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1. Sign excluding Jews from a property
Object | Accession Number: 1990.256.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-approximately 1945
…Sign excluding Jews from a property…
2. Propaganda postcard with a surprised Jew and a swastika
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.310
Date:
publication/distribution: after 1919-before 1946
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Propaganda postcard with a surprised Jew and a swastika…
3. Painted steel sign from Sobibor railroad station
Object | Accession Number: 1990.291.4
Date:
use: after 1900-before 1946
… preparations for Operation Reinhard, the systematic extermination of all Jews living in German occupied Poland. In March 1942, SS and police authorities began…
4. Antisemitic postcard issued by the Nazi Party
Object | Accession Number: 1996.17.1
Date:
approximately 1939-1945
…Postcard displaying Nazi propaganda against Jews.…
5. Illustrated postcard with finger holes owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.8
Date:
emigration: 1939-1949
… eastern route to Asia, one of the two remaining ways for Jews to leave. In order to acquire an exit visa from Soviet-controlled Lithuania, Sara’s family…
6. Tool used to classify skin color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
2017.355.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.355.2 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1905-1914
use: approximately 1905-1945
… foreign,” including Jews, “Slavs, Roma (gypsies), and blacks.” Racial hygiene studies assigned individuals to state-defined races, ranked from “superior” to…
7. Service recognition card for British commemorative medals and ribbons issued to an Austrian Jewish woman in the British Auxiliary
2009.294.6 back, service recognition card for commemorative medals and ribbons, Lilly Feldmann Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2009.294.6
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
…Lilly Feldmann was born in Vienna, Austria, on June 23, 1920. In 1938, hating and fearing the unrelenting growth of violent persecutions of Jews and…
8. Tool used to classify eye color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 2017.355.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1930-1945
use: approximately 1930-1945
… made efforts to exclude anyone deemed hereditarily “less valuable” or “racially foreign,” including Jews, “Slavs, Roma (gypsies), and blacks.” Racial…
9. Tool used to classify hair color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 a
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
… race” as its eugenic ideal, and made efforts to exclude anyone deemed hereditarily “less valuable” or “racially foreign,” including Jews, “Slavs, Roma…