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61. Pair of Amstutz spring ski bindings with cloth straps brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.43_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.43 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
62. Black Bakelite circular eyeglasses worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train
2003.198.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.8
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1946
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
63. Saxophone, case and accessories used by a Polish Jewish musician in a band that toured DP camps
2010.472.3_ad front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.3 a-ah
Date:
use: after 1945 May
… playing both the violin and the saxophone professionally. Szyman died in 1939, before the war started. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. When…
64. Violin, case and spare parts used by a Jewish Latvian musician while imprisoned in several concentration camps
2006.133.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.2 a-j
Date:
received: approximately 1921
use: 1940-1949
…, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and, by July 1941, the country was occupied by German forces. On July 1, 1942, Grunia was forced into the newly formed…
65. Pince-nez with black cord given to a Jewish American soldier by survivors of the Łódź ghetto
2007.475.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.475.5
Date:
received: 1945
… Regiment on Governor’s Island, New York. A few months later he was shipped to Germany as a sergeant in the 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division. He…
66. Silver clothes brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.3
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
…Frieda Lewin Fromm was born on December 4, 1882, in Ortelsburg, Germany (Szczytno, Poland). She married her sister Henriette's husband, Meyer Fromm…
67. Wristwatch with red band and a red pouch taken by a German Jewish girl on a Kindertransport
2013.476.7 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.476.7 a-b
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…
68. Woman's gold wrist watch kept with a Jewish concentration camp inmate
2009.360.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.360.1
Date:
use: 1943-1944
…Marga Gussinoff was born in Berlin, Germany, on May 17, 1924, to Russian Jewish parents, Isaak and Sara-Leah Gussinoff, born March 15, 1899. Her…
69. Bar of soap stamped RIF issued to an inmate of Auschwitz-Birkenau
2007.469.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.469.2
Date:
issue: 1945 January-1945 April 23
… return home to Debrecen. Some US soldiers helped them travel to Cham, Germany, where they received aid from the Jewish Committee. They met two survivors…
70. Straight razor in a black plastic cover brought to Shanghai by an Austrian Jewish refugee
2010.240.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.5
Date:
emigration: 1938 November
use: 1938-1949
… filled. A year later, he emigrated to the United States and on January 25, he married Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Gerda was born in Berlin, Germany, and fled to…
71. Blue and white tube of sunscreen brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.47 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.47
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
72. Walking stick with a handle carved as a sorrowful Jewish man's head
2016.184.618 left
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.618
Date:
undated: approximately 1850
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
73. Silver hair brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.4
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
…Frieda Lewin Fromm was born on December 4, 1882, in Ortelsburg, Germany (Szczytno, Poland). She married her sister Henriette's husband, Meyer Fromm…
74. Violin, bows, case and accessories recovered from Łódź ghetto and played in DP camps by a Polish Jewish musician
2010.472.1_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.1 a-t
Date:
use: before 1944 August-after 1945 May
recovered: after 1945 February
… playing both the violin and the saxophone professionally. Szyman died in 1939, before the war started. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. When…
75. Japanese propaganda matchbox with a bomb exploding in the center of the US acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.12
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
76. Cigarette lighter with Polish coins given to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
1988.72.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.5
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
77. Silver plated ashtray with an engraving of Skansen Kronan acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
2013.496.2 top
Object | Accession Number: 2013.496.2
Date:
received: 1945 December-1946 October
…, Germany invaded and annexed the Czech provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, including Brno. In 1939, Sali’s father Herman’s business was confiscated. On…
78. Handmade metal comb used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
2013.379.8 right side
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.8
Date:
creation: 1944 October-1945
…Henry Dressler (born Heniz, 1919-2005) was born on October 22, 1919, in Dresden, Germany, to Joachim (1888-1971) and Martha Miriam (1896-1956) and…
79. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
2008.226.3
Object | Accession Number: 2008.226.3
Date:
received: approximately 1944 June
…Belsen (Bergen, Celle, Germany)…
80. Omega wristwatch worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train
2003.198.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.7
Date:
received: approximately 1940-1941
use: approximately 1940-approximately 1965
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…