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1. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
… Belgium, Michel made the decision not to return. He obtained visas for his family and re-established his fruit business in Antwerp, Belgium. Michel…
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 …, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Shadur family papers document the experiences of Michael Shadur and his family, including their relocation to Belgium…
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2. Oral history interview with Fred Kornreich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.723 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0723
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to immigrate to the United States; moving to Aachen, Germany then Antwerp, Belgium in 1939; moving to France in 1940, returning to Brussels, Belgium…
3. Oral history interview with Henri Hurwitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.344.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0775
Date:
interview: 2014 October 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… guerre, awarded to him in 1935 for his actions in World War I; the circumstances under which his father applied for exit visas to Belgium in 1937; his…
4. Peter Kauf collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.318.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1945
…Contains thirty-eight original photographs of the Kauf family before the war in Berlin, during the war in Belgium, and after liberation. Peter Kauf…
5. Oral history interview with Harry Markowicz
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0562
Date:
interview: 2016 June 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… warned the Markowicz family of an imminent outbreak of violence against Jews throughout Germany in 1938; fleeing to Antwerp, Belgium shortly before…
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 …. Harry and his family escaped to Antwerp, Belgium. This arrow shows where Antwerp is located. When Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940, the Markowiczs…
6. Oral history interview with Harry Markowicz
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0393
Date:
interview: 2012 July 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… warned the Markowicz family of an imminent outbreak of violence against Jews throughout Germany in 1938; fleeing to Antwerp, Belgium shortly before…
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 … throughout Germany, the Markowicz family escaped to Antwerp, Belgium, shortly before Kristallnacht. Max earned money by trading in foreign currencies until…
7. Oral history interview with Harry Markowicz
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0443
Date:
interview: 2013 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… warned the Markowicz family of an imminent outbreak of violence against Jews throughout Germany in 1938; fleeing to Antwerp, Belgium shortly before…
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 …, warned the Markowiczes of an impending outbreak of violence against Jews in Germany. Harry and his family escaped to Antwerp, Belgium. This arrow shows…
8. Oral history interview with Harry Markowicz
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0690
Date:
interview: 2019 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… warned the Markowicz family of an imminent outbreak of violence against Jews throughout Germany in 1938; fleeing to Antwerp, Belgium shortly before…
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 … his family escaped to Belgium. In May 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. This photo shows Belgian refugees walking in one direction to get away from the…
9. Oral history interview with Harry Markowicz
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0530
Date:
interview: 2015 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… warned the Markowicz family of an imminent outbreak of violence against Jews throughout Germany in 1938; fleeing to Antwerp, Belgium shortly before…
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 … escaped to Antwerp, Belgium. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection 2 This arrow shows…
10. Oral history interview with Harry Markowicz
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0617
Date:
interview: 2017 July 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… warned the Markowicz family of an imminent outbreak of violence against Jews throughout Germany in 1938; fleeing to Antwerp, Belgium shortly before…
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 … escaped to Belgium. In May 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. This photo shows Belgian refugees walking in one direction to get away from the invading German…
11. Oral history interview with Harry Markowicz
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0470
Date:
interview: 2014 May 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… warned the Markowicz family of an imminent outbreak of violence against Jews throughout Germany in 1938; fleeing to Antwerp, Belgium shortly before…
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 …. Harry and his family escaped to Antwerp, Belgium. This arrow shows where Antwerp is located. When Germany Invaded Belgium in May 1940, the Markowiczes…
12. Oral history interview with Harry Markowicz
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0670
Date:
interview: 2018 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… warned the Markowicz family of an imminent outbreak of violence against Jews throughout Germany in 1938; fleeing to Antwerp, Belgium shortly before…
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 … the Markowiczes of an impending outbreak of violence against Jews in Germany. Harry and his family escaped to Belgium. In May 1940, Germany invaded…
13. Oral history interview with Gunter S. Stent
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.648 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0648
Date:
interview: 1997 December 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Belgium in late December; the help they received from the Belgian police to secure identification papers; leaving Belgium for London, England in May 1939…
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 … got out together legally a few months later to Belgium without passports. Did you like her? Did I like her? Well, this has been a big problem for me. I…
14. Oral history interview with Heimek Schmelz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.14.1 | RG Number: RG-90.119.0001
Date:
interview: 1970
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Belgium--Emigration and immigration.…
15. Harry Markowicz photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.382.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1949
bulk: 1940-1949
… in 1938 and moved to Antwerp, Belgium where Harry's father worked as a furrierr until 1940 when the family fled to Brussels, Belgium. In September 1942…
16. Eva Baumohl papers
2007.190.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.190.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-2007
… the German invasion of Belgium, Eva and Erna fled to France but were forced to return to Antwerp. Erna’s husband, Benjamin Riemer, disappeared in a…
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 … the German invasion of Belgium, Eva and Erna fled to France but were forced to return to Antwerp. Erna’s husband, Benjamin Riemer, disappeared in a…
