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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. Red-brown leather document wallet used by a German Jewish refugee
2003.149.64 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.64
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1937
…, 19 year old Rudolf went to London, England, to study business. In 1936, Rudolf, unable to return to Germany because of the restrictions on Jews, left…
3. Black headband embroidered MS St. Louis worn by a young girl on board the ship
2004.575.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.575.2
Date:
use: 1939 May 13-1939 June 17
… England until December 28, 1944, when they left from Swansea, Wales, aboard the Ariguani for Nova Scotia, Canada. In mid-January 1945, the family was…
4. Leather wallet with embossed images of Egyptian pharaohs acquired by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.105.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.105.2
Date:
received: approximately 1943
… Polish Corps veterans to settle in Great Britain. The family relocated that December to Bedlington, England. Edmund was demobilized in 1948 and became a…
5. White polo helmet owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.29 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.29
Date:
use: approximately 1935
…inside center in black ink on offwhite label : J. Salter & Sons / Polo Specialists / Aldershot / Made in England inside back, black ink on offwhite…
6. 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…
7. U.S. Army tailor made, short waisted officer's jacket worn by a Signal Corps photographer for the war crimes trials
Object | Accession Number: 2013.458.5
Date:
use: approximately 1945 September-1949
… training in early 1943, Ray’s company was deployed to London, England, where all US Army photographic material was sent for processing. His company was in…
8. 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…
9. Leather coin purse with 3 pins, a Dutch coin, and a metal key carried by a young Jewish Austrian refugee to the US
2010.194.3_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.3 a-f
Date:
received: 1945 June-1946 June
emigration: 1946 July
…. Four months later, in November, the family reunited in London, England. Benjamin had opened a branch of the optical business in London. Diana attended…