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1. 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…
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. Carved plaquette modeled after the Frankfurt Judensau mural
2016.184.212 back
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.212
Date:
creation: approximately 1601-approximately 1800
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
4. Prayer Book owned by Rudolf Abraham
Object | Accession Number: 1996.19.28
Date:
publication: 1884
Title:
Gebete für ben Versöhnungsabend mit deutscher Übersetzung Geordnet und Übersetzt von W. Heidenheim
Series Title:
Festtägliches Gebetbuch Vol. 6
Alternate Title:
Prayers for the Evening of Reconciliation with German Translation Arranged and Translated by W. Heidenheim
Festive prayer book Vol. 6
…Rudolf Abraham was born in 1908 in Durboslar, Germany, to Marcus and Bertha Kaufmann Abraham. Marcus owned a successful butcher shop. In 1933, the…
5. Book, Schabbos
Object | Accession Number: 2021.188.11
Date:
publication: 1923
Title:
Schabbos
…Frankfurt am Main (Germany)…
6. Haggadah für Pesach
Object | Accession Number: 2019.616.5
Date:
publication: 1884
Title:
Haggadah für Pesach
…Judith Cromwell was born Judith Hanna Lissauer on 13 November 1935 in Berlin, Germany to John and Charlotte Lissauer. Her father, John Lissauer (1890…
7. Collage painting of a Jewish man’s beard being cut off created by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.1
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
Anguish
… accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and partitioned Poland. Vilna was in the Soviet zone, but was exchanged with…
8. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, belonging to a German Jewish woman
2016.552.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.552.3
Date:
use: after 1941 September 01-approximately 1942 September 17
…Selma Ansbacher (nee Schlossberger, 1897-1956) was born in Wachbach, Germany to Bertha Schlossberger (nee Strauss, 1864-1936) and Sigmund…
9. Oil painting of a shabbily dressed clothes peddler
2016.184.253 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.253
Date:
creation: approximately 1830
Artwork Title:
Poor clothes peddler
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Frankfurt am Main (Germany)…
10. Mixed media painting of Jewish children behind a ghetto fence, painted by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.4
Date:
creation: 1996
depiction: 1941 September-1943 September
Title:
Behind the Wooden Fence
… accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and partitioned Poland. Vilna was in the Soviet zone, but was exchanged with…
11. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, belonging to a German Jewish woman
2016.552.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.552.2
Date:
use: after 1941 September 01-approximately 1942 September 17
…Sigrid Ansbacher (later Strauss, b. 1928) was born in Dinkelsbühl, Germany, to Selma Schlossberger (1897-1959) and Ludwig Ansbacher (1888-1950). She…
12. Book, Struwwelpeter-Hoffmann
Object | Accession Number: 2021.188.9
Date:
publication: 1926
…Frankfurt am Main (Germany)…
13. Monogrammed napkin owned by Otto and Edith Frank
2018.613.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.6
Date:
received: 1925 May 08
…Otto Frank (1889-1980) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Michael (1851-1909) and Alice Betty (nee Stern, 1865-1953) Frank. Otto had three…
14. Inert Zyklon B, spent Gypsum pellets, from Majdanek concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 1990.192.1 a-b
Date:
recovered: after 1944 July
manufacture: 1941 October-1944 July
…Dessau (Dessau, Germany)…
15. Collage painting of a crying woman created by a Polish Jewish artist after the Holocaust
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.2
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
My Mother's Tears
… accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and partitioned Poland. Vilna was in the Soviet zone, but was exchanged with…
16. First edition of Anne Frank’s Het Achterhuis given to a Dutch couple
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.2 a-b
Date:
publication: 1947
Title:
Het Achterhuis
Subtitle:
dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944
diary letters from 12 June 1942 - 1 August 1944
Alternate Title:
The Secret Annex
…Anne Frank (1929-1945) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Otto (1889-1980) and Edith (nee Holländer, 1900-1945). She had an older sister…
17. Pewter mustard pot owned by Otto Frank
2018.613.4 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.4
Date:
manufacture: after 1800-before 1900
…Otto Frank (1889-1980) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Michael (1851-1909) and Alice Betty (nee Stern, 1865-1953) Frank. Otto had three…
18. Coin purse owned by Otto Frank
2018.613.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.3
Date:
use: approximately 1935
…Otto Frank (1889-1980) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Michael (1851-1909) and Alice Betty (nee Stern, 1865-1953) Frank. Otto had three…
19. Identification case used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
2015.533.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2015.533.2
Date:
use: 1939-1941
…Fritz (later Fred) Strauss (1926-2013) was born in Miehlen, Germany, the only child of Albert (?-1926) and Martha (or Marta) Strauss (nee Strauss…
20. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, belonging to a German Jewish prisoner
2018.427.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.427.4
Date:
use: after 1941 September 01-before 1945 February 14
…Hans Benjamin Marx (b. 1927) was born in Mannheim, Germany, to Elise (née Rihm, 1898-1976) and Ernest Marx (1895-1965). Ernest was born in Mannheim…