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1. Gray and white faux snakeskin leather hand mirror
1995.36.1.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.36.1.2
Date:
approximately 1930-1939
…Purse mirror used by Lily Bergstein while immigrating from Nazi Austria via Shanghai, China.…
2. Opera glasses and case owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.2 a-c
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…, and Hilda was forced to give up her shop, although she still sold clothing from their apartment. The annexation prompted Leo to apply for an immigration…
3. Barling’s briar wood straight billiard pipe used by Captain Ralph M. Kopansky
2012.427.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.427.3
Date:
manufacture: 1930-1945
use: approximately 1945
…. His parents and older sister, Esther (later Fisher), were born in Russia and immigrated to the United States. Sam worked as a clothing dyer. In 1924…
4. Mother of pearl opera glasses saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.13
Date:
emigration: 1939 July
…Germany--Emigration and immigration--Biography.…
5. Eyeglasses and case used Mayer Altarac whose family fled from German occupying forces
2002.438.5 b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.5 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1948
… Brcko (now in Bosnia and Hercegovina). Her father was an accountant and she had two brothers, David and Shalom, and a sister, Frida. Shalom immigrated to…
6. Red and black plastic cigarette holder used by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.147.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.5
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… that they were residents of that city. They traveled to Marseilles and began the long process of obtaining exit visas from France and immigration visas…
7. Japanese propaganda matchbox cover with a bayonet with a Japanese flag dominating the world acquired by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.21
Date:
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
… rented movie theaters. Ralf attended a Jewish refugee school, the Kadoorie school, and learned Japanese. He played with other immigrant children and…
8. Japanese propaganda matchbox with a bomb exploding in the center of the US acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.12
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
… rented movie theaters. Ralf attended a Jewish refugee school, the Kadoorie school, and learned Japanese. He played with other immigrant children and…
9. Japanese propaganda matchbox with a Japanese plane bombing the US and British flags acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.10
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
… rented movie theaters. Ralf attended a Jewish refugee school, the Kadoorie school, and learned Japanese. He played with other immigrant children and…
10. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor
1997.30.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.30.2
Date:
issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September
… reunited with Saul. They immigrated to the United States in 1949.…
11. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor
1997.30.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.30.1
Date:
issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September
… reunited with Saul. They immigrated to the United States in 1949.…
12. Novoris leather wrist watch worn by German Jewish emigre and US soldier
2003.149.65 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.65
Date:
received: after 1920-before 1939
…, Germany, to a Jewish couple. Rudolf’s mother had one older sister, Georgine, and two younger ones, Ida and Cecelia, all of whom had immigrated to the United…
13. H. Moser & Cie silver pocket watch with chain owned by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.60_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.60
Date:
received: after 1920-before 1939
…, Germany, to a Jewish couple. Rudolf’s mother had one older sister, Georgine, and two younger ones, Ida and Cecelia, all of whom had immigrated to the United…
14. Art Deco silver pocket watch owned by German Jewish US emigre and soldier
2003.149.61 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.61
Date:
received: after 1920-before 1939
…, Germany, to a Jewish couple. Rudolf’s mother had one older sister, Georgine, and two younger ones, Ida and Cecelia, all of whom had immigrated to the United…
15. Reusable embossed cigarette lighter used by German Jewish German US soldier
2003.149.69 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.69
Date:
received: approximately 1926-before 1946
manufacture: after 1926-before 1946
…, Germany, to a Jewish couple. Rudolf’s mother had one older sister, Georgine, and two younger ones, Ida and Cecelia, all of whom had immigrated to the United…
16. Japanese propaganda matchbox with Japanese planes flying over a sinking ship with a US flag acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.11
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
… rented movie theaters. Ralf attended a Jewish refugee school, the Kadoorie school, and learned Japanese. He played with other immigrant children and…
17. Stainless steel wrist watch owned by German Jewish emigre and US soldier
2003.149.66 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.66
Date:
received: after 1920-before 1939
…, Germany, to a Jewish couple. Rudolf’s mother had one older sister, Georgine, and two younger ones, Ida and Cecelia, all of whom had immigrated to the United…
18. Japanese propaganda matchbox with a caricature of FDR acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.8
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
… rented movie theaters. Ralf attended a Jewish refugee school, the Kadoorie school, and learned Japanese. He played with other immigrant children and…
19. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.11
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
… immigrated to the United States. Theresia helped establish and run a Sinti human rights organization in Germany that seeks to raise consciousness about the…
20. Violin used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.9
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
… immigrated to the United States. Theresia helped establish and run a Sinti human rights organization in Germany that seeks to raise consciousness about the…