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The collection consists of a toy bus and correspondence relating to the Pollatschek family in Czechoslovakia before the Holocaust, and in Czechoslovakia, Cuba, and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

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 identity cards issued to the donor's grandparents and father in Belgium; a Bar Mitzvah invitation for Simon Gerstel (donor's father); and copyprints illustrating their flight from Belgium through France, Casablanca, and Cuba.

The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Sig Feiger and his family in Vienna, Austria, and during their escape to the United States via the United Kingdom and Cuba before and during the Holocaust.

Velvet bedcover used in Pidvolochysʹk (formerly Podwołocziska), in the Tarnopol district, where more than 2,000 Jews lived before 1939. The Gleiser family lived there until they were forced into Pidvolochysk ghetto. Ita Bier Gleiser (b. 1895) escaped together with her children, Moishe (b. 1923), Genia (b. 1926), Riwa (b. 1922), and Frima (b. 1936), and hid in different places until the liberation in ...

Collection documenting the experiences of Ina Szuldiner and her husband Maurice Teich, who met in Warsaw, Poland, married, and eventually fled to Cuba and ultimately the United States.

Hildegard Hanna “Hilde” Simon (later Hilde Gernsheimer, 1926-2019) was born on May 2, 1926 in Cloppenburg, Germany to Karl and Selma Simon. Karl (1884-1943) was a World War I veteran and worked as a horse and cattle trader. Selma (née Katz, 1894-1943) was born in Bad Arolson, Germany and was the eldest daughter of Jakob and Ida (née Schartenberg) Katz. They married in 1918 in Bad Arolson. Hilde had ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 11, No. 777, Part 2A. Release date, 05/28/1939. Various MLS of ship St. Louis (shot from sea level looking up to bow). At harbor. From starboard, people at rail. MS well-dressed and good looking men in white jackets, uniforms stand on ground/dock. LS "St. Louis" on side of ship. LS ship pulling out of harbor (backwards). People standing around on land. Intended narration according ...

The collection consists of a hanukiyah, correspondence, documents, and clippings relating to the experiences of the Jonassohn (later Johnson) and Levi families in Germany, Cuba, and the United States before and during the Holocaust.