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1. 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
… and their passports were invalidated. They were taken to the railway station in open trucks to shame them publicly and deported to Poland along with…
2. Shaving brush used by a German Jewish refugee in hiding
1990.307.7_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 a
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
… connected to a group who promised to smuggle their families in the back of an empty gasoline truck to unoccupied southern France. On August 9, Albert, Irene…
3. 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
… connected to a group who promised to smuggle their families in the back of an empty gasoline truck to unoccupied southern France. On August 9, Albert, Irene…
4. 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
… and their passports were invalidated. They were taken to the railway station in open trucks to shame them publicly and deported to Poland along with…
5. Straight razor with an offwhite plastic handle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.5
Date:
use: 1928-1980
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
6. Eyeglasses and case used Mayer Altarac whose family fled from German occupying forces
2002.438.5 b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.5 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1948
… command decided to transfer the Jewish prisoners to Albania. They were divided into groups and each group had to find trucks to take them to different…
7. Travel clock within a brown leather case used by the Altarac family while imprisoned
2002.438.7 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.7 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1944
… command decided to transfer the Jewish prisoners to Albania. They were divided into groups and each group had to find trucks to take them to different…