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1. Robert Kaldeck papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.125.2
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1984
… allow the Austrians to go to Havana, Cuba. Robert remained in Cuba from 16 February 1939 until 12 September 1939 when he immigrated to the United States…
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 …ROBERT KALDECK PAPERS, 1929-1984 2018.125.2 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126…
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2. Kahan family papers
2016.356.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.356.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1985
bulk: 1946-1956
…, Jenö and Gizella decided that they wanted to immigrate to the United States, initially obtaining visas for Paraguay, where they had hoped to stay while…
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 …KAHAN FAMILY PAPERS, 1937-1985 (bulk, 1946-1956) 2016.356.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington…
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3. Julius and Bertha Meyerowitz papers
1993.128.16 Box 1 Folder 18 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1993.128.16
Date:
inclusive: 1866-1958
… country, which all five of their children had already done. Julius and Bertha applied for visas to the United States, and moved to Frankfurt, Germany while…
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4. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
… Berlin before leaving for the United States in 1939. Following Kristallnacht, Michel’s sister Sonja and her husband Bernard, along with their daughter…
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 …SHADUR FAMILY PAPERS, 1913-1997 1997.A.0316.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024…
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5. Dobiecki family papers
2007.447.1 BookEnclosure Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2007.447.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1977
… United States in 1938, and settled in Chicago. In 1938, Barech, Golda, and Bella began planning to flee Nazi Germany. They booked passage on the MS. St…
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 …1 DOBIECKI FAMILY PAPERS, 1922-1977 2007.447.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024…
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6. Holub, Glaser, and Ornstein families papers
2019.320.1 Box 5 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2019.320.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-2006
… textile industry and Eva was a high school English teacher. Vivian immigrated to the United States in 1971. Eva, Herbert, and Marie immigrated to the United…
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 …1 HOLUB, GLASER, AND ORNSTEIN FAMILIES PAPERS, 1917-2006 2019.320.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
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7. Peter Veres family papers
2010.81.1 Box 13 Folder 1 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 2010.81.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1844-2013
… sailed on the M/S Sobieski from Genoa, Italy, for the United States. Lenke stayed in Italy and sailed on a later date. On ship, Peter played shuffleboard…
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 …PETER VERES FAMILY PAPERS, approximately 1848-2010 2010.81.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
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8. Victor Bienstock papers
2016.499.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2016.499.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
bulk: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… to the United States, where Victor became chief foreign editor of the Overseas News Agency (ONA), a JTA subsidiary. He spent the next five years…
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 …1 VICTOR BIENSTOCK PAPERS, circa 1935-1984 2016.499.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC…
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9. Leopoldine and Hermann Rintel passports
Document | Accession Number: 2017.348.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1940
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
10. Inge Schiffman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1995.91
Date:
1941
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
11. Fred Schiller papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.172 | RG Number: RG-10.451
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1948
… necessitated a stopover in New York. He thought that any stay in the United States would increase his chances of obtaining an American immigration quota number…
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 … RG-10.451 Small Collections RG-10.451 Fred Schiller Papers, 1935-1948. 1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Finding Aid RG-10 Small…
12. Ruth B. Mandel papers
1989.55.11 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.55.11
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1947
… United States in 1947.…
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 …RUTH B. MANDEL PAPERS, 1937‐1947 1989.55.11 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC…
13. Max and Shari Bronner papers
1997.A.0249 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0249
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1942
… 1942) Eichenbronner. He immigrated to the United States in April 1937, settled in Chicago, and changed his name. Max tried to bring his parents to the…
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 …MAX AND SHARI BRONNER PAPERS, 1923‐1942 1997.A.0249 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC…
14. Walter and Erna Brunell papers
1995.A.0297 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0297
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1942
… power following 1933. They had two children; Adele lived in England from 1939 to 1944, while Ernst immigrated to the United States in 1939. While living…
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 …WALTER AND ERNA BRUNELL PAPERS, 1938‐1942 1995.A.0297 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington…
15. Siegfried and Alma Seligmann family papers
1991.153 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1991.153
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
… Gurs. In 1941 they received their visas for the United States, were reunited in Marseilles, and sailed from Lisbon for New York that November. They…
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 …SIEGFRIED AND ALMA SELIGMANN FAMILY PAPERS, 1938‐1941 1991.153 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
16. Hans and Sophie Bernhard papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.321.1
Date:
1936-1961
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
17. Lilienthal family papers
2016.348.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 87
Document | Accession Number: 2016.348.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-circa 2013
