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1. Certificate of Citizenship document holder owned by Hedwig Sanders Neu
2018.519.10 open/side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.519.10
Date:
use: after 1945 March
… daughter, Beatrice (later Melov), in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.…
2. Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer
2017.661.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.3 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945
…Julius Löwenstein (later Loewenstein, 1913-1995) was born in Ortenberg, Germany, to Siegmund (1876-1942) and Sophie (1885-1942) Zimmermann Löwenstein…
3. Upright, wardrobe-style trunk used by a Jewish family during their postwar emigration
Object | Accession Number: 2002.416.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1948 October 21-1948 October 30
… family. Efraim was in Warsaw with his mother and brother, following his father’s death, when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Germany began…
4. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women
2017.480.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.6
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1920-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Hilda’s birth, Arthur worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from home, sewing for a girdle factory…
5. Certificate of Citizenship document holder owned by Richard Neu
2018.519.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.519.9
Date:
use: after 1945 March
… daughter, Beatrice (later Melov), in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.…
6. Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to a German Jewish refugee couple
2012.478.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.478.6
Date:
received: after 1945 May 09-before 1955 April 14
…Manfred Gans was born on April 27, 1922, in Borken, Germany, to Moritz and Else Fraenkel Gans. His family had been in Borken for over 300 years…
7. Black Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to German Jewish prewar emigre
2012.455.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.9
Date:
received: approximately 1940
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
8. Airmail box used to store his war medals by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.17 a-b
Date:
use: after 1940
…Carl Werner Lenneberg (1899-1989) was born on November 5, 1899 in Remscheid, Germany and had an older brother Georg (b. 1898). Their father, and…
9. Slide box used by Hitler's personal photographer
Object | Accession Number: 2011.432.15 a-b
…Photographers--Germany--Biography.…
10. Brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1949 November
…Dorothea (Dorit) Isaacsohn (later Dorothy Isaacsohn, 1933-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Julius and Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn. Julius (1891-1943…
11. Slide box used by Hitler's personal photographer
2011.432.7 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2011.432.7
…Photographers--Germany--Biography.…
12. Flat top brown steamer trunk used by a German Jewish woman during emigration
Object | Accession Number: 2005.140.2
Date:
emigration: 1937 November 30
…Eleanor Lustig was born on March 28, 1915, in Gorlitz, Germany to Max (1875-1928) and Margarethe Thomas (1884-1929) Lustig. Max was a businessman…
13. Imitation leather hatbox used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.4 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.4
Date:
use: 1949 November
…Dorothea (Dorit) Isaacsohn (later Dorothy Isaacsohn, 1933-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Julius and Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn. Julius (1891-1943…
14. Black suitcase with leather trim used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
2000.258.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.1
Date:
use: approximately 1939 March-1947 November
…Bertl (Bertha) Rosenfeld (Rosenfelt) was born on October 28, 1925, in Korb, Germany, the eldest child of Adolf and Katherine (Katty) Lemburger…
15. Green painted aluminum trunk used by a German Jewish girl on a Kindertransport
2013.476.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.476.2
Date:
use: 1939 August
…Gisela Amalie Marx was born on April 24, 1925, in Dulken, Germany, the nly daighter of a Jewish couple, Leopold and Erna Lifges Marx. Her father…
16. Embossed aluminum flat top steamer trunk used by a German Jewish refugee
2005.140.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.140.4
Date:
emigration: 1938 December 15
…Ernest Salomon Fried was born on July 15, 1904, in Landau, Germany, to Jewish parents, Maximillian, a lumber merchant, born on May 25, 1870, in…
17. Leather briefcase used to hold family papers by Jewish refugees
2008.347.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.347.2
Date:
emigration: approximately 1938
…Henry Basch, along with his wife, Rose, originally from Poland, fled Germany to escape the antisemitic policies of the Nazi government. probably in…
18. Square, brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.3
Date:
emigration: 1949 November
…Dorothea (Dorit) Isaacsohn (later Dorothy Isaacsohn, 1933-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Julius and Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn. Julius (1891-1943…
19. Leather briefcase owned by Runia Korman Maizels and Szlama Maizels
2018.63.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.63.3
Date:
use: approximately 1950
… (later Chana Kucheik, 1920-1942) and a brother, Abraham (1922-1942). In September 1939, Poland was invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union. Kraśnik was…
20. Aluminum suitcase used by Jewish Polish postwar refugees
1997.102.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.102.1
Date:
acquired: 1946
… York, sent Kadysh papers to come to the US, but he would not leave his wife and children. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Motek was in…