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1. Union Mondiale OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.17.1 | RG Number: RG-68.213
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2007
bulk: 1940-1950
Alternate Title:
World Union OSE-Paris
… children in Vichy France during World War II. Once the war ended, OSE faced the daunting task of accompanying to adulthood the children who had been orphaned…
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 … the Institute for Rheumatic and Cardiac Children in Kfar-Malal for the year 1959 OSE/Par 63 Activités dans les différents pays OSE Israël…
2. Wald and Breuer families papers
2015.473.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2015.473.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1946
undated: 
… of the "50 children" to go with Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus to the United States. The children arrived in New York on 3 June 1939 via the SS President…
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 …, Austria. Julius Wald, son of Markus and Helene Wald, was one of the 50 children in Vienna rescued by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus in spring 1939. Included are…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Nachlass Elsa Lüthi-Ruth
Document | Accession Number: 2012.285 | RG Number: RG-58.025
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1969
Alternate Title:
Personal papers of Elsa Lüthi-Ruth
… Children Harmed by War (Schweizerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für kriegsgeschädigte Kinder, SAK), and for children’s aid for the Swiss Red Cross. Together…
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 …-1934 Ausbildung zur Krankenschwester in Luzern, Zürich und Bern. Danach reiste sie 1934 in die USA. 1935-1937 war Elsa Ruth im Ospedale Internationale in…
6. Zehngut and Weiss families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.504.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2005
… Vienna. Stella had two sisters, Olga Zehngut Uhrmacher and Annie Zehngut Tager. Olga Uhrmacher had two children, Herta and Freddy. Olga’s husband left his…
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 … the Zehngut and Weiss families from Austria. The papers document the immigration of Inge and Kitty Weiss among the “50 children” brought to the United…
7. 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…
8. Fritzi Klein Natko papers
2015.530.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2015.530.1
Date:
inclusive: 1901-2011
bulk: 1937-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… part of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus's "50 children" transport. After spending the summer at the Brith Sholomville camp, Fritzi went to live with a distant…
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 …. Jewish children--Austria. Refugee children--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Austria. Vienna (Austria) Austria--Emigration and…
9. Israelitischer Frauenverein Zürich Archiv
Document | Accession Number: 2017.42.1 | RG Number: RG-58.033
Date:
inclusive: 1886-2003
Alternate Title:
Jewish Women's Association Zürich Archive
… IFZ undertook to organize the holiday colonies. In the Second World War the home also served as a refugee home for children. E.g. 40 children from the…
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 … konnten die fürsorgerischen Tätigkeiten des Frauenvereins und der Gemeinde besser koordiniert werden. Eine wichtige Aufgabe des IFZ war die Führung des…
10. 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…
11. Lenneberg and Brünell families papers
2004.566.4 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.566.4
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. Prior to the war Siegmund was married to Hertha and they had two children, Hannelore and Herbert, who perished during the war. Ursula wrote a memoir of…
12. Haganah War Ribbon bar awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter for his postwar support in Palestine
2012.473.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.14
Date:
issue: 1958-1966
commemoration: 1920-1948
… wife lived nearby. Occasionally, parents and children would meet briefly on street corners. The workshop was maintained by the Germans in case its metal…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. Joseph and Rosalie Holler papers
2002.437.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2002.437.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1967
…, Austria (now Przemysl, Poland) to Jakob Walker (1876-1941) and Gisela Walker. They lived in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) with their children…
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 … biographical materials, correspondence, reparation files, photographs, printed materials, and children’s books documenting the Hollers’ lives in Stettin…
16. Nachlass Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (1916-2010)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.47.1 | RG Number: RG-58.038
Date:
inclusive: 1916-2007
Alternate Title:
Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet papers
… saved twelve Jewish children and adults by helping them illegally cross the border into Switzerland. The escape route ran from La Hille to Chappelle-des…
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 …21.06.2016 Seite 2 Der Bestand war grösstenteils von Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet vorgeordnet. Diese Ordnung wurde möglichst beibehalten und wenn vorhanden mit den von…
17. Selected records from the Dr. Boris Tschlénoff collection
Document | Accession Number: 2006.368 | RG Number: RG-43.085M
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1951
…Contains documents collected by, and pertaining to, Dr. Benzion Boris Arkadevitch Tschlénoff, a Ukrainian-Jewish doctor employed by OSE Geneva. Dr…
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 … children’s relief associations. 12. Swiss entrance visas. 13. Camps, reception centers, and passage into Switzerland. Box VI. 14. Refugees…
18. "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…
19. Grünberg family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1993.154
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1944
… on June 5, 1932. They had two children Erich Grünberg (later Gruen, b. May 7, 1935) and Kitty Grünberg (b. March 5, 1938). They immigrated to the…
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 … married on June 5, 1932. They had two children Erich Grünberg (later Gruen, b. May 7, 1935) and Kitty Grünberg (b. March 5, 1938). They immigrated to the…
20. Zyzniewski family papers
2014.451.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2014.451.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1957
… of Wieslaw Zyzniewski (Wesley Zineski) and his family, Polish Catholics, originally from Łódź, before, during and after World War II, during which…
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 … World War II. The Zyzniewski family was Catholic and active in the Polish resistance. The papers contain identification documents for Zygmunt Zyzniewski…