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601. Pencil drawing
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.58
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
Deportation list Gurs 1943
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
602. Japanese invasion banknote, 5 centavos, acquired postwar by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2004.709.3
Date:
issue: approximately 1942
received: approximately 1945-1946
… 25, 1931. Erich and Ella were a well-to-do Jewish family. Nazi Germany merged Austria into the German Reich in March 1938. They enacted anti-Jewish…
603. Framed set of military medals, ribbons, and insignia awarded to US Army Captain J.G. Mitnick
2006.11.43, Framed set of military medals, ribbons, and insignia, J. George Mitnick Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.43
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
… captured the city of Regensburg. On April 13, George arrived at the recently liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany. There he saw the abysmal living…
604. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, saved by a former German Jewish inmate
1995.78.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.78.4
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
found: approximately 1942 March
…Alfred Fabian was born on May 24, 1910, in Neumark, Germany (now Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, Poland), to a Jewish couple. Alfred’s mother was Erna Leyser…
605. Laced leather billfold with a painted harbor owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.2
Date:
received: after 1938-before 1947 December
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
606. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1993.159.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.159.3
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945 May
…. Mieczyslaw’s oldest brother Jurek also married and had a daughter. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. German troops entered Warsaw on September 29…
607. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin
2010.502.65 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.65
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
Lunel South of France - founded by Jews from Jericho, 70 C.E.
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
608. Star of David badge with word Jude issued to an inmate of Łódź ghetto
1990.31.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.31.9
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… to Gräben a subcamp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Germany. In 1944, she was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She was liberated in…
609. Pencil sketch on vellum
2010.502.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.23
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
610. Star of David badge imprinted Jude worn by a German Jew
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.14
Date:
use: approximately 1941 September-approximately 1945 May
…Moritz Henschel was born on February 17, 1879, in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), to Karl and Emma Deutsch Henschel. In January 1910, he…
611. Medal and a ribbon bar pin awarded to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.71_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.71 a-b
Date:
received: 1941-1945
…Ernst Günther Heppner (later, Ernest Guenter,1921-2004) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), to Isidor (1878-c.1942) and Hilda (nee…
612. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp food coupon issued to an Austrian Jewish prisoner
Object | Accession Number: 2005.517.50
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… was sent to Deggendorf displaced persons camp in Germany, where Adolph served on the Jewish Committee and as a director of the ORT (Organization for…
613. Chinese paper currency note, 100 yuan, acquired by a German refugee
2014.502.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.502.3
Date:
issue: 1942
… experiences of Max Schmeidler who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust.…
614. Chinese paper currency note, 100 yuan, acquired by a German refugee
2014.502.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.502.4
Date:
issue: 1942
… experiences of Max Schmeidler who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust.…
615. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark
2003.358.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.358.1
Date:
issue: approximately 1942
…Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)…
616. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp food coupon issued to an Austrian Jewish prisoner
Object | Accession Number: 2005.517.56
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… Anschluss in March 1938, when Austria was annexed to Germany, anti-Jewish laws were passed and Jews were targeted for persecution and deportation. Elsa…
617. Engraved silver perfume bottle carried postwar by a refugee searching for her family
2008.228.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.9
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
618. White patch with prisoner number 82609 worn by German Jewish inmate
1995.A.0274.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0274.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1945 May
…Hermann David Naidorf was born in Gelsenkirchen (Horst-Emscher) in Westphalia, Germany, on June 3, 1925, the only child of Simon Arie and Frieda…
619. Leo Haas aquatint of prisoners constructing railroad lines
2003.202.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.202.10
Date:
depiction: 1942
issue: 1966
Artwork Title:
Arbeit macht frei, Terezin Ghetto, 1945
… Silesia. Leo was the oldest of four children in a Jewish family. He received art training while a youth. In 1919, Haas moved to Karlsruhe, Germany, to…
620. Parker Lucky Curve duofold fountain pen used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.22
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…