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1. Leather bi-fold wallet with two photographs glued inside owned by a German Jewish refugee
2018.340.2 closed side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.340.2
Date:
depiction: 1940
… safely live under a false name. She got a job working as a maid for a Gestapo officer, survived the war and later moved to England. Charlotte’s children…
2. Laced leather billfold with a painted harbor owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.2
Date:
received: after 1938-before 1947 December
… Chicago. Her parents Josef and Anna fled to Brussels, Belgium, in March 1939. Their younger brother Ulrich (1926-1985?) was sent to England. His name was…
3. Adult's pith helmet acquired in India during the journey to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.28
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
received: 1941 January
… visa, but not a work permit, despite previous study and work experience in England. In September 1939, Germany invaded and occupied Poland. In January…