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1. Leather billfold used by a German Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany to Canada
2007.196.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.196.3
Date:
emigration: 1939 May 31
…, Selma, was writing to relatives in other countries, such as in South America, trying to find a way to emigrate from Germany. On Kristallnacht, November 9…
2. Megillah (Book of Esther) from the former Zülz synagogue brought to the US by German Jewish refugees
Object | Accession Number: 2004.482.1
Date:
use: before 1939
Title:
Book of Esther
…, during Kristallnacht. The handwritten scroll tells the Biblical story of Esther, a Queen of Persia, who saved the Jewish people from a massacre planned by…
3. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.3
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
… as Kristallnacht. During the pogroms, 30,000 Jewish men were incarcerated and held in German concentration camps until they promised to leave Germany…
4. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.4
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
… as Kristallnacht. During the pogroms, 30,000 Jewish men were incarcerated and held in German concentration camps until they promised to leave Germany…
5. Print of the Zülz synagogue brought to the US by German Jewish refugees
Object | Accession Number: 2004.482.2
Date:
1920-1945 May 09
Artwork Title:
Synagoge Zülz
… Kristallnacht pogrom was one of the most violent and widespread acts of persecution. Jews were attacked, and their residences, businesses, and places of worship…