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1. 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…
2. Ruth Wertheim papers
2004.676.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2004.676.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1946
bulk: 1945-1946
…Ruth Wertheim (later Bacow, 1927-1994) was born in Giesen, Germany on March 28, 1927 to Leopold (1891-1944) and Emma Wertheim (1896-1944). Before the…
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 … gewiss.” Since he was handicapped our chances of getting out of Germany were nil when anti semitism reared it’s ugly head. In 1933 I started my first…
3. Tool used to classify hair color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 a
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…Tool used to classify hair color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
4. Josef Baur papers
2017.675.1 Box 3 Folder 23 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.675.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1954
… September 27, 1938. The family lived in Nuremberg, Germany. During the war, Josef Baur worked as a member of the Police Battalion 131 and the 14th SS Police…
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 … married Agnes Baur who was born on December 27, 1910. Their son, Josef Baur, was born on September 27, 1938. The family lived in Nuremberg, Germany. During…
5. Hans Posner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2001.240.1
Date:
creation: 1920-1950
…Hans Joachim Posner was born on January 22, 1927 in Dresden, Germany, to Georg Josef Posner (d. 1936) and Fanny Leschziner Posner (d. 1943). Georg…
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 …, Beuthen, Germany (now Bytom, Poland), 1929-1930. 2. Photograph of Hans Joachim Posner and his brother, Freddy Posner, Beuthen, Germany (now Bytom, Poland…
6. Political cartoon depicting Joseph Goebbels created by an American journalist
2018.298.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.5
Date:
creation: 1936-1943
Artwork Title:
Paul Joseph Goebbels
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
7. Political cartoon depicting Jawaharlal Nehru created by an American journalist
2018.298.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.9
Date:
creation: 1936-1943
Artwork Title:
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
8. Child’s coat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.1
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
9. Staedtler pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.4
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: after 1900-1945
…Staedtler pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
10. Coat design, Ulla, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.10
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Ulla
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
11. Wolfgang Mueller papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.133 | RG Number: RG-10.293
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1946
…Letter written on the forced departure of a family from Neuhaus, Germany (1937), letter requesting assistance to obtain a visa to Cuba (1941), and a…
12. Israel Elefant family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.475.1
Date:
creation: circa 1929-1946
undated: 
…-war family photographs in Łódź, Poland and post-war photographs taken in the Deggendorf DP camp, Germany.…
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 … Elefant in the Łódź ghetto. 3. Identification photograph of Israel Elefant, Deggendorf, Germany, 1946. Israel Elefant (1917-1999) was born in Ostroviec…
13. Emil and Martha Feigenbaum collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.274
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1945
… Berlin, Germany. The papers specifically concern emigration, employment, and visa issues. Although the couple was able to emigrate to the United States…
14. Lobby card for the film “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” (1939)
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.1
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1939
… production of the film, but failed. Fearing possible retribution for their relatives in Germany or German-controlled areas, many actors turned down roles in…
15. Lobby card for the film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin" (1939)
2018.590.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.7
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1939 October 29
… the hands of Nazi guards. This was the first American film to depict a simulated concentration camp in Germany. The film also includes newsreel footage…
16. Small wood-framed chalkboard used by a student in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.44.2
Date:
use: 1934-1945
…Small wood-framed chalkboard used by a student in Nazi Germany…
17. Anne Löb Marx papers
1999.2.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.2.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939
…Anne Marx (born Anneliese Löb) was born on October 20, 1930 to Arthur and Marie Löb (née Lehmann) in Rastatt, Germany. Anne and her brother Friedrich…
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 … housed in the donor files of the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2 My brother Fred was born on March 7, 1925 in Rastatt, Germany. My father Arthur…
18. Moshe Sheps photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.439.1
Date:
creation: circa 1925-1946
…" in Gersfeld, Germany and in Italy awaiting immigration to Palestine; four family photographs from Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; and three photographs of…
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 ….” 18. Photograph of a group of Jewish survivors during their stay in “Kibbutz Buchenwald,” Germany, November 27, 1945. Inscribed in Polish: “Stride in…
19. German Rentenbank, 1 Rentenmark note
2003.413.94 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.94
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
…Germany.…
20. Beatrice Maier papers
1995.A.0290 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0290
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1947
… Staatsanwaltschaft in April 1947, in which he describes events he witnessed during Kristallnacht in Mühlheim, Germany, and identifying by name the perpetrators who…