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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
…Hans Braun was born on March 6, 1923, in Hannover, Germany, to Oswald and Rosa Ernst Braun, a Sinti couple. Oswald was born on March 1, 1898, in…
2. Solingen hunting knife with sheath presented to US military aid worker by liberated inmates
1988.112.64_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.64 a-b
Date:
received: 1945 April-1945 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
3. 6 cards with 24 mother-of-pearl buttons saved from a Jewish owned factory and given to a survivor 50 years later
1989.204.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.204.1
Date:
manufacture: 1937
received: 1987 July
… then Palestine. Fela did not want to start over, so Moshe decided they would stay. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was heavily…
4. Double-door railroad freight car with brakeman’s cabin of the type used to transport victims throughout the Nazi camp system
1989.225.1
Object | Accession Number: 1989.225.1
Date:
manufacture: 1920
… needs. It became one of the largest organizations in Nazi Germany, with over 1.4 million personnel and hundreds of thousands of indigenous workers in…
5. 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
… transportation expert, whom he thought of as an uncle. Karel was a draftsman at a design company. On September 29, 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border…
6. 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
… transportation expert, whom he thought of as an uncle. Karel was a draftsman at a design company. On September 29, 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border…
7. Dehomag [Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen] D11 tabulator
Technisches Museum Dresden Collection Image, 1990.48.1
Object | Accession Number: 1990.48.1 a-f
Date:
use: 1930-1939
…Germany…
8. Dehomag D11 sorter
Technisches Museum Dresden Collection Image,1990.48.2
Object | Accession Number: 1990.48.2
Date:
use: 1930-1939
…Germany…
9. 10 kilo economic spring balance scale with a weighing pan
1990.79.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.79.2 a-d
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1900
…Early 20th century Germany business equipment collection…
10. G. Boulitte brand manual aneroid sphygmomanometer and case
1990.80.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 1990.80.2 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
…Germany.…
11. Nut and bolt found at Dachau concentration camp after the war by a US soldier
1990.150.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.150.4
Date:
found: approximately 1950
…Dachau (Germany)…
12. Ring with two screws found at Dachau concentration camp after the war by a US soldier
1990.150.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.150.5
Date:
found: approximately 1950
…Dachau (Germany)…
13. Pocket knife used by a Polish Jewish female slave laborer
1990.220.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.220.2
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…
14. Quartz whetstone used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.7_c front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 c
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…
15. Pocket knife with leather case carried by a Jewish refugee
1992.8.29_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.29 a-b
Date:
use: 1910-1938
emigration: 1938
…Sally (Sol) Ossowski was born on January 1, 1919, in Berlin, Germany, to Frieda Schwartzbardt, born in 1888, and Rabbi Issac Ossowski, born in 1877…
16. Printing plate
1994.97.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.97.7
… Hague reparations negotiations, Germany-Israel, 1952; Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, 1953-1956; Counsel, International Council of B…
17. Photographic light exposure calculator used by US soldier
2000.526.6 back
Object | Accession Number: 2000.526.6
Date:
use: 1945
publication/distribution: approximately 1934
… 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…
18. German marching compass in a case taken from an SS officer by a US soldier
2000.598.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2000.598.2
Date:
found: approximately 1945 May
manufacture: after 1930-before 1945
… spring 1945, Hy’s unit advanced eastward across Germany. During the advance, Hy and eight other soldiers were riding in a truck pulling the unit’s 105 mm…
19. Horvex light meter, case, and notes used by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.43_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.43 a-c
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1938
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
20. Pocket knife with yellow plastic handle used by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.68 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.68
Date:
received: after 1920-before 1939
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
21. Military protractor with map coordinators used by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.80 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.80
Date:
use: after 1944 July-before 1946 June
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
22. U.S. Army M2 clear plastic map template grid used by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.81 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.81
Date:
use: after 1944 July-before 1946 June
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
23. Workbook of clothing patterns drawn by a Jewish refugee for an ORT class
2003.174.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.7
Date:
use: 1946-1947
… frequently to acquire merchandise for his store and was a member of the Betar Jabotinsky Party, a Zionist organization. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in…
24. Workbook of clothing patterns drawn by a Jewish refugee for an ORT class
2003.174.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.8
Date:
use: 1946-1947
… frequently to acquire merchandise for his store and was a member of the Betar Jabotinsky Party, a Zionist organization. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in…
25. Monaural wooden stethoscope used by a Jewish German refugee and US Army medic
2003.451 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.2
Date:
acquired: after 1932
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
26. Electric retinoscope used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.3