17. Selected records from Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP, Berlin (NS 51)
Document | Accession Number: 2003.62 | RG Number: RG-68.025M
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1945
…Collection includes reports about the political situation in Austria, Belgium, France, Romania, and other countries before the beginning of World War…
18. Oral history interview with Hanna Schild
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1771 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1771
Date:
interview: 1991 February 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… antisemitism she experienced until 1937; her parents' decision to send her on a children's transport to Brussels, Belgium in May 1939; her feelings about leaving…
19. Oral history interview with Herman Haller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0117.3 | RG Number: RG-50.044.0003
Date:
interview: 1989 January 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… school and going to a Jewish school; Kristallnacht in 1938 and the destruction of the synagogue; going with his brothers to Antwerp, Belgium in December…
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 …, in Belgium, waiting for his ship. He was waiting for the boat to come in to take him to New York. And we got in touch with this uncle. And he said…
20. Oral history interview with Harry Markowicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.69.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0197
Date:
interview: 2012 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Harry Markowicz, born August 9, 1937 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his childhood in Antwerp, Belgium; being hidden during the war with the Coons…
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 …,690 --> 00:01:12,010 Your family went to Antwerp, Belgium in 1938. 19 00:01:12,010 --> 00:01:18,760 And then in May, 1940, you went to the French border. 20 00…
21. Oral history interview with Peter Kory
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.50.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0689
Date:
interview: 2013 March 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Peter Kory, born in 1931 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his birthplace; immigrating to Brussels, Belgium with his parents when he was one year old…
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 …,280 less than two years, in any case. 23 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:10,110 And from then, we moved to Belgium, stayed in Belgium 24 00:01:10,110 --> 00:01:17…
22. Oral history interview with Beatrice Muchman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.298.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0900
Date:
interview: 2016 September 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… son Bernt fleeing Berlin in March 1939 to Brussels, Belgium; staying with her aunt Frieda Hurwitz and her husband Walter and their son Henri; Beatrice…
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 … in Belgium 566 00:25:14,010 --> 00:25:16,830 with German passports? 567 00:25:16,830 --> 00:25:17,460 Well-- 568 00:25:17,460 --> 00:25:18,580 Because…
23. Beatrice Muchman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0269.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1999
… her maternal grandmother, Johanna, and her maternal aunt, Margot Lewy, and her husband, Werner, and son, Bernt, escaped to Brussels, Belgium. They were…
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 … left for New York in December 1939. Julius Westheimer and Walter Hurwitz were arrested when the Germans invaded Belgium in May 1940. Walter was sent to…
24. Walter Kamlet papers
2014.332.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 255
Document | Accession Number: 2014.332.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-2007
bulk: 1940-1956
… sporting goods store in Berlin. During the war, the family moved to Belgium where Benno and Mila survived the Holocaust in hiding while Walter and Manfred…
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 …, who survived the Holocaust in hiding in Belgium. Languages: German, French, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but…
25. Oral history interview with Sigmund Sabin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1498 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1498
Date:
interview: 2006 September 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s plan to immigrate; how they were smuggled into Belgium in 1939; hiding in Brussels for six months before immigrating to the United States; adapting to…
26. Oral history interview with Peter Ernst Feigl
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0272
Date:
interview: 1995 August 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… moving to Prague, Czech Republic, where they stayed for one year before moving to Vienna, Austria in 1937; fleeing to Brussels, Belgium after the 1938…
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 … to live with us, that is in the same city when we were in Belgium and Brussels, I guess that's the time when I remember her most vividly. I remember…
27. Loewenstein family papers
2001.65.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2001.65.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1943
…, Belgium, where they were placed with the Levi and Weinberg families, while Sali and Hede traveled to Great Britain on temporary visas awaiting immigration…
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 … refuge in Belgium, Hede and Sali Loewenstein’s refuge in England, and their efforts to immigrate to the United States and be reunited. The collection…
28. Oral history interview with Werner Epstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.29 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0029
Date:
interview: 1992 April 07
interview: 1992 May 19
interview: 1992 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his decision to leave Germany after the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938; fleeing by bicycle to Belgium, where he prospered until the war began…
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 …. And did go by myself. I passed the border to Belgium, with the money funded by the cycle I sold. And between Germany and Belgium, you have a no man…
29. Oral history interview with Werner Epstein
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.268 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0268
Date:
interview: 1992 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… decision to leave Germany after the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938; fleeing by bicycle to Belgium, where he prospered until the war began in…
30. Oral history interview with Yitzhak Phillip
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.173 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0173
Date:
interview: 1993 May 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… refugees from Dusseldorf to Antwerp, Belgium; the camp in Antwerp; being taken by truck to Marseille, France; being taken by boat to Palestine; and returning…
31. Oral history interview with Werner Epstein
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1002 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1002
Date:
interview: 1992 May 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… decision to leave Germany after the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938; fleeing by bicycle to Belgium, where he prospered until the war began in…
