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1. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note, found postwar
1986.33.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1986.33.1
Date:
found: after 1945 May
issue: 1940 June-1944 August
… parts of the city. In 1942, she began giving private Russian lessons to a SS member who was in charge of a truck factory. During the lessons he told her…
2. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 2 mark note, found postwar
1986.33.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1986.33.2
Date:
issue: 1940 June-1944 August
found: after 1945 May
… parts of the city. In 1942, she began giving private Russian lessons to a SS member who was in charge of a truck factory. During the lessons he told her…
3. Charred electrical insulator from Auschwitz found by a Sinti inmate
1987.75.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.75.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-approximately 1945 January
… loaf for every night he helped collect the dead from the hospital barrack, load them into a truck, and take them to the crematorium. Hans got more extra…
4. Karl Schwesig political cartoon mocking a Nazi parade
1988.5.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.1
Date:
creation: 1938 February
Series Title:
Rosenmontag [Rose Monday]
Artwork Title:
Der Achs-Ionär
Alternate Title:
Axis-Ionary
… truck with 2 visible wheels. It is a parade float with a side panel labelled: DER ACHS-IONÄR. On the left, at the front of the flatbed is a large, upright…
5. Watercolor by a US soldier of corpses from a liberated concentration camp awaiting burial
Object | Accession Number: 1988.8.1
Date:
depiction: 1945 May 08
creation: 1945 May 08
Artwork Title:
Burials at Lambach
… guards were made to carry the inmates from the huts on the woods to trucks for transport. Berry also arranged for the burial of the dead inmates. One…
6. Pamphlet
Object | Accession Number: 1988.8.2
Date:
publication/distribution: 1979
Title:
Seventy-first came -- to Gunskirchen Lager
Series Title:
Witness to the Holocaust" series ; no. 1.
Alternate Title:
71st came-- to Gunskirchen Lager
… guards were made to carry the inmates from the huts on the woods to trucks for transport. Berry also arranged for the burial of the dead inmates. One…
7. Book
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.56 a-b
Date:
publication/distribution: 1941
found: 1945 April-1945 May
Title:
Mein Kampf
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
8. Piston head ashtray made for concentration camp commander found by US military aid worker
1988.112.59 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.59
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
9. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine camp scrip, 2 Reichsmark, with inscription found by US military aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.60
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
10. Model Stuka airplane made by liberated concentration camp inmate and given to US military aid worker
1988.112.61 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.61
Date:
received: 1945 April-1945 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
11. Zeiss Z body binoculars found in a concentration camp by US military aid worker
1988.112.62 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.62
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
12. Watercolor of a mountain and town given to US military aid worker by liberated inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.63
Date:
creation: 1945
received: 1945 April-1945 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
13. Solingen hunting knife with sheath presented to US military aid worker by liberated inmates
1988.112.64_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.64 a-b
Date:
received: 1945 April-1945 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
14. Semi-automatic Walther PPK pistol, holster, and magazines found at a concentration camp by US military aid worker
1988.112.65_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.65 a-d
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
15. World War I Honor & Iron Crosses buttonhole ribbon bar with Combatant’s swords awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.1
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: after 1934 July 13-1944
… start his life over in a new place with a new language. In February 1946, Kurt was catching a ride in the back of a truck, when the tailgate gave way and…
16. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1948
issue: after 1914 August 05
… start his life over in a new place with a new language. In February 1946, Kurt was catching a ride in the back of a truck, when the tailgate gave way and…
17. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.3
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… start his life over in a new place with a new language. In February 1946, Kurt was catching a ride in the back of a truck, when the tailgate gave way and…
18. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service buttonhole ribbon bar awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.4
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… start his life over in a new place with a new language. In February 1946, Kurt was catching a ride in the back of a truck, when the tailgate gave way and…
19. Double-door railroad freight car with brakeman’s cabin of the type used to transport victims throughout the Nazi camp system
1989.225.1
Object | Accession Number: 1989.225.1
Date:
manufacture: 1920
… on two trucks (bogies); front and rear assemblies that contain the wheels and axles. The metal wheels are stamped with small circular maker’s marks…
20. 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
… spring 1936, Selma, Hugo, and Kurt left via train for Genoa, Italy, and then sailed to Haifa. Hugo owned a trucking business with Walter, but business was…