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1. Swiss Federal Archives records
Document | Accession Number: 2002.38 | RG Number: RG-58.003M
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…The reproduction of large numbers of records and electronic data for a third-party institution or researchers is a subject to prior authorization by…
2. Haber family papers
2015.236.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.236.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-circa 1990
bulk: 1897-1954
… searching for ways to emigrate. In May 1939, Fritz was selected to be one of the "50 children" in Vienna for whom American couple Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus…
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 … American immigration of fifty Jewish children from Nazi- occupied Vienna in May, 1939. Included are photographs and clippings of Fritz and the other children…
3. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… Jewish children had to attend Soviet public schools. Beryl became ill and died in 1937 after delivering products to Germany. Following the German invasion…
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 … businesses and banned religious schools. Rachel and other Jewish children had to attend Soviet public schools. Beryl became ill and died in 1937 after…
4. Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (Army)
Document | Accession Number: 1991.057 | RG Number: RG-06.005.06M
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1947
Subtitle:
French war crimes cases
…Consists of microfilm reels containing depositions, photographs, and descriptions of incidents relating to alleged war crimes committed in France by…
5. Wald and Breuer families papers
2015.473.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2015.473.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1946
undated: 
… of the "50 children" to go with Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus to the United States. The children arrived in New York on 3 June 1939 via the SS President…
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 …, Austria. Julius Wald, son of Markus and Helene Wald, was one of the 50 children in Vienna rescued by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus in spring 1939. Included are…
6. Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Poznaniu (GK 178)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.39.1 | RG Number: RG-15.682
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1951
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Poznań
…World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland--Poznań (Voivodeship)…
7. Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers
2018.463.1 Box 2 Folder 17 Image 53
Document | Accession Number: 2018.463.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1906-1993
bulk: 1920-1944
… certificates. These birth certificates would later prove her children’s eligibility to enter the United States under the Russian quota during World War II. In…
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 …, Jewish (1939-1945) Jewish children. Jewish refugees. Refugees. United States--Emigration and immigration. World War, 1939-1945. Geography: Czech Republic…
8. Elfriede Schloss papers
1995.A.0368.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0368.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1980
…Elfriede Schloss (1926- ) was born to Julius and Recha Meyer in the town of Mönchengladbach in Germany. Her father, a veteran from World War I, ran…
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 … orphanage in France and eventually immigrated to the United States along with other orphaned children with the assistance of the American Friends Service…
9. 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
… Children Harmed by War (Schweizerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für kriegsgeschädigte Kinder, SAK), and for children’s aid for the Swiss Red Cross. Together…
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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…
10. Hugo Zulawski papers
2015.582. 1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2015.582.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1965
… 1939, Hugo sailed for the United States as part of a transport of "50 children" organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. After spending the summer at the…
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 … immigrated to the United States in 1939 as a child on a transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus (the "50 children" transport). Includes pre-war…
11. Henry Knepler papers
2004.683.1 Box 3 Folder 12 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2004.683.1 | RG Number: RG-10.458
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2004
… lives before the war in Vienna, where Hugo Knepler was in the music business, Henry’s travel to England via Kindertransport and subsequent internment as…
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 … relatives, their lives before the war in Vienna, where Hugo Knepler was in the music business, Henry’s travel to England via Kindertransport and subsequent…
12. Epstein family collection
2013.457.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2013.457.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1979
bulk: circa 1920-1947
… during World War II. The majority of the collection relates to Julian Epstein (1889-1943), a Jewish opera singer and jeweler, who was imprisoned in a…
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 … Epstein family before and after the war as well as photographs of French survivors working in an ORT workshop. Languages: French, German, English…
13. Mandil family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.158.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1975
bulk: circa 1920-1948
…Mandil Family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Mandil family, Konfino family, and the Ben-Yosif family all…
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 … Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Mandil Family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs…
14. American Friends Service Committee records relating to humanitarian work in France
Document | Accession Number: 2006.86 | RG Number: RG-67.007M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1950
… continued working with Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution throughout the war, despite threats of arrest and internment. The most important wartime…
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 … World War I, the Quakers fed millions of children in France and Germany, and in 1919 they came to the rescue of more than one million children in Germany…
15. Bronze Marshal Petain medal given to a Jewish girl living as a refugee in France
2013.478.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.478.4
Date:
received: approximately 1942
issue: after 1940-before 1946
… served in the German Army during the First World War amd was seriously injured and partially paralyzed on his left side. Friedel was born on December 29…
16. Union Mondiale OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.17.1 | RG Number: RG-68.213
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2007
bulk: 1940-1950
Alternate Title:
World Union OSE-Paris
… children in Vichy France during World War II. Once the war ended, OSE faced the daunting task of accompanying to adulthood the children who had been orphaned…
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 … the Institute for Rheumatic and Cardiac Children in Kfar-Malal for the year 1959 OSE/Par 63 Activités dans les différents pays OSE Israël…
17. International Red Cross photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2017.573.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-circa 1946
… War and in the immediate postwar period. Original Spanish language inscriptions on the reverse describe the scenes captured and provide additional…
18. UNRRA selected records AG-018-026 : Poland Mission
Document | Accession Number: 2019.37.1 | RG Number: RG-67.072
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1949
… displaced persons, child care and maternal welfare, movement of Jewish children to France and Belgium, 1944-1949; repatriation from Germany; welfare…
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 …-1949 Welfare - Personnel 1944-1949 Welfare - Polish Jewish - Committee - Supplies 1944-1949 Movement of Jewish Children to France and Belgium 1944-1949…
19. Morris Troper papers
1997.36.15 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.36.15
Date:
inclusive: 1935-post 1962
…, Ethel, and their three children—Murray, Betty, and John—moved to Paris, where Troper served as the Joint’s European Director. He remained in that post…
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 … to the Soviet Union in connection with Agro-Joint efforts. In the fall of 1938, Morris, Ethel, and their three children— Murray, Betty, and John—moved…
20. Paul Bojko papers
2017.457.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2017.457.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1968
… around 1947-1948. Charytina suffered a stroke and became paralyzed. Paul and his brother Victor were sent to a children’s home at Prien am Chiemsee in 1948…