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1. "My deportation"
Document | Accession Number: 1984.066 | RG Number: RG-02.005.01
Date:
creation: circa 1945
…Bad Tölz (Germany)…
2. Edith Jacoby letter regarding the Warsaw ghetto
Document | Accession Number: 1988.152 | RG Number: RG-05.003.01
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1946
…Edith Jacoby was born in Worms, Germany, ca. 1899. She married Kurt Jacoby in the 1920s. Instead of attempting to emigrate to the US, the Jacobys…
3. Table knife with a swastika given to a Polish Jewish girl during forced labor farm service
1988.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.1
Date:
manufacture: 1938
received: 1945 April
… then Palestine. Fela did not want to start over, so Moshe decided they would stay. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was heavily…
4. Our Lady of Czestochowa medal given to a Polish Jewish woman hiding as a Catholic laborer
1988.154.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.2
Date:
received: 1943 June
commemoration: 1932
… then Palestine. Fela did not want to start over, so Moshe decided they would stay. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was heavily…
5. Oral history interview with Boleslaw Brodecki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0335 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0040
Date:
interview: 1989 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his liberation in Theresienstadt by Soviet forces in 1945; going to a displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany in 1945 and getting a job as…
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 … going to Germany so they chase you back. You know, just always tell them the opposite. And we had the nightman night, because we finally got on a train in…
6. Oral history interview with Abraham Lewent
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0344 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0130
Date:
interview: 1989 October 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … coals went to Germany. So this was mine job, to unload and load coals. And once we clean airplanes...once in a while they took us to clean out the http…
7. Oral history interview with Rose Galek Brunswic
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0342 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0044
Date:
interview: 1989 October 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … factory. All the raw material we imported from Germany or Iran...pearl shells...and I still remembered which I did translating my narrative that we had…
8. Oral history interview with Solomon Cukier
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.10 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0010
Date:
interview: 1987 November 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camps in Germany from 1946 to 1949; his children; immigrating to the United States; and his life in the US.…
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 … business, have been heavily involved and hurt because of that boycott that started from Germany not to do business with Jewish businessmen, metal business in…
9. Oral history interview with Meyer Dragon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.12 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0012
Date:
interview: 1989 January 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … the camp, there was a hospital with medicine. But 00:43 Mayer didn't stay there long. He was sent to a DP camp in Germany called Landsburg. He stayed in…
10. Oral history interview with Sam Hilton
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.21 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0021
Date:
interview: 1988 November 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … primary source, and it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. Germany. In June of 1944 the train pulled up. And we wound up in a very famous camp of…
11. Abraham Lewent papers
1989.242.32 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1989.242.32
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
… Eibeshitz, moved in with them. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was bombed and they had no water, heat, or food. For weeks, they ate only…
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 …, an identification card from the Feldafing displaced persons camp, a membership card for the Council of Warsaw Jews in the American Zone of Germany, a…
12. Oral history interview with Edgar Aftergood
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.1 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0001
Date:
interview: 1983 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Edgar Aftergood, born in Berlin, Germany in 1923, describes his memories of the day Hitler came to power; his parents; studying music as a child…
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 … Aftergood. 02:00 Born in Berlin, Germany in 1923, and lived there until 1934. He remembers the day Hitler came to power. His parents were very modest. He…
13. Oral history interview with Marion Chervin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.7 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0007
Date:
interview: 1983 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… sent to the concentration camp in Flossenbürg, Germany; daily life in the camp; being liberated by American troops; not wanting to speak about his…
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 … liquidated and they were sent to Germany to and that was the end of this spark of hope. He didn't hear any more from the Polish policeman. 18:00 Later, when he…
14. Oral history interview with Mark Weinberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.75 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0075
Date:
interview: 1991 August 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and bikes; going to Germany for work in the later 1930s and the Nazi propaganda; fighting the Germans as part of the second battalion and the quick…
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 … motorcycles and bikes. Q. When did you first see the Nazis? A. In 1937 my cousin and I went to Germany to buy merchandise. To buy a machine to make spikes for…
15. Oral history interview with Albert Lewin and Fritz Othenheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.19 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0019
Date:
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Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Fritz Othenheimer describes his long lineage of German ancestors; living in Constance (Konstanz), Germany; how his parents owned a small menswear…
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 …- -CONTENTS- Fritz Othenheimer 01:30 Fritz explains his long lineage of German ancestors. Many of his family members served Germany in World War I, including…
16. Leo Arnfeld papers
1990.16.99 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 1990.16.99
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1958
