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1. Aluminum suitcase used by Jewish Polish postwar refugees

1997.102.1 front

Date:: acquired: 1946

2. 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

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

2004.526.2 front

Date:: emigration: 1938 September

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

2004.301.2 closed

Date:: use: approximately 1941-1945

5. Brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee

2003.242.2 front

Date:: emigration: 1949 November

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

1990.23.191 front

Date:: use: 1942 June-1945 May

7. Brown cloth bag with a red, white, and blue stripe carried by a hidden Dutch Jewish woman

1990.23.198 front

Date:: use: 1942 June-1945 May

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

Date:: emigration: 1950 January

9. Brown leather briefcase acquired by a Polish Jewish woman in a DP camp

1989.277.1 front

Date:: received: approximately 1946

10. Burlap purse made from a mattress cover by a Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate

1989.303.23 front

Date:: creation: 1944 September
use: approximately 1944 September-1945 May

11. Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer

2017.661.3 a front

Date:: received: after 1945

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

2004.286.2 front

Date:: use: 1933-1947

13. Drawstring cloth pouch handmade by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate

1997.31.2 front

Date:: creation: after 1944 July-before 1945 April

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

2010.240.2 closed

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

15. Gold painted metal box with heart and initials made by a Jewish Polish slave labor camp inmate

1997.102.2 front

Date:: creation: approximately 1944 September-1945 January

16. Green knapsack used by a Hungarian Jewish man in forced labor

2002.176.1 front

Date:: use: approximately 1941-1945

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

2003.242.4 closed

Date:: use: 1949 November

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

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

19. Large suitcase with a broken handle used by a young Austrian Jewish refugee during emigration

2016.112.8 front

Date:: emigration: 1940 November 23

20. Lightweight brown suitcase carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee child

2011.281.2 closed

Date:: received: 1946 March-1946 July
use: 1946 July

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