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1. Cross-stitch table runner from a Jewish woman’s dowry
2014.490.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.2
Date:
creation: 1881-1910
… authorities already pursued a policy of harsh, persecutory antisemitism against Jews. In September 1940, a coalition government came to power led by General Ion…
2. Pair of William Adams & Sons stoneware candlesticks with a scene of Oliver Twist meeting Fagin
2016.184.77a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.77 a-b
Date:
manufacture: 1895-1920
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
3. Lantern from Belzec railroad station
Object | Accession Number: 1990.291.6
Date:
use: after 1900-before 1946
… for Operation Reinhard, the systematic extermination of all Jews living in German occupied Poland. In November, SS and police authorities began…
4. Railroad signal lantern with a reflector from Sobibor railroad station
1990.291.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.291.2
Date:
use: after 1900-before 1945
… Operation Reinhard, the systematic extermination of all Jews living in German occupied Poland. In March 1942, SS and police authorities began construction of…
5. Table covering with elaborate whitework embroidery and a crocheted border recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.6
Date:
recovered: 1945 July
creation: 1910
… household. Kato’s maternal and paternal grandparents were observant Jews, but Kato’s family was not religious, although they did observe the high holidays…
6. Shoemaker’s stool of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.3
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… of the year. In summer 1944, Łódź, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing…
7. Carved upright wooden bench owned by Jakob Krämer and the Heppner family
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.11 a-d
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1911
use: before 1942 August
received: approximately 1958
… the SS. The occupying administration gradually tightened control on the residents, and on April 29, 1942, all Jews were required to wear yellow Star of…
8. Pillow sham with embroidered animals made by a Jewish immigrant
Object | Accession Number: 2012.72.6
Date:
emigration: 1912
…Jews--United States--Biography.…
9. Pillow sham with embroidered animals made by a Jewish immigrant
Object | Accession Number: 2012.72.8
Date:
emigration: 1912
…Jews--United States--Biography.…
10. Table runner with cross stitch bird and flowers made by a Jewish immigrant
Object | Accession Number: 2012.72.4
Date:
emigration: 1912
…Jews--United States--Biography.…