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1. 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…
2. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport
2003.352.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.352.1 a-b
Date:
use: after 1938-approximately 1997
manufacture: 1938-1939
emigration: 1939 June
…Hilde Lotte Anker was born on May 29, 1926, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg Jakob Willie Anker and Gertrud Gottschalk Anker. She had two older sisters…
3. 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…
4. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.11
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…
5. 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…
6. Bar of soap issued to a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate
1994.55.6
Object | Accession Number: 1994.55.6
Date:
issue: approximately 1944 August-approximately 1945 April
… worked as an electrician. In September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. Germany occupied regions west of the Bug River, the Soviet Union…
7. 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…
8. Piston head ashtray made for concentration camp commander found by US military aid worker
1988.112.59 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.59
Date:
found: 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…
9. Silver hair brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.4
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…
10. Large black plastic comb used by a Polish Jewish girl living with an assumed identity
2010.465.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.465.4
Date:
use: 1941 December-1948 September
…, Malnow was occupied by the Soviet Union. In June 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union. Soon after, four Ukrainian youths broke into the house and beat…
11. Violin used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.8
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. Violin, bows, case and accessories recovered from Łódź ghetto and played in DP camps by a Polish Jewish musician
2010.472.1_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.1 a-t
Date:
use: before 1944 August-after 1945 May
recovered: after 1945 February
… playing both the violin and the saxophone professionally. Szyman died in 1939, before the war started. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. When…
13. Violin, case and spare parts used by a Jewish Latvian musician while imprisoned in several concentration camps
2006.133.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.2 a-j
Date:
received: approximately 1921
use: 1940-1949
…, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and, by July 1941, the country was occupied by German forces. On July 1, 1942, Grunia was forced into the newly formed…
14. Black Bakelite circular eyeglasses worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train
2003.198.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.8
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1946
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
15. 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…
16. 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…
17. Zeiss Z body binoculars found in a concentration camp by US military aid worker
1988.112.62 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.62
Date:
found: 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…
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. Soap bar acquired postwar by an Austrian Jewish refugee working for the WJC
2004.709.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.709.2
Date:
found: after 1945 May-1946
… 25, 1931. Erich and Ella were a well-to-do Jewish family. Nazi Germany merged Austria into the German Reich in March 1938. They enacted anti-Jewish…
20. Handmade metal comb used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
2013.379.8 right side
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.8
Date:
creation: 1944 October-1945
…Henry Dressler (born Heniz, 1919-2005) was born on October 22, 1919, in Dresden, Germany, to Joachim (1888-1971) and Martha Miriam (1896-1956) and…