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1. 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…
2. 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…
3. 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…
4. 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.…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. Handmade metal knife used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
2013.379.7 right side
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.7
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. 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…
15. 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…
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. 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…
18. 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…
19. 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…
20. 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…