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1. Red wooden tie rack made by a Dutch Jew while living in hiding
2010.488.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.488.5
Date:
creation: 1942 October-1945 April 18
…Red wooden tie rack made by a Dutch Jew while living in hiding…
2. Bronze candlestick in the shape of a happy Jewish speculator
2016.184.627 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.627
Date:
creation: approximately 1880
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…
3. Dark bronze candlestick in the shape of a happy Jewish speculator
2016.184.626 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.626
Date:
creation: approximately 1880
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…
4. Blanket made using salvaged thread
Object | Accession Number: 2004.381.2
Date:
use: approximately 1943
… family gatherings. In July 1940, the Bulgarian government established anti-Jewish restrictions that limited where Jews that prohibited Jews from certain…
5. Embroidered yellow tablecloth with a floral design owned by a Romanian Jewish woman
2014.490.9 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.9
Date:
creation: 1938-1948
… though Romanian authorities already pursued a policy of harsh, persecutory antisemitism against Jews. In September 1940, a coalition government came to…
6. Embroidered tablecloth with a floral design owned by a Romanian Jewish woman
2014.490.12 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.12
Date:
creation: 1938-1948
… though Romanian authorities already pursued a policy of harsh, persecutory antisemitism against Jews. In September 1940, a coalition government came to…
7. Large wooden crate used by Zegota, a Polish underground group, to hide false documents
1990.296.1 3/4 view back
Object | Accession Number: 1990.296.1
Date:
use: approximately 1942 October-1945 January
…Rada Pomocy Zydom (Council to Aid Jews), code name Zegota, or Konrad Zegota Committee, was an underground organization that operated in German…
8. Pair of painted candlesticks of a happy and a sad Jewish speculator
2016.184.154_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.154 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1880
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…
9. Cross-stitch table runner from a Jewish woman’s dowry
2014.490.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.2
Date:
creation: 1881-1910
… authorities already pursued a policy of harsh, persecutory antisemitism against Jews. In September 1940, a coalition government came to power led by General Ion…
10. Embroidered pink tablecloth with a floral design owned by a Romanian Jewish woman
2014.490.10 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.10
Date:
creation: 1938-1948
… though Romanian authorities already pursued a policy of harsh, persecutory antisemitism against Jews. In September 1940, a coalition government came to…
11. Embroidered pink tablecloth with a nautical design owned by a Romanian Jewish woman
2014.490.11 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.11
Date:
creation: 1938-1948
… though Romanian authorities already pursued a policy of harsh, persecutory antisemitism against Jews. In September 1940, a coalition government came to…
12. 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…
13. Embroidered tablecloth with blue floral design owned by a Jewish woman
2014.490.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.3
Date:
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… authorities already pursued a policy of harsh, persecutory antisemitism against Jews. In September 1940, a coalition government came to power led by General Ion…
14. Embroidered table runner with a floral and insect design brought with German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.151.3
Date:
received: before 1938
… 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, inciting pogroms by the local Ukrainian nationalists. Nearly 4000 Jews were massacred in early July, and another…
15. White tablecloth with blue and yellow needlepoint flowers saved from the Eisiskes shtetl
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.14
Date:
recovered: approximately 1945
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
16. Bedcover used by a Jewish girl in a displaced persons camp
2003.193.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.193.5
Date:
use: 1948 January-1949 May
… June 30, German troops entered Zdzieciol. On July 14, the local military commandant ordered Jews to wear a yellow Star of David badge on the front and…
17. White, monogrammed tablecloth belonging to the family of a German Rabbi
2018.290.1 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.290.1
Date:
use: before 1959
…. The German authorities passed anti-Jewish decrees that restricted every aspect of Jewish life. Growing antisemitism and violence led many Jews to leave…
18. Curtain that was used as a towel found by a Polish Jewish forced laborer
Object | Accession Number: 2018.208.1
Date:
found: 1944 August-1945 April
Title:
Dash family collection
… that Germany had invaded Poland. One week later, the German army occupied Łódź and immediately instigated violence and anti-Semitic policies. Jews were…
19. Large wooden workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.1
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
creation: 1939-1940
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
20. Wooden flashlight box lantern placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.21
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…