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1. Medical bag used by a Jewish Polish man while living in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2014.487.2
Date:
use: 1939-1946
…Jews--Persecution--Poland--Biography.…
2. Metal school supply box inscribed in Yiddish used by a Polish Jewish teenager
2006.479.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2006.479.3
Date:
use: 1947-1951
… all the Jews from Rudnik, including the extended Wagner family. They were sent over the San River to Ulanow in Soviet-occupied territory. The Wagners…
3. Trunk used by a former German Jewish concentration camp inmate and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.31
Date:
use: approximately 1946-1949
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…
4. Trunk used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.30
Date:
use: approximately 1946-1949
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…
5. Large brown suitcase used by Hungarian Jewish refugees on the Kasztner train
2003.198.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.1
Date:
use: 1944 June-1952
… immediately. On March 31, Star of David badges were required for Jews. Bela’s clinic was shut, Judit was no longer allowed to attend school, and they had to…
6. Aluminum food container lid used by a Hungarian Jewish family on the Kasztner train
2003.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.3
Date:
use: approximately 1937-1946
… immediately. On March 31, Star of David badges were required for Jews. Bela’s clinic was shut, Judit was no longer allowed to attend school, and they had to…
7. Brown leather satchel used by a Polish Jewish prisoner
2016.151.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.151.2
Date:
use: after 1941 December-1949 September
… Jews who were not working in local workshops or for the Jewish council were required to appear before a medical commission for selection to labor camps…
8. Glass and silver keepsake box used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
2005.579.19_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.19 a-b
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…
9. Ritz of Paris lipstick case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.16
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… uprising and its violent suppression by the Germans, with mass deportations of all Jews in Warsaw and the annihilation of the ghetto. Her father, aged 39…
10. Red drawstring pouch used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.6
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…. April 1943 brought the Warsaw ghetto uprising and its violent suppression by the Germans, with mass deportations of all Jews in Warsaw and the…
11. 4711 glass perfume bottle carried by a Jewish refugee searching for her family
2008.228.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.21
Date:
use: 1943-1947
… sector of Warsaw. April 1943 brought the Warsaw ghetto uprising and its violent suppression by the Germans, with mass deportations of all Jews in Warsaw…
12. Small square black painted wooden trunk used by Jewish refugees
2004.322.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.322.2
Date:
use: approximately 1950
… store. In March 1938, Nazi Germany merged Austria into the German Reich. Anti-Jewish laws were enacted to persecute Jews and exclude them from Austrian…
13. Small suitcase used by a former hidden child to emigrate to the US
2001.309.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.309.1
Date:
use: 1949 October
… found them in Paris. In November, the family had to register with the German authorities and carry identification cards stamped Juif [Jew] in red. Three…
14. Wooden canvas covered trunk used by Jewish refugees
2004.322.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.322.1
Date:
use: approximately 1950
… store. In March 1938, Nazi Germany merged Austria into the German Reich. Anti-Jewish laws were enacted to persecute Jews and exclude them from Austrian…
15. Black leather case presented to the Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
1988.72.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.4
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… or persecuted Jews by instructing them in trades and agriculture, including farming, sewing, and mechanics. They were active in many Jewish ghettos…
16. Black suitcase with leather trim used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
2000.258.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.1
Date:
use: approximately 1939 March-1947 November
… appointed Chancellor and began to put into practice the Nazi pledge to persecute Jews. Soon Jews were barred from certain professions and people were…
17. Aluminum suitcase used by Jewish Polish postwar refugees
1997.102.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.102.1
Date:
acquired: 1946
… England and did not return. Rozia and her husband Leon Gelblat moved to Leon’s hometown, Pionki. Germans occupied Radom on September 8 and Jews were targets…
18. Yellow and green suitcase with key used by a German Jewish girl
2012.261.3 a open
Object | Accession Number: 2012.261.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1949
…. Walter was an electrical engineer and they owned two stores that repaired and sold electrical appliances. They were observant Jews. In January 1933…
19. Square, brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.3
Date:
emigration: 1949 November
… Jewish area, and attended a large synagogue. The Nazi regime had taken power shortly before Dorit’s birth and actively began persecuting Jews. Gertrud…
20. Lightweight brown suitcase carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee child
2011.281.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2011.281.2
Date:
received: 1946 March-1946 July
use: 1946 July
… another optical frames branch had been established. In May, Germany occupied Holland. More and more restrictions were forced upon the Jews. But until August…