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1. Black leather riding boots owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.56_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.56 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1940
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
2. White polo helmet owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.29 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.29
Date:
use: approximately 1935
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
3. Black leather riding boots owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.58_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.58 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1940
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
4. Black headband embroidered MS St. Louis worn by a young girl on board the ship
2004.575.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.575.2
Date:
use: 1939 May 13-1939 June 17
… Grunberg. In 1933, the Nazi dictatorship came to power in Germany and implemented antisemitic policies to exclude Jews from German society. Annette’s father…
5. U.S. army issue khaki cap worn by the director of the Vaad Hatzala Emergency Committee in postwar Germany
2008.180.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.180.8 | RG Number: RG-19.072.03.03
Date:
use: 1946-1949
… officially changed their mission to include all Jews, regardless of religiosity or affiliation, and focused on those living in areas that had been occupied by…
6. Green handkerchief case used by a German Jewish emigre
2003.132.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.132.2
Date:
emigration: 1936
… anti-Jewish laws, which restricted the daily lives of Jews. In 1936, Heinz and his brother Alfred secured one of the few visas granted to Jews trying to…
7. Leather bi-fold wallet with two photographs glued inside owned by a German Jewish refugee
2018.340.2 closed side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.340.2
Date:
depiction: 1940
… that restricted every aspect of Jewish life. Heinrich was no longer allowed to go to class because Jews had been barred from attending public school, and…
8. Brown alligator wallet carried by a Hungarian Jewish youth while a forced laborer and concentration camp inmate
2012.409.4 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.409.4
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1944
…, and Klari, born in 1929. Around 1930, they moved from their small village where they were the only Jews, to Mukacevo (now Mukacheve, Ukraine), partly…
9. Pair of men's black leather lace-up ankle boots owned by a Jewish refugee during his escape from Vienna
2004.628.5_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.628.5 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1939
received: 1938
… on his remaining assets that was required of all Jews leaving Austria; he received a permit to leave the country the next day. They left for Italy and…
10. Leather document holder with CIC credentials used by a Jewish American soldier
2011.395.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.395.4
Date:
received: 1944 October
use: 1944 October-1945 May
… was the foundation for the legal persecution of Jews in Germany. It excluded them from citizenship and identified Jews based on racial, not religious…
11. Pair of black leather lace-up ice skates owned by a German Jewish refugee
2007.101.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.101.13 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1938
emigration: 1946
… for a while. They went to Kobe, but were told by JEWCOM, the Jewish Community Council, that refugee aid in that city was only for Polish Jews; German…
12. Laced leather billfold with a painted harbor owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.2
Date:
received: after 1938-before 1947 December
… Germany on May 15, 1939, and arrived in Shanghai on June 14. Carl sold the family’s furniture and his factory. Jews could take almost no money out of…
13. Leather wallet with embossed images of Egyptian pharaohs acquired by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.105.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.105.2
Date:
received: approximately 1943
… section of Poland. But by November 1939, they had relocated to Tarnow to stay with Helena's mother, Sophie Lieberman Schiff. The Germans required all Jews…
14. Light brown leather billfold used by a Polish Jewish refugee
2012.358.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.358.2
Date:
unavailable: 
… hiding place under the outhouse in the backyard. On June 30, 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and occupied Zhetel. The persecution of Jews became…
15. Red-brown leather document wallet used by a German Jewish refugee
2003.149.64 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.64
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1937
…, 19 year old Rudolf went to London, England, to study business. In 1936, Rudolf, unable to return to Germany because of the restrictions on Jews, left…
16. Black beret owned postwar by Natan Caron who was interned in multiple concentration camps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.3
Date:
received: after 1945 April
… Brussels at night and saw his parents and friends in the day. On June 13, 1942, Jews were forced to wear Star of David patches. On June 26, Natan and…
17. Leather coin purse with 3 pins, a Dutch coin, and a metal key carried by a young Jewish Austrian refugee to the US
2010.194.3_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.3 a-f
Date:
received: 1945 June-1946 June
emigration: 1946 July
… immigrated to Vienna when he was a child because Austria was much more tolerant toward Jews. He had three brothers, Benjamin, born on January 30, 1902, Karl…
18. Red laced brown leather billfold with an image of a man pulling 2 women in a rickshaw acquired by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.7
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
…Jews, German--China--Shanghai.…
19. Blue laced tan leather billfold with an oval image of a man pullling 2 women in a rickshaw acquired by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.6
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
…Jews, German--China--Shanghai.…
20. Pair of gloves worn by Lili Lax Friedman and many additional Jewish brides in a DP camp
1999.7.12 c-d front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.12 c-d
Date:
creation: approximately 1946 January
use: 1946 January 27-before 1948 February
…, Germany invaded Hungary and soon began the systematic deportation of all Jews to concentration camps. Ludwig was confined to Munkacs ghetto and then…