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1. Records of the Organisation Internationale pour les Réfugiés
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0004 | RG Number: RG-43.048M
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1953
…, allied in the effort to repatriate or immigrate refugees to safe havens. The bulk of the materials concern refugee Jews during the years immediately…
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 … 43/50; File 110/2065: Repeal of the discriminatory laws against Jews in Italy, 1944. 8 frames. AJ 43/51; File 110/2350: Jewish communities in…
2. Kancelaria Cywilna i Gabinet Wojskowy (A.48)
Document | Accession Number: 2010.303 | RG Number: RG-59.043
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1947
Alternate Title:
Civil Chancellery of the President of the Polish Republic
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…, it commanded the largest underground army of the war, the Armia Krajowa (the Polish Home Army). In 1942, reports about the mass murder of Jews in…
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 … addition, it amassed its own land, air, and naval forces. In 1942 reports about the mass murder of Jews in Poland reached London; at that point, the Polish…
3. Ernest G. Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.243.322 | RG Number: RG-10.236
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1980
… school, and was prohibited from participating with sports teams and class excursions. In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were passed, mandating the total…
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 … collection http://collections.ushmm.org Jewish refugees in Shanghai, and his father‐in‐law’s participation in the Jüdische Gemeinde alongside Kurt Redlich…
4. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.22.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1983
bulk: 1930-1948
… earned a law degree from Warsaw University in 1937. While he lived in Warsaw, Ilutovich was active in the Zionist movement. After the German invasion of…
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 … Jankiel and Lea (née Plotycher). He graduated from the University of Poland in 1932 and earned a law degree from Warsaw University in 1937. While he lived…
5. Herman Löwenberg family papers
2001.177 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2001.177
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1965
… became citizens in 1943 and changed their name to Lowen. Else Löwenberg’s younger sister and brother-in-law, Hilde and Harry Nathanson, tried to immigrate…
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 … Germany. The Löwenbergs became citizens in 1943 and changed their name to Lowen. Else Löwenberg’s younger sister and brother-in-law, Hilde and Harry…
6. Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers
1995.A.0250 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0250
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-circa 1959
… business. Due to the rise of anti-Semitic laws, however, his business was taken from him, and Alfred looked for ways to leave the country. After failing to…
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 … document the journey of Alfred Lewy and Ellen Katz, two German Jews who immigrated with their families to Shanghai, China soon after the Kristallnacht…
7. Rothstern family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.186.3
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1960
… an employer in 1937, saying that he was an exemplary employee but had to be laid off due to the newly-implemented laws that forbade the hiring of…
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 … information about this collection http://collections.ushmm.org was an exemplary employee but had to be laid off due to the newly‐implemented laws that forbade…
8. Flusser and Rosenbaum families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.213.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1965
bulk: 1938-1965
…-law Peter Tausig and a Cafe Roy/Adieu going away card for Alexander Fried (a friend of the Tausig family).…
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 …’s future father-in-law Paul Tausig. Photograph albums consist of a pre-war album of Ludwig Rosenbaum with his first wife Margarete and their son Herbert; an…
9. 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--Austria--Vienna.…
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 … husband’s family from Vienna, and student and employment records documenting her brother-in-law, Otto Engel. Languages: German, English, Italian…
10. Dreier and Tarnowski families papers
1998.A.0205 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0205
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
…Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.…
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 … refugees – China – Shanghai. Jews – Poland – History – 20th century. Jews – Germany – History – 1933‐1945. Jews – Legal status, laws, etc. – Poland…
11. Medal and a ribbon bar pin awarded to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.71_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.71 a-b
Date:
received: 1941-1945
… school, and was prohibited from participating with sports teams and class excursions. In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were passed, mandating the total…
12. Fritz and Adelaide Kauffmann papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.19.1
Date:
1924-1980
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
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 … Nazi government deprived citizenship from German Jews living abroad. Fritz and Adelaide worked to arrange British citizenship for Fritz, which was…
13. Koreshige Inuzuka papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.464.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1965
… appointed Chancellor of Germany. The regime enacted anti-Jewish laws, which restricted the daily lives of Jews and forced many to consider emigration. While…
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 … citizens who want to take back their peace and happiness, they create laws and policies that will give all of the world control to the Jews. The people of…
14. Siegmund Sobel papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.1.1
Date:
inclusive: 1873-1965
bulk: 1919-1963
… returned to Vienna in 1927 to work at the Hospital of the Jewish Community. In 1931 he opened a private practice in Essling near Vienna. Antisemetic laws…
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 … Hospital of the Jewish Community. In 1931 he opened a private practice in Essling near Vienna. Antisemetic laws forced Siegmund to close his private practice…
15. Jakob and Zofia Dymant papers
1994.A.0455.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0455.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1946
…Jakob Dymant (Jan, 1914-1986) was born on May 15, 1914 in Brzeziny, Poland to Chana and Uryn Hersz Dymant. He completed his law studies in Warsaw…
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 … Brzeziny, Poland to Chana and Uryn Hersz Dymant. He completed his law studies in Warsaw shortly before the start of World War II and fled Warsaw on September…
16. Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.661.2 Cover
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.2
Date:
emigration: 1939-1947
… and brother-in-law, and their children. His sister, Elli, was living in Palestine. Another of Hugo’s sisters was married to a non-Jew and survived in…
17. John William Fisher papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.261.1
Date:
inclusive: 1884-1974
…Jews--Czech Republic--Pilsen.…
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 … Holocaust Memorial Museum by Iris Fisher in 2019. Iris is the widow of John Fisher. Related archival materials: Letter by Josef Fisher’s brother-in-law Otto…
18. 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
… Germany on May 15, 1939, and arrived in Shanghai on June 14. Carl sold the family’s furniture and his factory. Jews could take almost no money out of…
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 … 5: Printed materials, 1933-1968 • Series 6: Restitution files, 1940-1990 • Series 7: Writings, approximately 1926-1930s Indexing terms Jews--Germany…
19. 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
… appointed Chancellor of Germany. The regime enacted anti-Jewish laws, which restricted the daily lives of Jews and forced many to consider emigration. While…
20. Rudolf Abraham papers
1995.A.0335.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0335.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1947
…Jews--Germany.…
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 … owned and operated a butcher shop. The business thrived until Hitler came into power, and anti‐Semitic laws were passed outlawing Jewish businesses…