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1. Rolf Preuss papers
1999.A.0076 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0076
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1999
bulk: 1939-1947
… Shanghai, where they lived in the Hongkew district. His father worked as a musician, his mother as a barmaid in local bars and nightclubs, and he attended…
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 …, genealogical materials, notes, and business cards documenting Preuss’s childhood as a Jewish refugee in Shanghai from 1939‐ 1947. Biographical materials…
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2. John and Harriet Isaack papers
1992.53.45 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1992.53.45
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1991
… costume seamstress Harriet Bondy (1909-2003), born in Hohenlimburg to Hermann and Olga Bondy. The couple married in 1937 and left Germany for Shanghai…
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 … documenting the Isaack’s escape from Germany, life in occupied Shanghai, and immigration to the United States. Languages: English, German, Chinese…
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3. Hauer and Honig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.439.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1976
bulk: 1930-1947
… Shanghai without a visa. They spent their family’s savings on tickets to Shanghai from a Russian travel agency, but the tickets turned out to be fraudulent…
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 … Berlin, immigration to Shanghai in 1939, and immigration to the United States in 1947. Included are identification documents, immigration paperwork, and…
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4. 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
… reach Shanghai in 1939, where he remained until immigrating to the United States in 1947. He settled in San Francisco and married Martha Bermann (born in…
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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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5. Hans Praschkauer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.398.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2002
… through German-occupied Czechoslovakia and Austria to Trieste, Italy. They set sail from Trieste on the Italian Liner, Conte Verde, for Shanghai, China, on…
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 … experiences in Shanghai after fleeing Germany in 1939. The collection also includes applications, medical and financial records, and ship information relating…
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6. Langer family papers
2017.616.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.616.1
Date:
inclusive: 1906-2009
…Robert Langer and his parents Ignatz and Stefanie Langer emigrated from Vienna, Austria to Shanghai, China after the German annexation of Austria in…
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 … and Stefanie Langer, including their emigration from Vienna, Austria to Shanghai, China after the German annexation of Austria in 1938, and post-war…
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7. Leo Arnfeld papers
1990.16.99 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 1990.16.99
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1958
… way to Shanghai. Leo remained in Warsaw with his mother, and the two were moved to the Warsaw ghetto and then the Poniatowa labor camp. Leo was…
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 … Arnfeld family in Warsaw, Sara and Leo Arnfeld in the Warsaw ghetto, Chaim Arnfeld in Vilnius, Kobe, and Shanghai, and Leo Arnfeld’s postwar life in Munich…
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8. Ilie Wacs family papers
1998.180 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1998.180
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1951
… Genoa to Shanghai. They lived in Hongkew, Moritz worked as a custom tailor, and Ilie and Deborah attended school. Conditions deteriorated after the…
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 … correspondence documenting members of Ilie Wacs’ family in Vienna and their emigration to Shanghai, photographs documenting the Wacs family and their friends…
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9. Max Schmeidler papers
2004.88.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2004.88.2
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1963
… Shanghai, China, where he served as a sergeant with the Shanghai Municipal Police from 1941-1945 and was awarded a Police Distinguished Conduct Medal. He…
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 … clippings documenting Max Schmeidler from Berlin, his training in leather manufacturing in London, his refuge in Shanghai during the Holocaust, his service on…
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10. Eva Hirschel family papers
2016.351.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 2016.351.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2006
bulk: 1914-1975
…, Max, Eva, and Horst fled Germany to Shanghai, China on the Italian ship the SS Conte Verde. While in Shanghai, Max worked in several butchers shops…
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 …, her daughter Eva, her husband Max, and his son Horst in Breslau, Germany (present-day Wrocław, Poland) until 1940 and Shanghai, China from 1940-1947…
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11. 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
… gain a visa to the United States and Paraguay, Alfred and his parents eventually obtained passage to Shanghai, China. They left on a Japanese ship out…
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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…
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12. Theodore Mattern family papers
2016.306.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2016.306.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1999
bulk: 1903-1941
… actor Sig Arno (1895-1975) and continued to act in film and television. Josef emigrated from Austria in 1938 to Shanghai, China. Olga, and Olga’s mother…
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 … sister, Kitty, during the various stages of their emigration from Europe, including the period that Mattern's parents spent in Shanghai prior to their…
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13. 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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 … Holocaust experiences of Joseph, Charlotte, and Peter Schulhof of Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) as refugees in Shanghai and Tientsin (Tianjin…
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14. 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
…, Amikam Jacob (b. 1948) The Pistiners left Berlin in June 1939, bound for Shanghai where they met up with Aron’s cousin, Mendel Pistiner. Shortly after…
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 … June 1939, bound for Shanghai where they met up with Aron’s cousin, Mendel Pistiner. Shortly after arriving there, however, they decided to relocate to…
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15. Les Salter papers
2007.205.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2007.205.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1955
… Shanghai, China, was an open port with no visa required, they decided to send Ludwig with a group of Jewish refugees. He sailed on the SS Conte Rosso…
16. Harpuder family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2010.240.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1952
… Shanghai in Japanese-occupied China because it was an open port with no visa required. In early 1939, the family and Gerda’s mother, Selma, took a train to…
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 … Shanghai, China, 1915-1952; as well as correspondence and reunion booklets for the Jewish survivors of Shanghai through the Rickshaw Shanghai Reunion, which…
17. 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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 … documenting Peter and Berta Victor, their families, and their lives in Berlin, Vienna, Shanghai, and the United States. Languages: German, English, Japanese…
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18. Koreshige Inuzuka papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.464.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1965
… Shanghai, which was home to many international settlements in China and represented an attack on international concessions. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was…
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 … Koreshige Inuzuka who was in charge of the Bureau of Jewish Refugee Affairs in Shanghai. FOLDER I Subfolder: 1. Letter from Kiyoko Shinmei to Koreshige…
19. Flusser and Rosenbaum families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.213.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1965
bulk: 1938-1965
… Vladivostok and Japan. They arrived in Shanghai in April 1941. The family was reunited and Blanka and Rudolf formally divorced. Blanka married Ludwig Rosenbaum…
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 …, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences in Shanghai of the Flusser and…
20. Nachum family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.505.1
Date:
inclusive: 1902-1988
…Photographic album of family history; two (2) German passports illustrating travel to Shanghai; documents relating to the family's emigration…