…, Carl Lilienthal, and Anna Lilienthal Aschaffenburg. Ernest (1884-1964) was the first to immigrate to the United States, arrived in New York in 1911…
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 …LILIENTHAL FAMILY PAPERS, 1909-approximately 2013 (bulk 1909-1964) 2016.348.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg…
18. Selected records from the Delegation of Israeli Associations in Argentina
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0109 | RG Number: RG-06.017
Date:
1947-1985
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
19. Hornstein family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2019.527.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1935-circa 2010
bulk: 1945-1968
… his help in 1948. They visited Otylia’s cousin Malcha Wolkenfeld in the United States in 1950. During the trip Otylia reconnected with Paul Feldstein…
20. Géza and Margarete Fisch family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.218.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1995
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
21. Tamara Manela and Isaac Sherman papers
2013.149.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2013.149.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1968
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
22. Ettelson family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.381.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1941
bulk: 1934-1941
… coming to the United States after the start of World War II. He continued to receive letters from family and friends until the German invasion of…
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 …1 ETTELSON FAMILY PAPERS, circa 1890s-1941 2016.381.2 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC…
23. Stefan and Frederike Deutsch family papers
1997.A.0039.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0039.1
Date:
inclusive: 1867-circa 1990
bulk: 1938-1942
… Miriam), immigrated to the United States via Antwerp, arriving January 18, 1939. Kurt’s brother, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, who had imemigrated to the United…
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 …STEFAN AND FREDERICKE DEUTSCH FAMILY PAPERS, 1867-1990s (bulk 1938-1942) 1997.A.0039.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul…
24. Albert and Theresia Schwager papers
2002.516.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2002.516.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1939
… the United States. Albert Schwager died in New York on July 20, 1963 and Resi Schwager died in Pennsylvania on February 27, 1979.…
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 …1 ALBERT AND THERESIA SCHWAGER PAPERS, 1938-1939 2002.516.2 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington…
25. Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) records
Document | Accession Number: 2008.19 | RG Number: RG-67.012
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2006
… countries, allowing many of them to find passage to the United States. The present-day Unitarian Universalist Service Committee continues to endeavor to…
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 …, Archivist Processing and digitization of the collection funded by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, France…
26. Schames family Papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.460.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-1984
… Schames, b. 1932). In 1939 the Schames family fled Germany to Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 1941 they immigrated to the United States via Cuba. They…
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 …SCHAMES FAMILY PAPERS, 1871-1984 2016.460.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126…
27. Stolz and White families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.447.2
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2003
bulk: 1940-1960
… Hauptmann and Golde Westreich) moved to Italy and remained in Rome until the early 1940s when they immigrated to the United States and changed their names to…
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 …1 STOLZ AND WHITE FAMILIES PAPERS, 1900-2003 2018.447.2 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC…
28. Marcus family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.340.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1998
bulk: 1939-1942
…. Upon their arrival in the United States, Erich and Heinrich Americanized their names to Eric and Harry. Eric and Phyllis remained in New York City, and…
29. Richard and Ernestine Benes papers
1998.A.0162.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0162.2
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1942
Special Collection:
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… to getting married Richard attempted to obtain visas to the United States, but was unsuccessful. Shortly after they were married, they attempted to…
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 …1 RICHARD AND ERNESTINE BENES PAPERS, 1920-1942 1998.A.0162.2 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
30. Kessler family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.586.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1869-2015
bulk: 1914-1998
… attended Midhurst Grammar School, a boarding school nearby. The family immigrated to the United States in 1940. They briefly lived in New York, but decided…
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 …1 KESSLER FAMILY PAPERS, circa 1869-2015 2017.586.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC…
31. Heinrich Stern collection
1995.A.0363 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0363
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1986
bulk: 1909-1944
… the United States.…
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 …HEINRICH STERN COLLECTION, 1909‐1986 [bulk 1909‐1944] 1995.A.0363 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
32. Walter and Elizabeth Richards family papers
1996.A.0444 Box 1 Folder 42 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0444
Date:
inclusive: 1877-1998
… mid‐1930s and immigrated to the United States in 1938. They lived in Columbus, Ohio with Walter’s brother Hans and had son Thomas in 1939 before moving…
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 …WALTER AND ELIZABETH RICHARDS FAMILY PAPERS, 1877‐1998 1996.A.0444 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place…
33. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
… Isaac Bernstein, a cattle dealer. Charlotte had two brothers, Ernst, and Robert, who, with his wife Gertrude left for the United States before the war…
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 …FRED VENDIG PAPERS, 1859-2002 1999.A.0089.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126…
34. George Blau collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0093 | RG Number: RG-10.112
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
35. Carl Lenneberg papers
2011.259.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2011.259.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1913-1975
bulk: 1939-1940
