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861. Striped black coatdress with belt made by a German Jewish woman
2002.474.3 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.3 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1938
…. Gertrud’s brother Ludwig survived several concentration camps, but the rest of their family perished. In late 1945, Dorit was sent to Lüneburg, Germany…
862. 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…
863. Embroidered table runner with a floral and insect design brought with German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.151.3
Date:
received: before 1938
… survived by hiding in a forest bunker near Lvov. When that became too dangerous, her grandfather took her and they both hid in a Christian woman’s house.…
864. Hebrew prayer book, carried to Ecuador by a German Jewish refugee family
Object | Accession Number: 2016.538.5
Date:
emigration: 1937-1939 May
publication: 1923
Title:
Siddur S'fat Emet
Alternate Title:
Prayer book of the Language (Word) of Truth
Israelite prayer book
Israelitisches Gebetbuch
… Brummer (1892-1978) and Ingeborg Majewski (later Price, b. 1927), joined them in Quito, having survived the war in France. Hedwig and Claire immigrated to…
865. Theodora Basch Vrančić Klayman photographs
2002.432.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 47
Document | Accession Number: 2002.432.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1959
… survived as prisoners of war, but Erne’s wife and daughter were killed. Their uncle, Josef, had fled to Budapest, Hungary, was briefly in Bergen-Belsen, and…
866. John (Hans) Buchsbaum papers
2016.437.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.437.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2015
undated: 
bulk: 1939-1941
…. Clara Buchsbaum’s brother, Norbert Babad, survived the war in Czechoslovakia, although he was interned at Theresienstadt and reportedly escaped from a…
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 … September 1942, and then a few days later, on 5 October 1942, to Treblinka, where they were murdered. Clara Buchsbaum’s brother, Norbert Babad, survived the…
867. Radzinowicz family papers
2014.213.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2014.213.1
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1984
… liberation of Łódź in January 1945, Anatol and Zofia returned to their hometown, learning that they were the only surviving members of their families…
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 …, learning that they were the only surviving members of their families. Although Anatol never learned what happened to his parents, Zofia learned that her…
868. Beaded hat with a floral pattern brought by a Jewish German refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.151.2
Date:
received: before 1938
… survived by hiding in a forest bunker near Lvov. When that became too dangerous, her grandfather took her and they both hid in a Christian woman’s house.…
869. Schultz and Bodnar families papers
2017.336.1 Box 4 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2017.336.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2015
bulk: 1916-1954
…’s brother György was sent to a forced-labor camp in 1943 but survived the war. Oszkár’s brothers Feri and Lajos and his family perished during the Holocaust.…
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 … sent to a forced-labor camp in 1943 but survived the war. Oszkár’s brothers Feri and Lajos and his family perished during the Holocaust. Scope and…
870. Rosenszajn, Herszkowicz, and Dworzecka families papers
1999.271.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.271.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-1948
… survived imprisonment in Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps. In April 1945 she was transferred from Ravensbrück to Gothenburg, Sweden through the…
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 … the war. Bela Rozenszajn survived imprisonment in Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps. In April 1945 she was transferred from Ravensbrück to…
871. Burned fragments Talmudic commentary recovered during Kristallnacht by a Jewish Austrian girl
2015.337.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.337.2 a-b
Date:
found: 1938 November 09-1938 November 11
emigration: 1940 February 10-1940 February 22
… all of his siblings survived. Mathilde and Samuel settled down and had two sons. Samuel worked as an electrical contractor, and Mathilde was a homemaker…
872. Maier and Gruber families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.709.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-1962
bulk: 1934-1947
… residents were shipped to Treblinka killing center. Erich Gruber did not survive. Ella and Leo’s older daughter Amelia married and had two daughters. She…
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 … did not survive. Ella and Leo’s older daughter Amelia married and had two daughters. She passed away in 1967 while working on her PhD. Their younger…
873. Anne Ranasinghe papers
2018.627.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2018.627.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2017
bulk: 1936-2017
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… conducted bombing raids on London and surrounding areas, and Anne survived the bombing of a theater in East Grinstead. In 1942, as part of her war service and…
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 … perished during the Holocaust. From 1940-1941, the Germans conducted bombing raids on London and surrounding areas, and Anne survived the bombing of a…
874. Kraicer family photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2000.291.1
Date:
creation: 1917-1950
… Brigade, a Palestinian unit within the British Army. No other members of his mother’s or father’s family survived. Icek learned that his mother, Golda, and…
875. Dina Ostrower photographs
2013.48.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2013.48.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1948
… survived under an assumed identity in Poland and then the Soviet Union. In 1948, as the British prepared to withdraw from Palestine, they began permitting…
876. Cantor’s black tufted hat worn by a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.7
Date:
use: after 1922-before 1952
… Rottenstein, who had survived in a Jewish hospital. Erna was very ill, and died a short time later. Ferenc’s mother had been in the same sanatorium where he had…
877. 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
…, Rebecca Adler, survived the war in Berlin; her husband, who was not Jewish, had been able to save her, but both their sons were killed by the Nazis. For two…
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 …) survived the war by moving between Spain and France and immigrated to the United States after the war, and her brother Ulrich (Ulli, aka John Carlisle…
878. Pelvic calipers used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.4
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…. In September, Bruno and Margaret returned to New York, where he opened a private practice. After the war, Bruno learned that his siblings had survived…
879. Elizabeth Lusthaus Strassburger papers
1999.180.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1999.180.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1952
… to hell; he told her yes and to get out. They returned to Krakow and Helena placed Elzbieta in a convent for a week while she looked for surviving…
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 … Helena escaped using false papers and survived the Holocaust in hiding with the Bandyrowa family in Milanówek under the names Maria and Barbara (Basia…
880. Electric retinoscope used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.3
Date:
manufacture: 1893-1945
acquired: after 1932
…. In September, Bruno and Margaret returned to New York, where he opened a private practice. After the war, Bruno learned that his siblings had survived…