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1. Faux alligator photo wallet used by a young German Jewish refugee
2013.486.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.18
Date:
use: approximately 1939-approximately 1946
… World War I, David served for over a year in a German Field Artillery Regiment. Charlotte was born in Hachenburg, to Jenny (née Stern, 1867-1940) and…
2. 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…
3. 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…
4. Strauss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.565.1
Date:
inclusive: 1792-2003
bulk: 1844-1966
…. He had three brothers, Bruno (b. 1887), Ernst (b.1889), and Julius (b. 1890). Siegfried served in World War I and operated a leather importer and…
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 …. 2005) in 1950, and they had six children. Scope and content of collection The collection primarily documents the wartime and post-war experiences of the…
5. 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…
6. Lyszka family papers
2015.489.1 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.489.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1974
… fiancée Uncle Alexandre, who also had false identities, in St. Pardoux. Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944, and the war ended in May 1945. Renee…
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 … Cwajgenbaum during World War II. The collection documents the Cwajgenbaum and Lyszka families in Łódż, Poland, and Paris, France as well. The papers include…
7. Erwin Tepper papers
2015.590.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.590.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2015
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… learned that an American couple, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, were planning to bring 50 Jewish children from Austria to the United States. Erwin’s parents…
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 …, the material documents how Erwin Tepper was selected as one of 50 children by American philanthropists Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, who sought to rescue…
8. Blue leather billfold used by a Latvian Jewish refugee and aid worker from Nazi Germany
2005.379.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.6
Date:
use: 1945-1947
emigration: 1941 February 21
… summer months at a children’s home in Oostduinkerke, where they explored the dunes and the bulwarks that remained from World War I. In May 1940, Germany…
9. 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…
10. Fred Lifschutz papers
2015.541. 1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.541.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1975
… part of the "50 children" transport led by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. After a summer at the Brith Sholomville camp in Collegeville, PA, Fred went to live…
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 … immigration to the United States as one of the "50 children" sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. The biographical materials document Moritz, Bertha, and…
11. 353-2 II Wohnungsamt
Document | Accession Number: 2019.148.1 | RG Number: RG-14.138
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1968
Alternate Title:
Housing Care
… Italians, Jewish mixed race and homeless, and files relating to murdering of Jewish children shortly before the end of WWII.…
12. Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection
1995.A.0106 Box 4 Folder 11 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0106 | RG Number: RG-10.237
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1986
bulk: 1937-1954
…Joseph and Caroline Schiffmann of Hoppstaedten, Germany had three children: Gustav Schiffmann, Isaak Schiffmann (1856-1910), and Johanna Schiffmann…
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 …, June 2019 Biographical note Joseph and Caroline Schiffmann of Hoppstaedten, Germany had three children: Gustav Schiffmann, Isaak Schiffmann (1856-1910…
13. Joan Kent Finkelstein family papers
2009.376.1 front
Document | Accession Number: 2009.376.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2013
… biomedical researcher and teacher, obtaining a PhD in 1963, married, and had two children and three grandchildren. George became the first Jewish engineer at…
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 … remained in Poland during the war, family who emigrated to Palestine and the Soviet Union, and family and friends who emigrated to the United States…
14. American OSE Committee (RG 494)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.321.1 | RG Number: RG-67.066M
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1955
… Zdrowia - Society for the Protection of Health) and the French name Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (Society for the Aid of Children). By 1939 OSE…
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 …, after the war, to locate, gather, and rehabilitate the surviving children, principally those who had been orphaned. Materials deal with the rescue work of…
15. The Spiegel family papers
1988.57.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1988.57.1 | RG Number: RG-10.257
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1949
…, along with their wives and children, fled to various part of the world. Isaac and Joshua fled to Israel; David, Sam, and Max immigrated to the United…
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 … family moved to Leipzig, Germany in the 1920s. Upon the rise of the Nazi regime, the Spiegel brothers, along with their wives and children, fled to…
16. Selected records from the American Field Service Archives and Museum relating to Bergen-Belsen
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0057 | RG Number: RG-04.038.01
Date:
1945-1985
…Selected records from the American Field Service Archives and Museum relating to Bergen-Belsen…
17. Zehngut and Weiss families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.504.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2005
… Vienna. Stella had two sisters, Olga Zehngut Uhrmacher and Annie Zehngut Tager. Olga Uhrmacher had two children, Herta and Freddy. Olga’s husband left his…
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 … the Zehngut and Weiss families from Austria. The papers document the immigration of Inge and Kitty Weiss among the “50 children” brought to the United…
18. Braunwasser family papers
2016.89.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.89.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2014
…. The Braunwassers managed to include Inge among the fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria that Americans Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus rescued and…
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 …. Jewish refugees--Texas. Refugee children--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Vienna (Austria) Alice (Tex.) Austria--Emigration and…
19. Brown leather billfold used by a Latvian Jewish refugee and aid worker from Nazi Germany
2005.379.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.5
Date:
use: 1935-1947
emigration: 1941 February 21
… summer months at a children’s home in Oostduinkerke, where they explored the dunes and the bulwarks that remained from World War I. In May 1940, Germany…
20. "Ash Camp" photograph album
2010.516.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2010.516.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-1950
…Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this…