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1. Luftwaffe M1935 Schirmmutze without visor acquired by US soldier
1985.1.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.17
Date:
manufacture: 1939
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
2. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.2
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
3. Lace-trimmed Handkerchief with a cutwork floral accent owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.3
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
4. Shoes
1989.246.9_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.246.9 a-b
Date:
use: 1930-1939
…Romanies--Germany.…
5. Apron
1989.246.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.246.8
Date:
use: 1930-1939
…Romanies--Germany.…
6. Blue leather clutch with a floral design used by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.3
Date:
received: before 1939
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
7. Handmade shoes worn by an inmate of Buchenwald concentration camp
1990.333.60 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.60 a-b
Date:
use: 1937-1945
…Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)…
8. Brown leather billfold brought with a German Jewish prewar refugee
2008.204.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.204.3
Date:
emigration: 1939
received: approximately 1930
…Ernestine Unger (1873-1947, later Wiesenthal) was born in Berlin, Germany, into a Jewish family that had lived in the city for generations. She…
9. Handkerchief carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport
Object | Accession Number: 2002.89.2
Date:
emigration: 1939 June
…Hilde Lotte Anker was born on May 29, 1926, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg Jakob Willie Anker and Gertrud Gottschalk Anker. She had two older sisters…
10. Passport holder, carried to Ecuador by a German Jewish woman
2019.18.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.18.2
Date:
use: 1939 January 02-before 1942 June 13
…, 1875-1943) Brilling. Isidor’s mother was a Lithuanian immigrant, and he had at least six sisters and two brothers. He fought for Germany in World War I…