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1. Giza Wiernik papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.743.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1958
… decided to immigrate to Palestine, and on July 11, 1947 they boarded the "President Warfield", which was to take them to Palestine. The ship was renamed…
2. Cukier and Cohen families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.586.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-circa 1946
… to Palestine before World War II. His son Jakub Cukier served in the Polish Army with his older, unnamed brother. They were both later imprisoned in…
3. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
undated: 
… Palestine and were placed in Kibbutz Sha’ar HaAmakim. Around 1941, Yehuda was conscripted into a forced labor battalion. He managed to escape from his labor…
4. Handkerchief
2015.563.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.4
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Emigration and immigration--Palestine.…
5. Herbst family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.133.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-circa 2000
bulk: 1940-1955
… and other Jewish refugees boarded a ship to Haifa, Palestine in October 1940. They were denied entry by the British authorities, and deported to…
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 … States in 1940, Adolf’s attempt to get to Palestine, and subsequent deportation to Mauritius in 1940, and Sara’s deportation from Vienna to Izbica transit…
6. Dr. Arthur Kessler papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.183.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2007
bulk: 1922-1947
… place to another. The Kessler family went to Palestine in 1944 where Arthur published several articles on lathyrism and became the director of the Allergy…
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 … survived by going to Bucharest and moving from one place to another. The Kessler family went to Palestine in 1944 where Arthur published several articles on…
7. Jakob Ascher papers
2011.403.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2011.403.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1919-1960
…. They tried to immigrate to Palestine, but the restrictions of the British Mandate didn’t make it possible. Cousins in the United States sent invitations…
8. Itzhak Nachmani papers
2013.491.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 77
Document | Accession Number: 2013.491.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1967
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, and Palestine. Pola and Alec made their way to Teheran and then Palestine where Ignacy rejoined them following his military service. He changed his…
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 … German-occupied Poland, his internment in a Soviet labor camp, his release into the Polish Army, and his service in Palestine, Egypt, and Iraq; a misdated…
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9. Korant and Schwalbe families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.367.1
Date:
inclusive: 1888-2019
bulk: 1888-1988
… Berlin. He lived in Tehran and tried to open a dental practice before moving to Palestine in 1935. No longer having his dental equipment, he worked as a…
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 … Korant), Herbert Schwalbe, and their relatives in Berlin, Teheran, and Palestine as well as their immigration and settlement in the United States…
10. Ruth Rappaport papers
2012.431.1 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2012.431.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-1969
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… and wanted to go to Palestine, but Helene had family in Seattle, Washington, and wanted to go to America. In 1933 anti-Jewish decrees were passed that…
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 … collection also includes extensive correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to Ruth’s work and travels as a journalist in Palestine and Israel from…
11. Menczel, Kahn and Reichnitzer family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.276.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1891-circa 1948
…). Wilhelm left Vienna for Palestine in 1933 and was joined by Fanny in 1934. Fanny briefly returned to Vienna to finish her degree at the University of Vienna…
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 … Frieda Reichnitzer (d. circa 1923). Wilhelm left Vienna for Palestine in 1933 and was joined by Fanny in 1934. Fanny briefly returned to Vienna to finish…
12. Textile with embroidered names
2015.563.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.3
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Emigration and immigration--Palestine.…
13. Period counterfeit Palestinian Currency Board money, 5 Palestine pound note
2017.628.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.628.21
Date:
use: after 1939 April 20-before 1948 September 15
…Period counterfeit Palestinian Currency Board money, 5 Palestine pound note…
14. Victor Bienstock papers
2016.499.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2016.499.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
bulk: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… events from various locations (London, Cairo, Rome, and France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and…
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 … France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and the fate of Jews in Nazi occupied lands. The Victor…
15. Egon Weiss papers
2011.128.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2011.128.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2009
bulk: 1920-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… move to Pilsen. Emil and Olga feared that Egon was at risk of being taken because of his young age and decided to send him to Palestine so he could leave…
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 … Palestine so he could leave Czechoslovakia as soon as possible. They planned for Egon to join them in America once they received their paperwork. Egon…
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16. Teardrop pendant with an engraved inscription
2015.563.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.2
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Emigration and immigration--Palestine.…
17. Fischl and Gerstmann family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.319.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1988
… assistance of the Youth Aliyah organization. That was the last time she saw their parents. Alice took a train to Italy and sailed to Palestine where she lived…
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 … Czechoslovakia and Palestine after Alice was sent to Palestine in 1939 by her parents, as well as Eli Gerstmann and his family in Germany and their immigration to…
18. Youth Aliyah and "Tehran Children" photographs
2017.588.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.588.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1944
