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1. Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to a German Jewish refugee couple
2012.478.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.478.6
Date:
received: after 1945 May 09-before 1955 April 14
…Manfred Gans was born on April 27, 1922, in Borken, Germany, to Moritz and Else Fraenkel Gans. His family had been in Borken for over 300 years…
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. Small milk can with lid used by a Sinti family
2005.453.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1945-1955
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
4. 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
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
5. 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
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
6. Black suitcase with leather trim used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
2000.258.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.1
Date:
use: approximately 1939 March-1947 November
…Bertl (Bertha) Rosenfeld (Rosenfelt) was born on October 28, 1925, in Korb, Germany, the eldest child of Adolf and Katherine (Katty) Lemburger…
7. Aluminum food container lid used by a Hungarian Jewish family on the Kasztner train
2003.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.3
Date:
use: approximately 1937-1946
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
8. 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
… at home, but did celebrate the high holidays. On January 30, 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, and the Nazi regime passed legislation to…
9. 4711 glass perfume bottle carried by a Jewish refugee searching for her family
2008.228.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.21
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
10. Red drawstring pouch used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.6
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…
11. Large brown suitcase used by Hungarian Jewish refugees on the Kasztner train
2003.198.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.1
Date:
use: 1944 June-1952
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
12. Brown leather satchel used by a Polish Jewish prisoner
2016.151.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.151.2
Date:
use: after 1941 December-1949 September
… Yiddish and Hebrew. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and on September 4, the German army entered Będzin. The soldiers burned the Great…
13. Art Deco style lipstick case carried by a Jewish refugee while searching for her family
2008.228.24 open
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.24
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
14. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
… boarded with the family. In late 1939, the Folger family arrived from Poland following its invasion by Germany that September 1. The father told of the…
15. E. Wedel candy tin received in a displaced persons camp
2008.228.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.14
Date:
manufacture: 1945
use: 1945-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
16. Ritz of Paris lipstick case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.16
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…
17. 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…