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1. Enameled porcelain vase with a floral pattern owned by Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1925-approximately 1945
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
…Enameled porcelain vase with a floral pattern owned by Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto…
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2. Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.6
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1940
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
…Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto…
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3. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.7
Date:
manufacture: 1870-1948
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
…Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto…
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4. Folding Fan owned by a Japanese aid coordinator for Jewish refugees in Shanghai
2003.464.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.464.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… reduced the value of the community as a resource in the eyes of many Japanese officials. In 1943, the Japanese military forced Jewish refugees into ghettos…
5. Leo Arnfeld papers
1990.16.99 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 1990.16.99
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1958
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … • Series 5: Printed materials, 1945 Indexing terms Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Pharmacists--Poland--Warsaw. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. Hidden children…
6. John and Harriet Isaack papers
1992.53.45 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1992.53.45
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1991
…John Isaack (1912-2008) was born Johannes Isaack in Berlin to Felix and Rosa Isaack. He worked for the Jewish Kulturbund as a set painter alongside…
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 … of the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau (DALJEWCIB) Harbin-Shanghai (RG-68.114M) appear to include a file on the Isaacks. Accruals…
7. Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers
1995.A.0250 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0250
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-circa 1959
…, who he met in the Shanghai ghetto, and both left for the United States in 1947. The couple settled in New York City, and changed their last name to…
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 …, first to China and later to the United States. Also included are copies of the Shanghai Jewish Chronicle (Shanghai Echo), a German newspaper published…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. Solomon Bergstein papers
1995.A.0682.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0682.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1992
…Jewish ghettos--China--Shanghai.…
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 …‐‐China—Shanghai Pharmacists‐‐Austria‐‐Vienna. Pharmacists‐‐China‐‐Shanghai. Jewish ghettos‐‐China— Shanghai. Drugstores‐‐Austria—Vienna. Jewish…
11. Flusser and Rosenbaum families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.213.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1965
bulk: 1938-1965
…Jewish ghettos--Shanghai--China.…
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 …) Wildflecken (Displaced persons camp) Topical Subject: Jews--Austria--Vienna. Jewish ghettos--Shanghai--China. Refugees, Jewish--China--Shanghai. Displaced…
12. Koreshige Inuzuka papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.464.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1965
… reduced the value of the community as a resource in the eyes of many Japanese officials. In 1943, the Japanese military forced Jewish refugees into ghettos…
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 … Koreshige Inuzuka who was in charge of the Bureau of Jewish Refugee Affairs in Shanghai. FOLDER I Subfolder: 1. Letter from Kiyoko Shinmei to Koreshige…
13. Eric Bergtraun papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.24.37
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1953
bulk: 1944-1948
… Austria for Shanghai shortly after Kristallnacht in 1938 and was forced to live in the Hongkew Ghetto for three years as the war intensified. Eric was…
14. Chaim and Rita Wind collection
2017.372.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 2017.372.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1952
… Jewish schools. Throughout the 1930s the Winds experienced growing antisemitism in Germany. In fall 1938, Chaim and his brothers went in to hiding to avoid…
15. Ernest G. Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.243.322 | RG Number: RG-10.236
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1980
…. At his primary school in Breslau, Ernst was one of only two Jewish children in his class. He frequently experienced antisemitism from both teachers and…
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 … Koratkowski families through their activities in the Jewish community in the Hongkew Ghetto. Kurt Redlich (1903‐1983), a lawyer born in Prerau, Austria (now…
16. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.22.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1983
bulk: 1930-1948
… 819 on Sugihara’s list, his wife Maria was number 720. While in Japan he became a representative of the Jewish Agency and a secretary of the World…
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 … in Japan he became a representative of the Jewish Agency and a secretary of the World Jewish Congress. Most of Ilutovich’s family perished. In 1941…
17. Harpuder family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2010.240.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1952
… ordered that all Jewish refugees move into a ghetto in the Hongkew district. Their landlord, who was a Jewish refugee, with the help of Japanese authorities…
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 … ordered that all Jewish refugees move into a ghetto in the Hongkew district. Their landlord, who was a Jewish refugee, with the help of Japanese authorities…
18. The Archives of the World ORT Union Head Office
Document | Accession Number: 2019.190.1 | RG Number: RG-68.219
Date:
inclusive: 1880-1970
bulk: 1920-1970
…World ORT is the world’s largest Jewish education and vocational training non-governmental organization. Obschestvo Remeslenovo i. Zemledelcheskovo…
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 … ~incl : draft of contract between ORT and OSE 4944508 ORT-23 ORT collection The Jewish Reconstruction Fund, Berlin, London, Paris - Board of directors and…
19. Les Salter papers
2007.205.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2007.205.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1955
… Dachau concentration camp. After his return, his business was taken away from him because he was Jewish. The only work he was able to get was temporary…
20. Erwin Marx papers
1990.283.13 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1990.283.13 | RG Number: RG-28.011
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1970
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… loss of his business, his confinement to the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, illnesses, and emigration costs.…
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 … Germany for his incarceration in Dachau, the loss of his business, his confinement to the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, illnesses, and emigration costs…