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1. 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
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
2. 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
… 13, 1938 Austria was annexed into Germany, in what became known as the Anschluss. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted…
3. Rectangular, cloth-covered compact with mirror owned by Alice Fischl Gerstmann
Object | Accession Number: 2020.319.3
… Gerstmann, Gerd Gerstmann, and their families in Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Palestine before, during, and after the Holocaust.…
4. US Army pouch for a shoe shine kit issued to Milton Emont
2018.565.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.2
Date:
use: 1943 March 05-1946 April 16
… both France and Germany. In 1945, he was able to complete eight weeks of graduate coursework in French and French literature at the Sorbonne and…
5. 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
… 13, 1938 Austria was annexed into Germany, in what became known as the Anschluss. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted…
6. Pipe with bowl carved in the shape of a bull’s head
2017.541.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.6
Date:
acquired: 1950-1953
… 13, 1938 Austria was annexed into Germany, in what became known as the Anschluss. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted…
7. Porcelain tobacco bowl with an image of three Jewish hareskin dealers painted on the front
2016.184.114 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.114
Date:
creation: 1829-1940
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
8. German Gesteckpfeife style tobacco pipe and porcelain bowl with an antisemitic image
2016.184.115a front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.115 a-b
Date:
manufacture: 1850-1940
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
9. Violin case used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.10 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.10
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
10. Leather runaway ski strap brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.31 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.31
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
11. Violin used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.9
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
12. Shaving brush used by a German Jewish refugee in hiding
1990.307.7_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 a
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
13. Blue and white tube of sunscreen brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.47 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.47
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
14. Moustache brush owned by a German Jewish refugee
1990.307.6 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.6
Date:
use: approximately 1907-approximately 1917
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
15. Silver clothes brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.3
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
…Frieda Lewin Fromm was born on December 4, 1882, in Ortelsburg, Germany (Szczytno, Poland). She married her sister Henriette's husband, Meyer Fromm…
16. Razor used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.7_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 b
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
17. Shaving brush received in a concentration camp
2005.256.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.256.1
Date:
received: 1944
… taken west into Germany on a series of trains and death marches that included brief stays at the Oranienburg and Flossenbürg concentration camps, and then…
18. 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
…, 1899, in Łódź, to Aron and Frieda Pytowski. The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I (1914-1918) separated Danzig and West Prussia from Germany…
19. Mother of pearl opera glasses saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.13
Date:
emigration: 1939 July
…Irene Regensburger was born on July 18, 1905, in Plauen, Germany, to Leonhard and Jella Furth Regensburger. Leonhard was born on July 12, 1858, and…
20. Comb made from airplane parts by a Polish Jewish female slave laborer
1990.220.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.220.1
Date:
creation: 1944 November
… system where he traded his merchandise for food. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the Jewish section of Pabianice, where Yona's family lived…