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1. Model Stuka airplane made by liberated concentration camp inmate and given to US military aid worker
1988.112.61 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.61
Date:
received: 1945 April-1945 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
2. Plastic doll with a burgundy dress brought with a young Austrian Jewish refugee
2016.112.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.10
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
3. Yarn doll, bag, and scrap of money found in a liberated camp by US soldier
1992.122.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.1 a-c
Date:
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 August
…. Harold grew up in Mansfield, Ohio. He was a truck driver. In early December 1941, the United States entered World War II (1939-1945.) Harold entered the…
4. Much loved teddy bear given to a Hungarian Jewish girl after her return from Theresienstadt
2013.104.2 left side
Object | Accession Number: 2013.104.2
Date:
received: after 1945 May
…, and went off with the soldiers. Lilian and Éva stayed the night under a Soviet truck, which left while they slept. They walked and hitched rides until…
5. Stuffed rabbit made for a young Hungarian Jewish camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2013.104.3
Date:
creation: approximately 1945 March
…, and went off with the soldiers. Lilian and Éva stayed the night under a Soviet truck, which left while they slept. They walked and hitched rides until…
6. Pair of dice carried by a Dutch resistance member
2004.301.4_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.301.4 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
…. They also lived on Burmenstraat which had bunkers at the end of the street where the Germans held Jews until trucks came to take them away. One day…
7. Two decks of skat cards used by a concentration camp inmate saved by Schindler's list
2013.379.10 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.10 a - bl
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945 May
… and their passports were invalidated. They were taken to the railway station in open trucks to shame them publicly and deported to Poland along with…