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1. Broken fine tooth comb owned by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.31.2.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.31.2.2
Date:
use: after 1944 July-before 1945 April
… belongings were confiscated, and many Jews were sent to Siberia to work in labor camps. On June 24, 1941, Soviet forces fled as Germany occupied Kovno…
2. Bar of soap used by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.31.2.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.31.2.7
Date:
use: after 1944 July-before 1945 April
… belongings were confiscated, and many Jews were sent to Siberia to work in labor camps. On June 24, 1941, Soviet forces fled as Germany occupied Kovno…
3. Golden-brown comb owned by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.31.2.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.31.2.1
Date:
use: after 1944 July-before 1945 April
… belongings were confiscated, and many Jews were sent to Siberia to work in labor camps. On June 24, 1941, Soviet forces fled as Germany occupied Kovno…
4. Lipstick tube used by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.31.2.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.31.2.6
Date:
use: after 1944 July-before 1945 April
… belongings were confiscated, and many Jews were sent to Siberia to work in labor camps. On June 24, 1941, Soviet forces fled as Germany occupied Kovno…
5. Handmade metal comb used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
2013.379.8 right side
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.8
Date:
creation: 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…
6. Pocket mirror used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
2013.379.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.9
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…
7. Brown strap wrist watch worn postwar by a former labor camp inmate and aid worker
1999.155.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.155.2
Date:
received: approximately 1945 July
… Jews fled Kovno, including Abel and Hirsch. German soldiers apprehended them and forced their return to Kovno. In June and July, there were violent…
8. Brown plastic lice comb used by a Romanian Jewish woman concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2012.453.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 May-1945 May
… pressured Romanian diplomats into giving northern Romania, including Cehu Silvaniei, to Hungary. The Hungarians began conscripting Romanian Jews to work in…
9. Silver hair brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.4
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
… in Berlin sometime after 1936. After the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, life for Jews in Germany became very difficult, and in 1941, deportations…
10. Silver clothes brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.3
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
… in Berlin sometime after 1936. After the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, life for Jews in Germany became very difficult, and in 1941, deportations…
11. Large black plastic comb used by a Polish Jewish girl living with an assumed identity
2010.465.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.465.4
Date:
use: 1941 December-1948 September
… was taken by a neighbor, Frankiw Yurko. All Jews were ordered to report to Mosciska. They had heard of the killings that took place there: her paternal…
12. Brown plastic eyeglasses worn by a Jewish resident of the Lvov ghetto
2009.204.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.7
Date:
use: 1941-1949
…. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and occupied Lvov. In November 1941, the Germans segregated the Jews into a ghetto, shooting thousands…
13. Cast metal charcoal iron with hinged top and wooden handle
Object | Accession Number: 1990.81.4
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… ghetto in Poland, was destroyed, and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
14. Cast metal chimney iron with a wooden handle
Object | Accession Number: 1990.81.3
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… ghetto in Poland, was destroyed, and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
15. Junghans single-bell alarm clock
Object | Accession Number: 1990.80.3
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… residents were murdered. In summer 1944, Łódź, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed, and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau…
16. Cast metal charcoal iron with a wooden handle
Object | Accession Number: 1990.81.2
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… ghetto in Poland, was destroyed, and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
17. Eyeglasses and case used Mayer Altarac whose family fled from German occupying forces
2002.438.5 b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.5 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1948
… Axis Alliance and Serbia, where Belgrade located, was under German military government. Anti-Jewish policies were immediately implemented. Jews had to…
18. Soap used by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate
1990.51.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.51.4
Date:
use: approximately 1943-1945
… German authorities removed Monius and his family from their apartment. During the first massacre of Jews, Monius hid in an attic. The family was able to…
19. Carved inscribed walking stick given to an American soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1996.A.0251.2
Date:
received: 1945 May 05
… charge of several DP camps and the exchange point at Hof. He worked discreetly with the Jewish underground to bring eastern European Jews into the…
20. Razor used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.7_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 b
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
… permit was rescinded in 1940, but he continued his work illegally with the help of non-Jewish friends. In early 1941, all Jews were required to register…