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1. Green knit cap worn by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.5
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945
… 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…
2. Black leather wallet used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.9
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
… connected to a group who promised to smuggle their families in the back of an empty gasoline truck to unoccupied southern France. On August 9, Albert, Irene…
3. Maroon handkerchief with acorns used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.6
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945
… 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…
4. Green knit cap worn by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.4
Date:
use: approximately 1944 October-1945
… 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…
5. Purse carried by Mimi Altarac who fled German-occupied Belgrade with her family
2002.438.9 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.9
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… command decided to transfer the Jewish prisoners to Albania. They were divided into groups and each group had to find trucks to take them to different…
6. Floral embroidered apron worn by a Jewish Czech woman in a DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.10
Date:
use: after 1945 May-before 1948 February
… the officer commanded the dogs to attack and he was killed. Lili and her sisters were assigned to dig ditches. The Germans brought a truck of political…
7. Leather belt with 2 sets of holes worn postwar by Lithuanian labor camp inmate / aid worker
2010.107.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.107.2
Date:
use: 1945 July-1948 May
… being evacuated to the Kovno ghetto. The transport came and while the guard talked to the truck driver, Hirsch, Abel, and another man approached the fence…
8. Black leather mid-calf boots worn by a female Jewish concentration camp prisoner
2002.366.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.366.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1944 December-1945
acquired: 1944 December-1945 January
… rented a truck, and Samuel, Henry, and his father drove through the snow to Tarnów. The trip was very dangerous; none of them had official papers and the…