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1. Monogrammed napkin owned by Otto and Edith Frank
2018.613.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.6
Date:
received: 1925 May 08
… wall behind the toilet for an extra hiding space. Two hours after it was finished, German police raided the apartment, but did not find Eva and her…
2. Monogrammed tablecloth owned by Otto and Edith Frank
2018.613.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.5
Date:
received: 1925 May 08
… wall behind the toilet for an extra hiding space. Two hours after it was finished, German police raided the apartment, but did not find Eva and her…
3. Curtain
2017.680.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2017.680.2
…The collection consists of a brick from the wall around the synagogue in Celldömölk, Hungary which was bombed down by the Germans and a curtain…
4. Pillowcase embroidered with scenes of camp life owned by a Dutch civilian held in a Japanese internment camp
2015.35.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.35.2
… embroidered scene of a barracks interior with bunk beds, a woman washing, and people lined up against a wall of cell doors, captioned "Tangerang."…
5. Blue and white checkered dish towel embroidered JK saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.6
Date:
emigration: 1940 August
… Nazis came in with crowbars, smashed their furniture and dishes, and destroyed pictures on the wall. They did not harm the apartment building which was…
6. White damask napkin with embroidered monograms saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.5
Date:
emigration: 1940 August
… later, more Nazis came in with crowbars, smashed their furniture and dishes, and destroyed pictures on the wall. They heard that Friedrich had been taken…
7. Red wooden tie rack made by a Dutch Jew while living in hiding
2010.488.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.488.5
Date:
creation: 1942 October-1945 April 18
… door to door looking for Jews. Paul constructed a hiding place behind the upstairs bedroom wall for Michel and Saartje. On December 16, Saartje…
8. Child's wicker chair received by Louise Lawrence-Israels for her birthday while in hiding
2005.316.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.316.1
Date:
received: 1944 July 30
… 5, 1945, Canadian forces liberated Amsterdam. Louise was three years old. Louise initially had difficulty adjusting to a world without walls, having…
9. Carved upright wooden bench owned by Jakob Krämer and the Heppner family
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.11 a-d
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1911
use: before 1942 August
received: approximately 1958
… could still attend school, a wall was built down the center of the building to separate the Jewish and non-Jewish children. Albert’s work permit was…
10. Blanket owned by a German Jewish woman fleeing Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.4
Date:
use: 1933 June
… underground instead. The Janssens took the Heppners and Graumanns in as part of their family. A double wall in the stable, so when danger was imminent, the…
11. Casting of a concrete and metal dissecting table from the crematorium building at Majdanek concentration camp
Object
Date:
manufacture: after 1989 August 15-before 1991 March 18
…The collection consists of fiberglass castings of a ghetto and cemetery walls, a dissecting table, a cobbled road, a doorway surround, a gateway arch…