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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. Sign posted at rail station during Nazi occupation of Poland stating "Jews not allowed to enter"
1992.233.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.233.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940
found: 1972
…Sign posted at rail station during Nazi occupation of Poland stating "Jews not allowed to enter"…
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3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Printed reproduction of a photograph of a needlepoint about the war
2016.184.373 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.373
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May 10-1945 May 08
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
6. Antisemitic postcard issued by the Nazi Party
Object | Accession Number: 1996.17.1
Date:
approximately 1939-1945
…Postcard displaying Nazi propaganda against Jews.…
7. Inscribed postcard of 2 Jewish men in an office
2016.184.770_front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.770
Date:
use: after 1918-before 1940
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
8. Award certificate issued postwar with 6 medals to a Dutch resistance leader
1990.23.240.1-.2 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.240.2
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May-1945 May
… South America on May 11. On May 10, Germany invaded the Netherlands. After the SS arrived, they began implementing anti-Semitic restrictions. All Jews…
9. Notice of achievement received by a boy in a Łódź ghetto orphanage
2005.558.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.558.1
Date:
commemoration: 1940 August 01-1940 September 01
… Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. The city was renamed Litzmannstadt and in February 1940, the Jews were forced into a ghetto in a small section…
10. Handmade illustrated children's book created by an Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.5
Date:
emigration: 1940 March
Artwork Title:
Children's Book
… April and the Anschluss received overwhelming support. Anti-Jewish legislation was passed and Jews were stripped of their civil rights. Seeing her country…
11. Handmade illustrated children's book created by an Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.8
Date:
emigration: 1940 March
Artwork Title:
Fur Unsere Kleinen!
Alternate Title:
For Our Small Ones!
… April and the Anschluss received overwhelming support. Anti-Jewish legislation was passed and Jews were stripped of their civil rights. Seeing her country…
12. Autograph album used by an Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.6
Date:
emigration: 1940 March
… April and the Anschluss received overwhelming support. Anti-Jewish legislation was passed and Jews were stripped of their civil rights. Seeing her country…
13. Handmade book illustrating the alphabet created by an Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.4
Date:
emigration: 1940 March
Artwork Title:
Alphabet Book
… April and the Anschluss received overwhelming support. Anti-Jewish legislation was passed and Jews were stripped of their civil rights. Seeing her country…
14. 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…
15. Envelope postmarked Warsaw and New York 1940 saved by a Jewish Lithuanian concentration camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1989.124.1
Date:
postmark: 1940 December 20
postmark: 1940 December 25
postmark: 1940 December 26
…, with a group of 1700 Jews, including 1000 children, to Auschwitz concentration camp. Nesse, her mother, and her brothers avoided the selection because…
16. Burned fragments Talmudic commentary recovered during Kristallnacht by a Jewish Austrian girl
2015.337.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.337.2 a-b
Date:
found: 1938 November 09-1938 November 11
emigration: 1940 February 10-1940 February 22
…, a false accusation of a Jew opening fire on German soldiers brought on a vicious pogrom that claimed more than 1000 lives and came to be known as…
17. 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…
18. 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…
19. 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…
20. Bar Kochba Jewish Sports Club metal plaque with a Star of David owned by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.364.6, metal plaque with Star of David, Tom T. Kovary Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2009.364.6
Date:
commemoration: 1938 January 09
emigration: 1940 February
…Jews--Persecutions--Czechoslovakia.…