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1. Oral history interview with Lydia Jablonski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.542.24 | RG Number: RG-50.812.0024
Date:
1996-1998
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… was a German Jewish political refugee named Ernest Jablonski, in 1938; her husband’s background, including his flight from Berlin in 1931 because he was…
2. Oral history interview with Miron Kolodziejczak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.342.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0730
Date:
interview: 2013 August 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Political refugees.…
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 … committee against the Communists. In '48 he and another guy escaped to Sweden. There they applied for political asylum which was granted. Soon they decided…
3. Annette Fry papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.68.178
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1968
…Political refugees--France.…
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 … Committee. Anti-fascist movements--United States. Political refugees--France. Marseille (France) Photographs CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Photographs…
4. James G. McDonald collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.220.1
Date:
inclusive: 1873-2010
… take active measures to help refugees and to address the political situation in Germany. Upon returning to New York and worked on the editorial staff of…
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 … Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, chairman of President Roosevelt’s Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, member of the Anglo-American Committee of…
5. Miriam Davenport Ebel papers
1991.158.88 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1991.158.88
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1989
bulk: 1938-1945
…Political refugees--France.…
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 …. International Rescue Committee. Anti‐fascist movements‐‐United States. Political refugees‐‐France. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐War work. France‐‐History‐‐German…
6. Varian Fry letter to Jean Gemähling
1993.12.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.12.1
Date:
creation: 1945 January 09
…Political refugees--France.…
7. Selected records from the Austrian State Archives collection NS-Vermittlungsstelle
Document | Accession Number: 2007.276 Duplicate 1 | RG Number: RG-17.018M
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1940
…Political refugees--Austria.…
8. Drawing created by Karl Schwesig postwar depicting a beating he witnessed in a concentration camp
1988.5.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.12
Date:
creation: 1948
Artwork Title:
Der Schlag ins Gesicht
Alternate Title:
Slap in the Face
…Political refugees--France.…
9. Drawing created by Karl Schwesig postwar based upon his experiences as a political prisoner
1988.5.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.11
Date:
creation: 1948
Artwork Title:
In Camp de Noé (altes paar im gesprach)
Alternate Title:
In Camp Noé (Old Couple Talking)
…Political refugees--France.…
10. Watercolor created by Karl Schwesig postwar of Jewish prisoners in a concentration camp
1988.5.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.13
Date:
creation: 1948
Artwork Title:
Badenser Jüdinnen im Camp de Noé
…Political refugees--France.…
11. Watercolor created by Karl Schwesig postwar based on his experiences in an internment camp
1988.5.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.10
Date:
creation: 1948
Artwork Title:
Lazarett im Camp de Noé
Alternate Title:
Hospital in Camp Noe
…Political refugees--France.…
12. Watercolor created by Karl Schwesig with a scene of soldiers and inmates in a concentration camp
1988.5.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.14
Date:
creation: 1948
Artwork Title:
Essen-Ausgabe
Alternate Title:
Food Distribution
…Political refugees--France.…
13. Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting a German prison
1988.5.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.9
Date:
creation: 1933
Series Title:
Rosenmontag
Artwork Title:
Zellenkrug Nr. 12 (Ulmer Höhe I)
…Political refugees--France.…
14. Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting Hitler greeting a British diplomat
1988.5.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.4
Date:
creation: 1938 February
Series Title:
Rosenmontag [Rose Monday]
Artwork Title:
Mach keine halifax ein
Alternate Title:
Do not make a Halifax
…Political refugees--France.…
15. Etching by Karl Schwesig of 3 inmates at work under an armed guard in a prison camp
1988.5.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.15
Date:
creation: 1948-1949
Artwork Title:
Trabajar (Arbeiten)
Alternate Title:
Work (Working)
…Political refugees--France.…
16. Etching by Karl Schwesig showing inmates bartering bread and cigarettes in a concentration camp
1988.5.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.16
Date:
creation: 1948
Artwork Title:
Tabak gegen Brot
…Political refugees--France.…
17. Drawing by Karl Schwesig satirizing the embrace of Fascism in France
1988.5.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.3
Date:
creation: 1938 February
Series Title:
Rosenmontag
Artwork Title:
Do lecker, deib-os
…Political refugees--France.…
18. Pencil and ink drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting a skeletal Hitler atop an airplane
1988.5.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.8
Date:
creation: 1938 February
Series Title:
Rosenmontag
Artwork Title:
Daß wir hier in Flammen aufgehen verdanken wir den Fuhrer!
