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1. Folding Fan owned by a Japanese aid coordinator for Jewish refugees in Shanghai
2003.464.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.464.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… the “Jewish problem” in depth. The Protocols falsely stated that Jews had access to a vast international power network and both men believed the claims…
2. Small straw purse made in Gurs internment camp for a German Jewish prisoner
2004.233.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.233.2
Date:
received: 1940 October-1941 September
… Karlsruhe were covered with signs telling people not to use Jewish stores. Hanne was taunted by classmates for being a Jew and, once, became so angry she…
3. White bow tie with textured diamond pattern owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.47
Date:
use: approximately 1940
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
4. Black leather riding boots owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.56_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.56 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1940
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
5. Wooden boot tree in 4 sections owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.59.1_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.59.1 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1940
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
6. Wooden boot tree in 4 sections owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.59.2_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.59.2 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1940
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
7. Tan leather belt owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.55 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.55
Date:
use: approximately 1940
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
8. Black leather riding boots owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.58_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.58 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1940
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
9. Lace-trimmed headband or cap owned by a Hungarian chambermaid
2018.409.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.5
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1944
… from 1935, which defined Jews in racial terms. They excluded them from various professions, restricted their opportunities in economic life, and stripped…
10. Bootjack used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.4
Date:
use: 1939-1945
…: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, and so on. Salek feared discovery not only as a Jew, but also as a Communist. Since he had been called Tomek by his Polish…
11. White handkerchief with a stitched border carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.9
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, and authorities throughout the country quickly began suppressing the rights of Jews and boycotting their…
12. Wooden boot tree in 4 sections with inscriptions owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.57.2_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.57.2 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1940
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
13. White handkerchief with openwork flowers carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.10
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, and authorities throughout the country quickly began suppressing the rights of Jews and boycotting their…
14. Inscribed wooden boot tree in 4 sections owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.57.1_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.57.1 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1940
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
15. White handkerchief with a fan design carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.11
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, and authorities throughout the country quickly began suppressing the rights of Jews and boycotting their…
16. Yellow handkerchief with red dots owned by a young girl in German occupied Budapest
2008.337.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.337.3
Date:
received: 1944
use: 1940-1944
… Marta. But after waiting in line for several hours, she changed her mind. It was now after the curfew set for Jews and Charlotte was confronted by a…
17. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.2
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… teller because antisemitism barred most Jews from teaching. In 1936, Fela married her second cousin, Antek Abram Kupferblum (later Anthony Kuper, 1903-1987…
18. Red plaid handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.5
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…. April 1943 brought the Warsaw ghetto uprising and its violent suppression by the Germans, with mass deportations of all Jews in Warsaw and the…
19. Purse carried by Mimi Altarac who fled German-occupied Belgrade with her family
2002.438.9 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.9
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… Axis Alliance and Serbia, where Belgrade located, was under German military government. Anti-Jewish policies were immediately implemented. Jews had to…
20. Leather passport holder with Weimar eagle used by German Jewish refugees
Object | Accession Number: 2012.244.2
Date:
emigration: 1940
… of Germany. Each Jew making the trip was issued 10 marks. Soviet officers stole their remaining money during the trip. After reaching Shanghai, they…