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1. Eva Ostwalt papers
2008.86.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.86.1
Date:
inclusive: 1862-2007
bulk: 1905-2007
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…. Although their family was Jewish, they had assimilated to the German community in Cologne. Emil belonged to the board of the Cologne Conservatory, and…
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 …, a Jewish woman who was eventually imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp during World War II. The photographs mainly consist of her family…
2. Oscar Koppel papers
1995.A.0402 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0402
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1947
… practicing law because of his Jewish faith. In an effort to escape further persecution, Oscar moved his family to the United States. In June of 1934 the family…
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 … States. Lawyers—Germany. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Germany‐‐Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors‐‐United States. Jewish families‐‐Germany…
3. Embroidered blue tefillin bag carried by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.1
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
…Embroidered blue tefillin bag carried by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding…
4. The World Jewish Congress New York Office. Series D. Relief and Rescue Department
Document | Accession Number: 2006.214 | RG Number: RG-67.011M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1969
bulk: 1940-1950
…The World Jewish Congress New York Office. Series D. Relief and Rescue Department…
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 … persons camps and survivors after the war; 4. Child Care division, 1942-1953: Established in November 1945. Materials related to the establishment of Jewish…
5. Head tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.2
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
… were leaders in the survivor community and helped found the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization, the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in…
6. Chesterfield cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.19
Date:
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
…Chesterfield cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy…
7. 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
… from Russia to escape conscription in the Russian Army. Benjamin was later caught by the Russians, but was ransomed by the Jewish Community. Max…
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 … ransomed by the Jewish Community. Max’s brothers immigrated to Vienna, Austria where they sang in the opera. In 1914, Max arrived in Prague with his mother…
8. Hidden Child Foundation/ADL records
Document | Accession Number: 2017.478.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2016
…The Hidden Child Foundation is a volunteer-run organization supporting Holocaust survivors who were hidden as children during the Holocaust. With the…
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 …) • Series 9: Audiovisual materials, 1991-2013 Indexing terms Hidden Child Foundation/ADL. Hidden children (Holocaust) Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish…
9. Sara Szrojt papers
2011.309.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2011.309.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1950
bulk: 1941
… before and after the war in Lublin and images of a Jewish cooperative of upholsterers and curtain-makers in Wrocław, Poland c. 1950. Some of the…
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 ….org for further information about this collection http://collections.ushmm.org Lawyers‐‐Poland‐‐Lublin. Holocaust survivors‐‐Poland‐‐Lublin. Jewish…
10. Erich and Margot Leyser photograph collection
1999.321.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.321.1
Date:
creation: 1939-1946
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
11. Nussbaum family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.281.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1991
…Jewish refugees--England.…
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 …--Germany--Berlin. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations. Berlin (Germany) CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Correspondence, approximately…
12. John and Margot Loewenberg papers
1995.A.0265.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0265.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1947
… nearby Jewish synagogues and businesses were destroyed. Margot was then sent back to her family in Frankfurt, where the Germans had confiscated Julius…
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 …)‐‐England. Unaccompanied refugee children‐‐England. Holocaust survivors‐‐Germany. Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Frankfurt am Main. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945…
13. Geneva Office of the Zionist Organization and of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (L22)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.111 | RG Number: RG-68.127M
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1948
…Geneva Office of the Zionist Organization and of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (L22)…
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 …. Zionism--History--20th century. Refugees, Jewish--Europe--Registers. Emigration and immigration. Holocaust survivors. Europe--Emigration and immigration…
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 …RG‐68.127M 2011.111. Geneva Office of the Zionist Organization and of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (L22). List of Restricted Files Reels 32…
14. Ernest Michel papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.370.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1976
… the 1981 World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, which took place in Jerusalem and was the first, large-scale reunion of Holocaust survivors…
15. Kleinberg family papers
2011.136.2 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2011.136.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1946
bulk: 1939-1941
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … (Concentration camp). Jewish ghettos‐‐Poland. Jewish ghettos‐‐Ukraine‐‐L′viv. Lawyers‐‐Poland. Photographers‐‐Poland. Forced labor‐‐Soviet Union. Holocaust…
16. Bleier and Weisz families papers
2016.162.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.162.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2005
…. Her parents owned a restaurant in Budapest until 1939 when anti-Jewish business laws forced them to close. After Hungary was occupied by the Nazis in…
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 …: Holocaust survivors--Hungary--Budapest. Holocaust survivors--Romania. Jewish families--Hungary--Budapest. Jewish families--Romania. Jewish businesspeople…
17. Augusta Treulich Wrchovszká and Alexander Wrchovszky papers
2001.46 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2001.46 | RG Number: RG-10.218
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2001
… to send his mother parcels in Theresienstadt. These files also contain a Nazi propaganda sticker with a picture of a Jewish star and a German caption…
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 …. Christian converts from Judaism. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945) Holocaust survivors. Bohemia and Moravia (Protectorate, 1939‐1945) Brandýs nad Labem…
18. Silver clothes brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.3
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
…Silver clothes brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding…
19. "Ash Camp" photograph album
2010.516.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2010.516.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-1950
… to candid family photographs, there are also photographs of life in Shanghai, the "Ash Camp," likely a camp for Jewish refugees in Shanghai in 1945…
20. Kessler family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.586.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1869-2015
bulk: 1914-1998
… Otto Kessler (later John, nicknamed Hansi) was born on 26 November 1928 in Vienna. The Kesslers were then Jewish, but not actively religious. In 1934…
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 …--Austria. Jewish refugees--Cuba--Havana. Holocaust survivors--United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations. World War, 1914-1918--Veterans…