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4101. Hidden Children: Quest for Family
children became a pressing matter. In the Netherlands, more than half of the ... the war ended in 1945, the surviving remnant of Europe's Jews ... immediately began the difficult and painful search for family members. Parents sought out the children they ... to register the living and account for the dead. Tracing services set up by the International Red
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4102. Holocaust Survivor Al Munzer Delivers Remarks at Program Spotlighting China's Persecution of Uyghurs
the crimes China is committing against the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. The following ... remarks were delivered on March 5, 2020 by Alfred Münzer at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum as ... part of a public program about the Chinese government's systematic persecution of the Uyghur people and ... other Muslim minorities on the basis of their religion and ethnicity. I am a survivor of the Holocaust
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4103. Night and Fog Decree
Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands. German ... The "Night and Fog" decree was directed against persons in occupied territories engaging in ... activities intended to undermine the security of German troops. They were, upon capture, to be brought to ... conventions governing the treatment of prisoners. The code name stemmed from Germany's most acclaimed poet and
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4104. Polish Jewish Refugees in Lithuania: Unexpected Rescue, 1940–41
The outbreak of war in Poland in September 1939 trapped nearly ... 1941, just months before the Germans began to implement the mass killings of Jews, one group of about 2 ... ,100 Polish Jews found a safe haven. Few of these refugees could have reached safety without the tireless ... efforts of many individuals. Several Jewish organizations and Jewish communities along the way provided
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4105. Sachwerte
Netherlands. We were in hiding, and there was no income. All the beautiful things my family had collected ... The German term sachwerte means “non-cash value.” The term was often used in Germany and ... countries around Germany after World War I. The economic depression made cash lose its value soon after it ... was printed. By Louise Lawrence-Israëls The German term sachwerte means “non-cash value.” The term
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4106. St. Louis Sets Sail
Antwerp, Belgium. The governments of Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and the United Kingdom agreed to ... On May 13, 1939, the German transatlantic liner St. Louis ... Jews fleeing from Nazi Germany. The majority of the Jewish passengers had applied for visas to ... enter the United States, and had planned to stay in Cuba only until they
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4107. Frieda Belinfante
was driven to hide herself, after many other members of the Netherlands-based gay resistance group ... .” Her involvement in the resistance movement included planning the ... destruction of the Amsterdam Population Registry in March 1943, falsifying identity cards, and arranging ... hiding places for those who were sought by the Nazis. She
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4108. Wilhelmina Juhlin collection
the Netherlands and the United States. ... The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Wilhelmina ... The collection consists of an overnight bag, correspondence, 8mm film, copy prints, and photographs ... relating to the experiences of the de Kadt and Swaap families before, during, and after the Holocaust in
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4109. German conquests in Europe, 1939-1942
), Belgium (May 1940), the Netherlands (May 1940 ... Great Britain, which was protected from German ground attack by the English Channel and the Royal Navy ... On June 22, 1941, German forces suddenly invaded the Soviet Union. But ... Germany proved unable to defeat the Soviet Union, which together with Great Britain and the United States
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4110. Abraham Rijksman collection
living in hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust. ... The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Kitty Piller ... de Wolff, the wife of Abraham Rijksman. ... The collection consists of five drawings relating to the experiences of Abraham Rijksman while
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4111. Doriane Kurz collection
liberation from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and her postwar life in Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden ... The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Diana Kurz ... the cousin of Doriane Kurz. ... The collection consists of artifacts related to the experiences of Doriane Kurz following her
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4112. Louise Lawrence-Israels collection
Lawrence-Israels and other family members in the Netherlands during the Holocaust. ... The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Louise ... The collection consists of a wicker chair and two books relating to the experiences of Louise
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4113. Miep Kaempfer-van Engel collection
Kaempfer-van Engel as a hidden child in the Netherlands during and after the Holocaust. ... The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Miep Kaempfer ... The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Miep
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4114. Alfred Munzer collection
Alfred Munzer who, as an infant, survived in hiding in The Hague, Netherlands, during the Holocaust. ... The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Dr. Alfred ... The collection consists of a teething ring rattle and a barrel relating to the experiences of
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4115. Margalit Lujten collection
Margalit Lujten in the Netherlands before and after the Holocaust, during which she and her family lived in ... The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Margalit ... The collection consists of a miniature chocolate box and photographs relating to the experiences of
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4116. Vera Waisvisz-Reiss family collection
relating to the experiences of Vera Reiss, a hidden child, and her family in the Netherlands during the ... The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Vera Waisvisz-Reiss in ... The collection consists of an apron, letters, documents, postcards, and a newspaper clipping
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4117. Helmut Rosendahl collection
relating to the experiences of Helmut Rosendahl during and after the Holocaust in the Netherlands and ... The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Lea Rosendahl ... The collection consists of two Star of David Badges, Westerbork scrip, testimony, and a speech
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4118. Mevrouw Moulijn family collection
experiences of Eleazer Eijl and Mevrouw Moulijn and her family in the Netherlands before, during, and after ... The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Mevrouw ... The collection consists of an artifact, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the ... the Holocaust.
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4119. Jolene Sonnheim collection
Wilde and her family in the Netherlands before and during the Holocaust when they lived in hiding. ... The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 by Jolene ... The collection consists of an artifact and photographs relating to the experience of Jolene De
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4120. Doriane Kurz describes food rations and conditions in Bergen-Belsen
also saw the German occupation of the Netherlands. Her father perished ... The three were reunited at Bergen-Belsen, where they were deported via ... Westerbork. They were liberated during the camp's 1945 evacuation. Doriane's mother died of cancer soon after ... Doriane helped her recover from typhus. Doriane and her brother immigrated to the United States.
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4121. Helen (Helene Katz Wohlfarth) Waterford describes giving up her daughter to be sheltered
Netherlands with her husband and young daughter when the Germans invaded in May 1940. Helen and her husband ... Although originally from Germany, Helen was living in the ... places arranged by a friend who was active in the underground. On August 25, 1944, Helen and her husband ... Auschwitz, where they were separated. Helen worked in the I. G. Farben factory in Auschwitz. Helen survived
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4122. Liny Pajgin Yollick describes how hiding their Jewish identity saved her family's life in Nice, France
In May 1940, the Germans occupied the Netherlands. In 1942, it ... one of the last trains to cross into Spain after the Germans took over southern France. They boarded a ... Portuguese ship bound for Dutch Guiana (Suriname). Liny was placed in a refugee camp, and then worked in the
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4123. Doriane Kurz describes how she and her brother were hidden
also saw the German occupation of the Netherlands. Her father perished ... The three were reunited at Bergen-Belsen, where they were deported via ... Westerbork. They were liberated during the camp's 1945 evacuation. Doriane's mother died of cancer soon after ... Doriane helped her recover from typhus. Doriane and her brother immigrated to the United States.
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4124. Liny Pajgin Yollick describes fleeing to France from Antwerp
In May 1940, the Germans occupied the Netherlands. In 1942, it ... one of the last trains to cross into Spain after the Germans took over southern France. They boarded a ... Portuguese ship bound for Dutch Guiana (Suriname). Liny was placed in a refugee camp, and then worked in the
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4125. Ruth Wiener Klemens collection
Westerbork concentration camp in the Netherlands. ... The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988 by Ruth Wiener ... The collection relates to the life of Ruth Wiener Klemens, her mother, Margarete Wiener, and her