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1. Silver-plated table fork with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.3
Date:
found: 1945 April
… a refugee camp in Austria, to await immigration visas. In January 1957, György immigrated to Canada, where he changed his name to George. In April…
2. Silver-plated table fork with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.1
Date:
found: 1945 April
… a refugee camp in Austria, to await immigration visas. In January 1957, György immigrated to Canada, where he changed his name to George. In April…
3. Silver-plated table knife with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.5
Date:
found: 1945 April
… a refugee camp in Austria, to await immigration visas. In January 1957, György immigrated to Canada, where he changed his name to George. In April…
4. Silver-plated table knife with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.6
Date:
found: 1945 April
… a refugee camp in Austria, to await immigration visas. In January 1957, György immigrated to Canada, where he changed his name to George. In April…
5. Silver-plated table fork with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.4
Date:
found: 1945 April
… a refugee camp in Austria, to await immigration visas. In January 1957, György immigrated to Canada, where he changed his name to George. In April…
6. Silver-plated table fork with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.2
Date:
found: 1945 April
… a refugee camp in Austria, to await immigration visas. In January 1957, György immigrated to Canada, where he changed his name to George. In April…
7. Aluminum cooking pot used by a Greek Jewish family
2009.354.1 top
Object | Accession Number: 2009.354.1
Date:
use: approximately 1943-1951
emigration: 1951
… summer for vacation after the war. In 1951, the family immigrated to the United States, arriving by the ship, Nea Hellas, in New York on April 30. They…
8. Clay water pitcher used by a Romanian family that sheltered their Jewish neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2017.648.2
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…
9. German military canteen with leather strap acquired by US soldier
1985.1.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.2
Date:
found: 1945
manufacture: 1943-1944
…Bernard Baruch Cohen was born on June 22, 1920, in Philadelphia, PA, to Simon and Sarah Cohen. His Yiddish speaking parents had immigrated to the…
10. German military red painted canteen in pouch with strap acquired by US soldier
1985.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.1
Date:
found: 1945
manufacture: 1943
…Bernard Baruch Cohen was born on June 22, 1920, in Philadelphia, PA, to Simon and Sarah Cohen. His Yiddish speaking parents had immigrated to the…
11. Tablespoon with scratched initials used by a German Jewish concentration camp inmate
1994.75.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.75.1
Date:
use: after 1943 March-1945 April
…-Belsen on June 20, 1948. With Alice pregnant with their first child, the couple immigrated to the United States on August 26, 1949. They settled in Chicago…
12. 6 pressed pattern drinking glasses recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish woman
2013.355.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.355.2 a-f
Date:
received: approximately 1928 March 25
recovered: 1945 May
… women decided to immigrate. They arrived in Tel Aviv in March 1949. Maud never gave up hope of meeting Hermann again. It was not until 1974 that she…
13. Salad plate with a floral design carried by Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.6
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
… closed. Both of Ina's parents, her maternal grandparents, and many relatives perished in the Holocaust. In June 1946, Ina immigrated to the United States…
14. Table knife with a swastika given to a Polish Jewish girl during forced labor farm service
1988.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.1
Date:
manufacture: 1938
received: 1945 April
… employee, and immigrated to the United States in 1947.…
15. Teacup and saucer with blue and pink flowers carried by Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.5_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.5 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
… closed. Both of Ina's parents, her maternal grandparents, and many relatives perished in the Holocaust. In June 1946, Ina immigrated to the United States…
16. 8 porcelain bowls and 3 matching plates received as wedding gifts and recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish woman
2013.355.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.355.1 a-k
Date:
received: 1928 March 25
recovered: 1945 May
… women decided to immigrate. They arrived in Tel Aviv in March 1949. Maud never gave up hope of meeting Hermann again. It was not until 1974 that she…