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1. Schulhof family papers
2017.133.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2017.133.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1882-1999
bulk: 1903-1948
… told the quota was already full. As no other countries would grant them visas, they decided to go to Shanghai, China where visas were not required for…
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 …), China from 1940-1948. Included are biographical materials such as identification papers, employment documentation, marriage papers, and family genealogy…
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2. Hertha Wolff Hellmann papers
1994.62 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1994.62
Date:
inclusive: 1899-1952
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … collection http://collections.ushmm.org Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Jewish refugees‐‐China‐‐Shanghai. Jewish children in the Holocaust‐‐China‐‐Shanghai…
3. Annemarie Warschauer papers
2012.244.1 Box 2 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.244.1
Date:
inclusive: 1896-2003
bulk: 1912-1952
… immigration quotas were filled. Shanghai, China, required no special visas, so Annemarie, Egon, and Anna and Leo decided to go there in 1940. Leaving all their…
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 …, China during the Holocaust. The collection includes biographical material, immigration papers, a small amount of correspondence, restitution papers, and…
4. Löwenstein and Stern families papers
2017.661.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 6a
Document | Accession Number: 2017.661.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1981
… Loy, Julius Loewenstein, and their families in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, and China before and during the Holocaust, and in the United States…
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 … arranged chronologically. Indexing terms Topical Subject: Refugees, Jewish--China--Shanghai. Geography: Shanghai (China)--Jewish refugees. United States…
5. 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
…, leading to war between Imperial Japan and the Republic of China. The international community was unsure how to respond and pushed for enforcement of the pro…
6. Rabbi William Z. Dalin family papers
2005.108.2 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2005.108.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1872-1968
bulk: 1938-1948
… Leo Loeb’s experiences as a Jewish refugee in Shanghai, China. Rabbi William Z. Dalin’s papers include documents, correspondence, photographs, and…
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 … a Jewish refugee in Shanghai, China. Languages: English, German, Chinese, Hebrew, Yiddish Administrative Information Access: There are no known…
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7. 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
…, 1938, the family decided to leave Germany. They bought tickets for Shanghai, China, because it was an open port with no visa requirements. Peter left…
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 …--Berlin. Jews--Austria--Vienna. Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai. Jewish refugees--Illinois--Chicago. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations. Vienna…
8. Inge Fischer Engel papers
2011.378.1 Book Enclosure 1 Imge 28
Document | Accession Number: 2011.378.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1982
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Jews--China--Shanghai.…
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 …--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad. Jewish refugees--England--Folkestone. Jews--China--Shanghai. Vienna (Austria) Cattolica (Italy) Folkestone (England) Shanghai…
9. Siegmund Sobel papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.1.1
Date:
inclusive: 1873-1965
bulk: 1919-1963
… Gertrude emigrated from Austria to Shanghai, China aboard the SS Giulio Cesare. He set up a private practice in Shanghai, primarily treating fellow refugees…
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 … Gertrude Sobel, including their emigrations from Vienna to Shanghai, China in 1939, Shanghai to Israel in 1949, and Israel to the United States in 1951…
10. 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
…’s family was among the last groups to be sent to Japanese-controlled Shanghai, China, arriving in early November. In Shanghai, the Kupinski family moved…
11. Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.210.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2016
…, China aboard the Conte Biancamano. His parents opened a small restaurant, but Ida died of dysentery 5 months after arriving in Shanghai. Hans worked in…
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 …, Hans witnessed his cantor rescuing Torah scrolls from their burning synagogue. In 1939 his family fled to Shanghai, China aboard the Conte Biancamano…
12. John William Fisher papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.261.1
Date:
inclusive: 1884-1974
… Erna and her husband Otto Dub in Shanghai, China. Photographs consist of a wartime depiction of John and his mother both wearing yellow stars on their…
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 … Josef and his family in Pilsen and Budapest to Josef’s sister Erna and her husband Otto Dub in Shanghai, China. Photographs consist of a wartime depiction…
13. 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
…’s family was among the last groups to be sent to Japanese-controlled Shanghai, China, arriving in early November. In Shanghai, the Kupinski family moved…
14. Hauer and Honig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.439.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1976
bulk: 1930-1947
…Refugees, Jewish--China--Shanghai.…
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 …, Dagobert, 1873- Hauer, Gertrud. Hauer, Hella, 1925-2012. Honig, Herman. Honig, Rosa. Topical Subject: Jews--Germany--Berlin. Refugees, Jewish--China…
15. Stettner family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.513.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-2008
bulk: 1938-1942
…World War, 1939-1945--Jews--China--Shanghai.…
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 … Indexing terms Stettner, Maximilian. Stettner, Katharina. Stettner, Dr. Walter. Stettner, Ilse. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--China--Shanghai United States…
16. 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
…’s family was among the last groups to be sent to Japanese-controlled Shanghai, China, arriving in early November. In Shanghai, the Kupinski family moved…
17. Stolz and White families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.447.2
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2003
bulk: 1940-1960
… stay in China and for the International Refugee Organization, correspondence relating to his immigration to China, documents regarding his divorce, a…
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 … material relating to Leon include a birth certificate, identification cards for temporary stay in China and for the International Refugee Organization…
18. Syma Crane papers
1997.A.0373 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 43
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0373
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1997
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 …, 1947-1951 Indexing terms Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius. Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai. Holocaust survivors--Austria. Refugee children--Austria. Orphanages…
19. Seeligmann family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.79.1
Date:
inclusive: 1891-1972
…) acquired visas and fled to Tientsin (now Tianjin), China. In Tientsin, Bertram worked as a representative for an American insurance company. After World War…
20. Pistiner family papers
2016.187.1 Box 3 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2016.187.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-2000
bulk: 1908-1972
… the Holocaust in Berlin, their 1939 emigration via China to the United States, as well as documents from Josef Pistiner’s service in the U.S. Army…
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 … Berlin, the birth and childhood of their two sons, their business as furriers there, and their eventual emigration from Berlin in 1939, their stay in China…
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