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1. Wrist watch with a brown band and engraved initials saved from Vilna ghetto
2005.198.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.198.2
Date:
use: 1941 September-1943 September
…, ghetto #1. She remembers that the Poles and the Lithuanians were very excited to get possession of the former Jewish residents’ homes and belongings. The…
2. Slug pressing iron placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
1992.240.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.25
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: approximately 1900
… 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…
3. Terry's Hedgehog pipe reamer used by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.5
Date:
received: approximately 1945
… Warsaw Polytechnic, Faculty of Architecture. He had completed two semesters when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Edward joined the Polish…
4. Childsize violin and case of a young Jewish Lithuanian boy killed in the Ponary massacre
2006.88.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.88.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1936-1943
use: before 1943 September
… Soviet Union. The Jewish population increased by thousands as refugees fled German-occupied Poland. In the spring, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and…
5. Briar billiard pipe used by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.2
Date:
received: approximately 1943
… Warsaw Polytechnic, Faculty of Architecture. He had completed two semesters when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Edward joined the Polish…
6. Plastic eyeglass frames, temple and lenses worn by a Jewish concentration camp inmate
2010.494.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.494.2 a-d
Date:
use: 1939 May-1945 April
… with 160304. In November 1943, he was sent to Warsaw to clean the ghetto after the failed uprising. When Soviet troops approached in July 1944, he was…
7. Cherry churchwarden pipe used by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.3
Date:
received: approximately 1943
… Warsaw Polytechnic, Faculty of Architecture. He had completed two semesters when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Edward joined the Polish…
8. Bent pipe with a briar bison shaped bowl used by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.4
Date:
use: after 1944
… Warsaw Polytechnic, Faculty of Architecture. He had completed two semesters when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Edward joined the Polish…
9. Straight razor with an offwhite plastic handle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.5
Date:
use: 1928-1980
… retrieved the items and returned to the camp. The family was deported to Warsaw and told they must move into the ghetto. Simon refused and the family took a…
10. Cigarette lighter with Polish coins given to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
1988.72.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.5
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…
11. 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
… and Hirsch moved in with his maternal grandparents and aunts in the Gargzdai shtetl. Hirsch went to a Jewish grammar school, attended synagogue, and ate…
12. Cigarette holder made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp
2003.64.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.64.1
Date:
creation: after 1945 May 02-before 1945 June
…Isidor (Izy) Freudenreich was born on September 1, 1920, in Free State Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), to a Jewish couple, Leib (Laib) and Tauba (Taube…
13. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor
1997.30.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.30.1
Date:
issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September
…Hinda Kacenelenbogen (later Helen Sperling) was born on May 6, 1920, in Otwock, Poland to a Jewish couple, Pinkhas (Pinkus) and Chana (Hannah…
14. Wooden comb and handmade paper case given to a prisoner by a friend in Kaiserwald concentration camp
2012.310.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.310.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1944 December 27
…. Esther and her family were sent to Ghetto #1 in the old Jewish quarter of Vilna which was where their home was located. They were able to stay in their…
15. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor
1997.30.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.30.2
Date:
issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September
…Hinda Kacenelenbogen (later Helen Sperling) was born on May 6, 1920, in Otwock, Poland to a Jewish couple, Pinkhas (Pinkus) and Chana (Hannah…
16. Bar of soap stamped RIF issued to an inmate of Auschwitz-Birkenau
2007.469.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.469.2
Date:
issue: 1945 January-1945 April 23
…. Ilona met Dawid Kronunberg, a survivor from Warsaw, Poland, and they married around the same time. Their brother, Tibor, also survived and, in 1946…
17. Swiss watch taken from the body of an SS guard by a concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2013.465.1
Date:
found: before 1945 May
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--Personal narratives.…