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1. Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
1990.300.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
2. 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…
3. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women
2017.480.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.5
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…
4. Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
…Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
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5. Leather briefcase belonging to the Kahn or Neuhaus families
Object | Accession Number: 2020.349.2
Date:
approximately 1918-1940
… sketchbook and textiles, primarily relating to the donor's aunt, Ilse Neuhaus (1924-1942), in Hadamar and Hochspeyer, Germany, and in Amsterdam.…
6. Wooden sliding lid pencil box with a rose decal used by a student in Nazi Germany
1990.44.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 1990.44.3
Date:
use: 1933-1945
…Wooden sliding lid pencil box with a rose decal used by a student in Nazi Germany…
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7. Carry-on suitcase used by a young German Jewish woman
2005.415.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.415.2
Date:
use: 1938 September
…Anne (Anneliese) Weil was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, on August 23, 1921, to Elfriede Meyer, who was born on October 27,1886, in Mannheim, and Max…
8. Black leather covered fiberboard knapsack used by a student in Nazi Germany
1990.44.1 back
Object | Accession Number: 1990.44.1
Date:
use: 1933-1945
…Black leather covered fiberboard knapsack used by a student in Nazi Germany…
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9. Brown leather briefcase brought by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.4
Date:
received: before 1938
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
10. Handmade paper photo pocket owned by a German Jewish prewar emigre to the United States
Object | Accession Number: 2012.456.3
Date:
emigration: 1938 October
…Moritz Berk was born on April 9, 1891, in Schwanfeld, Germany, to Jewish parents, Adolf and Sophie (Sofie) Maier Berk. Adolf was born in…
11. Burlap covered steamer trunk used by a German Jewish family
2008.199.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.199.1
Date:
manufacture: 1938
emigration: 1938
…Gisela (Jill) Renate Berg was born on May 1, 1933, to Josef and Klara Meyer Berg, in the small farming community of Lechenich, Germany, near Cologne…
12. Leather briefcase used to hold family papers by Jewish refugees
2008.347.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.347.2
Date:
emigration: approximately 1938
…Henry Basch, along with his wife, Rose, originally from Poland, fled Germany to escape the antisemitic policies of the Nazi government. probably in…
13. Hitler Youth instructional filmstrip found by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2007.518.23
Date:
creation: approximately 1936-approximately 1940
found: approximately 1945 May
Series Title:
Bildband fur die Schulung in der HJ [Filmstrip for Training in the Hitler Youth]
… was assigned to the Warrant Officer Corps. He was deployed to the European Theater and was stationed in May 1945 in Ulm, Germany. He attained the rank…
14. 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…
15. Aluminum food container lid used by a Hungarian Jewish family on the Kasztner train
2003.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.3
Date:
use: approximately 1937-1946
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
16. Brown textured suitcase used by a young German Jewish woman
2005.415.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.415.3
Date:
use: 1938 September
…Anne (Anneliese) Weil was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, on August 23, 1921, to Elfriede Meyer, who was born on October 27,1886, in Mannheim, and Max…
17. Glass and silver keepsake box used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
2005.579.19_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.19 a-b
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…
18. Storage trunk owned by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-approximately 1946
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
19. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
… boarded with the family. In late 1939, the Folger family arrived from Poland following its invasion by Germany that September 1. The father told of the…
20. Small leather case with a detached lid used by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.461.2 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1936-1945
…Walter Gumpert was born in Germany to a Jewish couple, Isidor and Gertrud Kohls Gumpert. His father Isidor was born on July 18, 1869, in Ratzebuhr…