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1. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… prewar Krakow, Poland, during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau concentration camps, and after the Holocaust when…
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 …, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Henry Zguda papers include biographical material, correspondence, publications, subject files, and photographs relating…
2. Robert and Louise Brunner papers
2002.152 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2002.152
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1956
… (Louise’s brother) regarding life in Vienna and increasing concerns over the war. Included is a postcard from Agathe stating that the SS is down the street…
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 …) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Robert and Louise Brunner…
3. Isidor Gross papers
2012.433.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2012.433.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1997
bulk: 1936-1945
… Norway where, on December 14, he left Oslo on the SS Bergensfjord and arrived in New York on December 23. He and Markus moved in with Markus’s brother…
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 …, Markus and Isidor fled Germany in 1939. Isidor arrived to the United States aboard the SS Bergenfjord in December 1939. His father had arrived two months…
4. Betty Sklow papers
1999.A.0269 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0269
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1949
bulk: 1939-1940
… of her son-in-law, and his family. On April 26, 1940, Betty departed Antwerp, Belgium on the SS Pennland and arrived in New York on May 16, 1940. The…
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 … disembarkation in the Netherlands, her experiences negotiating travel to the United States, and her journey to the United States aboard the SS Pennland in 1940…
5. 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
… for Italy. In March 1940 William left Italy for the United States sailing about the SS Vulcania. His parents, Fritz and Helene, remained in Europe…
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 … Evil: A Photo- Record of Axis Crime, 1945, which was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library and cataloged under call number D…
6. Ruth Loewenstein papers
2017.613.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.613.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1963
… aboard the SS Cameronia, and arrived in America on September 10. Their sponsors were cousins Bertha and Milton Oettinger. The Loewensteins lived in New…
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 … immigration visas on July 24, 1940, sailed from Glasgow to New York at the end of August aboard the SS Cameronia, and arrived in America on September 10. Their…
7. The Mayos visit relatives in Belgrade, travel on the SS Normandie, and celebrate at home in NY
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Film | Accession Number: 2017.300 | RG Number: RG-60.0149 | Film ID: 4269
Date:
Event: April 14 to July 29, 1937
Duration:
00:11:20
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…The Mayos visit relatives in Belgrade, travel on the SS Normandie, and celebrate at home in NY…
8. Freud family papers
2010.401.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2010.401.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2004
bulk: 1919-1954
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… the Jewish community. In September 1942, Sophie and Esti left Casablanca for Lisbon, Portugal, and on October 23, 1942, they boarded the SS Carvalho…
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 … Esti left Casablanca for Lisbon, Portugal, and on October 23, 1942, they boarded the SS Carvalho Arjuo for the United States. The ship docked in…
9. Newlyweds visit Venice, Bitola, and London
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Film | Accession Number: 2019.152 | RG Number: RG-60.0191 | Film ID: 4352
Film Title:
Julian and Esther Aresty -- home movies
Date:
Event: approximately 1936
Duration:
00:10:08
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…, Stella Nahmias, and her children) again pose for the camera; the children fuss (Rachel Nahmias survived the Holocaust in hiding).HAS, cityscape. Family…
10. British dignitaries visit DC; FDR and Churchill join the Morgenthaus at their farm to relax; Henry Morgenthau films a spot on war bonds
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Film | Accession Number: 2015.255 | RG Number: RG-60.1568 | Film ID: 4121
Date:
Event: 1937-1942
Duration:
00:12:12
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…. and his wife Elinor pose for photographs, perhaps upon their return from France aboard the SS Normandie. Horseback riding, back at the Morgenthau family…
11. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1937-1949
Document | Accession Number: 2016.146.1 | RG Number: RG-68.191M
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1949
… support for refugees passing through Turkey en route to Palestine and to passengers on the SS Drottningholm, a rescue ship used for repatriation of…
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 … RG‐68.191M Reel List RG‐68.191M: 2016.146.1. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1937…
12. Bidding farewell at New York harbor
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Film | Accession Number: 2006.455.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4571 | Film ID: 2834
Film Title:
Visit to Biecz and Europe -- Samuel Jacoby -- home movies
Date:
Event: 1936 August
Duration:
00:00:26
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… Samuel's first visit to his home in Biecz, Poland in 25 years. The family took the SS Champlain and spent two weeks visiting relatives, the synagogue, Jewish…
13. Sol and Sylvia Horwitz visit family in Bessarabia, 1936
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Film | Accession Number: 2019.126 | RG Number: RG-60.1083 | Film ID: 4361
Film Title:
Untitled -- Sol Horwitz -- home movies
Date:
Event: 1936
Duration:
00:09:01
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… current state of his homeland, while Sylvia described the townspeople and their cultural customs. Sylvia returned to NY on July 6, 1936, sailing on the SS…
14. Prewar Jewish life of the Weinlaub (later Vanlaw) family
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Film | Accession Number: 2010.302.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1304 | Film ID: 2908
Film Title:
Weinlaub family -- home movies
Film Collection Title:
Weinlaub Family Collection
Date:
Event: 1930-1931
Duration:
00:11:57
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…. Feeling homesick, Lily decided to visit Germany, and she boarded the SS Europa N. Chatham. She left on October 26, 1930 and sailed to Bremen for a visit…
15. Breth family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.481.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-2017
… Kingdom aboard the SS Ile de France, arriving on July 26. Adele gave birth to her son Steven in Borås on August 26, and they joined Fred in New York in…
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 …, correspondence, and a photograph album. The biographical materials document Czech Holocaust survivor Fred Breth and his wife and son, Adele and Steven, who fled…
16. Goldmann family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.639.32
Date:
inclusive: 1876-1974
… his aunts, Kurt obtained a visa in January 1939. He took a train to Stockholm, then Gothenburg, and sailed aboard the SS Gripsholm, arriving in New York…
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 … United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018. The collections previously numbered 2018.660.1 and 2018.639.1 have been incorporated into this collection…
17. Gumpert family correspondence
Document | Accession Number: 2013.461.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1941
… Germany. On April 19, 1936, Walter and Erna sailed on the SS Eubee to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. On May 21, they arrived in Montevideo, Uruguay, where they…
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 … decided to escape Germany, and on April 19, 1936 they sailed aboard the SS Eubee to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, then moved to Montevideo, Uruguay, on May 21…
18. Our Lady of Czestochowa medal given to a Polish Jewish woman hiding as a Catholic laborer
1988.154.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.2
Date:
received: 1943 June
commemoration: 1932
… stopped and questioned by an SS officer. He realized she was Jewish but she bribed him with her last gold coin and he let her go. She went to the Vistula…
19. Henckels table knife with a scalloped edge brought with German Jewish prewar refugee
2012.493.3 left
Object | Accession Number: 2012.493.3
Date:
emigration: 1939
manufacture: 1900-1939
… friend, Frau Kehrli, arrived at the children’s home to take 8-year-old Nellie to Paris, France, and then on to Cherbourg. Nellie boarded the SS Deutschland…
20. A street vendor sells his wares on a street in a Jewish neighborhood of New York City.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 66189
Date:
1935
… member of Hadassah, and was both Regional President and National Vice-President. Though Ruth's immediate family escaped the Holocaust, her great…