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1. Porcelain figurine of a rosy cheeked Fagin
2016.184.80 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.80
Date:
undated: 
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
2. Painted porcelain Fagin with his toasting fork
2016.184.613 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.613
Date:
manufacture: after 1920-approximately 1930
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
3. Ceramic change holder in the shape of an Orthodox Jewish man
2016.184.4 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.4
Date:
manufacture: 1890-1962
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
4. Wooden Lazy Susan decorated with an inlaid windmill scene created by a Latvian in a displaced persons camp
2018.276.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.276.1
Date:
creation: 1945-1951
…Günzburg (Germany)…
5. Barbed wire and a key in a shadow box display belonging to a German-American internee
2017.632.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.632.1
Date:
commemoration: 1946 January 31-1946 February 07
… immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1928, and Paula immigrated in 1929. Two years later, the couple married, and Paula gave birth to Arthur…
6. Anvil-shaped paperweight given to a US soldier serving as a displaced persons camp administrator
1989.259.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.259.1
Date:
received: 1945 October 12
… with the 5th Regiment, 71st Infantry Division, nicknamed the Red Circle. They crossed the Rhine River into Germany in March. In early May, Heymont and…
7. Commemorative ribbon worn by a director of the Deggendorf DP camp
2007.162.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.162.2
Date:
commemoration: 1951 May 23
… attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan and by December 11, Nazi Germany declared war on the United States…
8. Commemorative ribbon for the 50th anniversary of Dachau concentration camp
2004.705.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.705.14
Date:
commemoration: 1945-1995
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
9. Quilted wall hanging made postwar by a survivor to honor family members killed in Chelmno
2004.530.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.530.1
Date:
creation: 2002
commemoration: 1942 April
Artwork Title:
We Never Said Good Bye
… experienced anti-Semitism regularly, they lived a comfortable and happy life. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Ozorkow was bombed on September 5…
10. Medallion for the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps received by a former child inmate
2010.453.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.453.2
Date:
commemoration: 2010 April 11
…Meissen (Saxony, Germany)…
11. Plastic cigarette case with the 102nd Infantry insignia and Bavaria used by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2011.75.12
Date:
received: after 1945 May-approximately 1946
commemoration: 1945
…, he enlisted in the US Army and was assigned to the 102nd Combat Infantry Division, nicknamed the Ozarks Division. He was deployed to Germany in…
12. Wooden sign with Biblical verse made in labor camp by a Jehovah’s Witness
1989.314.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1944
… attended a Catholic school but in 1934, he began to assist his father with his missionary work. Nazi Germany banned the Watchtower Society, the Jehovah…
13. 60th anniversary medallion, liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora issued to US soldier / liberator
Object | Accession Number: 2013.464.1
Date:
received: 2005 April
commemoration: 1945 April 11
… of his hearing. His unit then advanced into Germany, capturing a great deal of territory an entering Cologne on March 5. Forrest’s platoon followed the…
14. Animal bone souvenir with an inscription acquired by a Kindertransport refugee
2014.425.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.425.2
Date:
commemoration: 1942 February 14
… the Holocaust when he emigrated from Breslau, Germany, to Scotland on a Kindertransport in 1939, his subsequent life at the Birkenward Hostel in…