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1. 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…
2. 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…
3. Hand carved wooden clogs found in Dachau concentration camp by an American soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2013.378.1 a-b
Date:
found: 1945 May 03-1945 May 08
…. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7. On May 8, Aubrey left Dachau when the 179th returned to Munich for occupational duty. On October 20…
4. U.S. Army tailor made, short waisted officer's jacket worn by a Signal Corps photographer for the war crimes trials
Object | Accession Number: 2013.458.5
Date:
use: approximately 1945 September-1949
… London for just over a year before being dispatched in 1944 to Wiesbaden, Germany. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. In August 1945, the United…
5. Leather coin purse with 3 pins, a Dutch coin, and a metal key carried by a young Jewish Austrian refugee to the US
2010.194.3_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.3 a-f
Date:
received: 1945 June-1946 June
emigration: 1946 July
… family moved there. In May, Holland was occupied by Germany and restrictions on the Jewish population were instituted. They had to wear Star of David…
6. Leather document holder with CIC credentials used by a Jewish American soldier
2011.395.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.395.4
Date:
received: 1944 October
use: 1944 October-1945 May
… to the III Corps, Third Army, under General Patton. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and reached Germany in early February 1945. One of Martin…