Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Search

Search Results

1. Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.661.2 Cover
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.2
Date:
emigration: 1939-1947
…Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto…
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
2. 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
…Castle-shaped Havdalah spice box (besamim) owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto…
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
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…
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
4. 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…
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
5. 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…
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
6. Illustrated postcard with finger holes owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.8
Date:
emigration: 1939-1949
…Illustrated postcard with finger holes owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto…
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
7. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.273 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.273
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
…Jewish ghettos--China--Shanghai.…
8. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.272 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.272
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
…Jewish ghettos--China--Shanghai.…
9. Shanghai Volunteer Corps nightstick issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.274 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.274
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
…Jewish ghettos--China--Shanghai.…
10. 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…
11. 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.…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … • Series 5: Printed materials, 1945 Indexing terms Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Pharmacists--Poland--Warsaw. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. Hidden children…
12. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … of the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau (DALJEWCIB) Harbin-Shanghai (RG-68.114M) appear to include a file on the Isaacks. Accruals…
13. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …, first to China and later to the United States. Also included are copies of the Shanghai Jewish Chronicle (Shanghai Echo), a German newspaper published…
14. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …, and printed materials documenting Jewish refugee life and Ilie Wacs’ participation in Jewish cultural youth organizations in Shanghai. Languages…
15. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …--Berlin. Jews--Austria--Vienna. Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai. Jewish refugees--Illinois--Chicago. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations. Vienna…
16. 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.…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …‐‐China—Shanghai Pharmacists‐‐Austria‐‐Vienna. Pharmacists‐‐China‐‐Shanghai. Jewish ghettos‐‐China— Shanghai. Drugstores‐‐Austria—Vienna. Jewish…
17. Flusser and Rosenbaum families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.213.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1965
bulk: 1938-1965
…Jewish ghettos--Shanghai--China.…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …) Wildflecken (Displaced persons camp) Topical Subject: Jews--Austria--Vienna. Jewish ghettos--Shanghai--China. Refugees, Jewish--China--Shanghai. Displaced…
18. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid available at the Museum:
 … 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…
19. Linden family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0240 | RG Number: RG-10.172
Date:
1939-1995
bulk: 1939-1947
…. The family left Germany in April 1939 for Shanghai, China. They lived in the Hongkew ghetto, the area of Shanghai designated for Jewish refugees by the…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … the German military. Because he was Jewish, he lost his job in 1934. On November 12, 1935, he married Ruth Betty Salomon (b. Cammin, Pomerania, Germany…
20. 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…