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1. Storage trunk owned by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-approximately 1946
… could still attend school, a wall was built down the center of the building to separate the Jewish and non-Jewish children. Albert’s work permit was…
2. British ordnance box given to a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.3
Date:
received: 1944 September-1944 December
… could still attend school, a wall was built down the center of the building to separate the Jewish and non-Jewish children. Albert’s work permit was…
3. Rucksack used by a German Jewish family going into hiding
1990.307.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.5
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 June
… could still attend school, a wall was built down the center of the building to separate the Jewish and non-Jewish children. Albert’s work permit was…
4. Drawstring cloth pouch handmade by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.31.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.31.2
Date:
creation: after 1944 July-before 1945 April
… frequently risked being captured and killed by venturing outside the ghetto walls to barter for food and other items for her family. She was tall with blond…
5. Aluminum suitcase used by Jewish Polish postwar refugees
1997.102.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.102.1
Date:
acquired: 1946
… in a wall, rolled down a ravine, and escaped into the woods. They lived on snow and stolen potatoes in the woods for over a week, when they were…
6. Gold painted metal box with heart and initials made by a Jewish Polish slave labor camp inmate
1997.102.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.102.2 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1944 September-1945 January
… in a wall, rolled down a ravine, and escaped into the woods. They lived on snow and stolen potatoes in the woods for over a week, when they were…
7. Tin box used to store beads by a Dutch Jewish girl in hiding
2003.155.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.155.1
Date:
use: after 1942 November-before 1944 April
recovered: approximately 1946 August-1950
… thin walls. The Dutch police came to arrest Louis, but told him they would help him. They brought him back to Amsterdam so he could find his parents…
8. Tin candy container and lid used to store beads by a Dutch Jewish girl in hiding
2003.155.4_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.155.4 a-d
Date:
use: after 1942 November-before 1944 April
recovered: approximately 1946 August-1950
… thin walls. The Dutch police came to arrest Louis, but told him they would help him. They brought him back to Amsterdam so he could find his parents…
9. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
…, they marched three miles to the Cehei ghetto on the Klein brick factory grounds. They slept in a shed with no roof or intact walls. Elly worked in the…
10. Inscribed wooden box with painted lid bought by a Roman Catholic Polish former forced laborer
2014.469.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.469.3 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1944 November
… residents from the city and surrounding towns relocate there. The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that was over 10 feet high, topped with barbed wire, and…
11. Orthodox Gemilas Chesed Association tzedakah box
2015.484.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.484.1
…Wall mounted / desk placed tin tzedakah charity container of the Orthodox Gemilas Chesed Association, Budapest, with a plaque depicting the "Biró…