Overview
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Susan Flusser Tausig
Physical Details
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Money
- Object Type
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Tokens (lcsh)
- Dimensions
- overall: | Diameter: 0.630 inches (1.6 cm)
- Materials
- overall : metal
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The token was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Susan Flusser Tausig.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-05-07 15:39:23
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn709746
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Also in Susan Flusser Tausig collection
The collection consists of photo albums, loose photos, documents, an autograph album, postcards, correspondence, an album of Chinese scrip, coins (Chines, Austria, etc.), a map of Shanghai, newspaper clippings related to Susan Flusser Tausig, her father Rudolf Flusser, her mother Blanka Rosenbaum (nee Lipiner), her stepfather Ludwig Rosenbaum, stepmother Dina Raave, and brother Peter Flusser. Also includes documents from Susan Flusser Tausig's father-in-law Peter Tausig and a Cafe Roy/Adieu going away card for Alexander Fried (a friend of the Tausig family).
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Scrapbook containing scrip and matchbook covers
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Scrapbook titled "Money/Matches", with examples of Chinese scrip and matchbook covers adhered to the pages inside.
Flusser and Rosenbaum families papers
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The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences in Shanghai of the Flusser and Rosenbaum families, both originally of Vienna, Austria, including Blanka and Rudolf Flusser, their children Peter and Susan (later Susan Flusser Tausig), and Ludwig Rosenbaum. Included are biographical materials, immigration paperwork, restitution papers, correspondence, printed material, and photographs documenting their emigration from Vienna to Shanghai, Blanka and Rudolf’s divorce and her marriage to Ludwig in 1942, their emigration from Shanghai in 1950 to Germany, their time in the Wildflecken and Föhrenwald displaced persons camps, and immigration to the United States in 1951. Biographical materials primarily consist of post-war copies of documentation including birth certificates, Blanka Rosenbaum’s baptism certificate, marriage and divorce papers, and materials about Ludwig Rosenbaum’s employment with Oesterreichische Creditanstalt in Austria and employment in Shanghai. Other material includes Susan Flusser’s autograph book from 1945, a scrapbook chronicling her travels in Europe and the United States, 1951-1954, Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) documents from the Föhrenwald DP camp, and an identification card; Rudolf Flusser’s Czech passport; Ludwig’s identification card from Shanghai and a document regarding his son Herbert’s death in 1944; personal papers of Paul Tausig, the father of Susan’s future husband Henry Tausig, who was also in Shanghai during the Holocaust; and the death certificate for Ludwig’s first wife Maragarete Rosenbaum, who died in Shanghai in 1941. Immigration papers document the Flusser's and Rosenbaum’s emigration from Austria to Shanghai and their immigration to the United States after the Holocaust. Documents related to Shanghai include Ludwig and his family’s tickets for passage on the SS Conte Rosso from Trieste to Shanghai in 1938, a Shanghai census form, and an authorization form to assist the police in the Honkew district. Documents related to immigration to the United States include wartime paperwork regarding attempts to obtain visas, postwar correspondence and with American Consulate in Shanghai, a newsletter from the SS Anna Salen, Declaration of Intention forms, and Ludwig’s naturalization certificate from 1957. Restitution paperwork consists of documents and correspondence regarding restitution with Austria. Includes paperwork from the United Restitution Organization (URO). Correspondence includes letters from Erwin Feld, an attorney in Shanghai; letters from Ludwig to the Kohn’s written from the SS Anna Salen en route to Bremerhaven from Shanghai in 1950; and letters to Ludwig from Marianne Weiss and Georg Tengler. Printed material, writings and miscellaneous include newspaper clippings from the North-China Daily News and Shanghai Times; a map of Shanghai; poems and writings; a flyer for Reverend Werner Wedel, who was a minister in Shanghai; a music score and concert flyers, some of which feature Ludwig as a performer; and a handmade farewell card for Alexander Fried, who was the manager of the Café Roy, a restaurant in Shanghai popular with refugees. Photographs include pre-war, wartime, and post-war depictions of the Flusser and Rosenbaum families in Vienna, Shanghai, and the Wildflecken and Föhrenwald displaced persons camps. Includes family photographs of Blanka and her family, the Flusser family apartment in Vienna, Ludwig, Susan, and Susan’s future father-in-law Paul Tausig. Photograph albums consist of a pre-war album of Ludwig Rosenbaum with his first wife Margarete and their son Herbert; an annotated post-war album documenting the Flusser and Rosenbaum families in Shanghai circa 1947-1949; an annotated post-war album documenting the Wildflecken DP camp and a trip to Salzburg around 1950, primarily contains postcards; a wartime and post-war primarily consisting of photographs of the Flusser and Rosenbaum family in Shanghai and the United States; and an album documenting the Rosenbaums in the Föhrenwald DP camp, 1951.
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