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21. Patchwork leather wallet brought to the US by a Jewish Hungarian refugee
2013.117.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.117.4
Date:
emigration: 1939 May 17-1939 May 24
… effort and their cooperation in the deportation of all Hungarian Jews to concentration camps. On January 18, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated Budapest. The…
22. White bow tie with textured diamond pattern owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.47
Date:
use: approximately 1940
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
23. 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…
24. 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…
25. Running shoes worn by a German Jewish runner in pre-Olympic training
1998.121.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.121.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1935
… aggressively pursued. Jews were fired from their positions, businesses were confiscated, and they were barred from public facilities such as schools, parks, and…
26. Pair of khaki ski mittens used by a German Jewish emigre in the US
2004.485.9_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.9 a-b
Date:
received: after 1938
… dictatorship in Germany. Jews were subject to increasingly punitive persecutions. In 1938, Mina emigrated to the United States. During the war, Klara was…
27. 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…
28. Black leather bi-fold wallet used by a Jewish family in hiding
2003.318.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.318.2
Date:
use: 1942-1944
…. In May 1942, it was decreed that Jews had to wear Star of David badges. In September 1942, the Germans began rounding up Jews for deportation, so Lea…
29. Beige purse with cross stitched initials used by a Jewish woman in hiding
2003.318.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.318.4
Date:
use: 1942-1944
…. In May 1942, it was decreed that Jews had to wear Star of David badges. In September 1942, the Germans began rounding up Jews for deportation, so Lea…
30. Coin purse owned by Otto Frank
2018.613.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.3
Date:
use: approximately 1935
… France. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. Under Hitler, authorities began suppressing the rights of Jews, and…
31. Maroon handkerchief with acorns used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.6
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…
32. 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…
33. 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…
34. Handkerchief bearing a two-headed eagle owned by the Altarac family who fled from German occupying forces
2002.438.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.3
Date:
acquired: 1943 October-1944 September
… Axis Alliance and Serbia, where Belgrade located, was under German military government. Anti-Jewish policies were immediately implemented. Jews had to…
35. 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…
36. Pair of white lace gloves crocheted by a Dutch Jewish woman while living in hiding
2010.488.4_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.488.4 a-b
Date:
creation: 1942 October-1945 April 18
… Dutch Jews to extermination camps in occupied Poland. Michel and Saartje decided to go into hiding. They arranged to send two year old Anita, who was deaf…
37. Black headband embroidered MS St. Louis worn by a young girl on board the ship
2004.575.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.575.2
Date:
use: 1939 May 13-1939 June 17
… Grunberg. In 1933, the Nazi dictatorship came to power in Germany and implemented antisemitic policies to exclude Jews from German society. Annette’s father…
38. Pink handkerchief embroidered GS owned by a Slovakian Jewish girl
Object | Accession Number: 2011.434.2
Date:
acquired: after 1935 October 25
…-furnished home in an all-Jewish neighborhood. They spoke Slovak and Hungarian at home. The family were Orthodox Jews and observed traditional religious…
39. Brown leather coin purse with gold monogram used by Simon Jeruchim
2001.328.2 open
Object | Accession Number: 2001.328.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944
… for identification cards stamped Juif [Jew] in red that all Jews were required to carry. Jews, primarily foreign born, were being rounded up and put in…
40. Brown leather right hand glove brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.30 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.30
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… of directors to suggest selling the business outright or somehow aryanizing it by hiring non-Jews to act as the public face of the firm. To Fritz and…