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1. Charred electrical insulator from Auschwitz found by a Sinti inmate
1987.75.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.75.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-approximately 1945 January
…Charred electrical insulator from Auschwitz found by a Sinti inmate…
2. Ball of thread
2016.583.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2016.583.2
… the factory was evacuated in advance of advancing Soviet troops. Jozsef Müller, his wife, and their 8 year old daughter were murdered at Auschwitz…
3. Drawing compass and accessories in a case used by a young girl living in hiding
2005.428.2_a-c closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.428.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1942
… imprisoned in the Drancy transit camp, then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. On September 18, 1942, Lea’s parents arranged through a neighbor…
4. Container used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.29
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…, mother, and brother were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. At the DP camp, Alice met Hans Finke, born in Berlin on August 12, 1920. He was a former…
5. Pocketknife owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.23
… to Auschwitz concentration camp. His pregnant wife, Rosa, and their 3-year old son, Uriel perished there. Norbert’s arm was tattooed with the number…
6. Sewing Kit
2018.643.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.643.2
… Chaya Dzialoczynska Kretchmer (later Helen Herman) [donor's aunt], all of whom survived the Łódź Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. Also includes…
7. Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.27
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…, mother, and brother were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. At the DP camp, Alice met Hans Finke, born in Berlin on August 12, 1920. He was a former…
8. Gray wood and metal ladder used while in hiding by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2018.9.1
Date:
use: 1945 January 20-1945 January 26
… Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. After passing through the selection process, Michael’s arm was tattooed with prisoner number 161135. Michael was…
9. Pouch and medical instruments used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.22 a-j
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…, mother, and brother were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. At the DP camp, Alice met Hans Finke, born in Berlin on August 12, 1920. He was a former…
10. Needle packet used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.25
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…, mother, and brother were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. At the DP camp, Alice met Hans Finke, born in Berlin on August 12, 1920. He was a former…
11. Monaural stethoscope used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
2005.579.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.20
Date:
use: 1943-1949 August
emigration: 1949 August 26
…, mother, and brother were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. At the DP camp, Alice met Hans Finke, born in Berlin on August 12, 1920. He was a former…
12. Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.26
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…, mother, and brother were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. At the DP camp, Alice met Hans Finke, born in Berlin on August 12, 1920. He was a former…
13. Bag and supplies used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.28
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…, mother, and brother were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. At the DP camp, Alice met Hans Finke, born in Berlin on August 12, 1920. He was a former…
14. Wooden drafting triangle used by a Czech Jewish camp inmate
1989.303.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.16
Date:
use: 1941 December-1945 May
… stopped and there was no food. There was a single barrel for a toilet and an elderly man died while using it. When the train arrived at Auschwitz…
15. French curve drafting tool used by a Czech Jewish camp inmate
1989.303.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.17
Date:
use: 1941 December-1945 May
… stopped and there was no food. There was a single barrel for a toilet and an elderly man died while using it. When the train arrived at Auschwitz…
16. Pocket knife used by a Polish Jewish female slave laborer
1990.220.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.220.2
Date:
creation: 1944 November
… times. In August 1944, they were found and taken to Auschwitz concentration camp, along with their aunt Hela. Her sister was sent to the gas chambers and…
17. Pocketknife acquired by a prisoner in Buna concentration camp
1991.123.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.123.1
Date:
found: 1944
…Oświęcim (Poland)…
18. Caliper used by a prisoner in a forced labor camp
2005.135.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.135.3
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 February
… taken in 1944. In March 1944, the Bistrita Jews were forced into a ghetto. And in April, the family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. They…
19. Wooden thread spool from tailoring shop in Paris
2005.463.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.463.2
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1939
… he had been transported to Auschwitz where, age 47, he was murdered. The family moved to the south of France which was not occupied by the Germans. In…
20. Medical field sterilizer kit used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
2005.579.21_a closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.21 a-g
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…, mother, and brother were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. At the DP camp, Alice met Hans Finke, born in Berlin on August 12, 1920. He was a former…