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1. 13 dental hand tools in a fitted wooden box used by a Croatian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.487.2 a-n
Date:
use: 1911-1945
2. Set of scale weights brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.7 a-i front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.7 a-i
Date:
use: approximately 1924-1996
3. Charred electrical insulator from Auschwitz found by a Sinti inmate
1987.75.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.75.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-approximately 1945 January
4. 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
5. 5/6 double edge iron shoemaking tool used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.3
Date:
use: approximately 1925-1951
6. Plastic button with metal eagle owned by a US soldier
2005.416.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.416.15
Date:
received: approximately 1941-1946
7. Dark red shoe wax used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.24
Date:
use: 1925-1951
8. Singer treadle sewing machine of the type used by a cobbler in Łódź Ghetto
1990.285.7_a-b back
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.7 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1900-approximately 1935
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
9. Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.26
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
10. Cobbler's hammer used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.23
Date:
use: 1925-1951
11. Straight needle awl with an .875 inch needle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.21
Date:
use: 1925-1951
12. German marching compass in a case taken from an SS officer by a US soldier
2000.598.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2000.598.2
Date:
found: approximately 1945 May
manufacture: after 1930-before 1945
13. Embossing tool with 3 wheel attachments used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.18_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.18 a-d
Date:
use: 1925-1951
14. Dark brown whetstone used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.6
Date:
use: 1928-1980
15. Shoemaker's finishing iron of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.4.7
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
16. Cutting nippers used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.22 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.22
Date:
use: 1925-1951
17. Stitching awl with a 1 inch curved needle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.9
Date:
use: 1925-1951
18. Pfaff industrial sewing machine with treadle of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.3
Date:
manufacture: 1920
use: approximately 1930-approximately 1945
19. Two-layer whetstone used by a barber in a concentration camp
2005.457.30 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.30
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
20. Leather creaser with a pointed triangular head used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.19
Date:
use: 1925-1951