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1. Jewelry box with a secret compartment used to hide documents belonging to German Jewish prisoners
2019.180.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.180.2 a-b
Date:
creation: after 1944 April-before 1945
… Jews in town being collected into a truck and taken away. She quickly went home to tell her grandfather what the Nazis were doing. He had always helped…
2. Macramé bag with 2 wooden handles used by a Polish Jewish family while in hiding
2008.117.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.117.3
Date:
use: 1943-1945
… Bochnia a labor camp. That March, Franka and the children flee to Hungary. The family is smuggled out in a truck with a false bottom, but abandoned in the…
3. 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
… empty gasoline truck to unoccupied southern France. On August 9, Albert, Irene, and Max left Amsterdam, with only the clothes they were wearing, for a…
4. Leather pouch for a dog tag given to a Danish resistance member
1989.297.2.2_001.JPG
Object | Accession Number: 1989.297.2.2
Date:
acquired: 1944-1945
… policemen into trucks. Knud quickly ducked into a nearby station storehouse to stay out of sight. Blank forms and documents, as well as official stamps to…
5. 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
… empty gasoline truck to unoccupied southern France. On August 9, Albert, Irene, and Max left Amsterdam, with only the clothes they were wearing, for a…
6. Strongbox and 2 skeleton keys used by a Dutch resistance member
2004.301.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.301.3 a-c
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
…. They also lived on Burmenstraat which had bunkers at the end of the street where the Germans held Jews until trucks came to take them away. One day…
7. Black Vulcanfiber suitcase used by a Dutch Jewish family while in hiding
2004.301.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.301.2
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
…. They also lived on Burmenstraat which had bunkers at the end of the street where the Germans held Jews until trucks came to take them away. One day…