Ephraim Robinson family collection

Identifier: irn38355
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn38355

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 by Alice Robinson Lev, the daughter of Ephraim Robinson.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of children's clothing, a duvet cover, a glass slide projector, glass slides, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Ephraim Robinson and his family as refugees during the Holocaust, as residents of Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany, and as immigrants to the United States in the postwar period.

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Ephraim Robinson photograph album
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn40075
- English
- 1945-1948
- oversize box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Collection of materials documenting the experiences of the Robinson family in the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons (DP) camp and after their immigration to the United States in October 1948. The collection includes a photo album compiled by Ephraim Robinson of the Zeilsheim DP camp.
Duvet cover made from a US Army parachute by a Jewish family in a displaced persons camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn40076
- English
- 1945-1948
- overall: Height: 132.000 inches (335.28 cm) | Width: 60.500 inches (153.67 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Covering for a blanket made from a United States Army parachute by Ephraim and Sarah Robinson for their family in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany, where they lived from 1945-1948. Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Ephraim and Sarah fled east to Russian controlled territory. They lived in several places as the Soviet Union demanded that Jewish refugees keep moving further east. They had a daughter, Fay, in 1941, in Odessa, and Alice was born in 1944 in Romanovka. When the war ended in May 1945, they returned from Uzbekistan to Bessarabia, where they cr...
Child's white rabbit fur bonnet received in a displaced persons camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn40085
- English
- 1948
- overall: Height: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
White rabbit fur bonnet worn by two year old Alice Robinson, in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany, where she lived from 1945-1948. Alice's parents, Ephraim and Sarah had left Poland soon after September 1939, when it is occupied by Nazi Germany. They fled east to Russian controlled territory where the Soviet Union demanded that Jewish refugees keep moving further east. They had a daughter, Fay, in 1941, in Odessa, and Alice was born in 1944 in Romanovka. When the war ended in May 1945, they returned from Uzbekistan to Bessarabia, where they crossed the border to Poland. In Oct...
Child's white rabbit fur hand muff received in a displaced persons camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn40086
- English
- 1948
- overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
White rabbit fur hand muff worn by Alice Robinson, age 2, in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany, where she lived from 1945-1948.Alice's parents, Ephraim and Sarah had left Poland soon after September 1939, when it is occupied by Nazi Germany. They fled east to Russian controlled territory where the Soviet Union demanded that Jewish refugees keep moving further east. They had a daughter, Fay, in 1941, in Odessa, and Alice was born in 1944 in Romanovka. When the war ended in May 1945, they returned from Uzbekistan to Bessarabia, where they crossed the border to Poland. In October...
Ephraim Robinson color slides
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn40087
- English
- oversize boxes 3
- Updated 1 year ago
Collection of materials documenting the experiences of the Robinson family in the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons (DP) camp and after their immigration to the United States in October 1948. The collection includes: a photo album compiled by Ephraim Robinson of the Zeilsheim DP camp, Agfacolor 35mm color film transparencies in a wooden box taken by Ephraim Robinson of the Zeilsheim DP camp and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, slide projector brought by Ephraim Robinson from Germany to the United States, a duvet cover made from an American parachute, and a rabbit fur hat and muff worn by Alice Robinson i...
Leitz glass slide projector with case, trays, and key ring used in a displaced persons camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn40088
- English
- 1945-1948
- a: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Depth: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) b: Height: 6.625 inches (16.827 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) c: Height: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Width: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Depth: 6.875 inches (17.463 cm) d: Height: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) e: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Leitz projector for glass slides with case, trays, and a key ring used by Ephraim Mayer Robinson to view photographs that he took of activities in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany from 1945-1948. Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Ephraim and his wife, Sarah, fled east to Soviet territory. They relocated often as the Soviet Union demanded that Jewish refugees keep moving further east. They had a daughter, Fay, in 1941, in Odessa, and Alice was born in 1944 in Romanovka, Bessarabia. When the war ended in May 1945, they returned from Uzbekistan to Bessarabia,...

Ephraim Robinson family collection

Child Items

Ephraim Robinson photograph album

Duvet cover made from a US Army parachute by a Jewish family in a displaced persons camp

Child's white rabbit fur bonnet received in a displaced persons camp

Child's white rabbit fur hand muff received in a displaced persons camp

Ephraim Robinson color slides

Leitz glass slide projector with case, trays, and key ring used in a displaced persons camp