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1. 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…
2. Pin used to attach a Holocaust commemorative ribbon worn by a Latvian Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.5 a
… in the area. In 1940, the Soviet Army invaded and occupied Lithuania and the persecution of Jews became widespread. In June-July 1941, Germany invaded…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Gavel used to close postwar Nordhausen war crimes trial
Object | Accession Number: 2014.165.1
Date:
use: 1947
…Dachau (Germany)…
6. 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…
7. Anthropometer used to measure length of body parts in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.255.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: approximately 1920-1945
…Anthropometer used to measure length of body parts in Nazi Germany…
8. 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…
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
…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…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. 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…
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. 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…
19. Small cap placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.33
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1902-before 1943
…. Stefan was Greek Catholic and his wife was Roman Catholic. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and much of the country was under aerial…
20. Siemens-Schuckert generator placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.20
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1902-before 1943
…. Stefan was Greek Catholic and his wife was Roman Catholic. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and much of the country was under aerial…