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721. Mother of pearl opera glasses saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.13
Date:
emigration: 1939 July
… survive because he was not given food for many days. Some of Friedrich’s distant relatives in St. Louis, Missouri, sent the family affidavits to help them…
722. Air Raid Service warden armband used prewar by Dutch Jewish resistance member
Object | Accession Number: 2013.437.3
Date:
use: approximately 1936-1940 May
… the Red Cross office to view the lists of those had survived the war. Some of Leo’s paternal aunts and uncles had survived, but most of their family had…
723. Danielle and David Snegg papers
2014.230.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.230.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1990
bulk: circa 1920-1949
… horrific sanitary conditions. Avram likely died before the camp was liberated on April 11, 1945. Fernande survived the war in hiding with the Pliez family…
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 … April 1944, sent on a death march in 1945, and is assumed to have died at either Buchenwald or Gross-Rosen. Danielle survived the war in hiding with the…
724. Coat design, Basel, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.16
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Basel
… both survived the war, and in 1949, they immigrated to the United States. Gertrud, 77, died in July 1978, in Philadelphia. Dorit, 75, died on December 5…
725. Embroidered purple tallit bag used by two Hungarian rabbis
1990.245.6_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.6 a
Date:
received: 1923 December 06
use: 1923 December 06-1952 March 29
… to death in a sanitarium after the nurse who was caring for her began stealing her food. Ferenc, his wife, and daughter survived the war in hiding and…
726. Casimier Claude Hampel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.298.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
… members of her family. None had survived. Since much of Warsaw was in ruins, a Jewish aid organization sent her to the city of Lodz to find housing. They…
727. Castle-shaped Havdalah spice box (besamim) owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.5
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1850-approximately 1935
emigration: 1939-1949
… 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…
728. Karliner family papers
1999.3.32 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1999.3.32
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-1951
… Moissons Nouvelles, where he survived the war. On August 26, 1942, French gendarmes raided the OSE home at Chaumont and arrested all the children over the…
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 … underground sent Walter to Saint Julien, France to live at a boys’ home managed by the Moissons Nouvelles, where he survived the war. On August 26, 1942, French…
729. Cream-colored underskirt with a diamond pattern owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.9
Date:
creation: 1901-1914
emigration: 1939 February
… the majority of Herta and Leo’s relatives still living in Europe had perished. Fritz’s wife, Sidi, and son, Paul, had survived in hiding, and joined…
730. Family; ritual circumcision; children at play
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Film | Accession Number: 2014.524 | RG Number: RG-60.1522 | Film ID: 4104
Film Title:
Family events -- Maurits Schaap -- amateur
Date:
Event: 1935-1939?
Duration:
00:28:46
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… Vleeschhouwer, survived the war and moved to Israel.…
731. Almanacs
Object | Accession Number: 1999.282.6
Date:
publication/distribution: 1939
Title:
Ararát évkönyv zsidó Magyar almanach
Subtitle:
AZ 1939 (5699-5700) évre
…, which they survived by living in hiding in Budapest.…
732. White knitted lace doily with a center flower saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.3
Date:
creation: approximately 1903-1912
emigration: 1939 July
… survive because he was not given food for many days. Some of Friedrich’s distant relatives in St. Louis, Missouri, sent the family affidavits to help them…
733. Milton Shurr papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.112.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1945
…; soldiers were looting and corpses were piled everywhere. Milton was faced with the enormous task of caring for the approximately 15,000 surviving prisoners…
734. Blue dotted white handkerchief received by Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2011.412.2
Date:
commemoration: 1939 February 22
… shot. Of the family members who stayed on Europe, only one cousin survived. Ruth married Milton Zimbler on June 1, 1958, and they had two children…
735. Military ID tag issued to identify a Jewish volunteer in the British Army
2004.616.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.616.3
Date:
issue: approximately 1939
… more concerned with helping people survive.The next day, the building manager brought Eva to meet Polgar, who offered to hide Eva in his apartment. He…
736. Partial gold dental bridge with crown owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.4
Date:
emigration: 1939 February
… the majority of Herta and Leo’s relatives still living in Europe had perished. Fritz’s wife, Sidi, and son, Paul, had survived in hiding, and joined…
737. Markheim, Feldman, Orzech, and Silberspitz families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.319.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-2000
… family immigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles, California where they were reunited with Michael’s surviving siblings. Most of…
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 … United States and settled in Los Angeles, California where they were reunited with Michael’s surviving siblings. Most of Michael’s immediate family…
738. Hana Wieder collection.
Document | Accession Number: 2000.406.1
Date:
creation: 1929-1956
… Auschwitz death camp. 1,200 of those deported Jews survived the war. Hudes, who was pregnant again, entered “Maison Maternal”, home for unwed mothers, where…
739. Commemorative silver plaque presented to a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.12
Date:
received: 1927-1943
… to death in a sanitarium after the nurse who was caring for her began stealing her food. Ferenc, his wife, and daughter survived the war in hiding and…
740. Lieber and Löw families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.521.2
Date:
inclusive: 1870-1968
bulk: 1920-1947
… during the war. They escaped with help from the local population, and survived the war with René’s girlfriend Jeanne Veraart at her family’s farm. Peter…
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 … with help from the local population, and survived the war with René’s girlfriend Jeanne Veraart at her family’s farm. Peter later briefly lived in Israel…