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1. 4711 glass perfume bottle carried by a Jewish refugee searching for her family
2008.228.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.21
Date:
use: 1943-1947
… Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto in Poland before and during the Holocaust, to Irena's experiences in a slave labor factory in Berlin, and in Bindermichl…
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2. Art Deco style lipstick case carried by a Jewish refugee while searching for her family
2008.228.24 open
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.24
Date:
use: 1943-1947
… Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto in Poland before and during the Holocaust, to Irena's experiences in a slave labor factory in Berlin, and in Bindermichl…
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3. Black leather case presented to the Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
1988.72.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.4
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… for survival. ORT was most active in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania. In Warsaw, the German authorities only allowed…
4. Brown cloth and leather trimmed suitcase used by a young Polish Jewish boy
2012.343.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.343.2
Date:
use: 1940 March
… immigrated to Montreal after the war. His sister, Paula, survived. Mendel's mother Regina died in the Warsaw Ghetto. Most of the extended family in Poland…
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5. Brown leather suitcase used by a Polish Jewish refugee family
2009.157.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.157.2
Date:
emigration: 1949 September
…, Germany invaded and occupied Poland. In February 1940, the Jews in Łódź were incarcerated in a ghetto. Bela escaped the ghetto through a tunnel later that…
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6. Cloth sack
2017.467.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2017.467.2
… mother used in Brünlitz concentration camp used to gather food on liberation day, May 1945; 2 stones: one from Umschlagplatz in Warsaw ghetto (small stone…
7. Dark brown leather satchel used by a Polish Jewish refugee
2005.427.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.427.2
Date:
use: 1938-1948
… the United States, and his relatives in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and in exile in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust.…
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8. Engraved silver perfume bottle carried postwar by a refugee searching for her family
2008.228.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.9
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto in Poland before and during the Holocaust, to Irena's experiences in a slave labor factory in Berlin, and in Bindermichl…
9. Engraved wooden box presented to a Lieutenant General of the SS by his troops
2005.525.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.525.2
Date:
found: after 1945 May-1946
commemoration: 1944 August-1945 February
… the Jewish ghettos as well as for carrying out Heinrich Himmler’s killing operations for Jews in the concentration camps in occupied Poland. In 1943…
10. E. Wedel candy tin received in a displaced persons camp
2008.228.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.14
Date:
manufacture: 1945
use: 1945-1947
… Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto in Poland before and during the Holocaust, to Irena's experiences in a slave labor factory in Berlin, and in Bindermichl…
11. Green school box carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
… Holocaust. Ina’s father, Victor, had been transported to the Warsaw ghetto sometime after his deportation to Poland. Ina’s mother, Hannah, and her grandmother…
12. Handmade aluminum box incised with the name of a concentration camp inmate found by another inmate
2004.340.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.340.2
Date:
found: 1944 August-1945 January
… Miriam, 4, were in Ostrowiec, Poland, when Germany invaded on September 1, 1939. Soon the Germans set up a Jewish ghetto where they were forced to live…
13. Housing for WWI communications equipment placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.3
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: approximately 1914-approximately 1933
… medical student, before the war and felt he was obligated to provide assistance. They had fled the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jewish population had been…
14. Inscribed wooden box with painted lid bought by a Roman Catholic Polish former forced laborer
2014.469.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.469.3 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1944 November
… their father about their activities. In October 1940, the Germans decreed the establishment of a Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, and required all Jewish…
15. Red drawstring pouch used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.6
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto in Poland before and during the Holocaust, to Irena's experiences in a slave labor factory in Berlin, and in Bindermichl…
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16. Red gift box owned by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.16
Date:
use: after 1942 August
… Warsaw Polytechnic, Faculty of Architecture. He had completed two semesters when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Edward joined the Polish…
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17. Ritz of Paris lipstick case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.16
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto in Poland before and during the Holocaust, to Irena's experiences in a slave labor factory in Berlin, and in Bindermichl…
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18. Small suitcase carried by a Jewish boy from Berlin to England on a Kindertransport
2000.265.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2000.265.1
Date:
use: 1939 July
… survived. His parents, Julius and Hertha, were deported first to Radinkendorf, near Frankfurt, and then to the Warsaw ghetto, where they perished. Max…
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19. Small white bag with a button saved from the coat of a young Jewish girl deported to Auschwitz
1993.27.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.5
Date:
use: 1940-1942
received: 1945 June
…Fryda Hirshfeld was born in Łódź, Poland, on March 21, 1932. She was the only child of a Jewish couple, Julian, born January 20, 1907, in Łódź, and…
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20. Tank, possibly for a heat pump, placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.17
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
… medical student, before the war and felt he was obligated to provide assistance. They had fled the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jewish population had been…