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1. Cast iron Fagin lamp holding a toasting fork / trident
2016.184.73_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.73 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1934-approximately 1936
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
2. Lantern from Belzec railroad station
Object | Accession Number: 1990.291.6
Date:
use: after 1900-before 1946
… for Operation Reinhard, the systematic extermination of all Jews living in German occupied Poland. In November, SS and police authorities began…
3. Treadle sewing machine table of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1930-1945
…-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…
4. Handmade crocheted tablecloth wih a floral motif owned by a Slovakian Jewish girl
Object | Accession Number: 2011.434.3
Date:
acquired: after 1935 October 25
…-furnished home in an all-Jewish neighborhood. They spoke Slovak and Hungarian at home. The family were Orthodox Jews and observed traditional religious…
5. Railroad signal lantern with a reflector from Sobibor railroad station
1990.291.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.291.2
Date:
use: after 1900-before 1945
… Operation Reinhard, the systematic extermination of all Jews living in German occupied Poland. In March 1942, SS and police authorities began construction of…
6. Beige and orange embroidered linen napkin used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.3
Date:
creation: 1937
use: 1937-1947
…. April 1943 brought the Warsaw ghetto uprising and its violent suppression by the Germans, with mass deportations of all Jews in Warsaw and the…
7. Singer treadle sewing machine table of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.8
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1945
… by the end of the year. In summer 1944, Łódź, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz…
8. Orange tablecloth with green flowers used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.7
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1947
… ghetto uprising and its violent suppression by the Germans, with mass deportations of all Jews in Warsaw and the annihilation of the ghetto. Her father…
9. Blanket owned by a German Jewish woman fleeing Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.4
Date:
use: 1933 June
… of non-Jewish friends. In early 1941, all Jews were required to register themselves with the authorities and a Jewish council was established. On…
10. Pillowcase with cutwork flowers and the embroidered initials FL used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.3
Date:
creation: approximately 1933
… appointed Chancellor and began to put into practice the Nazi pledge to persecute Jews. Soon Jews were barred from certain professions and people were…
11. Monogrammed pillowcase with whitework embroidery used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.5
Date:
creation: approximately 1933
use: 1939 June-1947
… appointed Chancellor and began to put into practice the Nazi pledge to persecute Jews. Soon Jews were barred from certain professions and people were…
12. Monogrammed pillowcase with whitework embroidery used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1933
use: 1939 June-1947
… appointed Chancellor and began to put into practice the Nazi pledge to persecute Jews. Soon Jews were barred from certain professions and people were…
13. Shoemaker’s stool of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.3
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… of the year. In summer 1944, Łódź, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing…
14. Red checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees
2012.485.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.5
Date:
received: 1933
… died in 1927. In January 1933, Hitler came to power and soon established a Nazi dictatorship that was hostile to Jews. On November 8, Fritz moved to…
15. Black checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees
2012.485.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.7
Date:
received: 1933
… died in 1927. In January 1933, Hitler came to power and soon established a Nazi dictatorship that was hostile to Jews. On November 8, Fritz moved to…
16. Red checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees
2012.485.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.4
Date:
received: 1933
… died in 1927. In January 1933, Hitler came to power and soon established a Nazi dictatorship that was hostile to Jews. On November 8, Fritz moved to…
17. Black checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees
2012.485.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.6
Date:
received: 1933
… died in 1927. In January 1933, Hitler came to power and soon established a Nazi dictatorship that was hostile to Jews. On November 8, Fritz moved to…
18. Pfaff treadle sewing machine table of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.285.6_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.6 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1920
use: approximately 1920-approximately 1945
… Poland, was destroyed and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
19. Small wood-framed chalkboard used by a student in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.44.2
Date:
use: 1934-1945
… were glorified while labeling Jews and other so-called “inferior” peoples as “parasitic, bastard races” incapable of creating culture or civilization.…
20. Floral and lion patterned needlepoint table covering saved by a German Jewish refugee family
Object | Accession Number: 2005.564.2
Date:
emigration: 1937
… after Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 with the growing persecution of Jews and boycotts of their businesses, her father's business began to fail. The…