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41. Ruth Miller papers
2006.473.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 109
Document | Accession Number: 2006.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1893-2003
… transported by truck and forced into a small, crowded space with other Jews. The SS members randomly whipped people and shot into the crowd. Ruth had no access…
42. Schächter family papers
2000.407.2 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2000.407.2
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1998
bulk: 1938-1947
… church where laborers gathered. They were put on a truck for Germany and Janina worked as a farm hand. She constantly needed to stop working to care for 1…
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 …, she and Basha went to a church where laborers gathered. They were put on a truck for Germany and Janina worked as a farm hand. She constantly needed to…
43. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… had papers and spoke German, they beat and arrested him and loaded him into a truck, where twenty friends from the YMCA sat. They were taken to…
44. Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.6
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1940
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… students were transported there by truck. Sara and Hirsz also spent time at a Jewish recreation club, Maccabi, which was strongly pro-Zionist, and joined the…
45. Enameled porcelain vase with a floral pattern owned by Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1925-approximately 1945
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… students were transported there by truck. Sara and Hirsz also spent time at a Jewish recreation club, Maccabi, which was strongly pro-Zionist, and joined the…
46. Selinger family papers
2008.227.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 47
Document | Accession Number: 2008.227.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1950
… to escape. Seeing trucks arriving to transport the prisoners to concentration camps, Edward and Kay decided to escape through a weak link in the fence…
47. Pair of dice carried by a Dutch resistance member
2004.301.4_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.301.4 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
…. They also lived on Burmenstraat which had bunkers at the end of the street where the Germans held Jews until trucks came to take them away. One day…
48. Lazowski family papers
2018.274.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.274.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-1953
… saying he was alive. However, Philip and his mother witnessed the Germans beginning to load Jews into trucks and take them away. Philip was reluctant to…
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 … among several hundred Jews forced into trucks by Nazi soldiers. Philip, 12 years old at the time, escaped death that day and managed to reconnect with his…
49. George Birman papers
1993.41.2 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1993.41.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2002
… being evacuated to the Kovno ghetto. The transport came and while the guard talked to the truck driver, Hirsch, Abel, and another man approached the fence…
50. Schatz and Bonder families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.429.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1991
bulk: 1940-1957
…), first driving supply trucks and setting up food commissaries. Later Henry worked as a chief interviewer in the displaced persons division to establish…
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 … Administration), first driving supply trucks and setting up food commissaries. Later Henry worked as a chief interviewer in the displaced persons division to…
51. Herman Neudorf papers
1994.83.2 Box 1 Folder 26 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1994.83.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
… Łódź and Hermann saw Jews beaten, loaded on trucks, and taken away. Soon, the Germans interned the Jews in a ghetto. On June 24, 1940, Hermann escaped to…
52. Brust family papers
1992.13.11 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1992.13.11
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1955
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… heard the whispers and rumors and was aware of a growing sense of doom. She knew large trains of people were being sent to camps and witnessed trucks…
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 … heard the whispers and rumors and was aware of a growing sense of doom. She knew large trains of people were being sent to camps and witnessed trucks…
53. 12/14 double edge iron shoemaking tool used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.13
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
54. Straight half inch stitching awl used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.10
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
55. Leather creaser with an grooved head engraved 6 used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.12
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
56. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1948
issue: after 1914 August 05
… start his life over in a new place with a new language. In February 1946, Kurt was catching a ride in the back of a truck, when the tailgate gave way and…
57. Leather creaser with a curved needle point head used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.11
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
58. Cobbler's hammer used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.23
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
59. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service buttonhole ribbon bar awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.4
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… start his life over in a new place with a new language. In February 1946, Kurt was catching a ride in the back of a truck, when the tailgate gave way and…
60. Dark red shoe wax used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.24
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…