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1. Set of scale weights brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.7 a-i front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.7 a-i
Date:
use: approximately 1924-1996
2. Curved needle stitching awl used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.4
Date:
use: 1923-1951
3. Dark gray edge iron shoemaking tool used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.14
Date:
use: 1925-1951
4. Soviet treadle sewing machine with Singer storage table of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.78.6 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.6 a-b
Date:
manufacture: after 1917-1950
use: approximately 1917-1945
5. Crochet hook used in the Theresienstadt ghetto
2002.436.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.436.22
Date:
use: 1940-1943
6. Shoemaker's knife of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.4.1
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
7. Chain stitch sewing machine of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.78.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.5 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1900-approximately 1939
use: approximately 1900-1945
8. Red metal butcher scale with marble weight
1990.80.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.80.1 a-d
Date:
approximately 1900-approximately 1945
9. False tooth with a cavity for a poison capsule
Object | Accession Number: 2016.561.1
Date:
acquired: approximately 1939-approximately 1945
10. Spreading calipers from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
11. Electric retinoscope used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.3
Date:
manufacture: 1893-1945
acquired: after 1932
12. Tatra automotive fuel pump placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.13
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1919-1942
13. Electric motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.8
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1908-before 1943
14. Charred electrical insulator from Auschwitz found by a Sinti inmate
1987.75.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.75.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-approximately 1945 January
15. Singer 13 sewing machine with a fiddle base used by a tailor in a sealed ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2005.50.1 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1880
use: 1939-1945
16. Rectangular cutting template brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.6
Date:
use: approximately 1924-1996
17. Wooden awl haft with chuck and ferrule used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.7
Date:
use: 1925-1951
18. Treadle sewing machine with painted star of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.78.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.4
Date:
use: approximately 1930-approximately 1945
use: 
19. Shoemaker's hammer of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.4.5
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
20. Manhole cover from the Miła Street neighborhood in the former Warsaw ghetto
1990.293.1 a-b
Object | Accession Number: 1990.293.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1940 October 12-1943 May 16