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … (Poland) Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China) Kōbe-shi (Japan) Munich (Germany) Vilnius (Lithuania) Photographs. CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Biographical materials…
17. Oral history interview with Bronislaw Durewicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.11 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0011
Date:
interview: 1990 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… concentration camp Bergen-Belsen; seeing a partially sunken ship in Bremerhaven, Germany after liberation; being in a displaced persons camp in Germany and…
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 … the Polish army will throw them back again to Germany. So we were hoping. That's why. Many millions of the people were escaping, because they had the…
18. Oral history interview with Morris Lipson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.42 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0042
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, sister, and brother; the men and women being separated; being sent to work in a rubber factory in Hanover, Germany; being sent to build barracks and work…
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 … came out that the Poland will be divided. Our city will be incorporated to Germany. And it will be occupied part a protectorate, they used to call it…
19. Oral history interview with Anna Post
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.49 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0049
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … culture and the civilization, and the high arts which were in Germany were never permitted. So we should be heard. However, since it turned in a different…
20. Oral history interview with Lola Lipson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.62 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0062
Date:
interview: 1993 September 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … remember that day. We were up all night. And we said that the Germany took over Poland. The war broke out. A lot of people, mostly men, young men, they were…
21. Oral history interview with Leo Schneiderman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.395.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0205
Date:
interview: 1990 May 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, West Germany.…
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 …, "I certainly do." I still don't know until today who gave my name; but I went to Germany and I testified against that "Boxer," which I found out that…
22. Oral history interview with Ignace Speiser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.37 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0037
Date:
interview: 1987 December 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Lübeck, Germany and being taken by the Red Cross to Sweden; the conditions on the train and the deaths during the journey; and his tattoo.…
23. Wenceslas J. Wagner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0027 | RG Number: RG-23.006
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1989
…Concentration camps--Germany.…
24. German occupation records from the Archive of New Records, Poland (Syg 1335)
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0032 | RG Number: RG-15.008M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
…Germany. Gestapo…
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 … Against Germany. Accruals: Accruals may have been received since this collection was first processed, see archives catalog at collections.ushmm.org for…
25. Oral history interview with Hela Jaffe
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.6 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0006
Date:
interview: 1991 October 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish orphans--Germany.…
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 … nation so called cultural that the Germans were, that it is apparent that for the Jews in Germany there were many years of conditions many good like the…
26. Oral history interview with Zahavah Shamir
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.12 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0012
Date:
interview: 1991 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Blankenese, Germany; their education and social life; going to Israel on the Champollion; living in Kiryat Anavim; her education and work; her…
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 …. Worked in hospital. Father went to testify in Germany, but broken down. Shows photgraphs. In 1951 got married to a Sabra. She has 3 children. Daughter…
27. Oral history interview with Helen Neuberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0112.15 | RG Number: RG-50.045.0015
Date:
interview: 1985 October 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… cruelty; obtaining false papers; moving to Warsaw, Poland; finding work as a waitress in Stuttgart, Germany, where she lived in fear of discovery; being…
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 … country. The war broke out with Poland, Germany and Poland, correct? And Poland was the first country that they conquered, and maybe in a week. And when the…
28. Oral history interview with Anastazja Mazur Brodziak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0113.2 | RG Number: RG-50.059.0002
Date:
interview: 1991 June 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoner-of-war camps--Germany.…
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 … detain people to send them to Germany for forced labor, or to concentration camps or to the Warsaw prison Pawiak. 515Jewish population was isolated from…
29. Oral history interview with Eugenia Grudzinska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0113.6 | RG Number: RG-50.059.0006
Date:
interview: 1991 June 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
30. Herman Taube papers
1992.A.0081.2 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0081.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2012
… in nursing. He was called for duty as a medic in the Polish Army in August 1939. Germany defeated Poland by early October, the retreating Polish Army…
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 … Gershon hoped he would become a rabbi, but Herman pursued a career in nursing. He was called for duty as a medic in the Polish Army in August 1939. Germany…
31. Oral history interview with Sevek Fishman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.26 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0026
Date:
interview: 1992 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … come in, what is going to be. It’s a fact that the Germans already took Poland, it was divided Poland by the book, between Russia and Germany. The…
32. Oral history interview with Philip Goldstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.37 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0037
Date:
interview: 1992 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …:03:41,550 --> 00:03:44,550 He was an American journalist following the Allied troops 72 00:03:44,550 --> 00:03:46,685 into Germany in 1945. 73 00:03:46…
