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1. Hauer and Honig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.439.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1976
bulk: 1930-1947
… move to a low income section of the city called the “Designated Zone” or the Shanghai ghetto. They moved into one of the barracks there, where conditions…
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 …” refugees to move to a low income section of the city called the “Designated Zone” or the Shanghai ghetto. They moved into one of the barracks there, where…
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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 … the Berliner Jüdischer Kulturbund, his escape to Shanghai and life there before and after the Hongkew Ghetto was established, his immigration to the…
3. 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…
4. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… between approximately 1945 and 1985. The materials document mail systems in and around Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps and, by extension, the…
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 … HICEM in Shanghai from the Warsaw Ghetto self help committee. Postmarked June 24, 1941. Postcard addressed to M. Rabinowitz in Philadelphia from Masza…
5. 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…
6. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.22.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1983
bulk: 1930-1948
… “Foodstuff Allotment Book” and ration stamps for the Shanghai ghetto both documents are undated. Other financial materials include tickets and receipts for…
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 … ration stamps for the Shanghai ghetto both documents are undated. Other financial materials include tickets and receipts for packages sent to Warsaw…
7. Gerda Buchheim Haas photograph and memoir
1999.A.0209 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0209
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1996
… 1935 and their son, Henry, was born in 1938. They left Germany that same year for Czechoslovakia and eventually traveled to Shanghai in 1939 to join her…
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 … growing up in Berlin, fleeing to Czechoslovakia in 1938 and eventually to Shanghai via Italy and France in 1939, living in the Jewish ghetto under the…
8. Ernest G. Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.243.322 | RG Number: RG-10.236
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1980
… place they could immigrate to without visas was Shanghai, China. Hilda secured a cabin for two on the Potsdam, and in early spring 1939, Ernst and Hilda…
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 …’s two memoirs, Shanghai Refuge: A Memoir of the World War II Jewish Ghetto and Fluchtort Shanghai: Erinnerungen, 1938-1945 as well as video and DVD copies…
9. Solomon Bergstein papers
1995.A.0682.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0682.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1992
…Jewish ghettos--China--Shanghai.…
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 …‐‐China—Shanghai Pharmacists‐‐Austria‐‐Vienna. Pharmacists‐‐China‐‐Shanghai. Jewish ghettos‐‐China— Shanghai. Drugstores‐‐Austria—Vienna. Jewish…
10. Fritz and Adelaide Kauffmann papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.19.1
Date:
1924-1980
… 1931, he moved to Shanghai to work as a sales representative for Australian firms selling wheat, flour, beef tallow, hides, fresh fruit and wool products…
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 …’s, particularly their time in Shanghai between 1931 and 1949. Biographical materials include address books, financial records, diaries, citizenship records…