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1. Tool used to classify skin color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
2017.355.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.355.2 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1905-1914
use: approximately 1905-1945
…Tool used to classify skin color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
2. Engraved wooden box presented to a Lieutenant General of the SS by his troops
2005.525.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.525.2
Date:
found: after 1945 May-1946
commemoration: 1944 August-1945 February
…Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger (1894-1945) was born in Strasbourg, Germany (now France) to Alfred (? – 1914) and Helene Glünder Krüger (?-1930). Friedrich…
3. Nazi National War naval ensign acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2013.292.1
Date:
found: 1945
manufacture: after 1938 February
…Berlin (Germany)…
4. Map
Object | Accession Number: 2013.418.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1945
Title:
Town plan of Berlin, Germany, Sheet 3, S.W., 3rd. ed. / compiled and drawn by A.C.I.U. and War Office
Series Title:
G.S.G.S. No. 4480
…Town plan of Berlin, Germany, Sheet 3, S.W., 3rd. ed. / compiled and drawn by A.C.I.U. and War Office…
5. Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 10-cent note, acquired by a former German Jewish prisoner
2016.496.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.11
Date:
issue: after 1945 November 05
received: 1945 November 05-1949 June 15
…Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had…
6. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1948
issue: after 1914 August 05
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
7. Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 10-cent note, acquired by a former German Jewish prisoner
2016.496.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.12
Date:
issue: after 1945 November 05
received: 1945 November 05-1949 June 15
…Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had…
8. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport
2003.352.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.352.1 a-b
Date:
use: after 1938-approximately 1997
manufacture: 1938-1939
emigration: 1939 June
…Hilde Lotte Anker was born on May 29, 1926, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg Jakob Willie Anker and Gertrud Gottschalk Anker. She had two older sisters…
9. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note, belonging to a German Jewish inmate
2016.496.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.6
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
use: 1943 January 01-1945 May 09
…Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had…
10. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note, belonging to a German Jewish inmate
2016.496.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.5
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
use: 1943 January 01-1945 May 09
…Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had…
11. Razor used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.7_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 b
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
12. 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
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
13. Drafting kit with 18 drawing implements used by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.4 l-q front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.4 a-s
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
14. Yellow, rectangular patch on cloth backing worn by a German Jewish woman in a concentration camp
2016.496.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.2
Date:
use: 1944 December 10-1945 May 08
…Irene Frank (nee Silberstein, b. 1927) was born in Berlin, Germany to Dr. Friedrich (Fritz) Silberstein (1890-1944) and Lotte Frank Silberstein (1903…
15. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.3
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
… September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The country was quickly occupied, and Herman was among the large portion of Polish soldiers captured as prisoners of…
16. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, belonging to a German Jewish inmate
2016.496.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.7
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
use: 1943 January 01-1945 May 09
…Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had…
17. 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
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
18. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note, belonging to a German Jewish inmate
2016.496.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.10
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
use: 1943 January 01-1945 May 09
…Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had…
19. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
2014.557.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.5
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
… September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The country was quickly occupied, and Herman was among the large portion of Polish soldiers captured as prisoners of…
20. Pin box and 57 straight pins carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.14
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…