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1. Opera glasses and case owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.2 a-c
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
2. German Gesteckpfeife style tobacco pipe and porcelain bowl with an antisemitic image
2016.184.115a front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.115 a-b
Date:
manufacture: 1850-1940
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
3. US Army pouch for a shoe shine kit issued to Milton Emont
2018.565.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.2
Date:
use: 1943 March 05-1946 April 16
… both France and Germany. In 1945, he was able to complete eight weeks of graduate coursework in French and French literature at the Sorbonne and…
4. Pipe with bowl carved in the shape of a bull’s head
2017.541.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.6
Date:
acquired: 1950-1953
… 13, 1938 Austria was annexed into Germany, in what became known as the Anschluss. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted…
5. Rectangular, cloth-covered compact with mirror owned by Alice Fischl Gerstmann
Object | Accession Number: 2020.319.3
… Gerstmann, Gerd Gerstmann, and their families in Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Palestine before, during, and after the Holocaust.…
6. Tobacco pipe with a bowl carved into the shape of Hitler’s head
2017.541.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.7
Date:
acquired: 1950-1953
… 13, 1938 Austria was annexed into Germany, in what became known as the Anschluss. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted…
7. Porcelain tobacco bowl with an image of three Jewish hareskin dealers painted on the front
2016.184.114 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.114
Date:
creation: 1829-1940
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
8. Tobacco pipe with a bowl carved into the shape of Churchill’s head
2017.541.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.8
Date:
acquired: 1950-1953
… 13, 1938 Austria was annexed into Germany, in what became known as the Anschluss. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted…
9. Efka Pyramiden cigarette papers in a green packaging sleeve made in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 2004.705.5
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1940
…Efka Pyramiden cigarette papers in a green packaging sleeve made in Nazi Germany…
10. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.12
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
11. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport
2003.352.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.352.1 a-b
Date:
use: after 1938-approximately 1997
manufacture: 1938-1939
emigration: 1939 June
…Hilde Lotte Anker was born on May 29, 1926, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg Jakob Willie Anker and Gertrud Gottschalk Anker. She had two older sisters…
12. Ski pole basket with wide leather straps brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.38 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.38
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…
13. Razor used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.7_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 b
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
14. Pocket mirror used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
2013.379.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.9
Date:
use: 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…
15. Red container of used ski wax brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.45 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.45
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…
16. Gold engraved pocket watch owned by a German Jewish refugee
2005.546.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.2
Date:
recovered: 
received: approximately 1895
…Heinrich Schwabacher was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to a prominent, wealthy Jewish family that had lived in Frankfurt for many generations. Heinrich…
17. Cigarette holder made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp
2003.64.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.64.1
Date:
creation: after 1945 May 02-before 1945 June
…, 1899, in Łódź, to Aron and Frieda Pytowski. The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I (1914-1918) separated Danzig and West Prussia from Germany…
18. Dartmouth Red ski wax owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.44 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.44
Date:
received: after 1938
…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…
19. Toiletry kit
2000.567.1 b front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.567.1
Date:
use: 1949
…The toiletry kit was given to and/or used by the Strochlitz family in a displaced persons camp in Berlin, Germany. The kit was hand-carried by family…
20. 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…