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1. Engraved lighter made by a Jewish forced laborer
2019.428.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2019.428.2
Date:
creation: 1941-1944
…). Bernard was an accountant, and Lotte was a homemaker. Cernauti was part of the Austria-Hungary before World War I. Life for Jews in the city was difficult…
2. Slug pressing iron placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
1992.240.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.25
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: approximately 1900
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. Yellow and brown plastic hair clip owned by a young girl in German occupied Budapest
2008.337.4 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.337.4 a-b
Date:
received: 1944
use: 1940-1944
… Marta. But after waiting in line for several hours, she changed her mind. It was now after the curfew set for Jews and Charlotte was confronted by a…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. Travel clock within a brown leather case used by the Altarac family while imprisoned
2002.438.7 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.7 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1944
… Axis Alliance and Serbia, where Belgrade located, was under German military government. Anti-Jewish policies were immediately implemented. Jews had to…
10. 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…
11. 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.…
12. 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.…
13. 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…
14. 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.…
15. Engraved silver cigarette case used by a Polish Jewish refugee in Russia
2009.352.2 open
Object | Accession Number: 2009.352.2
Date:
use: 1942-1944
… Białystok, Poland, on January 25, 1940; in March 1941, he was in Archangelsk, Russia. The family was later deported, with the other Jews in the region, to…
16. Shaving brush used by a German Jewish refugee in hiding
1990.307.7_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 a
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…
17. 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…
18. Black Bakelite circular eyeglasses worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train
2003.198.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.8
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1946
… immediately. On March 31, Star of David badges were required for Jews. Bela’s clinic was shut, Judit was no longer allowed to attend school, and they had to…
19. Omega wristwatch worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train
2003.198.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.7
Date:
received: approximately 1940-1941
use: approximately 1940-approximately 1965
… immediately. On March 31, Star of David badges were required for Jews. Bela’s clinic was shut, Judit was no longer allowed to attend school, and they had to…
20. Straight razor with an offwhite plastic handle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.5
Date:
use: 1928-1980
… year old Simon became homeless and lived on the street. In 1923, Simon became an apprentice shoemaker to an Orthodox Jew, Zisha Nitka, in Kalisz, Poland…