Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the JewsCreated By: Longerich, Peter Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
Jeidels, OttoOtto Jeidels’ life and his pursuit of “realism,” as he himself wrote, illustrate the precarious position of both Jews, even assimilated ones, and even the international financial system during the first half of the 20th century.
Jewish Emigration from Germany. Nazi Policies and Jewish Responses (I + II)Created By: Strauss, Herbert A Source/Publisher: Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 25-26 (1980-81): 313–361; 343–409
Jewish family's possessions boxed up for shipping to the United States, 1939A photograph by the German government news agency of a "Jewish family"'s possessions boxed up for shipping to the United…
Jewish Immigrants of the Nazi Period in the USACreated By: Strauss, Herbert A., ed Publisher: New York and Munich: Saur, 1978–1987
Laemmle, CarlCarl Laemmle was the founder of Universal Pictures Company and one of the founding fathers of Hollywood and the studio system
Legacy: The Saga of a Jewish German Family Across Time and CircumstanceCreated By: Frank, Werner L Publisher: Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, 2003
Letter from Kurt Wolff to Maria BaumhauerOne of Kurt Wolff’s first letters to his daughter Maria in Germany after the war, September 11, 1945.
Letter from new owner of Madaform Seifenfabrik Heilbronn, H. Bauder, to his business associates announcing “Aryanization” of the firmLetter from new owner of Madaform Seifenfabrik Heilbronn, H. Bauder, to his business associates announcing “Aryanization” of the firm, ca.…
Memorial to Walter Cramer, LeipzigMemorial to Walter Cramer, Leipzig. It reads “Walter Cramer, May 1, 1886-November 14, 1944. Leipzig businessman. In the resistance of…
Memorial to Walter Cramer, LeipzigMemorial to Walter Cramer, Leipzig. It reads, in translation, “The death of a 58-year-old is not without meaning or purpose.…
November pogrom: Children carry Torah scrolls from the synagogue to a stake, Stadtlengsfeld, November 10, 1938Children carry Torah scrolls from the synagogue to a stake during the November pogrom in Stadtlengsfeld, November 10, 1938
Oral History Collection of the Research Foundation for Jewish ImmigrationCreated By: Leo Baeck Institute Publisher: Leo Baeck Institute, New York, NY
SA members holding posters declaring the Nazi boycott of stores with Jewish owners, April 1, 1933SA members holding posters declaring the Nazi boycott of stores with Jewish owners, April 1, 1933.
SA soldier in Berlin standing in front of a sign urging the general public not to shop at stores with Jewish owners, spring 1933.An SA soldier in Berlin standing in front of a sign urging the general public not to shop at stores…
Schüleins – Aufstieg, Enteignung und Flucht: Zur Geschichte einer jüdischen Brauerei-Familie in MünchenCreated By: Wilhelm, Hermann Publisher: Munich: Münchner historia, 2000
Schülein, HermannAmong the German refugees of the 1930s there was scarcely an émigré in the USA who was a more successful businessman and brewer than Hermann Schülein. Schülein belonged to a small (and for the German-Jewish mass emigration entirely unrepresentative) group of business executives who managed to continue in their line of work in the alien circumstances of the “New World” and, remarkably, to build on the success they had known in Germany.
Staff of Chemiewerk, Bad Homburg, GermanyStaff of Chemiewerk, Bad Homburg, Germany. Chemiewerk, owned by Jewish businessman Arthur Abelmann, was “Aryanized” in 1933.
Tägliche Volkszeitung Tribüne (Omaha) announcing declaration of war by Germany and Italy on the United StatesTägliche Volkszeitung Tribüne (Omaha) announcing declaration of war by Germany and Italy on the United States, December 1941
Vernon, LillianBorn into a wealthy Jewish family in Germany, Lillian came to the U.S. as a child after escaping from the Nazi regime of the 1930s. With an entrepreneurial spirit inherited from a family of businessmen, the “Queen of Catalogs” built her mail-order empire from scratch.
