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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. 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…
5. Black and white patterned case for medals awarded postwar to a Dutch resistance leader
1990.23.240.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.240.1
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May-1945 May
…, and visited them several times after they immigrated to the United Statas. Dina died on March 7, 1971. Piet died on March 16, 1978, in the Netherlands…
6. Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.661.2 Cover
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.2
Date:
emigration: 1939-1947
… hiding. From January 1946 to April 1947, Lola managed a chain store that sold ladies clothing in Shanghai. The Stern family decided to immigrate to the US…
7. Brown cloth and leather trimmed suitcase used by an American internee
2018.426.2 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945 December
… 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…
8. Egg crate used as a suitcase by family living in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2005.380.1
Date:
use: 1942-1945
creation: 1940
… persecution of Jews by the Nazi government. They were refused permission to immigrate to Palestine, so they went to the Netherlands. Adolph was able to re…
9. Strongbox and 2 skeleton keys used by a Dutch resistance member
2004.301.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.301.3 a-c
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
… from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Maurits and his first wife emigrated to the United States. He later met and married Elisabeth Blind, who had…
10. Tortoiseshell pencil box and lid carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.3 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…, and many relatives perished in the Holocaust. In June 1946, Ina immigrated to the United States to live with her aunt in New Jersey.…
11. Small Droste cocoa box saved by a Dutch Jewish girl
Object | Accession Number: 2011.426.2
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
… movement, in ‘s-Graveland in 1950. In 1951, Margalit immigrated to Israel. Her brother Ad did not consider himself Jewish. He remained in Dordrecht and took…
12. Green school box carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
… perished in the Holocaust. In June 1946, Ina immigrated to the United States to live with her aunt in New Jersey.…
13. White handkerchief pouch with gnomes carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.8
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…, and many relatives perished in the Holocaust. In June 1946, Ina immigrated to the United States to live with her aunt in New Jersey.…
14. Glass and silver keepsake box used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
2005.579.19_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.19 a-b
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… the bride’s dress and attended the wedding. Alice became pregnant and the couple did not want to have their child born on German soil. They immigrated…
15. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
…Palestine--Emigration and immigration--Biography.…