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41. Bar of soap used by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.31.2.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.31.2.7
Date:
use: after 1944 July-before 1945 April
… belongings were confiscated, and many Jews were sent to Siberia to work in labor camps. On June 24, 1941, Soviet forces fled as Germany occupied Kovno…
42. Lipstick tube used by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.31.2.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.31.2.6
Date:
use: after 1944 July-before 1945 April
… belongings were confiscated, and many Jews were sent to Siberia to work in labor camps. On June 24, 1941, Soviet forces fled as Germany occupied Kovno…
43. Broken fine tooth comb owned by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.31.2.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.31.2.2
Date:
use: after 1944 July-before 1945 April
… belongings were confiscated, and many Jews were sent to Siberia to work in labor camps. On June 24, 1941, Soviet forces fled as Germany occupied Kovno…
44. 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
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
45. Set of seal skin ski straps used by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.30_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.30 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…
46. Shoehorn with a long metal shaft owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.28
Date:
use: approximately 1935
… 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…
47. Cane with a bone grip carved as a caricatured Jewish man's head with warts
2016.184.65 right side
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.65
Date:
creation: approximately 1830-approximately 1870
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
48. 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 Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
49. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
2008.226.3
Object | Accession Number: 2008.226.3
Date:
received: approximately 1944 June
…, Slovakia, and Ella Hollander, born in 1897 in Szepesvaralja (?) (Spišské Podhradi), Slovakia). Her parents were secular Jews with Zionist leanings. Prior…
50. Silver plated cane knob shaped as a Jewish man in cap with sidelocks
2016.184.57 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.57
Date:
creation: approximately 1801-approximately 1899
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
51. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
2005.301.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.301.1
Date:
received: 1944 June
… a contact at Gestapo headquarters. The contact helped the family join a group of Jews who were taken by train out of Budapest in June 1944. This was…
52. Slug pressing iron placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
1992.240.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.25
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: approximately 1900
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
53. 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
…, closed his office in Berlin on April 1, 1933, and left for Palestine. Many Jews were forced to put non-Jews in charge of their businesses or sell them at a…
54. Souvenir ashtray of the Yiddish clipper, a man with scissors and a naked boy
2016.184.574 back
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.574
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1900
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
55. 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
…, closed his office in Berlin on April 1, 1933, and left for Palestine. Many Jews were forced to put non-Jews in charge of their businesses or sell them at a…
56. Brown plastic lice comb used by a Romanian Jewish woman concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2012.453.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 May-1945 May
… pressured Romanian diplomats into giving northern Romania, including Cehu Silvaniei, to Hungary. The Hungarians began conscripting Romanian Jews to work in…
57. Cigarette case carved in a POW camp
1990.204.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 1990.204.1
…Carved by Pieter Kaufmann while he was in a prisoner of war camp. He was a Viennese Jew who joined the British army at the beginning of the war…
58. WWI Hungarian War Supporter copper watch fob acquired by a Jewish army veteran
2010.81.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.7
Date:
commemoration: 1915-1916
emigration: 1949 September 21
received: approximately 1944 May
… anti-Jewish decrees were put in place; Jews had to wear Star of David armbands, move into ghettos, and deportations to concentration camps began. Bela…
59. Brown strap wrist watch worn postwar by a former labor camp inmate and aid worker
1999.155.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.155.2
Date:
received: approximately 1945 July
… Jews fled Kovno, including Abel and Hirsch. German soldiers apprehended them and forced their return to Kovno. In June and July, there were violent…
60. Set of seal skin ski straps used by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.31_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.31 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1935
… 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…