…Consists of 11 photographs documenting the arrival of Jewish children and youths in Palestine who were assisted in fleeing Nazi Europe with help from…
19. Klestadt family papers
2014.481.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.481.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2005
bulk: 1919-1942
…. Klestadt in 1935, and they honeymooned in Palestine, then returned to Düsseldorf. Fred was born in Düsseldorf on March 15, 1909 to Moritz and Rahel Aenne…
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 … honeymoon in Palestine in 1935 and letters exchanged between Fred and Thea after they arrive in the United States. There is also one brief letter from the Red…
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20. Margosis family papers
2018.209.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2018.209.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2015
… Iran where he gained citizenship. Schendel joined him in Iran and then they went to Palestine before returning to Europe and settling in Brussels…
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 …, Portugal, from Anna and Willy in Barcelona, Spain (1944) and Palestine (1944-1948); correspondence and writings regarding Isaac’s journalism career…
21. Fellner family papers
2015.563.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.563.1
Date:
inclusive: 1865-circa 2014
bulk: 1901-1957
… Palestine. On October 9, the ship's boiler exploded, and the ship broke in two off of a deserted island under Italian control. The passengers and crew were…
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 … from Vienna in 1938. In 1940, they booked passage on the SS Pentcho, a boat illegally sailing to Palestine. On October 9, the ship's boiler exploded, and…
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22. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… to Nuseirat, Palestine. In February 1944, the unit moved to Quassasin, Egypt. The Polish soldiers were fully trained now and, on February 18, Edward…
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 … of depression. Edward began to document events with sketches and watercolors. The Corps was in Habbaniya, Iraq in March 1943, in Nuseirat, Palestine in…
23. Diary of Nelly Epstein
2018.611.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 94
Document | Accession Number: 2018.611.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935 January 01-1943 January 18
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… to the Black Sea and then to Palestine. Upon arrival Nelly was interned for eight months in a British-run detention camp near Haifa. In January 1943…
24. Estera Horn papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.67.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1936-1944
… Palestine during the war; and two gold-colored metal buttons taken from the donor's coat by her rescuer, Leokadia Wojtkiewicz.…
25. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.22.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1983
bulk: 1930-1948
… Jewish Agency for Palestine in connections with the immigration of Jewish refugees stranded in the Far East.” In July 1941, he served as member of the…
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 …, Leon traveled to Shanghai, China to establish the “Far Eastern Committee representing the Jewish Agency for Palestine in connections with the immigration…
26. Kurt (Chaim) Flaschner papers
2014.277.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2014.277.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1950
… with relatives in Czechoslovakia, then travelling to Italy, where was able to board a ship bound for Palestine, which landed in Haifa, where he initially…
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 … (Chaim) Flaschner, while he was living in Palestine following his emigration from Austria, 1939‐1942, from his parents in Vienna, Josef and Regina…
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27. Esther Lurie papers
1995.A.0989.1 Box 3 Folder 13 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.1 | RG Number: RG-24.022
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1995
… drawing and painting at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. Most of her family emigrated to Palestine in 1934 and Esther joined them there. She worked with…
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 … Royale des Beaux-Arts. Her family immigrated to Palestine in 1934. At the beginning of the war, while visiting her sister, Muta, in Lithuania, Esther was…
28. Miriam and Ruth Renzer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.341.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1937-approximately 1948
…Collection of correspondence, postcards, and photographs, including letters between Ruth Renzer in Palestine and her sister Miriam in England. Ruth…
29. Chaim Posner papers
2017.402.6 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.402.6
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1975
… Palästina Amt, the emigration office of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in Geneva and as the representative of the Jewish Agency Finance Department in Europe…
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 …, Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, and correspondents include several offices of the Palästina Amt, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, Chaim Barlas, Richard…
30. John Stanley Grauel papers
1999.A.0218 Box 4 Folder 15 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0218
Date:
1917-1986
… joined the Christian Council of Palestine (later the American Christian Palestine Committee) in 1942, and in 1944 he joined the Haganah’s efforts to…
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 … Minister. He joined the Christian Council of Palestine (later the American Christian Palestine Committee) in 1942, and in 1944 he joined the Haganah…
31. British Colonial Office : Palestine, original correspondence
Document | Accession Number: 2001.102 | RG Number: RG-59.003M
Date:
1925-1948
bulk: 1930-1948
…British Colonial Office : Palestine, original correspondence…
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 … 1 British Colonial Office: Palestine, Original Correspondence, 1925-1948 (CO 733) RG-59.003M United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100…
32. Furman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.272.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1949
…Yitzhak Furman was born on 5 November 1934 in Petah Tikva, Palestine (Petah Tikva, Israel) to Hanoch Furman and Dina Flaumenbaun (b. 1907). He had…
33. Reconciliation: displaced persons and emigration
Document | Accession Number: 2007.181 | RG Number: RG-59.025M
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1951
…Contains selected files from the War Office, Foreign Office, and Home Office relating to Jewish immigration to Palestine, displaced persons…
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 … selected files from the War Office, Foreign Office, and Home Office relating to Jewish immigration to Palestine, displaced persons, including administration…
