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1. Louis Davis papers
2005.303.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 32
Document | Accession Number: 2005.303.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1968
bulk: 1942-1948
…. He went to the American Embassy and was one of the first refugees to register to come to the United States. He was able to contact his paternal aunts…
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 … went to the American Embassy and registered to immigrate to the United States. He was able to contact his paternal aunt, to tell them he was alive, but…
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2. Heinz and Mira Wallerstein papers
2017.258.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 51
Document | Accession Number: 2017.258.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1985
bulk: 1931-1944
… letter from the Hamburg-American Line cancelling the Taussig’s trip to the United Sates in 1939; and letters to Mira from her birth mother in Russia, her…
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 … letter from the Hamburg-American Line in 1939 cancelling the trip she helped fund to try and them to the United States; and letters to Mira from her birth…
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3. Hana and Charles Bruml papers
1989.303.57 Box 2 Folder 34 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.303.57
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2001
… představovali, že bude vypadat československé státní zřízení, and a copy of an American Temperance Society display order form. Theresienstadt materials comprise…
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 … představovali, že bude vypadat československé státní zřízení, and a copy of an American Temperance Society display order form. Theresienstadt materials comprise…
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4. Ministerstvo národní bezpečnosti (Ministry of National Security)
Document | Accession Number: 2016.268.1 | RG Number: RG-48.021
Date:
creation: 1952
Alternate Title:
Trial of Rudolf Slánský
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… and Orenstein in being agents of American imperialism arouse a wide discussion among the left wing of Mapam party and Kibutz movement which coursed to…
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 … convicted to life sentence. Accusation of Oren and Orenstein in being agents of American imperialism arouse a wide discussion among the left wing of Mapam…
5. Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers
1998.A.0297 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0297
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1978
…. Genealogical materials include family trees and family history. Clippings from American, Austrian, and Czech newspapers document anti-Jewish regulations imposed…
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 … collection Genealogical materials include family trees and family history. Clippings from American, Austrian, and Czech newspapers document anti-Jewish…
6. Paula Abelow collection
2008.111.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.111.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1957
bulk: 1923-1948
… home and on vacation with relatives and friends prior to World War II. Some of the photos follow Paula’s parents on their quest to gain American…
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 …’s parents on their quest to gain American citizenship, and show them in New York and Mexico City. Also included in the collection are documents collected…
7. Gaynor I. Jacobson papers
1991.A.0102 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0102 | RG Number: RG-34.001
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1989
… joining the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in 1944 as a country director in Italy, Greece, and Czechoslovakia. Over the next six years, he…
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 … with the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and especially his work assisting eastern European…
8. Gisela Laufer Wortman, William Laufer, and Naum Wortman papers
1996.A.0309 Box 2 Folder 15 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0309
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-2004
…’s family; his work as a doctor at Auschwitz and for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, American Joint Distribution Committee, and…
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 … Rehabilitation Administration, American Joint Distribution Committee, and International Refugee Organization at Ebensee and Ebelsberg; and his https://collections…
9. Ruth and Kurt Elias papers
2004.621. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 2004.621.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1947
… inmates of a nearby camp that the SS might come back and kill them. They were liberated American troops in a nearby forest. Ruth and Kurt were first taken…
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 … camp that the SS might come back and kill them. They were liberated American troops in a nearby forest. Ruth and Kurt were first taken to Poenitz and…
10. Goldschmied family papers
2018.96.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2018.96.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1852-1985
….S. citizens in 1945, the Goldschmied family changed their last name to Gilbert. For two-and-a-half years, Albin worked as Educational Advisor to the American…
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 … their last name to Gilbert. For the next several years, Albin worked an Educational Advisor to the American forces in Bavaria, Germany, Louise and Renee…
11. Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers
2018.463.1 Box 2 Folder 17 Image 53
Document | Accession Number: 2018.463.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1906-1993
bulk: 1920-1944
… course of action. Max was in immediate danger because of his position with the Shell Oil Company. Assured by a friend at the American Consul, who also…
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 … American Consul, who also lived in their apartment building, that exit visas for their young daughters would come through quickly, Max and Irma and their…
12. Group portrait of Jewish orphans who had survived Theresienstadt with the wife of Czech President Edvard Benes and the wife of the American Ambassador Laurence Steinhart. Each child holds a newly received toy.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 45898
Date:
1947
…Group portrait of Jewish orphans who had survived Theresienstadt with the wife of Czech President Edvard Benes and the wife of the American…
13. Members of the Zionist youth group "Hashomer Hatzair" board a bus to Germany at the Polish-Czech border.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 08222
Date:
1946
… and Germany. The transit expenses were covered by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which also provided food and shelter along the…
14. Herman and Olga Weigl walk down a street in Prague.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 26089
Date:
1936
…, where her parents ran the Wottitzky family general store. At the urging of an acquaintance, Ruth's father applied for American visas in the spring of…
15. Two commercial artists build a model [probably in postwar Czechoslovakia].
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 68550
Date:
Circa 1946 - 1948
… there for a couple of weeks before being liberated by the American army on May 4, 1945, less than a week before Germany finally surrendered to the Allies…
16. Studio portrait of two Jewish sisters with their rescuer after the war.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 45878
Date:
1946
… her American visa in 1947 and emigrated ahead of the children. After she left, Renate and Sylvia lived with a Jewish family by the name of Hirschfeldt…
17. Czech Jews at forced labor clear ice in the center of Prague.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 59541
Date:
Circa 1944
…Ivan Fric was born in Prague on October 22, 1922. His father was an ethnographer and a specialist on Latin-American Indians. Ivan Fric attended the…
18. A Czech Jew at forced labor clears blocks of ice in the center of Prague.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 59540
Date:
Circa 1944
…Ivan Fric was born in Prague on October 22, 1922. His father was an ethnographer and a specialist on Latin-American Indians. Ivan Fric attended the…
19. Postwar studio portraif of Pearl and Helen (right) Herskovic who survived the war as Mengele twins and their brother Arno, a soldier in the Czech army.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 49646
Date:
May 1945
… January 18th, 1945 they were marched out of Auschwitz on a "death march". They marched for three months until they were liberated by the American Army in…
20. Studio portrait of the Schiller family taken one day before they received a deportation notice.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 61712
Date:
1941 October 22
… sitting next to him was killed. About two weeks later, the American army liberated Frank.…