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Jewish refugee youth, on an escape route from France to Switzerland, at a Children's Aid Society (OSE) girls' home. [LCID: 03438]
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Escape from Nazi Germany or other Axis countries was vital to many peoples’ survival during the Holocaust (1933–1945). Explore more content related to these harrowing stories of escape from the Nazis, their allies, and collaborators.

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An advertisement for a series of lectures by Varian Fry, who worked in France to help anti-Nazi artists and intellectuals escape ... [LCID: 15048]
Photo
Advertisement for a series of lectures by Varian Fry
Alisa (Lisa) Nussbaum Derman [LCID: ldu0696f]
Oral History
Alisa (Lisa) Nussbaum Derman describes a dangerous journey to reach partisan territory in the Naroch Forest, Poland
Aron Dereczynski [LCID: 7644]
ID Card
Aron Dereczynski
Timeline Event
Auschwitz Report
Tan cloth backpack with drawstring top and flap cover. The front features two pockets with brown leather closures. One brown leather shoulder strap and buckle is shown on the right side.
Artifact
Backpack belonging to Ruth Berkowitz
Typed breakfast menu in English. The menu is illustrated with an ocean scene with sunrays and flying seagulls.
Artifact
Breakfast menu from the SS Exeter, 1941
Inside of a citizenship certificate. The paper bears multiple stamps and signatures and is worn around the edges and along fold lines.
Document
Certificate of Polish citizenship (inside)
Charlene Schiff [LCID: cse0806f]
Oral History
Charlene Schiff describes escaping from the Horochow ghetto
Charlene Schiff [LCID: csf0807f]
Oral History
Charlene Schiff describes foraging for food in order to survive in forests after escaping from the Horochow ghetto
Off white book cover with embossed text in Japanese, German, and English. The English reads, 'Japan tourist bureau.'
Artifact
Cover of a Japanese-German phrase book
Danish refugees register in Sweden after escaping from Denmark. [LCID: 62202]
Photo
Danish refugees in Sweden
David Mendel Petranker [LCID: 2606]
ID Card
David Mendel Petranker
Media Essay
Denmark - ID Card/Oral History
Dorotka (Dora) Goldstein Roth [LCID: drs0018f]
Oral History
Dorotka (Dora) Goldstein Roth describes retaliation against women for an escape from Stutthof
Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig [LCID: eke0263f]
Oral History
Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig describes her family's attempt to flee Austria before the war
Embroidered matzah cover [LCID: 200584er]
Artifact
Embroidered matzah cover

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