33. Oral history interview with Pola Nirenska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.98 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0098
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … that she did not feel was true to her style. At one point, she went to Munich to do percussion. She toured Germany and the United States, where, she said…
34. Oral history interview with Izy Rosenblat
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.113 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0113
Date:
interview: 1992 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … what I lived in was built by my mother-in-law’s brother. At the time, I didn’t know him. He lived in Germany, in Dusseldorf. He was at the time, in…
35. Oral history interview with Walter Taranowicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.135 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0135
Date:
interview: 1992 April 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Regensburg, Germany to recover; becoming an interpreter in Italy and being stationed in Verona then Milan for seven months; his transfer to the US in the fall…
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 … wagons. We went straight to Auschwitz. First they told us we’re going to Germany for a work but then we end up in Auschwitz. Q: How many of you were…
36. Oral history interview with Paul Wos
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.141 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0141
Date:
interview: 1992 April 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … one night there and I suppose to be sent to working camp in Germany and because my father was connected with underground and Polish police before the…
37. Oral history interview with Eva Young
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.143 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0143
Date:
interview: 1992 August
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … 1943. In 1944, they transferred us to Germany, to Leipzig. Krups factories. I know the name, yeah. So I worked in Krups factory. A few friends of mine…
38. Oral history interview with Frances Zatz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.144 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0144
Date:
interview: 1992 April 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Berlin, Germany after the war; and eventually immigrating to the United States.…
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 …? In Germany. Because after the war, after we left Warsaw and we saw we had nothing there, we registered. Q: You returned to Warsaw eventually? A: Right…
39. Oral history interview with Henry Abramowicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.1 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0001
Date:
interview: 1982 June 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in the Russian Army; returning to Poland after the war and living in Klatsko; going to Germany; studying veterinarian science at the university in…
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 … Polish government intervened. There was a Polish government in Russia, started there when Germany declared war on Russia. Then to be a Polish citizen wasn…
40. Oral history interview with Sam Bankhalter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.4 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0004
Date:
interview: 1984 August 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Germany; getting married in Germany to another Holocaust survivor; living in Israel and helping to smuggle people in to Israel; immigrating to the United…
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 … experience in this camp, was there were a lot of Jewish people with us, kids from Germany, where they have to leave. I don’t know if you’re aware of it, but in…
41. Oral history interview with Hanna Green
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.18 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0018
Date:
interview: 1992 February 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… sent to a Siberian labor camp; having two children in the camp; returning to Poland with her family after the war; moving into Germany in order to reach…
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 …, her husband and children went back to Poland and then on to Germany in order to reach the American occupied zone. They got passports to America and…
42. Oral history interview with Eva Reed
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.29 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0029
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… railroad army; living for a time in Lublin, Poland until liberation; going to Russian-occupied Germany; going to Israel illegally after their second son was…
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 … railroad army, and they lived for a time in Lublin, until liberation, when they went to Russian-occupied Germany. After their second son was born, they…
43. American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors Photographs
Document | Accession Number: 1992.28
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 … Munich, Germany, June 1945. Inscribed on verso: “Two Jewish girls from Lodz (or Czectochowa?); in Munich; June 1945.” The photograph is one of a series…
44. Mauser P38 pistol found buried in the Kampinos Forest near Warsaw
1992.134.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.134.4
Date:
manufacture: after 1941-before 1944
found: after 1960-before 1965
…Oberndorf am Neckar (Germany)…
45. Electric motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.8
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1908-before 1943
…. Stefan was Greek Catholic and his wife was Roman Catholic. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and much of the country was under aerial…
46. Asynchronous motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.10
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1889-1942
…Allgemeine Elektricita?ts-Gesellschaft (Germany)…
47. AEG motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.12
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1887-before 1943
…Allgemeine Elektricita?ts-Gesellschaft (Germany)…
48. Bosch engine component placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.15
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1900-before 1943
…. Stefan was Greek Catholic and his wife was Roman Catholic. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and much of the country was under aerial…
49. Radio battery eliminator placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.16
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1928-before 1943
…. Stefan was Greek Catholic and his wife was Roman Catholic. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and much of the country was under aerial…
50. Ardal brand civilian gas mask placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.18 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1938-1939 September
…. Stefan was Greek Catholic and his wife was Roman Catholic. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and much of the country was under aerial…