…Political refugees--France.…
19. Satirical etching by Karl Schwesig showing men in academic robes saluting a corpse
1988.5.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.20
Date:
creation: 1949
Artwork Title:
Der Ermordete ist schuldig
Alternate Title:
The Murdered is Guilty
…Political refugees--France.…
20. Etching by Karl Schwesig showing a fellow prisoner writing in a concentration camp
1988.5.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.19
Date:
creation: 1948-1949
Artwork Title:
Heimweh
…Political refugees--France.…
21. Vakar family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.389.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-2013
…Political refugees--France.…
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 …--France. Political refugees--France. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees. Refugees--Massachusetts. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
22. Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb collection
1999.A.0037.31 Box 3 Folder 19 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0037.31
Date:
inclusive: 1973-1992
…Political refugees--United States--History--20th century.…
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 … - United States - History - 20th century Political refugees - United States - History - 20th century CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Colleges and universities, 1973…
23. Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting Nazi followers as robots
1988.5.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.6
Date:
creation: 1938 February
Series Title:
Rosenmontag
Artwork Title:
Der Herr Ersatz Komt zu Besuch!
…Political refugees--France.…
24. Ink drawing by Karl Schwesig showing one legged inmates working in a field in a concentration camp
1988.5.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.18
Date:
creation: 1948-1949
Artwork Title:
Feldarbeit
Alternate Title:
Fieldwork
…Political refugees--France.…
25. Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting Nazi soldiers as pigs
1988.5.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.7
Date:
creation: 1938 February
Series Title:
Rosenmontag
Artwork Title:
Wat ess vill schlimmer wie ne jüdd?
…Political refugees--France.…
26. Oral history interview with Wallace Witkowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0187 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0108
Date:
interview: 1998 September 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Political refugees--Sweden.…
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 … and very positive. I have encountered absolutely no – no negative reception. Q: Were there other refugee children in your high school? A: In my…
27. Cartoon by Karl Schwesig of Nazi soldiers bowing to a part human/part animal puppet
1988.5.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.2
Date:
creation: 1938 February
Series Title:
Rosenmontag
Artwork Title:
Schade, dass der junge David Heisst
Alternate Title:
Pity, that the boy is called David
Pity the Young David Heisst
…Political refugees--France.…
28. Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting the subjugation of Yugoslavia to Nazi Germany
1988.5.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.5
Date:
creation: 1938 February
Series Title:
Rosenmontag
Artwork Title:
Wells du am balkan erbe-reech en de fott de serbe
…Political refugees--France.…
29. Etching by Karl Schwesig showing one legged inmates going to work in a concentration camp
1988.5.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.17
Date:
creation: 1948-1949
Artwork Title:
Zur arbeit
Alternate Title:
To Work
…Political refugees--France.…
30. Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) records
Document | Accession Number: 2008.19 | RG Number: RG-67.012
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2006
…Political refugees--Czechoslovakia.…
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 … with both emigration and relief. On March 23, 1939, Martha escorted thirty-five refugees including journalists, political 28 leaders, and two children…
31. Cyril Pearl collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.137 | RG Number: RG-69.008M
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1983
…Political refugees--Great Britain.…
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 … -- Refugees. World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Australian. Political refugees -- Great…
32. Karl Schwesig political cartoon mocking a Nazi parade
1988.5.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.1
Date:
creation: 1938 February
Series Title:
Rosenmontag [Rose Monday]
Artwork Title:
Der Achs-Ionär
Alternate Title:
Axis-Ionary
…Political refugees--France.…
33. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
2018.448.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1950
… obtained for her through contacts in America because of the danger she faced as a political refugee and because of her recognized potential to provide help…
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 … America because of the danger she faced as a political refugee and because of her recognized potential to provide help to others when she reached America…
34. UNRRA selected records AG-018-001 : China Office
Document | Accession Number: 2016.232.1 | RG Number: RG-67.059
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1949
…Political refugees--China--20th century.…
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 …- 0000- 0015 Communist - Areas 01/01/1944 31/12/1949 Unclassified No S-1122- 0000- 0016 Communist - Political Refugees 01/01/1944 31/12/1949 Unclassified…
35. Looped metal whip that may have been used at Auschwitz given to a Ukrainian journalist covering the Nuremberg Trials
2012.375.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.375.2
Date:
use: approximately 1943
received: approximately 1947 January-approximately 1947 April
…Political refugees--United States--Biography.…
36. Oral history interview with Stephen Kalmar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.467 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0467
Date:
interview: 1991 October 29
