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1. Vulcanized fiber suitcase owned by a member of the Frank family

2018.613.7 3/4 view

Date:: manufacture: after 1871
use: after 1931

2. Black flat top steamer trunk used by a Jewish Austrian refugee

2004.526.2 front

Date:: emigration: 1938 September

3. Engraved wooden Havana cigar box acquired by Austrian Jewish refugee

2010.240.2 closed

Date:: received: 1940 November 27
emigration: 1938 December

4. Brown burlap pouch used to carry money by a hidden Dutch Jewish woman

1990.23.191 front

Date:: use: 1942 June-1945 May

5. Imitation leather hatbox used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee

2003.242.4 closed

Date:: use: 1949 November

6. Black and white patterned case for medals awarded postwar to a Dutch resistance leader

1990.23.240.1 closed

Date:: commemoration: 1940 May-1945 May

7. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee

2004.286.2 front

Date:: use: 1933-1947

8. Brown cloth pouch with leather belt used by a Polish Jewish refugee

Date:: emigration: 1950 January

9. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp wrapper for 100 kronen note stack issued to a German Jewish inmate

2015.522.8 front

Date:: issue: 1943 January 01
received: 1943-1944

10. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women

2017.480.6 front

Date:: manufacture: approximately 1920-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February

11. Black Vulcanfiber suitcase used by a Dutch Jewish family while in hiding

2004.301.2 closed

Date:: use: approximately 1941-1945

12. Wooden crayon box received by a Polish Jewish refugee boy in school in Japan

2001.235.2 front

Date:: received: 1941 January-1941 March

13. Small square black painted wooden trunk used by Jewish refugees

2004.322.2 front

Date:: use: approximately 1950

14. Painted tin container base owned by a German Jewish refugee

2010.240.3 front

Date:: emigration: 1939 March

15. Small wooden barrel with a door from the home where a Jewish child lived in hiding

2012.355.1 front

Date:: received: 2002
use: 1942-1945

16. Upright, wardrobe-style trunk used by a Jewish family during their postwar emigration

Date:: emigration: 1948 October 21-1948 October 30

17. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women

2017.480.5 front

Date:: manufacture: approximately 1920-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February

18. Multi-colored, cloth document cover used by Marietta Gruenbaum

2018.565.4 side a

Date:: use: after 1945 May 08

19. Large, ribbed burlap covered trunk used by Jewish Czech inmates

Date:: use: 1941 December-1944 September 24
manufacture: approximately 1900-1925

20. Small yellow suitcase used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport

2012.454.2 front

Date:: use: 1939 June

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