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81. Tortoiseshell pencil box and lid carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.3 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
82. Lightweight brown suitcase carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee child
2011.281.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2011.281.2
Date:
received: 1946 March-1946 July
use: 1946 July
… March 13, 1938, Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. The Germans quickly introduced anti-Jewish legislation, and Jewish businesses and property were…
83. Gold painted metal box with heart and initials made by a Jewish Polish slave labor camp inmate
1997.102.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.102.2 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1944 September-1945 January
… York, sent Kadysh papers to come to the US, but he would not leave his wife and children. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Motek was in…
84. Green school box carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
85. Art Deco style lipstick case carried by a Jewish refugee while searching for her family
2008.228.24 open
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.24
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
86. Wooden box used by a US soldier assigned to photograph the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
2014.463.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.463.2
… States Army, 3264th Signal Photo Battalion. He was stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany after the war and was assigned as a photographer at The International…
87. Black leather case presented to the Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
1988.72.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.4
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
88. Brown leather satchel used by a Polish Jewish prisoner
2016.151.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.151.2
Date:
use: after 1941 December-1949 September
… Yiddish and Hebrew. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and on September 4, the German army entered Będzin. The soldiers burned the Great…
89. Briefcase
2014.415.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.415.3
… to the experiences of the Charnitzki family in prewar Königsberg, Germany, in Shanghai during the Holocaust, and in the United States after the war.…
90. Large flat top trunk monogrammed HB used by a German Jewish refugee
2004.321.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.321.2
Date:
emigration: 1939 March 28
…Hans John Bernhard was born in Berlin, Germany, on February 23, 1906, to Auguen and Marta Reich Bernhard. Auguen was born in Berlin in 1878. Hans…
91. Wooden cigar box with an image of gossiping, stereotypical Jewish peddlers
2016.184.532 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.532
Date:
creation: approximately 1870
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
92. Mimosa 6.5 x 9 cm sheet film box used by US soldier
2000.526.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.526.5
Date:
use: 1945
… became a bartender. He married and had a child, but later divorced. After the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on…
93. Aluminum suitcase used by Jewish Polish postwar refugees
1997.102.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.102.1
Date:
acquired: 1946
… York, sent Kadysh papers to come to the US, but he would not leave his wife and children. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Motek was in…
94. Yellow and green suitcase with key used by a German Jewish girl
2012.261.3 a open
Object | Accession Number: 2012.261.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1949
…Marion Irene Kaufmann was born on November 28, 1936, in Berlin, Germany, to Walter and Lina Julius Kaufmann. Walter was born November 14, 1903, in…
95. Agfa metal film canister used by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.49_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.49 a-b
Date:
manufacture: 1946 May
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
96. Agfa metal film canister used by a German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.47_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.47 a-b
Date:
manufacture: 1946 May
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…