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1. Needlepoint wall hanging of a biblical scene from the office of a former concentration camp inmate and postwar aid worker

Date:: use: 1947 July-1949 March
Artwork Title:: Needlepoint of a Turbaned King, His Advisor, and a Supplicant

2. Doily printed with the wedding photograph of a young couple married in a displaced persons camp

2009.150.3 front

Date:: creation: approximately 1947

3. Hand-carved wooden chain carried to Australia by a Jewish refugee

2016.183.1 side A

Date:: creation: before 1924

4. Roll of blue stitched ribbon from shop of Parisian Jews who survived in hiding

2006.490.2 front

Date:: use: 1937-1945

5. White knitted lace doily with a center flower saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre

Date:: creation: approximately 1903-1912
emigration: 1939 July

6. Hand knitted floral wall hanging made prewar by a Dutch Jewish woman

2003.155.8 front

Date:: creation: 1938-1939
recovered: 1946 August-1950

7. White floral netted lace rectangular doily saved a German Jewish prewar emigre

Date:: creation: approximately 1903-1912
emigration: 1939 July

8. Medal presented to former inmates of the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the 50th anniversary of its opening

2018.228.2 a-b 3/4 view open

Date:: commemoration: 1941
received: 1991

9. Small wooden ornament with on outline of a town made by a former Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate

1989.342.13 front

Date:: undated:

10. Small wooden tile with the Terezin church steeple made by a former Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate

1989.342.1 front

Date:: undated:

11. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

2017.513.7 3/4 view

Date:: manufacture: 1870-1948
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31

12. Long section of black floral lace from the family business saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre

Date:: manufacture: approximately 1903-1912
emigration: 1939 July

13. Roll of blue stitched ribbon from shop of Parisian Jews who survived in hiding

2006.490.2 front

Date:: use: 1937-1945

14. Small wooden tile with the Terezin church steeple made by a former Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate

1989.342.12 front

Date:: undated:

15. Cut-out landscape scene made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp

2006.363.5 front

Date:: received: 1942 November 20-1945

16. Small wooden shield with a Terezin crest made by a former Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate

1989.342.10 front

Date:: undated:

17. Animal bone souvenir with an inscription acquired by a Kindertransport refugee

2014.425.2 front

Date:: commemoration: 1942 February 14

18. 60th anniversary medallion, liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora issued to US soldier / liberator

Date:: received: 2005 April
commemoration: 1945 April 11

19. Small colored wooden pendant with the Terezin crest made by a former Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate

1989.342.11 front

Date:: undated:

20. Four white filet embroidered net inserts brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

2009.376.21_a front

Date:: emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17

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