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1. Table knife owned by a Romanian Jewish family
2014.490.4 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.4
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1930
… though Romanian authorities already pursued a policy of harsh, persecutory antisemitism against Jews. In September 1940, a coalition government came to…
2. Butter knife owned by a Romanian Jewish family
2014.490.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.5
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1930
… though Romanian authorities already pursued a policy of harsh, persecutory antisemitism against Jews. In September 1940, a coalition government came to…
3. Singer sewing scissors used by Jewish Romanian woman who was killed during a massacre
2017.218.2 top
Object | Accession Number: 2017.218.2
Date:
use: before 1941 July
manufacture: approximately 1930
… the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in summer 1941, Romania, a German ally, recaptured the region and many of the Jews in Bălți took refuge in…
4. Pfaff industrial sewing machine with treadle of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.3
Date:
manufacture: 1920
use: approximately 1930-approximately 1945
…-old Mordechai the Älteste der Juden [Elder of the Jews], a position which gave him a wide range of powers over the Jewish community. He was ordered to…
5. Singer Model 15 sewing machine and table used by Jewish Romanian woman who was massacred
2017.218.1_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.218.1 a-d
Date:
manufacture: 1927
use: before 1941
… the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in summer 1941, Romania, a German ally, recaptured the region and many of the Jews in Bălți took refuge in…
6. Pocket knife with leather case carried by a Jewish refugee
1992.8.29_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.29 a-b
Date:
use: 1910-1938
emigration: 1938
… noticed a change within society as people’s attitudes towards Jews began to change in response to the anti-Semitic policies of the Nazi government. The…
7. Tatra automotive fuel pump placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.13
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1919-1942
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
8. Siemens-Schuckert generator placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.20
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1902-before 1943
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
9. Small cap placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.33
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1902-before 1943
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
10. AEG motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.12
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1887-before 1943
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
11. Bosch engine component placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.15
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1900-before 1943
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
12. Electric motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.8
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1908-before 1943
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
13. Singer style treadle sewing machine table of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.78.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.1
Date:
manufacture: 1920
use: 1920-1945
…-old Mordechai the Älteste der Juden [Elder of the Jews], a position which gave him a wide range of powers over the Jewish community. He was ordered to…
14. Hand crank, table top telephone from Sobibor railroad station
Object | Accession Number: 1990.291.1
Date:
use: after 1900-before 1946
… preparations for Operation Reinhard, the systematic extermination of all Jews living in German occupied Poland. In March 1942, SS and police authorities began…
15. Asynchronous motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.10
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1889-1942
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
16. Radio battery eliminator placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.16
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1928-before 1943
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
17. Manual hanging hand crank coffee mill
1990.81.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.81.5
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
…, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed, and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
18. Treadle sewing machine with painted star of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.78.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.4
Date:
use: approximately 1930-approximately 1945
use: 
…, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
19. Metal balance scale with two measuring trays used in a store
Object | Accession Number: 1990.81.1
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
…, and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
20. Wooden thread spool from tailoring shop in Paris
2005.463.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.463.2
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1939
… returned to Paris. The Germans enacted anti-Jewish legislation and there were periodic round-ups of Jews for deportation to concentration camps. Jews were…