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1. Glass bowl etched ORT presented to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
1988.72.3 top
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.3
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… or persecuted Jews by instructing them in trades and agriculture, including farming, sewing, and mechanics. They were active in many Jewish ghettos…
2. Table knife with a swastika given to a Polish Jewish girl during forced labor farm service
1988.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.1
Date:
manufacture: 1938
received: 1945 April
… briefly worked with the Judenrat in food distribution. In April 1943, the Germans lined up the Jews for a selection. Moshe and Fela, emaciated and weak…
3. Silver vermeil cake server received as a wedding gift by a Jewish woman in prewar Germany
1989.232.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.232.2
Date:
received: approximately 1927
… Hitler was appointed Chancellor in January 1933, antisemitic restrictions became increasingly harsh. Max had to arrange to have a non-Jew run their…
4. Metal tablespoon used by a Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate
1989.303.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.22
Date:
use: approximately 1944 September-1945 May
… regime came to power in Germany, Prague saw a large influx of Jews fleeing persecution. In September 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border region…
5. Enameled cooking pot with lid used by a German Jewish family forced to emigrate
1989.306.12 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.306.12 a-b
Date:
emigration: approximately 1939 June
… Hitler was appointed Chancellor in January 1933, antisemitic restrictions became increasingly harsh. Max had to arrange to have a non-Jew run their…
6. Aluminum pitcher used by a German Jewish family forced to emigrate
1989.306.15 right
Object | Accession Number: 1989.306.15
Date:
emigration: approximately 1939 June
… Hitler was appointed Chancellor in January 1933, antisemitic restrictions became increasingly harsh. Max had to arrange to have a non-Jew run their…
7. Spoon
1990.41.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.6
…Jews--Germany--History--20th century.…
8. Spoon
1990.41.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.7
…Jews--Germany--History--20th century.…
9. Metal bowl recovered from a concentration camp by a Polish Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 1990.115.1
Date:
found: after 1944 August 07-1944 December 31
… Horodok, Ukraine). He had a sister, Hilda (later Adler, 1910-1943), and a brother, Aron (1914-1943). Grodek’s gentile population barred Jews from entering…
10. Metal bowl recovered from a concentration camp by a Polish Jewish man
1990.115.2 top
Object | Accession Number: 1990.115.2
Date:
found: after 1944 August 07-1944 December 31
… Horodok, Ukraine). He had a sister, Hilda (later Adler, 1910-1943), and a brother, Aron (1914-1943). Grodek’s gentile population barred Jews from entering…
11. Mug used by a young Jewish man in the Riga ghetto and in hiding
1990.230.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.230.1
Date:
use: 1941-1945
… had been annexed by the Soviets in 1940. A vicious pogrom was unleashed upon the Jews of Riga by German killing squads joined by roving gangs of Latvian…
12. Napkin ring with a silver initial S used for Passover seder by a Jewish refugee
1992.8.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.4
Date:
emigration: 1939
… was appointed Chancellor in 1933, the persecution of Jews became official government policy. Rabbi Ossowski and members of his family were…
13. Gilt-plated demitasse spoon embossed with the MS St Louis
1992.22.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.22.1
Date:
use: after 1925-before 1940
… symbol of the world's, and especially the United States, indifference to the fate of Jews in a Europe dominated by Nazi Germany. On May 13, 1939, the ship…
14. Baroque silverware service with case
1992.45.5_a-d top shelf
Object | Accession Number: 1992.45.5
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1890
…Contains materials related to the life of Manfred Lovin, a German Jew, and his escape from Nazi Germany along with information concerning the Lovin…
15. Fork used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.19.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.19.1
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
16. Fork used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.19.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.19.2
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
17. Spoon used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.20
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
18. Copper cooking pot used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.25
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
19. Dental scaler used to sew up sacks of wheat, flour, and sugar by a Jewish family in prewar Eisiskes
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.27
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
20. Tablespoon with scratched initials used by a German Jewish concentration camp inmate
1994.75.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.75.1
Date:
use: after 1943 March-1945 April
… summer, increasingly anti-Semitic policies severely restricted the civil rights and actions of German Jews. Hans left the German public school and attended…