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1. 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
…Folding Fan owned by a Japanese aid coordinator for Jewish refugees in Shanghai…
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2. Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.6
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1940
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
…Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto…
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3. Castle-shaped Havdalah spice box (besamim) owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.5
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1850-approximately 1935
emigration: 1939-1949
…Castle-shaped Havdalah spice box (besamim) owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto…
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4. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.7
Date:
manufacture: 1870-1948
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
…Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto…
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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. Oral history interview with Al Buchler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.624 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0624
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
interview: 1898 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… as a child. He describes his father's attempts to obtain visas to Brazil and Chile, without success, and the family's immigration to Shanghai, China…
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 … worked out. They were finally able to get visas to go to Shanghai; this kept the family from being deported in 1940 when the Germans started rounding up…
11. Siegmund Sobel papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.1.1
Date:
inclusive: 1873-1965
bulk: 1919-1963
… Gertrude emigrated from Austria to Shanghai, China aboard the SS Giulio Cesare. He set up a private practice in Shanghai, primarily treating fellow refugees…
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 … Gertrude Sobel, including their emigrations from Vienna to Shanghai, China in 1939, Shanghai to Israel in 1949, and Israel to the United States in 1951…
12. Hertha Wolff Hellmann papers
1994.62 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1994.62
Date:
inclusive: 1899-1952
…Hertha Wolff Hellmann (1898-1983) was born in Berlin to Siegmund Max Knapp and Hedwig Rothe Knapp. She fled to Shanghai with her daughter, Vera, in…
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 … materials, photographic materials, a letter, and lyrics to “Das Ladenmädel” documenting Hertha Wolff’s family in Berlin, Hertha’s escape to Shanghai with…
13. Stettner family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.513.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-2008
bulk: 1938-1942
… November 1939, Maximilian was informed that as he had lost his citizenship he was going to be forced to leave Trieste, so he booked passage to Shanghai on…
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 … from Trieste and his eventual emigration to Shanghai; and Kathe’s unsuccessful attempts to emigrate to the United States or Cuba from the Netherlands and…
14. Löwenstein and Stern families papers
2017.661.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 6a
Document | Accession Number: 2017.661.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1981
…. 1913). Alfred and a friend fled Germany for Shanghai aboard the MN Victoria in 1939. He survived the war in Shanghai and immigrated to the United States…
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 … separately fled Germany for Shanghai aboard the MN Victoria in 1939, survived the Holocaust in Shanghai, and later married in the United States. Also contains…
15. Syma Crane papers
1997.A.0373 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 43
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0373
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1997
…. They were relocated by Japanese authorities to Shanghai, where they lived in the Jewish ghetto for about a year. In 1942 they obtained places on a…
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 … Vilnius in 1941 to Kobe and Shanghai and eventual arrival in London. Languages: English, German, Yiddish, Polish, Czech, Serbo-Croatian Administrative…
16. Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.210.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2016
… district of Berlin. During Kristallnacht, Hans witnessed his cantor rescuing Torah scrolls from their burning synagogue. In 1939 his family fled to Shanghai…
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 …; Max, Ida, and their son Hans Cohn’s flight from Berlin to Shanghai in 1939; and restitution made to the descendants of Marcus Heinemann by the Museum…
17. Annemarie Warschauer papers
2012.244.1 Box 2 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.244.1
Date:
inclusive: 1896-2003
bulk: 1912-1952
… immigration quotas were filled. Shanghai, China, required no special visas, so Annemarie, Egon, and Anna and Leo decided to go there in 1940. Leaving all their…
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 … Annemarie Warschauer papers document the pre‐war lives of the Israelski, Munter, and Warschauer families in Berlin, Germany and as refugees in Shanghai…
18. John William Fisher papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.261.1
Date:
inclusive: 1884-1974
… pharmaceutical packaging business. Josef’s sister Erna and her husband immigrated to Shanghai before the war and remained there until at least 1949. His sister…
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 … Josef and his family in Pilsen and Budapest to Josef’s sister Erna and her husband Otto Dub in Shanghai, China. Photographs consist of a wartime depiction…
19. Inge Fischer Engel papers
2011.378.1 Book Enclosure 1 Imge 28
Document | Accession Number: 2011.378.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1982
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Save Their Stories
… Trinidad, and their immigration to the United States. The collection also includes photographs documenting Inge’s uncle in Shanghai and the Canidrome where…
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 … States. The collection also includes photographs documenting Inge’s uncle in Shanghai and the Canidrome where he worked as director, photographs of her…
20. Passover prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2015.559.3.1
Date:
publication: approximately 1900
Title:
Gebetbuch für Peszachfest
Series Title:
Gebetbuch für die Festtage
Alternate Title:
Prayer Book for the Holidays
Prayer Book for Passover
… get passage for Hellmuth to Japanese occupied Shanghai, China, soon after his release, enabled Max to remain in Italy, and arranged for Lore to be sent…