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1. Black leather case presented to the Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
1988.72.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.4
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
2. Burlap purse made from a mattress cover by a Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate
1989.303.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.23
Date:
creation: 1944 September
use: approximately 1944 September-1945 May
… regime came to power in Germany, Prague saw a large influx of Jews fleeing persecution. In September 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border region…
3. Large, ribbed burlap covered trunk used by Jewish Czech inmates
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.53
Date:
use: 1941 December-1944 September 24
manufacture: approximately 1900-1925
… him and considered him their uncle. On September 29, 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border region of Czechoslovakia. On March 15, 1939, Germany…
4. Trunk sent to an Austrian Jewish youth after he fled
1990.39.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.39.1
Date:
creation: 1933
emigration: approximately 1933 March-1933 April
…Chemnitz (Germany)…
5. Yellow and gray striped paper bag advertising Israel's department store
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.12
…Berlin (Germany)…
6. Black leather covered fiberboard knapsack used by a student in Nazi Germany
1990.44.1 back
Object | Accession Number: 1990.44.1
Date:
use: 1933-1945
…Black leather covered fiberboard knapsack used by a student in Nazi Germany…
7. Wooden sliding lid pencil box with a rose decal used by a student in Nazi Germany
1990.44.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 1990.44.3
Date:
use: 1933-1945
…Wooden sliding lid pencil box with a rose decal used by a student in Nazi Germany…
8. Tornister used by a student in Nazi Germany
1990.45.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.45.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1930
…Tornister used by a student in Nazi Germany…
9. Sliding lid pencil box with a painted scene used by a student in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.45.3 a-b
Date:
use: before 1945
creation: 1934-1935
…Sliding lid pencil box with a painted scene used by a student in Nazi Germany…
10. Hartwig Kantorowicz ceramic liqueur bottle
1990.79.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.79.4
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1880-1920
…Early 20th century Germany business equipment collection…
11. Small tan cloth bag found at Dachau after the war by a US soldier
1990.150.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.150.1
Date:
found: approximately 1950
…Dachau (Germany)…
12. Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
…Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
13. Duffel bag used by a US Army soldier during the war in Europe
1990.297.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.297.1
Date:
use: 1945 October
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.…
14. Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
1990.300.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
15. 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…
16. British ordnance box given to a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.3
Date:
received: 1944 September-1944 December
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
17. 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…
18. Pouch with a false base used by a German Jewish émigré to smuggle money out of the country
1991.133.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.133.1 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1939 July-1939 August
…Erna Meier (later Schlesinger Summerfield, 1897-1991) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hermann (1868-1904) and Jenny Gruenberg (1874-1944) Meier. The…
19. Cover for a set of etchings by Walter Spitzer inscribed by the artist
Object | Accession Number: 1991.138.10
Date:
creation: 1955
depiction: 1943 June-1945 April
…, Germany invaded Poland. In 1940, his brother was taken away by German soldiers. Shortly after, his father died from complications after surgery. Soon after…
20. Aluminum suitcase used by Jewish Polish postwar refugees
1997.102.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.102.1
Date:
acquired: 1946
… York, sent Kadysh papers to come to the US, but he would not leave his wife and children. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Motek was in…
21. Gold painted metal box with heart and initials made by a Jewish Polish slave labor camp inmate
1997.102.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.102.2 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1944 September-1945 January
… York, sent Kadysh papers to come to the US, but he would not leave his wife and children. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Motek was in…
22. Large black wardrobe trunk used by German Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis
Object | Accession Number: 1998.65.1 a-f
Date:
use: 1939 May-1940 April
…Egon Josef Salmon was born on June 4, 1924, in Rheydt, Germany, to Paul and Erna Weinberg Salmon. Egon had a sister, Edith, born on August 24, 1933…
23. Tin pail made for one prisoner by another in Kaufering concentration camp
1998.132.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.132.1
Date:
use: 1944-1945
… property was confiscated. On June 22, 1941, Kovno was occupied by Nazi Germany. In early July, German mobile killing units, assisted by local Lithuanians…
