacture: after 1918 September-1937
…Cup and saucer from a café run by Jewish Austrian family…
8. Partial card with 16 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.7
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…Partial card with 16 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee…
9. 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
…Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women…
10. Lace-trimmed Handkerchief with a cutwork floral accent owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.3
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…Lace-trimmed Handkerchief with a cutwork floral accent owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee…
11. Ilie Wacs family papers
1998.180 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1998.180
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1951
… United States entered the war, and in 1943 the Wacs were forced by the Japanese occupiers into a Shanghai ghetto. Following their liberation in 1945, they…
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 …, and printed materials documenting Jewish refugee life and Ilie Wacs’ participation in Jewish cultural youth organizations in Shanghai. Languages…
12. Piroska Berki and Gustave Balog family papers
2000.16 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.16
Date:
inclusive: 1873-1982
…. Piroska’s memoirs go into great detail about life in Jewish ghettos in Budapest, living undercover as Christians in Kiskunlacháza, and the general…
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 … forced to move into the Jewish ghettos of Budapest. Gustave Balog, cousin of Piroska’s husband Andor Berki, wrote on his experiences prior to the war…
13. Richard Schifter family papers
2016.502.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2016.502.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1994
bulk: 1939-1948
…, and were in a ghetto in Maidan-Tatarski. After the war, Richard surmised that his parents had likely been killed during the liquidation of that ghetto…
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 … received from them through the International Red Cross, dated July 1942, showed that Paul had joined Balbina in Lublin, and were in a ghetto in Maidan…
14. Gertrude and William Nagel papers
2017.527.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.527.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-circa 2000
bulk: 1938-1946
… the few Jewish students in Austria to be awarded a doctoral degree following the Anschluss. Soon, however, the Nagelberg family decided to flee Austria…
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 … Baumwollwirtschaft Großbritanniens vom Weltkrieg bis zur Gegenwart, and became one of the few Jewish students in Austria to be awarded a doctoral degree following the…
15. Bleier and Weisz families papers
2016.162.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.162.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2005
…. Her parents owned a restaurant in Budapest until 1939 when anti-Jewish business laws forced them to close. After Hungary was occupied by the Nazis in…
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 … restaurant in Budapest until 1939 when anti-Jewish business laws forced them to close. After Hungary was occupied by the Nazis in March 1944, they lost their…
16. Peter and Berta Victor papers
1990.114.74 Box 1 Folder 27 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1990.114.74
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1991
… Jewish, but not especially observant. After the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in Germany in 1933, anti-Jewish legislation and restrictions became…
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 …--Berlin. Jews--Austria--Vienna. Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai. Jewish refugees--Illinois--Chicago. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations. Vienna…
17. Initialed, cream-colored underskirt with a diamond pattern owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.10
Date:
creation: after 1890-before 1900
emigration: 1939 February
…Initialed, cream-colored underskirt with a diamond pattern owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee…
18. Cream-colored textile with crocheted lace accents owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.13
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…Cream-colored textile with crocheted lace accents owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee…
19. Cream-colored underskirt with a diamond pattern owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.9
Date:
creation: 1901-1914
emigration: 1939 February
…Cream-colored underskirt with a diamond pattern owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee…
20. Short, white eyelet lace jacket owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.12
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…Short, white eyelet lace jacket owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee…