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1. Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
…Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
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2. Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
1990.300.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
3. Engraved wooden box presented to a Lieutenant General of the SS by his troops
2005.525.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.525.2
Date:
found: after 1945 May-1946
commemoration: 1944 August-1945 February
…Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger (1894-1945) was born in Strasbourg, Germany (now France) to Alfred (? – 1914) and Helene Glünder Krüger (?-1930). Friedrich…
4. Jewelry box with a secret compartment used to hide documents belonging to German Jewish prisoners
2019.180.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.180.2 a-b
Date:
creation: after 1944 April-before 1945
…Lore Anthes (b. 1934, later Schwarz) was born in Sprendlingen, Germany, to an Evangelical couple, Georg (1902-?) and Elizabeth Schmidt (1904…
5. Woven box with cloth lining
Object | Accession Number: 2019.512.2
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1944
…. Hilda was a nurse and survived the war in the Netherlands. Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, and by 14 February 1942 Pieterdina, Katherine…
6. Glass and silver keepsake box used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
2005.579.19_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.19 a-b
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
7. Faux alligator suitcase issued to inmates released in Bergen-Belsen prisoner exchange
2005.89.1 top
Object | Accession Number: 2005.89.1
Date:
received: 1944 June 10
…Antonie (Toni) Tamar Kapp was born on August 10, 1925, in Worms, Germany. Her mother, Amalie Bachrach, the daughter of a rabbi, was born on July 19…
8. Black leather covered fiberboard knapsack used by a student in Nazi Germany
1990.44.1 back
Object | Accession Number: 1990.44.1
Date:
use: 1933-1945
…Black leather covered fiberboard knapsack used by a student in Nazi Germany…
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9. Tin pail made for one prisoner by another in Kaufering concentration camp
1998.132.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.132.1
Date:
use: 1944-1945
… property was confiscated. On June 22, 1941, Kovno was occupied by Nazi Germany. In early July, German mobile killing units, assisted by local Lithuanians…
10. Brown Vulcan fiber suitcase inscribed and used by a German Jewish couple
Object | Accession Number: 2012.299.3
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1945 May
…Mathilde Rebecca Scheunpflug was born on March 14, 1876, in Salzwedel, Germany. Mathilde converted to Judaism in order to marry Adolf Daniel de Beer…
11. Brown leather satchel used by a Polish Jewish prisoner
2016.151.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.151.2
Date:
use: after 1941 December-1949 September
… Yiddish and Hebrew. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and on September 4, the German army entered Będzin. The soldiers burned the Great…
12. Embroidered floral silk handkerchief case given to one inmate by another inmate in Liebenau
Object | Accession Number: 2012.407.1
Date:
received: after 1942-before 1944 March
… Catholic. In October 1938, Nazi Germany annexed the Sudetenland border region of Czechoslovakia. In the Munich Pact, the major European powers, not including…
13. Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.661.2 Cover
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.2
Date:
emigration: 1939-1947
… at home, but did celebrate the high holidays. On January 30, 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, and the Nazi regime passed legislation to…
14. Gold painted metal box with heart and initials made by a Jewish Polish slave labor camp inmate
1997.102.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.102.2 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1944 September-1945 January
… 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…
15. Small leather case with a detached lid used by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.461.2 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1936-1945
…Walter Gumpert was born in Germany to a Jewish couple, Isidor and Gertrud Kohls Gumpert. His father Isidor was born on July 18, 1869, in Ratzebuhr…
16. British ordnance box given to a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.3
Date:
received: 1944 September-1944 December
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
17. Tortoiseshell pencil box and lid carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.3 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
18. Button-flap, cloth pouch used by John Bolé
2011.174.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.174.3
Date:
use: approximately 1944 November-1945 April
…, French, and Serbo-Croatian. On April 6, 1941, the Axis powers, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria, invaded and divided Yugoslavia. Laibach was in the…
19. Aluminum food container lid used by a Hungarian Jewish family on the Kasztner train
2003.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.3
Date:
use: approximately 1937-1946
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
20. Rucksack used by a German Jewish family going into hiding
1990.307.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.5
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 June
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…