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1. Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer
2017.661.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.3 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945
…Julius Löwenstein (later Loewenstein, 1913-1995) was born in Ortenberg, Germany, to Siegmund (1876-1942) and Sophie (1885-1942) Zimmermann Löwenstein…
2. Upright, wardrobe-style trunk used by a Jewish family during their postwar emigration
Object | Accession Number: 2002.416.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1948 October 21-1948 October 30
… family. Efraim was in Warsaw with his mother and brother, following his father’s death, when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Germany began…
3. Carved plaquette modeled after the Frankfurt Judensau mural
2016.184.212 back
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.212
Date:
creation: approximately 1601-approximately 1800
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
4. Book, Schabbos
Object | Accession Number: 2021.188.11
Date:
publication: 1923
Title:
Schabbos
…Frankfurt am Main (Germany)…
5. Prayer book, Haggadah für Pesach, owned by Lotte Moses
Object | Accession Number: 2021.188.3
Title:
Haggadah für Pesach
…Frankfurt am Main (Germany)…
6. Timeline wall poster for use in schools to explain German history from a Nazi perspective
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.29
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940
Title:
Der Schicksalsweg des Deutschen Volkes
Alternate Title:
The Fate of the German People
…Frankfurt am Main (Germany)…
7. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, belonging to a German Jewish woman
2016.552.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.552.2
Date:
use: after 1941 September 01-approximately 1942 September 17
…Sigrid Ansbacher (later Strauss, b. 1928) was born in Dinkelsbühl, Germany, to Selma Schlossberger (1897-1959) and Ludwig Ansbacher (1888-1950). She…
8. Book, Struwwelpeter-Hoffmann
Object | Accession Number: 2021.188.9
Date:
publication: 1926
…Frankfurt am Main (Germany)…
9. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, belonging to a German Jewish woman
2016.552.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.552.3
Date:
use: after 1941 September 01-approximately 1942 September 17
…Selma Ansbacher (nee Schlossberger, 1897-1956) was born in Wachbach, Germany to Bertha Schlossberger (nee Strauss, 1864-1936) and Sigmund…
10. Prayer book, Sefer Tehilim ʻim perush Ashkenaz, owned by Hugh Moses
Object | Accession Number: 2021.188.4
Date:
publication: 1895
Title:
Sefer Tehilim ʻim perush Ashkenaz
…Rodelheim (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)…
11. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, worn by a German Jewish prisoner
2018.427.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.427.5
Date:
use: after 1945 February 14-before 1945 May 08
…Hans Benjamin Marx (b. 1927) was born in Mannheim, Germany, to Elise (née Rihm, 1898-1976) and Ernest Marx (1895-1965). Ernest was born in Mannheim…
12. Prayer Book owned by Rudolf Abraham
Object | Accession Number: 1996.19.28
Date:
publication: 1884
Title:
Gebete für ben Versöhnungsabend mit deutscher Übersetzung Geordnet und Übersetzt von W. Heidenheim
Series Title:
Festtägliches Gebetbuch Vol. 6
Alternate Title:
Prayers for the Evening of Reconciliation with German Translation Arranged and Translated by W. Heidenheim
Festive prayer book Vol. 6
…Rudolf Abraham was born in 1908 in Durboslar, Germany, to Marcus and Bertha Kaufmann Abraham. Marcus owned a successful butcher shop. In 1933, the…
13. Oil painting of a shabbily dressed clothes peddler
2016.184.253 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.253
Date:
creation: approximately 1830
Artwork Title:
Poor clothes peddler
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Frankfurt am Main (Germany)…
14. Coin purse owned by Otto Frank
2018.613.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.3
Date:
use: approximately 1935
…Otto Frank (1889-1980) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Michael (1851-1909) and Alice Betty (nee Stern, 1865-1953) Frank. Otto had three…
15. Collage painting of a crying woman created by a Polish Jewish artist after the Holocaust
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.2
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
My Mother's Tears
… accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and partitioned Poland. Vilna was in the Soviet zone, but was exchanged with…
16. Collage painting of a Jewish man’s beard being cut off created by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.1
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
Anguish
… accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and partitioned Poland. Vilna was in the Soviet zone, but was exchanged with…
17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note, given to German Jewish prisoner
2018.427.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.427.3
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
use: after 1945 February 14-before 1945 May 08
…Hans Benjamin Marx (b. 1927) was born in Mannheim, Germany, to Elise (née Rihm, 1898-1976) and Ernest Marx (1895-1965). Ernest was born in Mannheim…
18. Monogrammed tablecloth owned by Otto and Edith Frank
2018.613.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.5
Date:
received: 1925 May 08
…Otto Frank (1889-1980) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Michael (1851-1909) and Alice Betty (nee Stern, 1865-1953) Frank. Otto had three…
19. Haggadah für Pesach
Object | Accession Number: 2019.616.5
Date:
publication: 1884
Title:
Haggadah für Pesach
…Judith Cromwell was born Judith Hanna Lissauer on 13 November 1935 in Berlin, Germany to John and Charlotte Lissauer. Her father, John Lissauer (1890…
20. Die biblische Geschichte fur israelitische Schulen erzählt
Object | Accession Number: 2021.188.5
Date:
publication: 1926
Title:
Die biblische Geschichte fur israelitische Schulen erzählt
…Frankfurt am Main (Germany)…