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1. Jewelry box with a secret compartment used to hide documents belonging to German Jewish prisoners
2019.180.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.180.2 a-b
Date:
creation: after 1944 April-before 1945
… Jews in town being collected into a truck and taken away. She quickly went home to tell her grandfather what the Nazis were doing. He had always helped…
2. Large suitcase with a broken handle used by a young Austrian Jewish refugee during emigration
2016.112.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.8
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
3. Macramé bag with 2 wooden handles used by a Polish Jewish family while in hiding
2008.117.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.117.3
Date:
use: 1943-1945
… Bochnia a labor camp. That March, Franka and the children flee to Hungary. The family is smuggled out in a truck with a false bottom, but abandoned in the…
4. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp wrapper for 100 kronen note stack issued to a German Jewish inmate
2015.522.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.522.8
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
received: 1943-1944
… Red Cross camp about 5 miles away. From there, she was sent by truck to a displaced persons camp. During this time, she learned that her brother, Carl…
5. Faux alligator suitcase issued to inmates released in Bergen-Belsen prisoner exchange
2005.89.1 top
Object | Accession Number: 2005.89.1
Date:
received: 1944 June 10
… who cried when their parents died were hung on the electric fence around the camp. In the morning, a truck would come and a doctor would tell them which…
6. Strongbox and 2 skeleton keys used by a Dutch resistance member
2004.301.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.301.3 a-c
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…
7. Black Vulcanfiber suitcase used by a Dutch Jewish family while in hiding
2004.301.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.301.2
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
…. 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…
8. Brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1949 November
… BELLEVILLE, N.J. / 36397 / 7 1719 N. 33 rd. 4th st. / lsbelA / 213 / STEAMSHIP TRUCKING, INC. / Room 224, PIER 61, N.R., NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. / TEL. Chelsea…
9. Upright, wardrobe-style trunk used by a Jewish family during their postwar emigration
Object | Accession Number: 2002.416.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1948 October 21-1948 October 30
… farmer got the family across the border in two trucks, likely into Soviet-occupied Romania. Once over the border, Jewish agents helped the family continue…
10. Rucksack used by a German Jewish family going into hiding
1990.307.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.5
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 June
… empty gasoline truck to unoccupied southern France. On August 9, Albert, Irene, and Max left Amsterdam, with only the clothes they were wearing, for a…
11. British ordnance box given to a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.3
Date:
received: 1944 September-1944 December
… empty gasoline truck to unoccupied southern France. On August 9, Albert, Irene, and Max left Amsterdam, with only the clothes they were wearing, for a…
12. 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
… empty gasoline truck to unoccupied southern France. On August 9, Albert, Irene, and Max left Amsterdam, with only the clothes they were wearing, for a…
13. Leather pouch for a dog tag given to a Danish resistance member
1989.297.2.2_001.JPG
Object | Accession Number: 1989.297.2.2
Date:
acquired: 1944-1945
… policemen into trucks. Knud quickly ducked into a nearby station storehouse to stay out of sight. Blank forms and documents, as well as official stamps to…