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1. Manhole housing from the Miła Street neighborhood in the former Warsaw ghetto
1990.293.1 a-b
Object | Accession Number: 1990.293.1 a
Date:
use: 1940 October 12-1943 May 16
…. The population of the 1.3 square mile ghetto swelled to 400,000 as Jews from surrounding areas were forced to move in. The food allotments issued in the…
2. Manhole cover from the Miła Street neighborhood in the former Warsaw ghetto
1990.293.1 a-b
Object | Accession Number: 1990.293.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1940 October 12-1943 May 16
… the 1.3 square mile ghetto swelled to 400,000 as Jews from surrounding areas were forced to move in. The food allotments issued in the ghetto were not…
3. Wide rectangular shovel head recovered postwar at a mass execution site
2010.443.41 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.41
Date:
found: 2005 August 17-2005 October 16
use: 1941-1942
… Hebrew. He asked to do outreach work with groups such as Roma, ex-prisoners, and Jews, and was appointed a liaison with the Jewish community in France. His…
4. Shield shaped shovel head recovered postwar at a mass execution site
2010.443.43 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.43
Date:
found: 2005 August 17-2005 October 16
use: 1941-1942
… Hebrew. He asked to do outreach work with groups such as Roma, ex-prisoners, and Jews, and was appointed a liaison with the Jewish community in France. His…
5. Shovel head with a partial wooden handle recovered postwar at a mass execution and grave site in Ukraine
2010.443.42 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.42
Date:
found: 2005 August 17-2005 October 16
use: 1941-1942
… Hebrew. He asked to do outreach work with groups such as Roma, ex-prisoners, and Jews, and was appointed a liaison with the Jewish community in France. His…
6. Pfaff industrial sewing machine with treadle of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.3
Date:
manufacture: 1920
use: approximately 1930-approximately 1945
…-old Mordechai the Älteste der Juden [Elder of the Jews], a position which gave him a wide range of powers over the Jewish community. He was ordered to…
7. Winnower of the type used in wartime Poland
Object | Accession Number: 2004.717.1
Date:
use: approximately 1942 December-1943
…, the second killing center constructed by the Germans and the first to implement Operation Reinhard, the SS plan to exterminate all Jews in the General…
8. Bosch engine component placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.15
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1900-before 1943
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
9. AEG motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.12
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1887-before 1943
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
10. Small cap placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.33
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1902-before 1943
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
11. Siemens-Schuckert generator placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.20
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1902-before 1943
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
12. Tatra automotive fuel pump placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.13
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1919-1942
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
13. Electric motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.8
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1908-before 1943
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
14. Container used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.29
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…’s appointment as Chancellor on January 30, 1933, led to increasingly severe restrictions on Jews. The 1935 Nuremberg Laws defined Jews by race and mandated the…
15. Hand crank, table top telephone from Sobibor railroad station
Object | Accession Number: 1990.291.1
Date:
use: after 1900-before 1946
… preparations for Operation Reinhard, the systematic extermination of all Jews living in German occupied Poland. In March 1942, SS and police authorities began…
16. Singer style treadle sewing machine table of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.78.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.1
Date:
manufacture: 1920
use: 1920-1945
…-old Mordechai the Älteste der Juden [Elder of the Jews], a position which gave him a wide range of powers over the Jewish community. He was ordered to…
17. Identification card template used by Gerry van Heel to forge identity documents
2010.441.105 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.441.105
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1944
… school in Rotterdam. On April 29, 1942, Jews were ordered to wear the Star of David badge. Jacob sat at the dining room table, cutting stars out of yellow…
18. Wooden spinning wheel used while in hiding in Belgium
2005.523.2 a-i front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.523.2 a-i
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… businesses. By 1942, there were regular round-ups to deport Jews for forced labor. The Iarchys decided that Grad, Jean, and his grandmother should go into…
19. Pin box and 57 straight pins carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.14
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, and authorities throughout the country quickly began suppressing the rights of Jews and boycotting their…
20. Asynchronous motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.10
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1889-1942
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…