24. Box owned by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.14.2
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
25. Box owned by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.15.2
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
26. Box owned by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.22
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
27. 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…
28. Small suitcase carried by a Jewish boy from Berlin to England on a Kindertransport
2000.265.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2000.265.1
Date:
use: 1939 July
…Max Dobriner (later Geoffrey Dickson) was born on March 16, 1926, in Deutsch Krone, Germany (Walcz, Poland), to Julius and Hertha Cohn Dobriner. Max…
29. Nazi Party Winter Hilfswerk collection box
Object | Accession Number: 2000.327.1
Date:
use: approximately 1935
…Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945--Pictorial works.…
30. Wehrmacht waterproof gas cape pouch found by US soldier
2000.526.4 open
Object | Accession Number: 2000.526.4
Date:
found: after 1943 June-1945
manufacture: 1942
… became a bartender. He married and had a child, but later divorced. After the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on…
31. Mimosa 6.5 x 9 cm sheet film box used by US soldier
2000.526.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.526.5
Date:
use: 1945
… became a bartender. He married and had a child, but later divorced. After the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on…
32. Trunk used by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2002.62.1
…Trunk used by Ruth Linz's husband when he immigrated from Nazi Germany to the United States.…
33. Upright, wardrobe-style trunk used by a Jewish family during their postwar emigration
Object | Accession Number: 2002.416.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1948 October 21-1948 October 30
… family. Efraim was in Warsaw with his mother and brother, following his father’s death, when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Germany began…
34. Small metal case with 9 pencil leads used by a German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.46_c-k front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.46 a-k
Date:
undated: 
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
35. Agfa metal film canister used by a German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.47_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.47 a-b
Date:
manufacture: 1946 May
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
36. Agfa metal film canister used by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.48_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.48 a-b
Date:
manufacture: 1946 May
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
37. Agfa metal film canister used by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.49_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.49 a-b
Date:
manufacture: 1946 May
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
38. 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…
39. 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…
40. Brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1949 November
…Dorothea (Dorit) Isaacsohn (later Dorothy Isaacsohn, 1933-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Julius and Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn. Julius (1891-1943…
41. Square, brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.3
Date:
emigration: 1949 November
…Dorothea (Dorit) Isaacsohn (later Dorothy Isaacsohn, 1933-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Julius and Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn. Julius (1891-1943…
42. Imitation leather hatbox used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.4 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.4
Date:
use: 1949 November
…Dorothea (Dorit) Isaacsohn (later Dorothy Isaacsohn, 1933-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Julius and Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn. Julius (1891-1943…
43. Trunk used by Erwin Jacobowitz when he emigrated from Germany
2003.355.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.355.1
Date:
use: 1939 August
use: 1953
…Trunk used by Erwin Jacobowitz when he emigrated from Germany…
44. Trunk sent to Lore Gotthelf, a Kindertransport refugee, in England
2003.355.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.355.2
Date:
use: approximately 1939 July
use: 1953
…Germany…
45. 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…
46. Large flat top trunk monogrammed HB used by a German Jewish refugee
2004.321.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.321.2
Date:
emigration: 1939 March 28
…Hans John Bernhard was born in Berlin, Germany, on February 23, 1906, to Auguen and Marta Reich Bernhard. Auguen was born in Berlin in 1878. Hans…
47. Large flat top trunk monogrammed SB used by a German Jewish refugee
2004.321.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.321.3
Date:
emigration: 1939 March 28
…Hans John Bernhard was born in Berlin, Germany, on February 23, 1906, to Auguen and Marta Reich Bernhard. Auguen was born in Berlin in 1878. Hans…
48. Khaki canvas knapsack brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.6
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
49. Green drawstring cloth pouch brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.8
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
50. Small dark brown leather briefcase used by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.34
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…