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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. 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…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Pocket mirror used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
2013.379.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.9
Date:
use: 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…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. Binoculars thrown at US soldier during concentration camp liberation
2016.471.5 3/4 view top
Object | Accession Number: 2016.471.5
Date:
found: 1945 April 11
…Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)…
10. Pince-nez with black cord given to a Jewish American soldier by survivors of the Łódź ghetto
2007.475.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.475.5
Date:
received: 1945
… Regiment on Governor’s Island, New York. A few months later he was shipped to Germany as a sergeant in the 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division. He…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. 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…
14. Saxophone, case and accessories used by a Polish Jewish musician in a band that toured DP camps
2010.472.3_ad front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.3 a-ah
Date:
use: after 1945 May
… playing both the violin and the saxophone professionally. Szyman died in 1939, before the war started. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. When…
15. Silver pea whistle taken from an SS officer by a US soldier
2000.598.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.598.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945 May
… 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…
16. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.12
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. 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…
18. 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…
19. 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…
20. Reusable embossed cigarette lighter used by German Jewish German US soldier
2003.149.69 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.69
Date:
received: approximately 1926-before 1946
manufacture: after 1926-before 1946
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…