Copyright Holder: Eli Schaap

Consists of documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, and an oral history related to Hyman Robert (Bob) Levitan, a World War II veteran who became the captain of the SS Ben Hecht and illegally transported a group of refugees, mainly Holocaust survivors, to Palestine in 1947. The ship was intercepted by British warships and the passengers and crew were imprisoned. The crew was released after six ...

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

Copyright Holder: Κρατικού Αρχείου

Reel 8 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). B/W. German troops, trombone in FG. Nazi party leaders review German troops. Pinning medals onto uniforms. CU, medal featuring crown and Iron Cross. German boards plane, CQ, propellers. COLOR. Rugged scenery from ship, seagulls. This is likely the steamer (“Milwaukee”) that Eva Braun and her companions traveled on during a trip ...

Contains passenger list of a ship that sailed from Liverpool via Belfast and Greenock to Boston and New York 1938 September 16, includes the name of Louis Fendrich father, Louis; 3 tickets belonging to Theodore Fendrich and his sisters for 3rd class passage on the Conte Di Savoy in January 1940.

Documents related to the career and emigration from Germany of Robert Hesse, including identification documents (German passport and identification card), certificate of discharge from Buchenwald (1938), immigration card from Cuba, typed resume (1940), and photo copies of two family photographs.

Contains approximately 40 letters written by Aharon (Arnold) Rosenkrantz and his brother David (Dovid) Rosenkrantz to their parents, Josef and Pesia, in Vienna in 1938-1939, as well as a postcard of the ship Patria, in which one of the brothers, possibly both, boarded. Includes envelopes, with stamps removed. The collection also includes two letters by a brother from a Jewish summer camp in southern ...

Morris Horn, M.D. served in Europe in WW2 as a Captain in the Army Medical Corps and died while serving his country. Dr. Morris Horn married Ruth Carlson Horn in the Commodore Hotel in NYC in August 1932 by Rabbi Albert Martin. Ruth (1913 - 1999) was a noted patron of the arts and innovator in Bridgeport, Connecticut's arts community. She was the daughter of William Carlson, an automobile industrialist, ...

Postcard commissioned in 1958 commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Aliyah of a group of German Jews arranged by the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary organization in Palestine, with the assistance of leaders of the Revisionist Organization in Vienna. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria and created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. The postcard depicts the route a group of Austrian ...

Contains travel documents, identification documents, and photographs related to donor (born Fella Flamberg) and her mother, passengers on the MS St. Louis, who disembarked in Belgium. Includes photographs taken aboard the ship, registration documents from Belgium, and false identification card issued in the name "Berte Delhaye."

Collection of papers, identification cards, a ship passenger list, clippings and correspondence documenting the experiences of Isidor, Ida and Doris Muschel [donor's parents and donor] and their journey fleeing Vienna, Austria to the United States in 1938.

Carl Henry Levy was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on May 7, 1913 to a wealthy German Reform Jewish family. He attended a secular private college-preparatory school. During those years, he printed a magazine in his attic, was chief editor of his school newspaper, and was involved in a Jewish youth group. He was finishing undergraduate philosophy studies at Harvard just as Hitler rose to power in Germany. ...

Diaries kept by Alfred and Hertha Friedheim, with some loose documents inserted between pages; dated 1939-1941; in French and English. The Friedheims were passengers on board the MS St. Louis in May 1939. When the ship returned to Europe they disembarked in France, and were in the Rieucros concentration camp in Lozere, France before getting American visas. They set sail in May 1941 on board the SS ...

This collection of mostly secondary source material provides some insight into the situation of the German and Austrian immigrants to Australia who had been passengers on the <em>Dunera</em>, military transport ship which transported over 2000 internees from the U.K. to Australia in 1940.</div><br>

The Maier family papers contain identification documents, passports, correspondence, and photographs relating to the Maier family’s experience aboard the MS St. Louis. Two photographs show Bertha Ackerman, Freya Maier, and Ludwig Maier boarding the MS St. Louis, and Sonja Maier attending a child’s birthday party aboard the ship. Also included is a donation registry list detailing donations collected ...

Life Magazine issue with an article with images of Marta and Franz P. Jager arriving on the Tatua Maru, a Japanese passenger ship, after fleeing Nazi ruled Vienna, Austria.

The Karmann family papers relate to the experience of the Karmann family aboard the MS St. Louis. The papers contain Cuban immigration cards for Richard Karmann, Sidonie Karmann, and Annemarie Karmman, as well as correspondence and passenger notifications written on Hamburg-Amerika Line stationery regarding the ongoing negotiations about the ships destination after being denied entry to Cuba. Handwritten ...

Contains the research papers and original sources used by Cyril Pearl in writing his book on the Dunera ship ("The Dunera Scandal: Deported by Mistake") and the records on the internment camps in Australia. In 1940 German refugees seeking asylum in England were sent to Australia as an enemy alien aboard the Dunera ship and interned in Australia at the Hay internment camp for a year and a half. In 1942, ...

Jewish refugees from Shanghai arrive by ship in San Francisco, CA. CUs smiling passengers (women, men, children, well-dressed), babies, waving groups. Lots of joy. 01:02:41:17 Four adults from left, Paul Gordin, his mother Raisa (Sachin) Schwartzberg, an unknown woman, and William Schwartzberg (Raisa's husband). Speech to group from balcony (by Macky Gaberman?, escort leader of refugees).

01:01:00 Roll 34. Hanna and her mother walk around the town of Meersburg, Baden-Württemberg, in Southern Germany. Church. 01:02:01 Hotel sign with a Star of David hanging from it. The family drives in the countryside and stops by a gas station. They visit an outdoor market and Schloss Meersburg. Town square. Sheep. Hanna's parents consult a map for directions. MS, Otto's reflection as he films the ...

Interiors of Queen Mary ship at sea, the four American friends walking down a brightly lit corridor with clock reading 7:03 AM on September 5, 1938. David Kurtz in a gray suit and short, red, wide-bottomed tie. Window reflection with the three women smiling. Extreme LS of distant Statue of Liberty viewed from the S.S. Queen Mary. Pan across New York City skyline from north to south. Various posed shots ...

Includes register of names of the St. Louis passengers (p. 233-264). 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

The collection primarily consists of letters and photographs documenting the extended family of Perl Lea Grossman from 1917 through World War II. Included are letters sent from Poland to Esther Rifka Beer Tucker in Pennsylvania from 1928-1945. Also included is a prepaid passage contract for Gdynia-American line No. 24295 and the passenger list for the ship M/S Piłsudski which left Gdynia, Poland on ...