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1. Schillinger and Baumann family papers
2015.556.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2015.556.1
Date:
inclusive: 1845-circa 2015
bulk: 1913-1986
… refugee camp near Rotterdam, The Netherlands in June 1939. With the help of Samuel’s brother Hugo, they were able to obtain permits to go to Ecuador. They…
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 … MS St. Louis from Hamburg, Germany to Havana, Cuba; their relocation to the Heijplaat refugee camp in the Netherlands; their move to Quito, Ecuador…
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2. Child's drawing of a faraway house by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.9
Date:
creation: approximately 1944
Artwork Title:
Im Wald und auf der Heide da such ich meine Freude!
Alternate Title:
I Search for my Happiness in the Forest and on the Moor!
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
3. German Jewish refugee child's still life of an apple, ashtray, and a smoking pipe
2013.486.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.3
Date:
creation: 1944 December 04
Artwork Title:
Fruit, Pipe, and Ashtray, Maur, Switzerland, December 4, 1944
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
4. Child's collage of a man's face over New York City by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.16
Date:
creation: approximately 1946
Artwork Title:
In the New Country all the Best, Fredy
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
5. Child's drawing of a large ocean liner by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.12
Date:
creation: 1945 April
Artwork Title:
Ship with Tugboat, Maur, Switzerland, April 1945
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
6. Child's sketch of a man listening to a radio drawn by a young German Jewish refugee
2013.486.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.8
Date:
creation: approximately 1944-1945
Artwork Title:
Lebend Wurden Aufgefunden
Alternate Title:
Were Found Alive
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
7. Child’s drawing of train tracks approaching a tunnel by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.11
Date:
creation: approximately 1944-1945
Artwork Title:
Train Tracks on a Curve
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
8. Child's drawing of trees along the lake done by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.4
Date:
creation: 1945 July 08
Artwork Title:
View of the lake, Maur, Switzerland, July 8, 1945
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
9. Child's watercolor of a house near a road leading to the Alps by a young Jewish boy
2013.486.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.13
Date:
creation: 1944 July 21
Artwork Title:
Our Swiss Home, Maur, Switzerland, July 21, 1944
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
10. Child's watercolor of a house near a lake in the Alps by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.6
Date:
creation: 1944 April
Artwork Title:
Lakeside House, Maur, Switzerland, April 1944
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
11. Child's sketch of 2 boys parading with a Swiss flag by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.5
Date:
creation: 1944 December 17
Artwork Title:
Wir sind die jungen Schweizer
Alternate Title:
We are the young Swiss
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
12. Child's drawing of 2 houses near the mountains by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.7
Date:
creation: 1944
Artwork Title:
Swiss cottages, 1944
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
13. Child's two sided drawing of a house and 4 watercolor studies by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.14
Date:
creation: approximately 1945
Artwork Title:
Laundry Day, Maur
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
14. Child’s pencil sketch of 2 boys in beds listening to the radio by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.10
Date:
creation: approximately 1945
Artwork Title:
Wir Kommen
Alternate Title:
We are Coming
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
15. 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
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
16. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
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 …; and student, citizenship, refugee, and camp papers. The records trace the Vendig family’s precarious citizenship, refugee, internee, and immigrant…
17. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
… enemy alien at the outbreak of war, and was held in internment camps in Fresnay-sur-Sarthe, Saint Cyprien, Gurs, and Les Milles. He was deported via…
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 …) Jews--Germany--Lechenich. Jews--Germany--Mönchengladbach. Jews--Germany--Cologne. Jewish refugees--Kenya--Nairobi. Concentration camp inmates--France…
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 … internment camp, Joseph, Ernest and George were finally released so that they could leave for Kenya. They were the first members of the Berg family to arrive…
18. Oral history interview with Hans Wolfgang Philippi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.640 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0640
Date:
interview: 1998 September 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kristallnacht in November 1938, and his father arrest and imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Mr. Philippi describes being smuggled to Holland and…
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 … as refugees. dont even know if we had visa. We had passport with for Juden Jew. Q. UH-HUH. A. And from there we were sent to another camp in Rotterdam…
19. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
… 1942, Rudi and his parents were arrested in Gouda, Holland and were sent to the Westerbork transit camp. His parents were transported to Auschwitz…
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 …) Topics: Children. Concentration camp inmates. Families. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust victims. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jewish refugees. Refugees. St…
20. Portrait of a pipe smoking man interned at Gurs drawn by another inmate
2013.486.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.2
Date:
creation: after 1940 May-before 1940 December
Artwork Title:
Portrait of Ernst Vendig, Gurs, 1940
…, Germany occupied Belgium. Ernst was deported to France and imprisoned in St. Cyprien and then Gurs internment camps. In 1941, Charlotte, the boys, and…