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1. Large painted plastic doll owned by a Jewish girl killed in Auschwitz
2011.424.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.424.1
Date:
received: after 1942 October
…Large painted plastic doll owned by a Jewish girl killed in Auschwitz…
2. Doll in a red hat and uniform kept by a young girl while living in hiding
2002.371.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.371.2
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… Auschwitz. Their mother placed the girls in hiding with the van Buggenhout family in Rumst, Belgium.…
3. Wooden horse and wagon pull toy
2002.433.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.433.1 a-b
Date:
1940-1945
… to Auschwitz where she perished. After Flora's arrest, Solomon felt he could no longer care for Max and arranged for him to be placed in hiding.…
4. Cloth doll
2018.196.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.196.1
Date:
received: 1937
… Pruzhany, and was subsequently killed in Auschwitz. The doll has a Yiddish inscription on the hem from her grandfather.…
5. Zebra push puppet made by a former Jewish Czech camp inmate
1989.303.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.20
Date:
creation: after 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…
6. Silver and plastic teething ring rattle used by an infant who was placed in hiding by his family
2012.355.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.355.2
Date:
received: 1941 December 01
… Auschwitz, and separated. Gisele was sent to Reichenbach, where she made radio tubes at the Telefunken factory. After the factory was bombed on June 6, 1944…
7. Doll in blue dress, blonde wig and necklace carried by Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.1 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1946 July
received: 1945 June-1946 June
… deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp; it was the last letter the family received. In 1943, the arrests escalated again. Klara and the children were…
8. Much loved teddy bear given to a Hungarian Jewish girl after her return from Theresienstadt
2013.104.2 left side
Object | Accession Number: 2013.104.2
Date:
received: after 1945 May
…’s maternal grandparents, Josef and Maria, were killed in Auschwitz. Lilian’s aunt, Margaret, and Istvan’s mother, Jeanetta, were also killed in Auschwitz…
9. Stuffed rabbit made for a young Hungarian Jewish camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2013.104.3
Date:
creation: approximately 1945 March
…’s maternal grandparents, Josef and Maria, were killed in Auschwitz. Lilian’s aunt, Margaret, and Istvan’s mother, Jeanetta, were also killed in Auschwitz…
10. Pair of dice carried by a Dutch resistance member
2004.301.4_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.301.4 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
… Henriette’s, wrote Schoontje, and told her that the couple had been deported to Auschwitz concentration camp together by ambulance on March 14, 1944. Many of…
11. Black wooden ball returned after 50 years to the cousin of a Jewish youth killed during the Holocaust
2013.319.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.319.3
Date:
received: 1942 July
recovered: 1990
… deported to Auschwitz. Her mother Käthe was forced to work in a Glimmer factory, splitting the mineral mica which was used by the German military as an…
12. Red wooden ball returned after 50 years to the cousin of a Jewish youth killed during the Holocaust
2013.319.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.319.2
Date:
received: 1942 July
recovered: 1990
… deported to Auschwitz. Her mother Käthe was forced to work in a Glimmer factory, splitting the mineral mica which was used by the German military as an…
13. Disappearing ball and magic cup trick returned after 50 years to the cousin of a Jewish youth killed during the Holocaust
2013.319.1 a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.319.1 a-d
Date:
received: 1942 July
recovered: 1990
… deported to Auschwitz. Her mother Käthe was forced to work in a Glimmer factory, splitting the mineral mica which was used by the German military as an…
14. Pink and white crocheted doll dress used postwar by a former hidden child
2011.424.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.424.6
Date:
use: approximately 1955
… Auschwitz. Most of those in her father’s family who had stayed in Poland perished. After the war, Cypra, Wolf, Betti, and Laja settled in Andrelecht. Betti…
15. Deck of cards about the American presidents received by Manfred Weidhorn in the U.S.
Object | Accession Number: 2022.29.8
Date:
use: after 1941
…, but he and his mother went back to Paris. Anne would learn after the war that both her parents perished at Auschwitz. Aron’s business visa eventually…
16. Doll given to a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport
2019.500.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.500.1
Date:
received: approximately 1939-1945
… Rivesaltes to Drancy transit camp in Paris. From there, they were deported and murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp. Other family members also perished. In…
17. Kiki the monkey puppet used by a young US soldier to entertain children in a liberated internment camp
2009.203.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.203.2
Date:
use: 1944 September 09
… exchange with German prisoners. However, over 100 Jewish inmates were deported from the camp and killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. The camp was…
18. Doll's offwhite hand knit wool sweater and pants with red flowers made by a young girl after her release from Theresienstadt
1992.4.1 a-f front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.4.4 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1945 May
… were sent to Auschwitz and killed. Inge and her parents were liberated at the camp by Soviet troops on May 8, 1945. The camp was placed in quarantine…
19. Small doll made from a stick by a French Jewish hidden child
2013.462.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.462.2
Date:
creation: 1943
use: 1943-1945
…, were taken from the Vel d’Hiv to Drancy transit camp, then to Auschwitz, where they were killed. Her maternal aunt, Dora, and cousin, Esther, were also…
20. Doll's colorful crocheted tassel hat given to a young girl after her release from Theresienstadt
1992.4.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.4.3
Date:
received: after 1945 May
…. Before Ruth left, she gave Inge doll clothes that her mother had made for her. Ruth and her parents were sent to Auschwitz and killed. Inge and her parents…