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61. Scarf worn by a German Jewish displaced person
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.2
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
62. Leather wallet used by German Jewish refugees
Object | Accession Number: 2012.244.3
Date:
emigration: 1940
…Annemarie Alexander was born on August 3, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Isadore and Anna Hirschensohn Alexander, who was born in 1890. Isadore, born…
63. 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
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
64. Pair of gray wool knit knee high ribbed socks brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.27_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.27 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
65. Black wool headband worn by a German Jewish displaced person
1999.100.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.3
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
66. Brown and yellow striped silk handkerchief found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Birkenau
1988.99.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.2
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
…Ruth Krautwirth was born on June 23, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Yitzhak (Isak) and Hanna Bina Grossman Krautwirth. She had one brother, Wolfgang…
67. Red laced brown leather billfold with an image of a man pulling 2 women in a rickshaw acquired by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.7
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
68. Small straw purse made in Gurs internment camp for a German Jewish prisoner
2004.233.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.233.2
Date:
received: 1940 October-1941 September
…Johanna (Hanne) Eva Hirsch was born on November 28, 1924, in Karlsruhe, Germany, to Jewish parents, Max and Ella. Max was a photographer and operated…
69. Knitted black wool cap worn by a German Jewish displaced person
1999.100.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.5
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
70. Pair of black leather gaiters
2003.467.8_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.467.8 a-b
Date:
undated: 
…Deiderode (Germany)…
71. U.S. Army uniform tan necktie worn by a Signal Corps photographer for the war crimes trials
Object | Accession Number: 2013.458.4
Date:
use: approximately 1945 September-1949
… London for just over a year before being dispatched in 1944 to Wiesbaden, Germany. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. In August 1945, the United…
72. Blue felt hat worn by a German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport
2003.215.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.215.1
Date:
use: 1939
…Lilly Cohn (later Rosenberg) was born on January 30, 1928, in Halberstadt, Germany, to Ernst and Margarete Marcuse Cohn. Ernst was born on December 4…
73. Houndstooth check cloth ankle boots worn by a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport
Object | Accession Number: 2012.451.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1939
recovered: 1964
…Houndstooth check cloth ankle boots worn by a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport…
74. Beaded hat with a floral pattern brought by a Jewish German refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.151.2
Date:
received: before 1938
…Thea Löwenstein was born December 19, 1912 in Düsseldorf, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Emil and Erna Flechtheim Löwenstein. She had an older sister…
75. Red and yellow floral handkerchief carried by a young Hungarian Jewish girl on the Kasztner train
2003.198.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.10
Date:
received: approximately 1942
use: approximately 1942-1946
… fascist regime, allied with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor…
76. Pair of leather boots given to a US liberator by a concentration camp inmate
2014.479.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.479.1 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April 27
…. Reichshofen, and Soufflenheim. In mid-March 1945, the Division crossed into Germany, pushing toward the Rhine valley. On April 27, James participated in the…
77. Leather billfold used by a German Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany to Canada
2007.196.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.196.3
Date:
emigration: 1939 May 31
…Leather billfold used by a German Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany to Canada…
78. Handkerchief embroidered with American flags given to an internee at a displaced persons camp by a US soldier
1992.169.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.12
Date:
use: 1946
… after Germany launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union. The Jewish residents were harassed and humiliated by the soldiers. Moshe, who was a member…
79. Belt buckle with an embossed Nazi Imperial eagle and motto acquired by a US soldier
1992.104.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.104.3
Date:
found: approximately 1945 May
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
80. Multicolored woven wool scarf brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.7
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…