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1. Dark brown leather satchel used by a Polish Jewish refugee
2005.427.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.427.2
Date:
use: 1938-1948
…Poland--Emigration and immigration--Biography.…
2. Small leather case with a detached lid used by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.461.2 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1936-1945
… before and during the Holocaust in Germany and Uruguay, where Walter and Erna immigrated in 1936.…
3. Storage trunk owned by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-approximately 1946
… immigrated, her father, Jakob Kramer (1868-1943), joined them in Amsterdam and took a central role in raising Max. Max accompanied his grandfather to social…
4. British ordnance box given to a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.3
Date:
received: 1944 September-1944 December
… immigrated, her father, Jakob Kramer (1868-1943), joined them in Amsterdam and took a central role in raising Max. Max accompanied his grandfather to social…
5. Rucksack used by a German Jewish family going into hiding
1990.307.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.5
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 June
… immigrated, her father, Jakob Kramer (1868-1943), joined them in Amsterdam and took a central role in raising Max. Max accompanied his grandfather to social…
6. Leather pouch for a dog tag given to a Danish resistance member
1989.297.2.2_001.JPG
Object | Accession Number: 1989.297.2.2
Date:
acquired: 1944-1945
… Geneva Convention, resistance members could be considered guerillas and executed. After the war, Knud decided to keep the surname Dyby, and immigrated to…
7. Brown cloth bag with a red, white, and blue stripe carried by a hidden Dutch Jewish woman
1990.23.198 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.198
Date:
use: 1942 June-1945 May
… forbidden from using the train and going into stores. In 1942, the SS led them to believe that they could immigrate to Cuba. They paid for it but never…
8. Drawstring cloth pouch handmade by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.31.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.31.2
Date:
creation: after 1944 July-before 1945 April
… brothers Heshel (b.1889) and Abram (b.1896) who lived in Kovno, and Julius (b.1890) who immigrated to America in 1907. Masha had an older brother Elisha (aka…
9. Cigar tin used by a Dutch Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2022.41.2
Date:
use: 1942-1945
…. Beginning in 1942, several hundred Polish and Dutch Jewish refugees were interned in the camp. The Silbigers then settled in Curaçao before immigrating to…
10. Wooden bucket owned by a Romanian family that sheltered their Jewish neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2017.648.1
Date:
use: approximately 1939-approximately 1945
… the city of Groznyi, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (now Grozny, Chechnya, Russia) and then they immigrated to Israel. Though the Gurvits…