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1. Matchbook advertising Pakanoket Park, a camp that excluded Jews
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.214
Date:
creation: approximately 1801-1900
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Matchbook advertising Pakanoket Park, a camp that excluded Jews…
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2. Pipe with bowl carved in the shape of a bull’s head
2017.541.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.6
Date:
acquired: 1950-1953
… Jewish life. Jews were unable to attend university, were excluded from most professions, and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as…
3. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
2008.226.3
Object | Accession Number: 2008.226.3
Date:
received: approximately 1944 June
…, Slovakia, and Ella Hollander, born in 1897 in Szepesvaralja (?) (Spišské Podhradi), Slovakia). Her parents were secular Jews with Zionist leanings. Prior…
4. Souvenir ashtray of the Yiddish clipper, a man with scissors and a naked boy
2016.184.574 back
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.574
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1900
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
5. Set of seal skin ski straps used by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.31_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.31 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1935
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
6. Clear and white plastic eyeglasses worn by a Jewish emigrant
2009.204.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.6
Date:
use: after 1949
…. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and occupied Lvov. In November 1941, the Germans segregated the Jews into a ghetto, shooting thousands…
7. Travel clock within a brown leather case used by the Altarac family while imprisoned
2002.438.7 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.7 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1944
… Axis Alliance and Serbia, where Belgrade located, was under German military government. Anti-Jewish policies were immediately implemented. Jews had to…
8. Wrist watch kept by a Hungarian Jewish concentration camp inmate
2004.593.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.593.2
Date:
received: approximately 1943 October
… Fiszer, observant Jews who owned a leather store. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, and the family fled by train to Kielce, but returned by horse…
9. Pea whistle brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.42 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.42
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… of directors to suggest selling the business outright or somehow aryanizing it by hiring non-Jews to act as the public face of the firm. To Fritz and…
10. Dartmouth Red ski wax owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.44 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.44
Date:
received: after 1938
… of directors to suggest selling the business outright or somehow aryanizing it by hiring non-Jews to act as the public face of the firm. To Fritz and…
11. Swiss watch taken from the body of an SS guard by a concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2013.465.1
Date:
found: before 1945 May
… when Abraham and his sister stood in line, a Polish boy identified them as Jews and they were tossed out of line. A German soldier was killed and 53…
12. Omega wristwatch worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train
2003.198.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.7
Date:
received: approximately 1940-1941
use: approximately 1940-approximately 1965
… immediately. On March 31, Star of David badges were required for Jews. Bela’s clinic was shut, Judit was no longer allowed to attend school, and they had to…
13. Rotbart Mond-Extra safety razor with blade used by a Romanian Jewish prisoner
Object | Accession Number: 2012.453.1 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
manufacture: approximately 1930
… began conscripting Romanian Jews to work in labor battalions for the Hungarian Army. In 1941, Duzsi was conscripted into a Hungarian labor battalion and…
14. Wooden comb and handmade paper case given to a prisoner by a friend in Kaiserwald concentration camp
2012.310.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.310.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1944 December 27
… born in 1933. Esther attended a Jewish school. Jews had fewer rights than Polish citizens and antisemitism was a common experience. After a lengthy…
15. Gem micromatic safety razor and case given to a concentration camp inmate after liberation
1999.150.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.150.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1945 May
…. He found a changed town; the German had murdered many Jews and instituted anti-Jewish measures, including forced labor and the confiscation of property…
16. Engraved silver cigarette case with box owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.18_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.18 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1947 December
… Germany on May 15, 1939, and arrived in Shanghai on June 14. Carl sold the family’s furniture and his factory. Jews could take almost no money out of…
17. Replacement watch crystal in packaging owned by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.89_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.89 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1942
…, 19 year old Rudolf went to London, England, to study business. In 1936, Rudolf, unable to return to Germany because of the restrictions on Jews, left…
18. Art Deco silver pocket watch owned by German Jewish US emigre and soldier
2003.149.61 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.61
Date:
received: after 1920-before 1939
…, 19 year old Rudolf went to London, England, to study business. In 1936, Rudolf, unable to return to Germany because of the restrictions on Jews, left…
19. Engraved cigarette case given to a German Jewish emigre
2003.149.86 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.86
Date:
received: 1936
manufacture: 1931 May-1932 April
…, 19 year old Rudolf went to London, England, to study business. In 1936, Rudolf, unable to return to Germany because of the restrictions on Jews, left…
20. Novoris leather wrist watch worn by German Jewish emigre and US soldier
2003.149.65 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.65
Date:
received: after 1920-before 1939
…, 19 year old Rudolf went to London, England, to study business. In 1936, Rudolf, unable to return to Germany because of the restrictions on Jews, left…