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1. Engraved lighter made by a Jewish forced laborer
2019.428.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2019.428.2
Date:
creation: 1941-1944
…). Bernard was an accountant, and Lotte was a homemaker. Cernauti was part of the Austria-Hungary before World War I. Life for Jews in the city was difficult…
2. Tremolo style Opera harmonica owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
2015.312.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.312.4
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1930
…Alfred Berg (1924-2013) was born in Vienna, Austria, to Julius and Frieda Berg. Frieda was born in Poland, and immigrated to Vienna as a young girl…
3. Wooden hanger from prewar Vienna
2013.463.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.463.2
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1933
…Hermann Blauner was born on March 11, 1887, in Vienna, Austria. He married Chaje (Klara) Brayne Diwer, who was born on September 11, 1891, in…
4. Tobacco pipe with a bowl carved into the shape of Churchill’s head
2017.541.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.8
Date:
acquired: 1950-1953
…Berthold Salzmann (1911-1990) was born in Lwow, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) to Jakob (Jankel) Salzmann and Antonie (Toni) Zeller Salzmann. He…
5. Soap bar acquired postwar by an Austrian Jewish refugee working for the WJC
2004.709.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.709.2
Date:
found: after 1945 May-1946
…Erich Maier was born on August 25, 1889, to Max and Julia Kohn Maier in Neunkirchen, Austria, where his father (d. 1929) was born. The family was…
6. Accordion and case owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré
Object | Accession Number: 2019.605.2 a-c
…John Honig (1923-2020) was born Gerhart Honig on October 30, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. He is the only son of Walter Honig (1896-1952) and Gertrude…
7. Tobacco pipe with a bowl carved into the shape of Hitler’s head
2017.541.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.7
Date:
acquired: 1950-1953
…Berthold Salzmann (1911-1990) was born in Lwow, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) to Jakob (Jankel) Salzmann and Antonie (Toni) Zeller Salzmann. He…
8. Opera glasses and case owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.2 a-c
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…Herta Schwarzbart (later Stoer, 1908-2007) was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to Arthur (1875-1914) and Pauline Flesch (1873-1937) Schwarzbart…
9. Safety razor used in a concentration camp
2005.457.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.15
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
… sentenced to prison and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. His prisoner number was 24993. On March 11, 1943, he was transferred to a work…
10. Mother-of-pearl lever arm of a nail clipper used in a concentration camp
2005.457.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.16
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
… sentenced to prison and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. His prisoner number was 24993. On March 11, 1943, he was transferred to a work…
11. Small used bar of soap from a concentration camp
2005.457.27 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.27
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
… sentenced to prison and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. His prisoner number was 24993. On March 11, 1943, he was transferred to a work…
12. Curved bobby pin used in a concentration camp
2005.457.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.23
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
… sentenced to prison and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. His prisoner number was 24993. On March 11, 1943, he was transferred to a work…
13. Gem micromatic safety razor and case given to a concentration camp inmate after liberation
1999.150.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.150.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1945 May
…. He was the husband of Leosia, who had not survived the war. The two men traveled in Czechoslovakia and Austria searching for relatives. Moniek ended up…
14. Manual hair clipper used in a concentration camp
2005.457.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.13
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
… sentenced to prison and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. His prisoner number was 24993. On March 11, 1943, he was transferred to a work…
15. Guide attachment for a manual hair clipper used in a concentration camp
2005.457.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.22
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
… sentenced to prison and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. His prisoner number was 24993. On March 11, 1943, he was transferred to a work…
16. Rotbart Mond-Extra safety razor with blade used by a Romanian Jewish prisoner
Object | Accession Number: 2012.453.1 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
manufacture: approximately 1930
… Gunskirchen concentration camp, a subcamp of Mauthausen in Austria. On May 4, 1945, Duzsi was liberated by the United States Army. The next day, Duzsi was sent…
17. Nail clipper used in a concentration camp
2005.457.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.17
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
… sentenced to prison and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. His prisoner number was 24993. On March 11, 1943, he was transferred to a work…
18. Brown strap wrist watch worn postwar by a former labor camp inmate and aid worker
1999.155.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.155.2
Date:
received: approximately 1945 July
… 8, 1945, Hirsch was at a train station in Warsaw, watching celebratory fireworks. He and Abel arrived in Vienna, Austria, via Czechoslovakia, in…
19. Guide attachment for a manual hair clipper used at a concentration camp
2005.457.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.21
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
… sentenced to prison and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. His prisoner number was 24993. On March 11, 1943, he was transferred to a work…
20. Straight razor used in a concentration camp
2005.457.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.6
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
… sentenced to prison and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. His prisoner number was 24993. On March 11, 1943, he was transferred to a work…