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1. Folding Fan owned by a Japanese aid coordinator for Jewish refugees in Shanghai
2003.464.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.464.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… the “Jewish problem” in depth. The Protocols falsely stated that Jews had access to a vast international power network and both men believed the claims…
2. Lace-trimmed headband or cap owned by a Hungarian chambermaid
2018.409.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.5
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1944
… from 1935, which defined Jews in racial terms. They excluded them from various professions, restricted their opportunities in economic life, and stripped…
3. Bootjack used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.4
Date:
use: 1939-1945
…: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, and so on. Salek feared discovery not only as a Jew, but also as a Communist. Since he had been called Tomek by his Polish…
4. White handkerchief with openwork flowers carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.10
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…
5. White handkerchief with a stitched border carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.9
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…
6. White handkerchief with a fan design carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.11
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…
7. Yellow handkerchief with red dots owned by a young girl in German occupied Budapest
2008.337.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.337.3
Date:
received: 1944
use: 1940-1944
… Marta. But after waiting in line for several hours, she changed her mind. It was now after the curfew set for Jews and Charlotte was confronted by a…
8. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.2
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… teller because antisemitism barred most Jews from teaching. In 1936, Fela married her second cousin, Antek Abram Kupferblum (later Anthony Kuper, 1903-1987…
9. Purse carried by Mimi Altarac who fled German-occupied Belgrade with her family
2002.438.9 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.9
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… Axis Alliance and Serbia, where Belgrade located, was under German military government. Anti-Jewish policies were immediately implemented. Jews had to…
10. Red plaid handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.5
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. Boy Scout red leather woggle worn by a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
Object | Accession Number: 2007.205.14
Date:
use: 1940-1945
emigration: 1939 February
… street repair work. As the living conditions for Jews became increasingly dangerous, Ludwig’s parents unsuccessfully sought visas to leave Austria. Since…
12. Green canvas belt for a Boy Scout uniform used by a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2007.205.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.205.15
Date:
use: 1940-1945
emigration: 1939 February
… street repair work. As the living conditions for Jews became increasingly dangerous, Ludwig’s parents unsuccessfully sought visas to leave Austria. Since…
13. Cantor’s black tufted hat worn by a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.7
Date:
use: after 1922-before 1952
… later, the occupation authorities decreed that all Jews six years and older were required to wear a yellow Star of David. Eva could no longer attend…
14. 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…
15. Black textured leather trifold wallet used by a Hungarian Jewish youth and former concentration camp inmate
2012.409.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.409.3
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…
16. Blue and green plaid belt for a school uniform worn by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.5
Date:
use: approximately 1939 July-1946 May
… as an execution site for Jews. Ellen’s maternal grandparents Eduard and Dorothea were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia on…
17. 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…
18. Passport holder, carried to Ecuador by a German Jewish woman
2019.18.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.18.2
Date:
use: 1939 January 02-before 1942 June 13
… of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were passed that restricted every aspect of Jewish life. Almost immediately, the 117 Jews in Rastenburg were barred…
19. Faux alligator photo wallet used by a young German Jewish refugee
2013.486.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.18
Date:
use: approximately 1939-approximately 1946
… were taken and replaced with a passport marked J for Jew. Charlotte tried to get the family to France, as she had promised Ernst. They reached La Panne…
20. Black leather photo wallet used by a young German Jewish refugee
2013.486.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.17
Date:
use: approximately 1939-approximately 1946
… were taken and replaced with a passport marked J for Jew. Charlotte tried to get the family to France, as she had promised Ernst. They reached La Panne…