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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. 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…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. 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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 ….10 “Business in the Shanghai Ghetto, the Years, 1938 to 1949” consists of a memoir draft of Ralph Harpuder’s experience while living in the Shanghai ghetto with…
7. Chaim and Rita Wind collection
2017.372.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 2017.372.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1952
… emigration from Nazi Germany to Shanghai. Included is a postcard sent to Chaim Wind in 1940 from his sister and parents in the Tarnow ghetto.…
8. Margot Schlesinger papers
2013.224.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2013.224.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
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…. Eduard and Julius received visas to go to the United States and left in 1939 and Hy left for Shanghai in late August 1939. Margot received a visa to go to…
9. Letter from Gertrude Harpuder to her son and daughter-in-law, Hans and Gerda Harpuder, in Shanghai.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 30688
Date:
1940 February 20
…SHANGHAI (REFUGEE SETTLEMENT/GHETTO)…
10. A letter sent to Walter Jacobsberg by an employee of the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland shortly after his arrival in Shanghai.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 25795
Date:
1939 August 10
…SHANGHAI (REFUGEE SETTLEMENT/GHETTO)…