Date:
manufacture: 1893-1945
acquired: after 1932
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
27. Pelvic calipers used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.4
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
28. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.5
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
29. Extended prong cotter pin brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.40 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.40
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…
30. Cotter pin brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.41 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.41
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…
31. Used Collonil leather oil brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.46 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.46
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…
32. Vernier calipers used by a Jewish Polish worker in Oskar Schindler's armament factory
2004.702.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.702.3
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945 May
… drafted into the Polish Army. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland which soon surrendered to the Germans. Sam was sent to a prisoner of war…
33. Folding knife made from a screwdriver in a concentration camp by an inmate
2005.135.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.135.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1945 January
…, Lithuania, during the period from June 1940-May 1941 when Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union. When Germany declared war on the USSR and invaded…
34. 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
… under the influence of Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s and in November 1940, they joined the Axis Alliance. Racial laws, much like Germany’s Nuremberg…
35. Small, hand drawn wooden wagon used by a Sinti family
2005.453.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.5
Date:
use: 1945-1950
…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…
36. 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
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
37. 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
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
38. Drafting kit with 18 drawing implements used by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.4 l-q front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.4 a-s
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…
39. Pin box and 57 straight pins carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.14
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…
40. Oxyacetylene welding torch handle with heating tip from the Dora Mittelbau V2 factory
2007.486.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.486.2
Date:
acquired: 1945 April-1945 July 05
… that took over the underground V-1 and V-2 rocket factory outside of Nordhausen, Germany. Upon his arrival at Nordhausen in April 1945, Chester saw…
41. Oxyacetylene welding torch handle with cutting tip from the Dora Mittelbau V2 factory
2007.486.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.486.4
Date:
acquired: 1945 April-1945 July 05
… that took over the underground V-1 and V-2 rocket factory outside of Nordhausen, Germany. Upon his arrival at Nordhausen in April 1945, Chester saw…
42. Oxyacetylene welding torch handle with cutting tip from the Dora Mittelbau V2 factory
2007.486.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.486.5
Date:
acquired: 1945 April-1945 July 05
… that took over the underground V-1 and V-2 rocket factory outside of Nordhausen, Germany. Upon his arrival at Nordhausen in April 1945, Chester saw…
43. Wooden box, insert, and welding torch tips from the Dora Mittelbau V2 factory
2007.486.28_a-o closed
Object | Accession Number: 2007.486.28 a-p
Date:
acquired: 1945 April-1945 July 05
… that took over the underground V-1 and V-2 rocket factory outside of Nordhausen, Germany. Upon his arrival at Nordhausen in April 1945, Chester saw…
44. Bent metal shard saved by a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, British Army
2007.492.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.492.3
Date:
found: 1944 September-1946 July
…Fanny Dominitz was born September 9, 1925 in Cologne, Germany, to Jakob Dominitz, a traveling businessman, born on November 26, 1899, and Scheindel…
45. Sewing case with six ornate gold mending tools
2008.197.4_d front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.198.4 a-g
Date:
received: 1945-1950
…Bronia Bergman was born in Poland in 1917 or 1918. In 1945, following the end of World War II, she was a displaced person in Feldafing, Germany…
46. Darning needle and case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.10 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.10 a- b
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, born in 1924, and Danuta, born in 1929. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 and, by November 1940, the family was confined to the ghetto. Nineteen…
47. Thermometer with silver case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.13_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.13 a-c
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1947
…, born in 1924, and Danuta, born in 1929. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 and, by November 1940, the family was confined to the ghetto. Nineteen…
48. Sewing needle case used for lipstick in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.15 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.15
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
49. Offset lithographic printing plate depicting Percy Brand holding his violin
2009.297.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.297.2
Date:
use: after 1949-1985 August 15
… Orchestra. In August 1940, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia. In spring 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and, by July 1941, Riga was occupied by German…
50. C. Seelbach Co. gripper pliers brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2011.110.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.110.1
Date:
emigration: 1939 February 02
…Berthold Baer was born on February 4, 1894 in Seligenstadt, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Julius and Esther Bender Baer. He had two older sisters…