34. War Office and successors: registered files (general series), WO 32. Selected records.
Document | Accession Number: 2001.112 | RG Number: RG-59.014M
Date:
1920-1944
…Contains selected records relating to operations in Palestine, disturbances, and the formation of a Jewish Brigade. Materials were copied from…
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 … relating to operations in Palestine, disturbances, and the formation of a Jewish Brigade. Materials were copied from record group WO 32 at the National…
35. Shraga Weil papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.330.1
Date:
inclusive: approximately 1920-1995
… taken in 1943 or 1944, photos from Belgium, photos of Sara Weil with her parents in Bratislava before her aliya to Palestine, and a 1947 photo taken by Z…
36. "Waves, A Memoir, 1929-1950"
Document | Accession Number: 2008.270.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1950
…. Dr. Menn describes his childhood, his family's immigration to Palestine in 1935, their journey back to Poland in 1938 (as his mother did not adjust…
37. Hillel Storch papers
2017.526.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.526.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1985
… Palestine. Records include Franz Goering’s report about the release of Jewish during the White Buses operation, documents about Felix Kersten’s and Walter…
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 … rescue European Jewish along with the World Jewish Congress and the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Records include Franz Goering’s report about the release…
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38. Canetti family photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2018.588.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1924-1968
… Palestine illegally. In December, 1940, Albert, Regine, Rachelle, and Maurice left the port of Varna on the SS Salvador, a rickety ship with no engine or…
39. The Zionist Organization/The Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel-Central Office, London (Z4)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.3.1 | RG Number: RG-68.196M
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1955
…The Zionist Organization/The Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel-Central Office, London (Z4)…
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 …1 THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION/THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR PALESTINE/ISRAEL CENTRAL OFFICE, LONDON (Z4) 2017.3.1, RG-68.196M United States Holocaust Memorial…
40. Rita Oppenheimer Gelman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.525.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1951
… and farming in preparation for immigration to Palestine to work on a kibbutz. On 16 August 1940 Rita left her parents in Berlin to travel to Romania…
41. Joseph Birnberg and Mania Nussenbaum Birnberg papers
2014.412.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2014.412.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1993
…. He married Mania Nussenbaum, a survivor from Zborów, Poland, in 1947. They lived in the New Palestine DP camp and immigrated to the United States in…
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 … and photographs related to Mania, originally of Zborów, Poland (Zboriv, Ukraine), in the New Palestine DP camp in Salzburg. Languages: German, English…
42. Circular letters, Jewish Agency for Palestine.
Document | Accession Number: 2016.186.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1947
…Circular letters, Jewish Agency for Palestine.…
43. War Cabinet and Cabinet: the situation in Palestine
Document | Accession Number: 2002.147 | RG Number: RG-59.019M
Date:
1938-1945
…War Cabinet and Cabinet: the situation in Palestine…
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 … 1 War Cabinet and Cabinet: the Situation in Palestine RG-59.019M United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW…
44. Singer family collection
2017.664.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.664.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1971
…Palestine--Emigration and immigration.…
45. Foreign Office: General Correspondence, FO 371
Document | Accession Number: 2001.104 | RG Number: RG-59.006M
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1949
…Contains correspondence relating to persecution and atrocities against Jews; refugees from Germany and Austria; disturbances in Palestine; the…
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 … correspondence relating to persecution and atrocities against Jews; refugees from Germany and Austria; disturbances in Palestine; the formation of a Jewish…
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 … atrocities against Jews; refugees from Germany and Austria; disturbances in Palestine; the formation of a Jewish fighting force; immigration issues; German war…
46. Archivio della Delegazione Apostolica in Gerusalemme e Palestina
Document | Accession Number: 2012.1 | RG Number: RG-76.003
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1957
Alternate Title:
Archive of the Apostolic Delegation in Jerusalem and Palestine
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Archive of the Apostolic Delegation in Jerusalem and Palestine…
47. Nathan Schwalb papers/Hechalutz Office Geneva
Document | Accession Number: 2007.138 | RG Number: RG-68.087M
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1989
bulk: 1939-1945
… organizations, including Makkabi Hazair, Gordonia, and Hechalutz. In 1929 he immigrated to Palestine and became a member of Kibbutz Hulda, becoming a leading…
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 … founded in Eastern Europe to promote settlement in Palestine. 1929 emigration to Palestine. Participated in the reconstruction of the Kibbutz Hulda after…
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 … next page ( 17.6.40 6.8.4'0 12.8.40 8 .11. 40 14.11.40 'Jewish AQency ~or Palestine, Genf Jewish Agency for Palestine, Genf אוסטריההתיק:שם 130117 זינבה…
48. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
… arrived in Palestine. He contracted malaria and, while wandering the streets of Tel Aviv, met Ruth Edith Elsoffer. She took Ernest in and cared for him…
49. Fighter against the Nazis Medal and box awarded to Jewish Brigade veteran
2003.361.17 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.17 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
…, 1967, and the medal several years later. Gotthold was a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, British Army, 2nd Jewish Battalion, Palestine Regiment. In the…
50. Uri Hirschmann papers
2008.305.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2008.305.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1981
…-approximatley 1941). Lazarus Hirschmann was a World War I veteran and owned a writing materials wholesale business. Uri left Germany for Palestine in March 1939…
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 …’s relocation to Palestine. Photographs depict Hirschmann’s family, their home, bar mitzvah and Purim celebrations, and a kibbutz in Palestine. Languages…