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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. Black leather mid-calf boots worn by a female Jewish concentration camp prisoner
2002.366.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.366.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1944 December-1945
acquired: 1944 December-1945 January
…, 1939. Tarnów was occupied a week later by German forces which prompted many Jews to flee east, including the Fass’ neighbor. Samuel was supposed to go…
3. White apron used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.15
Date:
received: approximately 1945
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
4. Small wallet handmade from red paper from the German occupation
1992.169.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.16
Date:
recovered: approximately 1945
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
5. Embossed brown leather bi-fold wallet used by a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, British Army
2007.492.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.492.2
Date:
use: 1944 September-1946 July
… Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly severe restrictions on Jews. The government sanctioned anti-Jewish boycotts and enacted anti-Jewish legislation. In 1935…
6. Brown leather work boots worn by a Hungarian Jewish man for forced labor and in hiding
2003.442.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.442.3 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1943 March
use: 1943 March-1956
emigration: 1956 December
… 1941. Modeled after Germany’s Nuremberg Laws they defined Jews in racial terms, excluded Jews from various professions, and severely restricted their…
7. Ceremonial Masonic blue and white ribbon collar owned by a Hungarian Jewish emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.8
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April 01
emigration: 1949 March 29
… and anti-Jewish decrees were put in place; Jews had to wear Star of David armbands, move into ghettos, and deportations to concentration camps began. On…
8. Leather wallet with gold leaf monogram kept by a Jewish girl while living in hiding
2006.44.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.44.2
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… long afterwards, Dr. Kleinman escaped from a transport and joined his family in Pinsk. In order to avoid the deportations of Jews to the Soviet interior…
9. Green knit cap worn by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.4
Date:
use: approximately 1944 October-1945
…, closed his office in Berlin on April 1, 1933, and left for Palestine. Many Jews were forced to put non-Jews in charge of their businesses or sell them at a…
10. Green knit cap worn by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.5
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945
…, closed his office in Berlin on April 1, 1933, and left for Palestine. Many Jews were forced to put non-Jews in charge of their businesses or sell them at a…