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41. German marching compass in a case taken from an SS officer by a US soldier
2000.598.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2000.598.2
Date:
found: approximately 1945 May
manufacture: after 1930-before 1945
… spring 1945, Hy’s unit advanced eastward across Germany. During the advance, Hy and eight other soldiers were riding in a truck pulling the unit’s 105 mm…
42. Pocket knife used by a Polish Jewish female slave laborer
1990.220.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.220.2
Date:
creation: 1944 November
… system where he traded his merchandise for food. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the Jewish section of Pabianice, where Yona's family lived…
43. Monaural stethoscope used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
2005.579.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.20
Date:
use: 1943-1949 August
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
44. Extended prong cotter pin brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.40 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.40
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
45. Folding knife made from a screwdriver in a concentration camp by an inmate
2005.135.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.135.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1945 January
…, Lithuania, during the period from June 1940-May 1941 when Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union. When Germany declared war on the USSR and invaded…
46. French curve drafting tool used by a Czech Jewish camp inmate
1989.303.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.17
Date:
use: 1941 December-1945 May
… transportation expert, whom he thought of as an uncle. Karel was a draftsman at a design company. On September 29, 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border…
47. Sewing needle case used for lipstick in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.15 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.15
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
48. Caliper used by a prisoner in a forced labor camp
2005.135.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.135.3
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 February
… under the influence of Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s and in November 1940, they joined the Axis Alliance. Racial laws, much like Germany’s Nuremberg…
49. Charred electrical insulator from Auschwitz found by a Sinti inmate
1987.75.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.75.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-approximately 1945 January
…Hans Braun was born on March 6, 1923, in Hannover, Germany, to Oswald and Rosa Ernst Braun, a Sinti couple. Oswald was born on March 1, 1898, in…
50. Printing plate
1994.97.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.97.7
… Hague reparations negotiations, Germany-Israel, 1952; Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, 1953-1956; Counsel, International Council of B…
51. Pin box and 57 straight pins carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.14
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
52. Drafting kit with 18 drawing implements used by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.4 l-q front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.4 a-s
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
53. Pocket knife with yellow plastic handle used by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.68 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.68
Date:
received: after 1920-before 1939
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
54. Vernier calipers used by a Jewish Polish worker in Oskar Schindler's armament factory
2004.702.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.702.3
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945 May
… drafted into the Polish Army. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland which soon surrendered to the Germans. Sam was sent to a prisoner of war…
55. Wooden drafting triangle used by a Czech Jewish camp inmate
1989.303.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.16
Date:
use: 1941 December-1945 May
… transportation expert, whom he thought of as an uncle. Karel was a draftsman at a design company. On September 29, 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border…
56. Thermometer with silver case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.13_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.13 a-c
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1947
…, born in 1924, and Danuta, born in 1929. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 and, by November 1940, the family was confined to the ghetto. Nineteen…
57. Medical field sterilizer kit used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
2005.579.21_a closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.21 a-g
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
58. Photographic light exposure calculator used by US soldier
2000.526.6 back
Object | Accession Number: 2000.526.6
Date:
use: 1945
publication/distribution: approximately 1934
… became a bartender. He married and had a child, but later divorced. After the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on…
59. Darning needle and case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.10 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.10 a- b
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, born in 1924, and Danuta, born in 1929. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 and, by November 1940, the family was confined to the ghetto. Nineteen…
60. Workbook of clothing patterns drawn by a Jewish refugee for an ORT class
2003.174.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.7
Date:
use: 1946-1947
… frequently to acquire merchandise for his store and was a member of the Betar Jabotinsky Party, a Zionist organization. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in…