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1. Porcelain thimble in the shape of Fagin's head
2016.184.75 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.75
Date:
manufacture: 1989
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…
2. Singer sewing scissors used by Jewish Romanian woman who was killed during a massacre
2017.218.2 top
Object | Accession Number: 2017.218.2
Date:
use: before 1941 July
manufacture: approximately 1930
… the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in summer 1941, Romania, a German ally, recaptured the region and many of the Jews in Bălți took refuge in…
3. Colorful Fagin fireplace tool holder with poker and tongs
2016.184.72_b 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.72 a-c
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1934-approximately 1936
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…
4. Singer Model 15 sewing machine and table used by Jewish Romanian woman who was massacred
2017.218.1_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.218.1 a-d
Date:
manufacture: 1927
use: before 1941
… the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in summer 1941, Romania, a German ally, recaptured the region and many of the Jews in Bălți took refuge in…
5. Hunting knife with leather sheath used by Lithuanian labor camp inmate
1999.155.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.155.3 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1944 July 09
… Jews fled Kovno, including Abel and Hirsch. German soldiers apprehended them and forced their return to Kovno. In June and July, there were violent…
6. ORT Shanghai Course in Cutting Men's Clothing by M. Wacs
Object | Accession Number: 2005.229.8
Date:
creation: 1943-1945
… were destroyed, Jewish homes and businesses were vandalized, and 1000s of Jews were deported to Dachau and Buchenwald. Soon after this, the family…
7. Leather creaser used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.8
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… year old Simon became homeless and lived on the street. In 1923, Simon became an apprentice shoemaker to an Orthodox Jew, Zisha Nitka, in Kalisz, Poland…
8. 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
… year old Simon became homeless and lived on the street. In 1923, Simon became an apprentice shoemaker to an Orthodox Jew, Zisha Nitka, in Kalisz, Poland…
9. Wooden awl haft with chuck and ferrule used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.7
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… year old Simon became homeless and lived on the street. In 1923, Simon became an apprentice shoemaker to an Orthodox Jew, Zisha Nitka, in Kalisz, Poland…
10. 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
… year old Simon became homeless and lived on the street. In 1923, Simon became an apprentice shoemaker to an Orthodox Jew, Zisha Nitka, in Kalisz, Poland…
11. 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
… year old Simon became homeless and lived on the street. In 1923, Simon became an apprentice shoemaker to an Orthodox Jew, Zisha Nitka, in Kalisz, Poland…
12. Edge iron shoemaking tool used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.2
Date:
use: approximately 1925-1951
… year old Simon became homeless and lived on the street. In 1923, Simon became an apprentice shoemaker to an Orthodox Jew, Zisha Nitka, in Kalisz, Poland…
13. Singer 13 sewing machine with a fiddle base used by a tailor in a sealed ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2005.50.1 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1880
use: 1939-1945
…Singer sewing machine with wooden table top used by Smil Wagner, a tailor from Suceava, (S. Bukovina) Romania. In 1941-1942, Smil and the other Jews…
14. Soviet treadle sewing machine with Singer storage table of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.78.6 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.6 a-b
Date:
manufacture: after 1917-1950
use: approximately 1917-1945
…, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
15. Drafting kit with 18 drawing implements used by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.4 l-q front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.4 a-s
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, and authorities throughout the country quickly began suppressing the rights of Jews and boycotting their…
16. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.5
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
… freedoms of Jews, and boycotting their businesses. At the university, Jewish students were deemed “aliens,” and were no longer eligible to receive diplomas…
17. Schulder and Sons furrier’s knife brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.3
Date:
use: approximately 1924-1996
… difficult for Jews to further their studies at universities. Isidor had intended to go into business like his father, but knew that wouldn’t happen without…
18. Primus brand, No. 1 model, alcohol stove
1990.80.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.80.4
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… destroyed, and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
19. Manual hand crank meat grinder
1990.81.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.81.6
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
…, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed, and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
20. 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
… year old Simon became homeless and lived on the street. In 1923, Simon became an apprentice shoemaker to an Orthodox Jew, Zisha Nitka, in Kalisz, Poland…