32. Oral history interview with Ernest Loewenstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.253 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0419
Date:
interview: 2001 October 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1938; the arrest of his father, who was sent to Dachau for a few weeks; traveling with his brother to Belgium to live with German families who had…
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 …, buying horses. He would travel to -- to Belgium and northern Germany, so that http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
33. Oral history interview with Nelly Grussgott
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.4 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0004
Date:
interview: 2011 March 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s thwarted efforts to bring his wife and daughter to the US and his return to Belgium; going on a Kindertransport in 1940 with her mother to the US; the…
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 … Belgium. Belgium was neutral at the time. So my mother wrote to him and told him, don't come back. Go anywhere, but don't come back. But he got the letter…
34. Oral history interview with Herbert Schroder
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.14 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0014
Date:
interview: 1999 February 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; stationing in Belgium in 1944; fighting against American soldiers at Caen, France in 1944; fighting in Hungary; his war injury and time in a military hospital…
35. Larry Shalit (Schalyt-Tykotzki) family archive
2015.603. 1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.603.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1968
… rise of Nazism, the Shalits moved to Brussels, Belgium in 1933, and immigrated to the United States in 1934. They settled in Detroit, Michigan in 1935…
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 … their son Larry (1924-2009) was born on 22 October 1924. Disturbed by the rise of Nazism, the Shalits moved to Brussels, Belgium in 1933, and immigrated…
36. Oral history interview with Sol Messinger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.69 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0069
Date:
interview: 1991 January 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… not being allowed to disembark; the response from the United States; the return of the ship to Europe; disembarking in Belgium; fleeing to France…
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 … in Germany, in Hamburg, we got word that the passenger ships were going to split up among four countries-- England, Belgium, Holland, and France. And…
37. Jüdische Gemeinden und Organisationen (Fond 1325)
Document | Accession Number: 2004.756.2 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.73
Date:
inclusive: 1764-1944
bulk: 1933-1941
Alternate Title:
Jewish unions and organizations
…Consists of various documents from and concerning Austria (67 files); Belgium (1 file); Britain (1 file); Czechoslovakia (1 file); France (3 files…
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 … Languages: German Hebrew Scope and content of collection Consists of various documents from and concerning Austria (67 files); Belgium (1 file); Britain (1…
38. German invasion, territorial expansion
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Film | Accession Number: 1998.191.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2415 | Film ID: 67
Film Title:
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
Date:
Production: 1948
Duration:
00:08:48
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…BELGIUM…
39. Regina Wolbrom papers
1995.A.0484.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0484.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1942
…, Germany, June 4, 1929), Siegmund (born in Berlin, August 4, 1934), and Sonja (born in Brussels, Belgium, September 11, 1940). In October 1938, Max Rotenberg…
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 … Akiva events, 1940-1942. The photographs in this collection contain images of both survivors and victims of the Holocaust taken in Germany, Belgium, and…
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  • Series 2: Photographs Circa 1920-Circa 1942
    • File 10: Regina’s friends and Bnei Akiva events 1939-1942
40. Book written by the Captain of the MS St. Louis and owned by a passenger and German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1999.317.2
Date:
publication: 1949
Title:
Heimatlos auf hoher See
Alternate Title:
Homeless on the High Seas
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
41. Coat design, Ulla, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.10
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Ulla
… get visas. They sent 6 year old Dorit to Brussels, Belgium, to live with Gertrud’s sister, Anna Kaufman. She, her husband, and stepson had fled to…
42. Unfinished jacket design created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.15
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
… get visas. They sent 6 year old Dorit to Brussels, Belgium, to live with Gertrud’s sister, Anna Kaufman. She, her husband, and stepson had fled to…
43. Coat design, Basel, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.16
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Basel
… get visas. They sent 6 year old Dorit to Brussels, Belgium, to live with Gertrud’s sister, Anna Kaufman. She, her husband, and stepson had fled to…
44. Coat design, Görlik, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.5
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Görlik
… get visas. They sent 6 year old Dorit to Brussels, Belgium, to live with Gertrud’s sister, Anna Kaufman. She, her husband, and stepson had fled to…
45. Coat design, Iris, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.4
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Iris
… get visas. They sent 6 year old Dorit to Brussels, Belgium, to live with Gertrud’s sister, Anna Kaufman. She, her husband, and stepson had fled to…
46. Jacket design, Gussi, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.14
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Gussi
… get visas. They sent 6 year old Dorit to Brussels, Belgium, to live with Gertrud’s sister, Anna Kaufman. She, her husband, and stepson had fled to…
47. Coat design, Rita, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.7
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Rita
… get visas. They sent 6 year old Dorit to Brussels, Belgium, to live with Gertrud’s sister, Anna Kaufman. She, her husband, and stepson had fled to…
48. Coat design created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.9
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
… get visas. They sent 6 year old Dorit to Brussels, Belgium, to live with Gertrud’s sister, Anna Kaufman. She, her husband, and stepson had fled to…
49. Coat design, Jaffa/ Ilse, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.12
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Jaffa /Ilse
… get visas. They sent 6 year old Dorit to Brussels, Belgium, to live with Gertrud’s sister, Anna Kaufman. She, her husband, and stepson had fled to…
50. Coat design, Turin, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.6
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Turin
… get visas. They sent 6 year old Dorit to Brussels, Belgium, to live with Gertrud’s sister, Anna Kaufman. She, her husband, and stepson had fled to…