Overview
- 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.
Browse 25 Items In This Collection
Engraved wooden Havana cigar box acquired by Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.2
emigration: 1938 December
Painted tin container base owned by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.3
Glass thermometer with cardboard case taken with Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.4 a-b
use: Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
manufacture: 1935
Straight razor in a black plastic cover brought to Shanghai by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.5
use: 1938-1949
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
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
Japanese propaganda matchbox with a caricature of FDR acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.8
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
Japanese propaganda matchbox with a Japanese sword piercing the US flag acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.9
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
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
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
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.11
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
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
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
Knight cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.13
manufacture: Shanghai (China)
Lux cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.14
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
Five dragon cigarette package cover collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.16
manufacture: Shanghai (China)
Million cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.17
Golden Circles cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.18
Chesterfield cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.19
manufacture: Virginia
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
manufacture: United States
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
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
Japanese propaganda resembling a Farmers Bank of China 10 cent note, acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.23
creation: approximately 1940
Chinese paper currency note, 1000 yuan, acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.24
issue: 1948
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