interview: 1992 March 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his arrest in 1937 for being a Socialist; his marriage and the couple's decision to leave Vienna for Sweden; their experiences as political refugees…
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 …,560 myself a political refugee, and Sweden was on the Social 160 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:44,750 Democratic government. 161 00:11:44,750 --> 00:11:47,900 And…
37. John Henry Weidner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.619.1 | RG Number: RG-67.063M
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2010
…, Belgium, and German-occupied parts of France to find their way to the Swiss border, or to Spain. In this work, he helped political refugees, persecuted…
38. UNRRA selected records AG-018-040 : Office of the Historian
Document | Accession Number: 2015.245.1 | RG Number: RG-67.050M
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1953
… and worldwide transportation difficulties. The recipient nations had been especially hard hit by starvation, dislocation, and political chaos. It played…
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 ….ushmm.org 3 by starvation, dislocation, and political chaos. It played a major role in helping Displaced Persons return to their home countries in Europe in…
39. Selected records from the State Archives of the Penza Region related to the evacuation of civilians during WWII
Document | Accession Number: 2013.9 | RG Number: RG-22.038
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Refugees--Russia--Penza--History--Registers.…
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 …‐58‐13. Head of department of use: Meshcheryakova, Nadezhda Yevgenyevna. Tel.: 64‐55‐33. Historical background In the summer 1941, refugees…
40. Samuel Zisman papers
1996.A.0581.1 Box 6 Folder 28 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0581.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1996
1945-1947
… missing or to have been skipped. Printed materials consist of articles about refugee children published in L’Aube, clippings about displaced persons and…
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 … missing or to have been skipped. Printed materials consist of articles about refugee children published in L’Aube, clippings about displaced persons and…
41. Nachlass Elsa Lüthi-Ruth
Document | Accession Number: 2012.285 | RG Number: RG-58.025
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1969
Alternate Title:
Personal papers of Elsa Lüthi-Ruth
…World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--France.…
42. Drypoint etching by Lea Grundig of lifeless figures spread over the earth
1987.92.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.92.8
Date:
creation: 1936
issue: approximately 1972
Series Title:
Krieg Droht
Artwork Title:
So wird es sein I
Alternate Title:
Thus It Will Be 1
War Threatens
… politics or of Grundig, and sent Lea to sanatoriums in Heidelberg and Vienna, but Hans joined her in both cities. In 1928, she and Hans married. They lived…
43. Drypoint etching by Lea Grundig of a man wrapped in rope up to his neck
1987.92.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.92.4
Date:
creation: 1936
issue: approximately 1972
Series Title:
Unterm Hakenkreuz!
Under the Swastika
Artwork Title:
Er wird sich befreien
Alternate Title:
He will free himself
… politics or of Grundig, and sent Lea to sanatoriums in Heidelberg and Vienna, but Hans joined her in both cities. In 1928, she and Hans married. They lived…
44. Selected records from the Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0085 | RG Number: RG-58.004M
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1950
… given the ICRC a mandate to protect victims of international and internal armed conflicts. Such victims include war wounded, prisoners, refugees…
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 …, 1939-1945 . Switzerland--Politics and government--20th century. Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Refugees. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps…
45. Selected records from the former archive of the city of Westerbork
Document | Accession Number: 2003.234 | RG Number: RG-41.004M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
…Refugees, Jewish--Netherlands--Westerbork--Registers.…
46. Kulturgemeinschaft der Emigranten in Zürich (1941-1945): Historisches Archiv
Document | Accession Number: 2010.323 | RG Number: RG-58.006
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1948
Alternate Title:
Cultural Alliance of Emigrants in Zurich (1941-1945) : Historical Archive
…The "Kulturgemeinschaft der Emigranten in Zürich" (Cultural Alliance of Emigrants in Zurich) was founded in October 1941 by Jewish refugees with the…
47. The Austrian General Consulate in Palestine (RG 151)
Document | Accession Number: 2008.5 | RG Number: RG-68.105M
Date:
inclusive: 1903-1937
…Jewish refugees--Government policy--Austria.…
48. Selected records of the Swedish Jewish community
Document | Accession Number: 2019.108.1 | RG Number: RG-66.009
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1977
… individuals who were rescued in 1945; registers of payments, loans, financial assistance, and scholarships; registers of refugees in Sweden; card registers of…
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 … assistance, and scholarships; registers of refugees in Sweden; card registers of refugee children; registers of deported Jews; registers of emigrants; and…
49. Selected records of the Prefecture of Police of the Capital (Bucharest) ( Fond 1695)
Document | Accession Number: 2007.2 | RG Number: RG-25.041M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1947
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… for both Jewish and non-Jewish political prisoners in Romania proper; liberation from the camps; and other matters.…
50. Office of the Chief Representative of the Government of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic for the Repatriation of Polish Citizens From the Territory of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to Poland
Document | Accession Number: 2017.37.1 | RG Number: RG-31.122
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1946
…World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.…