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1. Certificate of Citizenship document holder owned by Hedwig Sanders Neu
2018.519.10 open/side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.519.10
Date:
use: after 1945 March
… daughter, Beatrice (later Melov), in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.…
2. Certificate of Citizenship document holder owned by Richard Neu
2018.519.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.519.9
Date:
use: after 1945 March
… daughter, Beatrice (later Melov), in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to a German Jewish refugee couple
2012.478.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.478.6
Date:
received: after 1945 May 09-before 1955 April 14
…Manfred Gans was born on April 27, 1922, in Borken, Germany, to Moritz and Else Fraenkel Gans. His family had been in Borken for over 300 years…
6. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women
2017.480.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.6
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1920-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Hilda’s birth, Arthur worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from home, sewing for a girdle factory…
7. Slide box used by Hitler's personal photographer
2011.432.7 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2011.432.7
…Photographers--Germany--Biography.…
8. Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to German Jewish prewar emigre
2012.455.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.8
Date:
received: approximately 1940
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
9. Upright embossed aluminum wardrobe trunk used by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.140.3
Date:
emigration: 1938 December 15
…Ernest Salomon Fried was born on July 15, 1904, in Landau, Germany, to Jewish parents, Maximillian, a lumber merchant, born on May 25, 1870, in…
10. Inscribed wooden box with painted lid bought by a Roman Catholic Polish former forced laborer
2014.469.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.469.3 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1944 November
… school through the fourth grade. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. That day, Zbigniew was playing outside when the first German warplanes flew…
11. Flat top brown steamer trunk used by a German Jewish woman during emigration
Object | Accession Number: 2005.140.2
Date:
emigration: 1937 November 30
…Eleanor Lustig was born on March 28, 1915, in Gorlitz, Germany to Max (1875-1928) and Margarethe Thomas (1884-1929) Lustig. Max was a businessman…
12. Leather briefcase owned by Runia Korman Maizels and Szlama Maizels
2018.63.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.63.3
Date:
use: approximately 1950
… (later Chana Kucheik, 1920-1942) and a brother, Abraham (1922-1942). In September 1939, Poland was invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union. Kraśnik was…
13. Identification case used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
2015.533.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2015.533.2
Date:
use: 1939-1941
…Fritz (later Fred) Strauss (1926-2013) was born in Miehlen, Germany, the only child of Albert (?-1926) and Martha (or Marta) Strauss (nee Strauss…
14. Slide box used by Hitler's personal photographer
Object | Accession Number: 2011.432.15 a-b
…Photographers--Germany--Biography.…
15. Airmail box used to store his war medals by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.17 a-b
Date:
use: after 1940
…Carl Werner Lenneberg (1899-1989) was born on November 5, 1899 in Remscheid, Germany and had an older brother Georg (b. 1898). Their father, and…
16. Brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1949 November
…Dorothea (Dorit) Isaacsohn (later Dorothy Isaacsohn, 1933-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Julius and Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn. Julius (1891-1943…
17. Black Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to German Jewish prewar emigre
2012.455.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.9
Date:
received: approximately 1940
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
18. Embossed aluminum flat top steamer trunk used by a German Jewish refugee
2005.140.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.140.4
Date:
emigration: 1938 December 15
…Ernest Salomon Fried was born on July 15, 1904, in Landau, Germany, to Jewish parents, Maximillian, a lumber merchant, born on May 25, 1870, in…
19. Painted tin container base owned by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.3
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
20. Imitation leather hatbox used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.4 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.4
Date:
use: 1949 November
…Dorothea (Dorit) Isaacsohn (later Dorothy Isaacsohn, 1933-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Julius and Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn. Julius (1891-1943…