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1. Private papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (A440)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.14.1 | RG Number: RG-68.199M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1989
… Germany, during the 1930s, and director of the Youth Aliyah office in London during the critical years of World War II. From 1933 to 1938 she worked in Nazi…
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 … Bureau from Henrietta Szold and Hans Beyth regarding the slaughter of Jewish Children, Women and Men 1935 1962 108 A440\6 Protocol of the Executive…
2. Fringed apron embroidered with a blue and orange geometric band recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.16
Date:
creation: 1941
recovered: 1945 July
… during his military service in the Hungarian Army in World War I (1914-1918.) He was a farmer, and also owned several general goods, butcher, and grocery…
3. Brown cloth and leather trimmed suitcase used by an American internee
2018.426.2 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945 December
… invaded Poland, and two days later France and Britain declared war on Germany, officially starting World War II. In May 1940, Germany invaded France and…
4. Drawing of women washing clothes at a washhouse by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.24
Date:
creation: approximately 1941
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940
Artwork Title:
Femmes internees au lavoir a Gurs
Alternate Title:
Women doing their laundry, Camp de Gurs, Version III
… to continue her studies at the Ranson Academie and permanently adopted the French surname Andrieux. Britain and France declared war on Germany on…
5. Masha Rolnikaite papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.436.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-2015
… Vilnius was transferred to Lithuanian control, however, the family opted to move there, and it was there they were living when World War II broke out, and…
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 … move there, and it was there they were living when World War II broke out, and the city was first occupied by Soviet troops in June 1940, and following…
6. Nelly Rossmann family papers
2005.546.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2005.546.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1990
bulk: 1932-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… World War II began. Michael and Nelly remained in England, living with her aunt’s family. Nelly was able to get work as a graphic desiger for Dei Zeitung…
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 … from 1916-1917; notebooks of hers and her brother Wilhelm (Willy) Schwabacher; family photographs; a post-war photograph album of family life in England…
7. Drawing of a man by a German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.85
Date:
1940-1942
Artwork Title:
Male internee on his straw-sack
… to continue her studies at the Ranson Academie and permanently adopted the French surname Andrieux. Britain and France declared war on Germany on…
8. Nachlass Elsa Lüthi-Ruth
Document | Accession Number: 2012.285 | RG Number: RG-58.025
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1969
Alternate Title:
Personal papers of Elsa Lüthi-Ruth
… of World War II she became a member of the Women's Aid Service (Frauenhilfsdienst, FHD) and later she worked for the Swiss Labor Association for…
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 …-1934 Ausbildung zur Krankenschwester in Luzern, Zürich und Bern. Danach reiste sie 1934 in die USA. 1935-1937 war Elsa Ruth im Ospedale Internationale in…
9. Skirt made by a German Jewish woman to demonstrate her sewing capabilities
Object | Accession Number: 2017.298.2
Date:
creation: after 1936-before 1941
… and France had declared war on Germany in September 1939, the United States remained neutral until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941…
10. Pressbook cover for the film “A Yank in the R.A.F.” (1941)
2018.590.71 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.71
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1941 September 26
…The Cinema Judaica Collection consists of more than 1,200 objects relating to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli…
11. Szabo family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0006.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1996
… received a United States visa and immigrated in May 1939. She lived with distant relatives in Passaic, New Jersey. After World War I, Viktor’s village became…
12. Portrait of an older man by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.81 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.81
Date:
1941
Artwork Title:
Professor Erich Caro
… to continue her studies at the Ranson Academie and permanently adopted the French surname Andrieux. Britain and France declared war on Germany on…
13. Oral history interview with Magda Weigl Heath
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.97.1 | RG Number: RG-50.626.0001
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2009
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sarah Cristal donated her grandmother's oral history interview and copies of her letters and photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial…
14. Lobby Card for the film “A Yank in the R.A.F.” (1941)
2018.590.70 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.70
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1941 September 26
…The Cinema Judaica Collection consists of more than 1,200 objects relating to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli…
15. Geheime Staatspolizei-Staatspolizeileitstelle Düsseldorf (RW 0058)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.457.1 | RG Number: RG-14.120
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1944
Alternate Title:
Gestapo Düsseldorf
… Deutscher Frontkämpferbund (NSDFB); Jungdeutscher Orden; Schwarze Front; unions; foreign laborers; prisoners of war; youth organizations, media and the press…
16. Nachlass Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (1916-2010)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.47.1 | RG Number: RG-58.038
Date:
inclusive: 1916-2007
Alternate Title:
Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet papers
…Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (1916-2010) was a Swiss helper and human rights activist. Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet grew up in the Vallée de Joux , in 1940…
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 …21.06.2016 Seite 2 Der Bestand war grösstenteils von Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet vorgeordnet. Diese Ordnung wurde möglichst beibehalten und wenn vorhanden mit den von…
17. Two-sided drawing of a portrait of a woman and several abstract portraits by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.57 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.57
Date:
creation: 1941
Series Title:
Marseille – Police Center Hotel Terminus du Port - 1941
Artwork Title:
Mutti Klein - Portrait
… to continue her studies at the Ranson Academie and permanently adopted the French surname Andrieux. Britain and France declared war on Germany on…
18. Self-portrait by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.79 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.79
Date:
creation: approximately 1940-1941
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940
Artwork Title:
Undated Self Portrait
… to continue her studies at the Ranson Academie and permanently adopted the French surname Andrieux. Britain and France declared war on Germany on…
19. Nachlass Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.91.1 | RG Number: RG-58.045
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1982
Alternate Title:
Elisabeth Eidenbenz papers
… work relied on voluntary donations from Europe, but after the start of World War II, funds dried up while refugees began to arrive from France and the…
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 … spanische Königin Sofia, Madrid, 14.2.2006 2006 16 Stück Innen-, Aussen- und Porträtaufnahmen der Verleihung Hinweis: - Elisabeth Eidenbenz war an der…
20. Nachlass Luise Wetter (1917-1991)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.89.1 | RG Number: RG-58.043
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1991
Alternate Title:
Luise Wetter papers
…Luise Wetter (1917-1991) was a teacher and aid worker in Switzerland for refugee children during and after the war..…
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 … Emili (geb. Keller); Geschwister Margrit und Martin (welcher ebenfalls in der Kinderhilfe tätig war); Gymnasium in Winterthur; 1939 Lehrer-Diplom…