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1. The Spiegel family papers
1988.57.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1988.57.1 | RG Number: RG-10.257
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1949
…, along with their wives and children, fled to various part of the world. Isaac and Joshua fled to Israel; David, Sam, and Max immigrated to the United…
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 … family moved to Leipzig, Germany in the 1920s. Upon the rise of the Nazi regime, the Spiegel brothers, along with their wives and children, fled to…
2. Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers
2018.463.1 Box 2 Folder 17 Image 53
Document | Accession Number: 2018.463.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1906-1993
bulk: 1920-1944
… certificates. These birth certificates would later prove her children’s eligibility to enter the United States under the Russian quota during World War II. In…
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 …, Jewish (1939-1945) Jewish children. Jewish refugees. Refugees. United States--Emigration and immigration. World War, 1939-1945. Geography: Czech Republic…
3. Haber family papers
2015.236.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.236.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-circa 1990
bulk: 1897-1954
… searching for ways to emigrate. In May 1939, Fritz was selected to be one of the "50 children" in Vienna for whom American couple Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus…
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 … American immigration of fifty Jewish children from Nazi- occupied Vienna in May, 1939. Included are photographs and clippings of Fritz and the other children…
4. Nachlass August Bohny-Reiter (1919-2016)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.96.1 | RG Number: RG-58.050
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2016
Alternate Title:
August Bohny-Reiter papers
…. In the fall of 1941, he went to Le Chambon in south central France, and spent almost four years establishing homes for refugee children, and hiding…
5. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.180 | RG Number: RG-67.017
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2005
bulk: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…’ early social work in Meadville, PA, and their humanitarian and rescue work in World War II Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marseille and Pau, France; and Lisbon…
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 … collection has a personal significance for me. I was born in Poland during World War II to a mother who already had two small children, and who hid and cared…
6. Braunwasser family papers
2016.89.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.89.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2014
…. The Braunwassers managed to include Inge among the fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria that Americans Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus rescued and…
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 …. Jewish refugees--Texas. Refugee children--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Vienna (Austria) Alice (Tex.) Austria--Emigration and…
7. Ella Spiegler papers
2016.323.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 53
Document | Accession Number: 2016.323.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1950
… American couple, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, to sponsor fifty Jewish children from Vienna for immigration to the United States, they applied to have their…
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 …‐‐Emigration and immigration. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Jews‐‐Rescue‐‐Austria‐‐Vienna. Jewish children in the Holocaust‐‐Austria. CONTAINER LIST…
8. Leo Melamed collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.157.2
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1941
… remained behind since Icchok felt women and children would not be harmed. One week later, Bialystok was occupied by the Soviet Union, per the terms of the…
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 … by the Germans. Fejga and Lejb remained behind since Icchok felt women and children would not be harmed. One week later, Białystok was occupied by the…
9. Fred Lifschutz papers
2015.541. 1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.541.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1975
… part of the "50 children" transport led by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. After a summer at the Brith Sholomville camp in Collegeville, PA, Fred went to live…
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 … immigration to the United States as one of the "50 children" sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. The biographical materials document Moritz, Bertha, and…
10. Joan Kent Finkelstein family papers
2009.376.1 front
Document | Accession Number: 2009.376.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2013
… biomedical researcher and teacher, obtaining a PhD in 1963, married, and had two children and three grandchildren. George became the first Jewish engineer at…
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 … remained in Poland during the war, family who emigrated to Palestine and the Soviet Union, and family and friends who emigrated to the United States…
11. Brust family papers
1992.13.11 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1992.13.11
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1955
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…The Brust family papers document the wartime and post-war experiences of Elek Brust, Livia Brust, and their daughter Eva Brust in Hungary and later…
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 …, Jewish (1939-1945) Jewish children. United States--Emigration and immigration. Weddings. World War, 1939-1945. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees. Geography…
12. "Ash Camp" photograph album
2010.516.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2010.516.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-1950
…Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this…
13. Fogel, Mermelstein, and Klarman families photograph collection
2005.132.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.132.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1947
… survived, but Irene and Serena were the only surviving children from the family. Irene, Serena, and Rose lived together with their surviving relatives in…
14. Erwin Tepper papers
2015.590.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.590.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2015
undated: 
… learned that an American couple, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, were planning to bring 50 Jewish children from Austria to the United States. Erwin’s parents…
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 …, the material documents how Erwin Tepper was selected as one of 50 children by American philanthropists Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, who sought to rescue…
15. Records relating to the experiences of Danish Jews
Document | Accession Number: 2014.184.1 | RG Number: RG-44.002
Date:
inclusive: 1888-2010
…This collection contains interviews, photo albums, and scrapbooks relating to the experiences of Danish Jews during the war, including escape to…
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 …, December 2015. Scope and content of collection Photo albums, scrapbooks and diaries relating to the experiences of Danish Jews during the war…
16. Susi Cohn Podgurski papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0045 | RG Number: RG-10.286
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1992
bulk: 1938-1947
…). Martin and Toni Cohn married on January 20, 1919. They had two children: Hildelotte (Hilde) Cohn, born on June 14, 1921 and Susi Cohn, born on January 25…
17. Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection
1995.A.0106 Box 4 Folder 11 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0106 | RG Number: RG-10.237
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1986
bulk: 1937-1954
…Joseph and Caroline Schiffmann of Hoppstaedten, Germany had three children: Gustav Schiffmann, Isaak Schiffmann (1856-1910), and Johanna Schiffmann…
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 …, June 2019 Biographical note Joseph and Caroline Schiffmann of Hoppstaedten, Germany had three children: Gustav Schiffmann, Isaak Schiffmann (1856-1910…
18. Nachlass Ruth von Wild (1912-1983)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.90.1 | RG Number: RG-58.044
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1982
Alternate Title:
Ruth von Wild papers
… Swiss School in Barcelona. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War the school was closed and Wild went to England to earn an English diploma. In Aug…
19. Ilse and Horst Abraham papers
2016.538.10 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2016.538.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-2011
…, and had at least two brothers and six sisters. Following World War I, Isidor received an iron cross for his service in the German army. He began selling…
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 … his World War I Iron Cross. She also registered Ilse and Hilde for a Kindertransport to England while her father obtained visas for the family to…
20. Nachlass Erich A. Hausmann
Document | Accession Number: 2012.286 | RG Number: RG-58.026
Date:
inclusive: 1915-2000
Alternate Title:
Personal papers of Erich A. Hausmann
… documentation on helping Jewish refugee children and youth during and after the war. Erich A. Hausmann worked with many organizations as the Schweizer Hilfswerk…