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1. Embroidered yarmulke brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member
Object | Accession Number: 2017.694.2
Date:
use: 1901-1946
… Bespaloff or another man in his extended family. The kippah was brought to the United States when the owner immigrated in the 1930s or 1940s.…
2. Embroidered pouch for tefillin brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member
Object | Accession Number: 2017.694.3
Date:
use: 1901-1946
… brought to the United States when the owner immigrated in the 1930s or 1940s. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and…
3. Embroidered pouch for a tallit brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member
Object | Accession Number: 2017.694.4
Date:
use: 1901-1946
… family. The pouch was brought to the United States when the owner immigrated in the 1930s or 1940s. A tallit is a prayer shawl worn by observant Jewish men…
4. Hand-carved wooden chain carried to Australia by a Jewish refugee
2016.183.1 side A
Object | Accession Number: 2016.183.1
Date:
creation: before 1924
… Charles Factor, 1897-1991). He was born to Yitzhak Leib and Yitta Faktor, and his family ran a textile factory in Poland. Heinrich immigrated to Germany…
5. Vulcanized fiber suitcase owned by a member of the Frank family
2018.613.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.7
Date:
manufacture: after 1871
use: after 1931
… in Newport, Arkansas, the daughter of a German businessman who had immigrated to the United States in 1879. She traveled with her father to Europe…
6. Le Petit Journal (Paris France) [Magazine]
2016.184.235.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.235.2
Date:
publication: 1892 September 10
Title:
Le Petit journal : supplement illustre, Troisieme annee, No. 94, Samedi September 10, 1892
Alternate Title:
Illustre du Petit Journal
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… Jews in colorful costumes camped in the streets outside the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, waiting to immigrate to America. This journal is one of…
7. Le Petit Journal (Paris France) [Magazine]
2016.184.235.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.235.1
Date:
publication: 1892 September 10
Title:
Le Petit journal : supplement illustre, Troisieme annee, No. 94, Samedi September 10, 1892
Alternate Title:
Illustre du Petit Journal
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… Jews in colorful costumes camped in the streets outside the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, waiting to immigrate to America. This journal is one of…
8. Pair of small tefillin brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member
Object | Accession Number: 2017.694.5 a-b
Date:
use: 1901-1946
… when the owner immigrated in the 1930s or 1940s. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head…
9. 40th anniversary of Po'alei Zion poster owned by Moszek Brycman
2002.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.198.3
Date:
commemoration: 1945 April 15
use: 1985
Artwork Title:
Anniversary Po'alei Zion
… acquaintance of Emanuel Ringelblum. In 1931 he immigrated to Paris, France, and the following year he married Marie Edelszein. Moishe continued his involvement…
10. 40th anniversary of Po'alei Zion poster owned by Moszek Brycman
2002.198.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.198.4
Date:
commemoration: 1945 April 15
use: 1985
Artwork Title:
Anniversary Po'alei Zion
… acquaintance of Emanuel Ringelblum. In 1931 he immigrated to Paris, France, and the following year he married Marie Edelszein. Moishe continued his involvement…
11. Flier for a United Jewish Socialist Party meeting owned by Moszek Brycman
2002.198.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.198.1
Date:
use: 1945 September 30
… acquaintance of Emanuel Ringelblum. In 1931 he immigrated to Paris, France, and the following year he married Marie Edelszein. Moishe continued his involvement…
12. Armband worn by a Jewish American prisoner in Compiègne internment camp
2018.337.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.337.4
Date:
use: 1940 September-1943 July
… Waldman (1860-1949). George had 3 younger brothers and a younger sister. In 1910 he immigrated to the United States via Montreal, Canada, on the Allen Train…
13. Black and white linocut print of the Compiègne internment camp created by Jacques Gotko
2018.337.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.337.2
Date:
creation: 1942 January-1942 September
Title:
Stalag 122 Compiegne
Alternate Title:
Main Camp 122 Compiegne
… Waldman (1860-1949). George had 3 younger brothers and a younger sister. In 1910 he immigrated to the United States via Montreal, Canada, on the Allen Train…
14. Identification case used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
2015.533.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2015.533.2
Date:
use: 1939-1941
… invasion of Poland, France and England declared war on Germany. In December, Martha and her husband, Albert, immigrated, via the Caribbean, to the United…
15. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2008.319.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.1
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-before 1947 December
… and Buza. Following a period of increasing violence and the outbreak an Austrian civil war in 1934, the family immigrated again to British-controlled…
16. French Catholic prayer book with ivory covers used by an American internee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.22
Date:
publication: 1876
Title:
Paroissien Romain
Alternate Title:
Roman parishioner
… and Henry were both originally from France, where they worked as champagne vintners. They immigrated to New York in 1890, where they continued to work…
17. Czechoslovakian postage stamp, 1 koruna, acquired by a former American internee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.15
Date:
issue: 1970 February 16
… and Henry were both originally from France, where they worked as champagne vintners. They immigrated to New York in 1890, where they continued to work…
18. Pitcher made from an Eatonia Brand butter can and used by an American internee
2018.426.9 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.9
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… and Henry were both originally from France, where they worked as champagne vintners. They immigrated to New York in 1890, where they continued to work…
19. Czechoslovakian postage stamp, 40 haléř, acquired by a former American internee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.14
Date:
issue: 1970 February 17
… and Henry were both originally from France, where they worked as champagne vintners. They immigrated to New York in 1890, where they continued to work…
20. Wall crucifix owned by an American internee
2018.426.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.3
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… and Henry were both originally from France, where they worked as champagne vintners. They immigrated to New York in 1890, where they continued to work…