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1. Lace-trimmed Handkerchief with a cutwork floral accent owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.3
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
2. Luftwaffe ground crew overseas cap with eagle acquired by US soldier
1985.1.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.15
Date:
found: approximately 1945
manufacture: 1938
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
3. Luftwaffe M1935 Schirmmutze without visor acquired by US soldier
1985.1.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.17
Date:
manufacture: 1939
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
4. Luftwaffe ground crew overseas cap with eagle acquired by US soldier
1985.1.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.14
Date:
found: approximately 1945
manufacture: 1938
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
5. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.2
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
6. Luftwaffe M1935 Schirmmutze with visor acquired by US soldier
1985.1.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.16
Date:
manufacture: 1938
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
7. Thin cloth wallet used to hold Beatrice Neu's Certificate of Citizenship
2018.519.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.519.15
Date:
use: after 1954 April
… daughter, Beatrice (later Melov), in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.…
8. Wehrmacht M1936 belt and embossed buckle acquired by US soldier
1985.1.4 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.4 a-b
Date:
found: approximately 1945
manufacture: 1941
…Germany…
9. Luftwaffe M1942 helmet taken from a German soldier by US soldier
1985.1.3 left side
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.3
Date:
found: 1945
manufacture: 1942 August 01-before 1944
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
10. Woven miniature hat
2019.512.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.512.8
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1944
…. Hilda was a nurse and survived the war in the Netherlands. Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, and by 14 February 1942 Pieterdina, Katherine…
11. Apron
1989.246.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.246.8
Date:
use: 1930-1939
…Romanies--Germany.…
12. Shoes
1989.246.9_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.246.9 a-b
Date:
use: 1930-1939
…Romanies--Germany.…
13. Pair of black cotton socks with a gray sole brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.21_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.21 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
14. Passport holder, carried to Ecuador by a German Jewish woman
2019.18.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.18.2
Date:
use: 1939 January 02-before 1942 June 13
…, 1875-1943) Brilling. Isidor’s mother was a Lithuanian immigrant, and he had at least six sisters and two brothers. He fought for Germany in World War I…
15. Pair of brown and white wool knit kneesocks brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.24_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.24 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
16. Pair of black leather gaiters
2003.467.8_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.467.8 a-b
Date:
undated: 
…Deiderode (Germany)…
17. Brown leather billfold brought with a German Jewish prewar refugee
2008.204.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.204.3
Date:
emigration: 1939
received: approximately 1930
…Ernestine Unger (1873-1947, later Wiesenthal) was born in Berlin, Germany, into a Jewish family that had lived in the city for generations. She…
18. Pair of gray and white wool knit socks brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.25_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.25 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
19. SA Ostland-Westfalen M1933 kepi with eagle badge
2003.466.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.466.6
Date:
undated: 
…Nazi Germany memorabilia collection…
20. Embossed brown leather bi-fold wallet used by a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, British Army
2007.492.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.492.2
Date:
use: 1944 September-1946 July
…Fanny Dominitz was born September 9, 1925 in Cologne, Germany, to Jakob Dominitz, a traveling businessman, born on November 26, 1899, and Scheindel…