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1. Red wooden tie rack made by a Dutch Jew while living in hiding
2010.488.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.488.5
Date:
creation: 1942 October-1945 April 18
…Red wooden tie rack made by a Dutch Jew while living in hiding…
2. Wooden box with inlaid initials used by a Polish Jew in hiding in the Boryslaw ghetto
2004.706.8 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.706.8
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… Norbert lived with Zbyszek, along with the two sisters-in-law. The mass deportations continued and several thousand more Jews were deported that fall. By…
3. Stamp with Juif, French for Jew, made to forge papers for the resistance
1988.77.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.77.10
Date:
use: 1942-1944
…Stamp with Juif, French for Jew, made to forge papers for the resistance…
4. Plastic Star of David button worn to identify a Bulgarian Jew
Object | Accession Number: 2007.446.1
Date:
use: 1942-1944
…Plastic Star of David button worn to identify a Bulgarian Jew…
5. Yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with Jood, Dutch for Jew, worn by a German Jewish refugee
2005.175.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.175.3
Date:
use: approximately 1943-1945
…Yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with Jood, Dutch for Jew, worn by a German Jewish refugee…
6. The Blue Card, Inc. Records
2016.161.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.161.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2015
…The Blue Card was established by the Jewish community in Germany in 1934, as a means of helping Jews in Germany who were being persecuted by the Nazi…
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 … Europe during the Holocaust. The collection includes minutes, by-laws and articles of incorporation from its inaugural meeting in September 1943; minutes…
7. Julius Kühl collection
1988.003 Box 6 Folder 23 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.003 | RG Number: RG-27.001
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1982
… saved hundreds of Jews by aiding them in obtaining passports and visas, aiding their passage into Switzerland, and working with Jewish organizations and…
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 ….41 Polnisches Handelsgesetzbuch vom 27. Juni 1934 27.001*05*36 4.42 Comments on Polish trade and commerce laws, 1929 27.001*05*37 4.43 Statistics on Jews in…
8. Heinrich Stern collection
1995.A.0363 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0363
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1986
bulk: 1909-1944
…. Heinrich became a notary and lawyer, and practiced in Nordhausen. In 1935, after Hitler’s rise to power, Heinrich was not allowed to practice law, and being…
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 …. Other various items include the certificate Heinrich obtained to be a notary and practice law, his disbarment, and handwritten manuscript. Languages…
9. Slovak documents related to the Holocaust
Document | Accession Number: 2000.249 | RG Number: RG-57.001M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Contains documents on labor camps for Jews, transport exemption documents for Jews, laws and decrees pertaining to Jews, Hlinka Guard activities…
10. Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger collection
1995.A.0092 Box 1 Folder 18 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0092
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1993
… laws took effect and the military conquests of Nazi Germany displaced Jewish populations, and many refugees fled for Romania and Hungary. In 1936, he and…
11. 621-1/85 Walter Schüler
Document | Accession Number: 2019.88.1 | RG Number: RG-14.124
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1943
Alternate Title:
Walter Schüler law office
…Walter Schüler law office…
12. 621-1/84 Ernst Kaufmann
Document | Accession Number: 2019.87.1 | RG Number: RG-14.123
Date:
inclusive: 1928-1943
Alternate Title:
Ernst Kaufmann law office
…Ernst Kaufmann law office…
13. Wellisch and Auerbach families papers
2018.646.1 Box 2 Folder 27 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.646.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1961
… 6. Kurt practiced law until shortly after the Anschluss when the Nazis barred Jews from the profession. He was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo…
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 … at Borseplatz 6. Kurt practiced law until shortly after the Anschluss when the Nazis barred Jews from the profession. He was arrested and imprisoned by…
14. Frank Meissner papers
2004.692.1 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.692.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1995
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… personal diaries, an autograph book, and items Frank collected later in life such as photocopies of an article concerning the history of the Jews in Trest…
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 … Nazi policies towards Jews, the group left Czechoslovakia, settling in Denmark. Frank attended the Veterinary and Agricultural College at the…
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 … appearance, I eat and go out into the corridor to look out the window, and discuss serious matters with “father” Pincus. You know what happens when two Jews…
15. William A. Spiegler collection related to Josiah E. DuBois, Jr.
2014.115. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.115.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-2006
bulk: 1943-1953
… children, DuBois graduated from high school in Woodbury, NJ, at age fourteen and from the University of Pennsylvania at eighteen. He received his law degree…
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 … and from the University of Pennsylvania at eighteen. He received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1934. He married Dorothy Clement…
16. Collection of documents of Anti-Jewish Laws and Decrees of Hungary
Document | Accession Number: 2007.92 | RG Number: RG-39.015
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1944
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Hungary--History.…
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 … legislation—Hungary. Jews‐‐Legal status, laws, etc.‐‐Hungary‐‐History. Jews‐‐Persecutions‐‐Hungary‐‐History‐‐20th century. Antisemitism‐‐Hungary‐‐Decrees…
17. Jacob Robinson papers
2013.506.1 Box 4 Folder 15 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2013.506.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1977
bulk: 1939-1977
… (Vishtinets) and Suvalki. Between 1910 and 1914, Robinson studied law at Warsaw University, graduating with the equivalent of a doctorate. Between 1914 and 1915…
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 … and international law. Languages: English, German, Hebrew, Lithuanian Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored…
18. Charlotte Dunwiddie papers, 1907-1995
1997.A.0286 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0286
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1995
…Jews--Germany--Berlin.…
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 …. Real property – Germany – Cologne. Real property – Germany – Düsseldorf. Jews – Germany – Berlin. Germany – Emigration and immigration – History – 1933…
19. Liberated Jews in Kairouan, Tunisia
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Film | RG Number: RG-60.1079 | Film ID: 4333
Date:
Production: 1943 April 11
Duration:
00:05:38
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… African Jews in the colonies fared better than Jews living in Europe, they were still subject to antisemitic laws as promulgated in Vichy France. Tunisian…
20. Isidor Gross papers
2012.433.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2012.433.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1997
bulk: 1936-1945
…, Poland passed a law to invalidate the passports of all Polish Jews who had not been in Poland for five years or more. In September 1938, Markus was…
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 …, and United States Army service of German born Jew, Isidor Gross. After being arrested by the Gestapo in 1938, Isidor and his father Markus fled Aachen…