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Ralph Harpuder family collection

Collection
Collection Summary
The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, newspapers, and photographs relating to the experience of Ralph (Ralf) Harpuder and his family in Berlin, Germany, before the Holocaust, in Shanghai, China, during and after World War II, and in the United States following their emigration in 1947, and of Ralph's stepfather, Viktor Stummer, in Vienna, Austria, before the Holocaust and in Shanghai during and after the war. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Provenance
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Yvonne Harpuder, the widow of Ralph Harpuder.
Date
1915-2008
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Rolf Harpuder Shanghai report card

Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0310

Date
1941 June
Harpuder family papers

Document | Accession Number: 2010.240.1

Date
inclusive:  1915-1952
Engraved wooden Havana cigar box acquired by Austrian Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.2

Geography
received: Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
Date
received:  1940 November 27
emigration:  1938 December
Engraved wooden Havana cigar box acquired by Austrian Jewish refugee
Painted tin container base owned by a German Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.3

Geography
received: United States
Date
emigration:  1939 March
Painted tin container base owned by a German Jewish refugee
Glass thermometer with cardboard case taken with Austrian Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.4 a-b

Geography
manufacture: Vienna (Austria)
use: Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
Date
emigration:  1938 December
manufacture:  1935
Straight razor in a black plastic cover brought to Shanghai by an Austrian Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.5

Geography
use: Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
Date
emigration:  1938 November
use:  1938-1949
Straight razor in a black plastic cover brought to Shanghai by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Blue laced tan leather billfold with an oval image of a man pullling 2 women in a rickshaw acquired by a German Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.6

Geography
acquired: Shanghai (China)
Date
emigration:  1939 March
Red laced brown leather billfold with an image of a man pulling 2 women in a rickshaw acquired by a German Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.7

Geography
acquired: Shanghai (China)
Date
emigration:  1939 March
Japanese propaganda matchbox with a caricature of FDR acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.8

Geography
manufacture: Japan
Date
emigration:  1939 March
publication/distribution:  approximately 1942
Japanese propaganda matchbox with a caricature of FDR acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
Japanese propaganda matchbox with a Japanese sword piercing the US flag acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.9

Geography
manufacture: Japan
Date
emigration:  1947 March
publication/distribution:  approximately 1942
Japanese propaganda matchbox with a Japanese sword piercing the US flag acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
Japanese propaganda matchbox with a Japanese plane bombing the US and British flags acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.10

Geography
manufacture: Japan
Date
emigration:  1939 March
publication/distribution:  approximately 1942
Japanese propaganda matchbox with a Japanese plane bombing the US and British flags acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
Japanese propaganda matchbox with Japanese planes flying over a sinking ship with a US flag acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.11

Geography
manufacture: Japan
Date
emigration:  1939 March
publication/distribution:  approximately 1942
Japanese propaganda matchbox with Japanese planes flying over a sinking ship with a US flag acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
Japanese propaganda matchbox with a bomb exploding in the center of the US acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.12

Geography
manufacture: Japan
Date
emigration:  1939 March
publication/distribution:  approximately 1942
Japanese propaganda matchbox with a bomb exploding in the center of the US acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
Knight cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.13

Geography
use: Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
manufacture: Shanghai (China)
Date
use:  1939 March-before 1947 March
Lux cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.14

Geography
use: Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
Date
emigration:  1939 March
use:  after 1939 March-before 1947 March
Garbor cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.15

Geography
use: Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
Date
use:  after 1939 March-before 1947 March
Five dragon cigarette package cover collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.16

Geography
use: Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
manufacture: Shanghai (China)
Date
use:  after 1939 March-before 1947 March
Million cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.17

Geography
use: Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
Date
use:  after 1939 March-before 1947 March
Golden Circles cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.18

Geography
use: Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
Date
use:  after 1939 March-before 1947 March
Chesterfield cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.19

Geography
use: Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
manufacture: Virginia
Date
use:  after 1939 March-before 1947 March
Gillette razor blade, cover and wrapper featuring King C. Gillette brought to Shanghai by an Austrian Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.20 a-c

Geography
acquired: Vienna (Austria)
manufacture: United States
Date
emigration:  1938 December
Gillette razor blade, cover and wrapper featuring King C. Gillette brought to Shanghai by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Japanese propaganda matchbox cover with a bayonet with a Japanese flag dominating the world acquired by a German Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.21

Geography
use: Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
Date
use:  after 1939 March-before 1947 March
publication/distribution:  approximately 1942
Central Bank of China paper currency note, 5000 yuan, acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.22

Geography
issue: China
Date
emigration:  1939 March
Central Bank of China paper currency note, 5000 yuan, acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
Japanese propaganda resembling a Farmers Bank of China 10 cent note, acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.23

Geography
distribution: China
Date
emigration:  1939 March
creation:  approximately 1940
Japanese propaganda resembling a Farmers Bank of China 10 cent note, acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
Chinese paper currency note, 1000 yuan, acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.24

Geography
issue: China
Date
emigration:  1947 March
issue:  1948
Chinese paper currency note, 1000 yuan, acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
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