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1. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.2
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
2. Luftwaffe M1942 helmet taken from a German soldier by US soldier
1985.1.3 left side
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.3
Date:
found: 1945
manufacture: 1942 August 01-before 1944
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
3. Luftwaffe ground crew overseas cap with eagle acquired by US soldier
1985.1.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.14
Date:
found: approximately 1945
manufacture: 1938
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
4. Luftwaffe M1935 Schirmmutze with visor acquired by US soldier
1985.1.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.16
Date:
manufacture: 1938
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
5. Luftwaffe M1935 Schirmmutze without visor acquired by US soldier
1985.1.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.17
Date:
manufacture: 1939
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
6. Wehrmacht M1936 belt and embossed buckle acquired by US soldier
1985.1.4 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.4 a-b
Date:
found: approximately 1945
manufacture: 1941
…Germany…
7. Luftwaffe ground crew overseas cap with eagle acquired by US soldier
1985.1.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.15
Date:
found: approximately 1945
manufacture: 1938
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
8. Black beret owned postwar by Natan Caron who was interned in multiple concentration camps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.3
Date:
received: after 1945 April
… Yiddish. Natan attended private school and was a good student. He did not experience anti-Semitism. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The Chorowicz…
9. White handkerchief with openwork flowers carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.10
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…
10. Handkerchief
2015.563.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.4
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Jewish children in the Holocaust--Germany.…
11. Blue felt belt with appliqued flowers found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Auschwitz
1988.99.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.1
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
…Ruth Krautwirth was born on June 23, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Yitzhak (Isak) and Hanna Bina Grossman Krautwirth. She had one brother, Wolfgang…
12. Black leather wallet used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.9
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. Laced leather billfold with a painted harbor owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.2
Date:
received: after 1938-before 1947 December
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
14. White handkerchief with a fan design carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.11
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…
15. White handkerchief with a stitched border carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.9
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…
16. Brown and yellow striped silk handkerchief found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Birkenau
1988.99.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.2
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
…Ruth Krautwirth was born on June 23, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Yitzhak (Isak) and Hanna Bina Grossman Krautwirth. She had one brother, Wolfgang…
17. Colorful plaid handkerchief found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Birkenau
1988.99.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.3
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
…Ruth Krautwirth was born on June 23, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Yitzhak (Isak) and Hanna Bina Grossman Krautwirth. She had one brother, Wolfgang…
18. Black leather mid-calf boots worn by a female Jewish concentration camp prisoner
2002.366.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.366.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1944 December-1945
acquired: 1944 December-1945 January
…, and Alice and her siblings belonged to Zionistic organizations. Alice had just returned home from vacation when Germany invaded Poland on September 1…
19. Geometric floral patterned pink scarf worn by an infant while the family lived in hiding
2005.600.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.2
Date:
use: 1943-1945
…Frieda Lewin Fromm was born on December 4, 1882, in Ortelsburg, Germany (Szczytno, Poland). She married her sister Henriette's husband, Meyer Fromm…
20. Belt buckle with an embossed Nazi Imperial eagle and motto acquired by a US soldier
1992.104.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.104.3
Date:
found: approximately 1945 May
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…