us-005578-irn538981-irn548001
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history: The patch was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Norman A. Miller.
scope and content: Embroidered, blue green patch belonging to Norbert Müller (later Norman Miller) a 15 year old German Jewish refugee who came to London, England in September 1939. The patch is likely related to the large Jewish High School he attended in Fürth, Germany. He lived in Nuremberg, but was required to take a streetcar to school in Fürth once Jewish children were banned from German public schools. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by local men with axes. In late August 1939, Norbert, managed to leave Germany for London, with a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] two days prior to the start of World War II. Norbert was able to exchange letters with his family until communications ceased in May 1941. In 1944, Norbert enlisted in the British army and changed his name. In early 1945, his unit was deployed to Belgium. When Germany surrendered on May 7, his unit was serving occupational duty in Hamburg. After the war, Norman learned that his family had been deported in November 1941, to Riga, Latvia and interned in Jungfernhof concentration camp where they fell ill with typhus and were killed in a mass execution on March 26, 1942. Norman eventually immigrated to the United States and became a citizen in 1955. He married a fellow German, Jewish emigrant, Ingeborg Sommer and they had two sons.
date: before 1939 August
record resource extent: overall: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm)
has or had some members with language: deu
has record set type: Item
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physical characterisitics and technical requirements: Elongated, octagonal blue-green embroidered patch on a discolored, off-white cloth backer. The colored background is stitched into the backer, outlining a slightly diagonal, full width, white rectangle around the name of a town stitched in the center. Also outlined are 3 large, uppercase, white letters arranged in a diagonal from the top left to the bottom right, with the middle letter positioned behind the central rectangle and extending the full height of the patch. The background is bordered by white and blue-green stitching. A discolored, woven piece of white cloth is sewn to the back, possibly part of the clothing that the patch was previously attached to. The patch is worn with frayed edges.
title: Embroidered Fürth patch saved by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee
has or had holder: us-005578
history: Norbert Müller (later Norman A. Miller) was born on June 2, 1924, in Tann in der Rhön, Germany, to Sebald and Laura Jüngster Müller. Sebald was born on April 17, 1892, in Marisfeld, Germany, to Nathan and Bertha Müller and had 2 siblings, Max and Elsa. He was a Jewish grade school teacher, musician, and town shochet, ritual animal slaughterer. Laura was born on October 17, 1898, in Tann, to Leopold and Clara Jacobs Jüngster and had a brother and 2 sisters, Bertha and Dina. Her family ran a shoemaker’s shop and had been in the town since the 1700s. On July 7, 1922, Sebald married Laura. On October 11, 1925, Norbert’s younger sister, Susanne (Suse) was born. Norbert’s family was Orthodox, and very active in the town’s close-knit Jewish community. In 1930, Norbert’s family moved when Sebald accepted a position to teach at a Jewish primary school associated with the large synagogue in Nuremberg. Norbert attended the synagogue school where his father taught. In 1933, the Nazi regime came to power and enacted policies that persecuted the Jewish population. These stripped many Jewish professionals of their right to work. Sebald’s job was not directly impacted because he worked for the Jewish congregation, which had to teach more children as Jewish students were forced out of public schools. Norbert attended a Jewish high school in Fürth. In 1936, Norbert’s grandfather Leopold Jüngster died and his grandmother Clara moved in with one of her daughters, Norman’s aunts. As the restrictions increased, the Müllers began making plans to immigrate. Everyone in the family got passports and the family registered for American immigration quota numbers. Norbert’s parents registered him and Suse for the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport] a rescue mission to save Jewish children managed by Bloomsbury House, a group of British Jewish aid societies. Everyone began learning English and possibly useful skills for immigration: Sebald learned new instruments, Laura began making fancy cand…
identifier: irn548001
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