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1. Private papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (A440)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.14.1 | RG Number: RG-68.199M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1989
… Germany, during the 1930s, and director of the Youth Aliyah office in London during the critical years of World War II. From 1933 to 1938 she worked in Nazi…
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 … Bureau from Henrietta Szold and Hans Beyth regarding the slaughter of Jewish Children, Women and Men 1935 1962 108 A440\6 Protocol of the Executive…
2. FNDIRP blue and white striped stickpin owned by a French Jewish survivor
2004.248.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.248.6
Date:
received: approximately 1945
… arrested for her French resistance activities and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She survived the war and emigrated to the US in 1946.…
3. Apron embroidered with a multicolored, floral garland recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.14
Date:
creation: 1939
recovered: 1945 July
… during his military service in the Hungarian Army in World War I (1914-1918.) He was a farmer, and also owned several general goods, butcher, and grocery…
4. Large embroidered white pillowcase with scalloped edges recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.10
Date:
recovered: 1945 July
… during his military service in the Hungarian Army in World War I (1914-1918.) He was a farmer, and also owned several general goods, butcher, and grocery…
5. Fringed apron embroidered with a blue and orange geometric band recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.16
Date:
creation: 1941
recovered: 1945 July
… during his military service in the Hungarian Army in World War I (1914-1918.) He was a farmer, and also owned several general goods, butcher, and grocery…
6. Brown cloth and leather trimmed suitcase used by an American internee
2018.426.2 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945 December
… invaded Poland, and two days later France and Britain declared war on Germany, officially starting World War II. In May 1940, Germany invaded France and…
7. Commemorative FNDIRP button cover engraved 178284 acquired by a Jewish Polish refugee
2005.257.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.257.1
Date:
received: approximately 1945 June
… concentration camps whose wfie and child had been murdered in a German camp. They had known each other before the war in the ghetto. They married in Brussels…
8. Masha Rolnikaite papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.436.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-2015
… Vilnius was transferred to Lithuanian control, however, the family opted to move there, and it was there they were living when World War II broke out, and…
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 … move there, and it was there they were living when World War II broke out, and the city was first occupied by Soviet troops in June 1940, and following…
9. Nelly Rossmann family papers
2005.546.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2005.546.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1990
bulk: 1932-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… World War II began. Michael and Nelly remained in England, living with her aunt’s family. Nelly was able to get work as a graphic desiger for Dei Zeitung…
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 … from 1916-1917; notebooks of hers and her brother Wilhelm (Willy) Schwabacher; family photographs; a post-war photograph album of family life in England…
10. 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
… of World War II she became a member of the Women's Aid Service (Frauenhilfsdienst, FHD) and later she worked for the Swiss Labor Association for…
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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…
11. Szabo family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0006.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1996
… received a United States visa and immigrated in May 1939. She lived with distant relatives in Passaic, New Jersey. After World War I, Viktor’s village became…
12. UNRRA selected records AG-018-010 : Austria Mission
Document | Accession Number: 2018.77.1 | RG Number: RG-67.067
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1948
…United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)…
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 … of Jewish Women 1944-1949 Welfare - American Polish War Relief 1944-1949 Welfare - World Organization for Reconstruction and Training Union 1944-1949…
13. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Cyprus Operation, 1945-1949
Document | Accession Number: 2016.145.1 | RG Number: RG-68.190M
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1949
… 1914 to assist Jewish persons in Palestine during World War I. The Holocaust and World War II caused the JDC to ramp up its relief efforts. With the end…
14. UNRRA selected records AG-018-013 : Bureau of Services
Document | Accession Number: 2018.78.1 | RG Number: RG-67.068
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1948
…United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)…
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 …'s Committee for Displaced Persons - Minutes and Documents 1943- U.S. Government Agencies: President's War Relief Control Board 1943-1949 Catholic Agencies 1943…
15. Oral history interview with Magda Weigl Heath
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.97.1 | RG Number: RG-50.626.0001
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2009
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sarah Cristal donated her grandmother's oral history interview and copies of her letters and photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial…
16. Silver-plated cup made in a slave labor camp and later engraved with Kato Ritter's name
2010.442.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.2
Date:
commemoration: 1944 May-1945 May 08
creation: approximately 1989
manufacture: 1944 May-1945 April
… during his military service in the Hungarian Army in World War I (1914-1918.) He was a farmer, and also owned several general goods, butcher, and grocery…
17. Records of the Jerusalem Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Document | Accession Number: 2019.6.1 | RG Number: RG-68.217M
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1952
… 1914 to assist Jewish persons in Palestine during World War I. The Holocaust and World War II caused the JDC to ramp up its relief efforts. With the end…
18. Nachlass Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (1916-2010)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.47.1 | RG Number: RG-58.038
Date:
inclusive: 1916-2007
Alternate Title:
Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet papers
…Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (1916-2010) was a Swiss helper and human rights activist. Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet grew up in the Vallée de Joux , in 1940…
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 …21.06.2016 Seite 2 Der Bestand war grösstenteils von Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet vorgeordnet. Diese Ordnung wurde möglichst beibehalten und wenn vorhanden mit den von…
19. Watercolor portrait with frame of a Polish resistance member recovered by her family
2014.451.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.451.2 a-d
Date:
recovered: after 1945 May
Artwork Title:
Portrait of Janina Zyzniewska
… of Wieslaw Zyzniewski (Wesley Zineski) and his family, Polish Catholics, originally from Łódź, before, during and after World War II, during which…
20. Nachlass Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.91.1 | RG Number: RG-58.045
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1982
Alternate Title:
Elisabeth Eidenbenz papers
… work relied on voluntary donations from Europe, but after the start of World War II, funds dried up while refugees began to arrive from France and the…
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 … spanische Königin Sofia, Madrid, 14.2.2006 2006 16 Stück Innen-, Aussen- und Porträtaufnahmen der Verleihung Hinweis: - Elisabeth Eidenbenz war an der…