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1. John and Harriet Isaack papers
1992.53.45 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1992.53.45
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1991
… the Hongkew ghetto. John became a camp guard, and Hermann died of dysentery. John and Harriet survived the war, immigrated to California in 1947, and…
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 …. John and Harriet survived the war, immigrated to California in 1947, and became American citizens in 1952. John’s father committed suicide before…
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2. Löwenstein and Stern families papers
2017.661.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 6a
Document | Accession Number: 2017.661.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1981
…. 1913). Alfred and a friend fled Germany for Shanghai aboard the MN Victoria in 1939. He survived the war in Shanghai and immigrated to the United States…
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 … separately fled Germany for Shanghai aboard the MN Victoria in 1939, survived the Holocaust in Shanghai, and later married in the United States. Also contains…
3. Meyerstein and Echt families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.393.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2015
bulk: 1930-1983
… the family immigrated to Shanghai where they survived the Holocaust. In February 1947 they immigrated to the Dominican Republic and settled in Sosúa…
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 … experiences of Werner’s second wife, Ruth Echt, whose family fled Gross-Kuhren (Primorye, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) in 1939 for Shanghai, where they survived…
4. Arnold Hartmann correspondence
2000.63 Box 1 Folder 18 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2000.63
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1949
… to have died in La Paz in 1941 or 1942. Margarete Armer Goldberger, Marianna Armer, and Selma Weissfisch survived the war in Shanghai, and Selma…
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 … Goldberger, Marianna Armer, and Selma Weissfisch survived the war in Shanghai, and Selma Weissfisch eventually immigrated to Israel. System of…
5. Max Schmeidler papers
2004.88.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2004.88.2
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1963
… survived polio and encephalitis in 1943 and lived in the Hongkew ghetto. He immigrated to the United States in 1947, and his parents, who survived the…
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 … was awarded a Police Distinguished Conduct Medal. He survived polio and encephalitis in 1943 and lived in the Hongkew ghetto. He immigrated to the…
6. Walter Schnell papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.171
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1939
… visa. Walter then decided to go to Shanghai, China in May 1939 where a visa was not required for entry. He survived the Holocaust in Shanghai and worked…
7. Langer family papers
2017.616.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.616.1
Date:
inclusive: 1906-2009
… 1938. They survived the Holocaust in Shanghai and later immigrated to the United States. Ignatz Langer (1893-1960) was born on 22 April 1893 in Lwów…
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 … and Stefanie Langer emigrated from Vienna, Austria to Shanghai, China after the German annexation of Austria in 1938. They survived the Holocaust in…
8. Gabi Rosberger collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.7.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1950
…, vase, and figurines. Paul never returned from the front with the Czech Army. Blanka survived Auschwitz and retrieved the family heirlooms. Blanka had a…
9. Chaim and Rita Wind collection
2017.372.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 2017.372.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1952
… with their families. Although the Wind siblings survived the Holocaust their parents perished in the course of deportations from the Tarnow ghetto in…
10. 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
… August 14, Japan surrendered to the US. The Kupinski family learned that Slawa’s brothers had survived in France, but that her parents were killed in the…
11. Flusser and Rosenbaum families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.213.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1965
bulk: 1938-1965
… died of injuries after the war. Her other brothers all survived the Holocaust after fleeing Europe. Blanka married Rudolf Flusser (1903-1981) in 1926…
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 … (from a previous marriage) was in a forced labor camp during the Holocaust, and died of injuries after the war. Her other brothers all survived the…
12. 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
… August 14, Japan surrendered to the US. The Kupinski family learned that Slawa’s brothers had survived in France, but that her parents were killed in the…
13. John William Fisher papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.261.1
Date:
inclusive: 1884-1974
… Nelly and her husband Laci Reichenberg survived the Holocaust in Palestine. His mother Berta perished at Auschwitz, along with eight of his siblings and…
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 … at least 1949. His sister Nelly and her husband Laci Reichenberg survived the Holocaust in Palestine. His mother Berta perished at Auschwitz, along…
14. 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
… August 14, Japan surrendered to the US. The Kupinski family learned that Slawa’s brothers had survived in France, but that her parents were killed in the…
15. Siegmund Sobel papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.1.1
Date:
inclusive: 1873-1965
bulk: 1919-1963
… in 1942. Both of Siegmund’s sisters survived the Holocaust in Buenos Aires. In 1948, Siegmund and Gertrude began planning to emigrate from Shanghai…
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 … the Shanghai Refugee Hospital. Gertrude’s mother, Viktoria, also joined them in Shanghai, but died there in 1942. Both of Siegmund’s sisters survived…
16. Rabbi William Z. Dalin family papers
2005.108.2 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2005.108.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1872-1968
bulk: 1938-1948
… the Holocaust, but his brother survived in Palestine.…
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 … Holocaust, but his brother survived in Palestine. Helene Dreydel (born Helene Jakob) was born on 9 November 1914 in Wolfskehlen, Riedstadt, Germany to…
17. Annemarie Warschauer papers
2012.244.1 Box 2 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.244.1
Date:
inclusive: 1896-2003
bulk: 1912-1952
… surname to Werner. Egon’s parents had survived the war in hiding in Berlin. In 1947, they arrived in the US and settled in Baltimore, Maryland. Egon…
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
… for survival. ORT was most active in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania. In Warsaw, the German authorities only allowed…
19. Stolz and White families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.447.2
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2003
bulk: 1940-1960
…. She met Dorian White in New York and they married on September 11, 1946 and had a son, Ronald. Erika's immediate family survived the war, but her…
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 … they married on September 11, 1946 and had a son, Ronald. Erika's immediate family survived the war, but her grandfather, Efraim Stolz, was deported to…
20. Schulhof family papers
2017.133.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2017.133.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1882-1999
bulk: 1903-1948
… (later Vera Dvorak, 1921-2006) was the only family member to survive the camp. Charlotte’s father Herman and her stepmother Margit both perished at…
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 … survive the camp. Charlotte’s father Herman and her stepmother Margit both perished at Auschwitz. Her sister Katalin was deported to Auschwitz, and then to…