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… to the United States in May 1937. Carl and Georg were arrested during Kristallnacht in November 1938 and sent to Dachau concentration camp. They were…
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 …1 CARL LENNEBERG PAPERS, circa 1913-1975 2011.259.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC…
36. Oral history interview with Bronislaw Zajbert
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.284.2 | RG Number: RG-50.986.0002
Date:
interview: 2017 April 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yael Siman on behalf of Nenemi Paxia - Sinergias Educativas A.C.…
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 … United States to attend college because of national political difficulties. He returned to Venezuela to work there for several years until he met his wife…
37. Oral history interview with Judith Klein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.47 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0047
Date:
interview: 2010 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Fundación Memoria Viva…
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 … reluctantly at first. They moved to the States in 1970 seeking medical care for her husband who suffered from cancer. He died after one year. Judith lived in…
38. Oral history interview with Noemi Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.219.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1073
Date:
interview: 2020 May 21
interview: 2020 May 26
interview: 2020 June 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history collection…
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 … going to Palestine or to the United States. I have no idea. And so they couldn't go because his father said he's not leaving without his son. And so they…
39. Frank Liebermann family papers
2000.103 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2000.103
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1997
… restricted by the Nazi regime, Hans Liebermann secured an affidavit of support for his family’s immigration to the United States and left immediately after…
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 …FRANK LIEBERMANN FAMILY PAPERS, approximately 1890‐1997 2000.103 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
40. Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection
1995.A.0106 Box 4 Folder 11 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0106 | RG Number: RG-10.237
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1986
bulk: 1937-1954
… brothers to the United States and Canada during the 1930s. Leo Schiffman Jr. married Lottie Wheelock Schiffman (née Gilbert, 1922-2004) in Providence, Rhode…
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 …1 MARGARET ANNE GOLDSMITH HANAW COLLECTION, 1874-1986 1995.A.0106 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
41. Oral history interview with Anthony Acevedo
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.457 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0618
Date:
interview: 2010 October 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
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 …1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:47,630 2 00:00:47,630 --> 00:00:49,940 This is a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 3 00:00:49,940 --> 00:00:52…
42. Otto Eidlitz diaries
2017.121.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 44
Document | Accession Number: 2017.121.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1943
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… parents were trying to obtain visas to the United States or Cuba. After Otto was released from prison, he sold everything to help get his brothers out. In…
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 …OTTO EIDLITZ DIARIES, 1940-1943 2017.121.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126…
43. Plaut family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.39.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1943
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
44. Oral history interview with Masha Pupko Bernstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.284.11 | RG Number: RG-50.986.0011
Date:
interview: 2019 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yael Siman on behalf of Nenemi Paxia - Sinergias Educativas A.C.…
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 … plane to New York, where one of her mother’s Lithuanian maternal uncles lived and had a store in the Empire State. Masha’s family were in New York for…
45. Larisch family papers
2018.29.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2018.29.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1973
… and Linda immigrated to the United States on the British quota in 1947, Kurt joined them a month later, and Moritz and Dora followed in 1949. The…
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 …1 LARISCH FAMILY PAPERS, circa 1900-1973 2018.29.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC…
46. Articles, clippings, and other materials relating to the UNRRA and displaced persons
Document | Accession Number: 1991.092 | RG Number: RG-19.010.01
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
47. Selected records from the Division Politica of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina
Document | Accession Number: 2019.265.1 | RG Number: RG-72.048
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1955
…Source of acquisition is the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship), Argentina.The United States…
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 … Hombres" que tiene una "serie de ofensas graves contra Alemania", "Agente Secreto del Japón", "Mister V" rodada por los estudios norteamericana "United…
48. Schloss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.503.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1937-1948
… immigrated to the United States in 1938 and helped secure visas for the family to emigrate from Marseilles. That route was closed when America entered the war…
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 …1 SCHLOSS FAMILY PAPERS, circa 1937-1948 2018.503.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC…
49. US propaganda poster with a swastika shattered by a symbolic face promoting freedom of speech in Central America
2012.228.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.228.2
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942
Series Title:
Cuatro Libertades
Artwork Title:
Libertad de Palabra
Alternate Title:
Freedom of Speech
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Carlos Zepeda…
50. Oral history interview with Halina "Nadi" Nadel Lasch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.284.4 | RG Number: RG-50.986.0004
Date:
interview: 2017 January 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yael Siman on behalf of Nenemi Paxia - Sinergias Educativas A.C.…
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 … she was able to migrate to the United States. She mentions that she worked in the radio with Wladyslaw Szpilman. While living in New York City she…