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61. Brown Vulcan fiber suitcase inscribed and used by a German Jewish couple
Object | Accession Number: 2012.299.3
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1945 May
…Mathilde Rebecca Scheunpflug was born on March 14, 1876, in Salzwedel, Germany. Mathilde converted to Judaism in order to marry Adolf Daniel de Beer…
62. Box owned by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.15.2
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
63. Leather suitcase used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
Object | Accession Number: 2016.553.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1939 March 08-1941
…Fritz (later Fred) Strauss (1926-2013) was born in Miehlen, Germany, the only child of Albert (?-1926) and Martha (or Marta) Strauss (nee Strauss…
64. Aluminum wardrobe trunk used by a German Jewish emigrant family
Object | Accession Number: 2011.441.2
Date:
use: 1939 November 06
…Bruno Einstein was born on May 10, 1901, in Fellheim, Germany, to Isaak and Bertha Mayer Einstein. Bruno had two siblings: Arthur, born on October 8…
65. Gold painted metal box with heart and initials made by a Jewish Polish slave labor camp inmate
1997.102.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.102.2 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1944 September-1945 January
… York, sent Kadysh papers to come to the US, but he would not leave his wife and children. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Motek was in…
66. Trunk used by Erwin Jacobowitz when he emigrated from Germany
2003.355.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.355.1
Date:
use: 1939 August
use: 1953
…Trunk used by Erwin Jacobowitz when he emigrated from Germany…
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67. Vulcanized fiber suitcase owned by a member of the Frank family
2018.613.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.7
Date:
manufacture: after 1871
use: after 1931
…Herbert August Frank (1891-1987) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Michael (1851-1909) and Alice Betty (nee Stern, 1865-1953) Frank. He had…
68. Black suitcase with leather trim used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
2000.258.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.1
Date:
use: approximately 1939 March-1947 November
…Bertl (Bertha) Rosenfeld (Rosenfelt) was born on October 28, 1925, in Korb, Germany, the eldest child of Adolf and Katherine (Katty) Lemburger…
69. Ritz of Paris lipstick case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.16
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
70. Inscribed wooden box with painted lid bought by a Roman Catholic Polish former forced laborer
2014.469.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.469.3 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1944 November
… school through the fourth grade. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. That day, Zbigniew was playing outside when the first German warplanes flew…
71. Haeberlein-Metzger lebkuchen blue decorative tin brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.49_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.49 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
72. 4711 glass perfume bottle carried by a Jewish refugee searching for her family
2008.228.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.21
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
73. Large brown suitcase used by Hungarian Jewish refugees on the Kasztner train
2003.198.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.1
Date:
use: 1944 June-1952
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
74. Burlap covered steamer trunk used by a German Jewish family
2008.199.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.199.1
Date:
manufacture: 1938
emigration: 1938
…Gisela (Jill) Renate Berg was born on May 1, 1933, to Josef and Klara Meyer Berg, in the small farming community of Lechenich, Germany, near Cologne…
75. Hitler Youth instructional filmstrip found by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2007.518.23
Date:
creation: approximately 1936-approximately 1940
found: approximately 1945 May
Series Title:
Bildband fur die Schulung in der HJ [Filmstrip for Training in the Hitler Youth]
… was assigned to the Warrant Officer Corps. He was deployed to the European Theater and was stationed in May 1945 in Ulm, Germany. He attained the rank…
76. Cover for a set of etchings by Walter Spitzer inscribed by the artist
Object | Accession Number: 1991.138.10
Date:
creation: 1955
depiction: 1943 June-1945 April
…, Germany invaded Poland. In 1940, his brother was taken away by German soldiers. Shortly after, his father died from complications after surgery. Soon after…
77. Handmade woven wicker basket made by a Sinti family
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.4
Date:
use: approximately 1945
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
78. Aluminum food container lid used by a Hungarian Jewish family on the Kasztner train
2003.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.3
Date:
use: approximately 1937-1946
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
79. Imitation leather hatbox used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.4 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.4
Date:
use: 1949 November
…Dorothea (Dorit) Isaacsohn (later Dorothy Isaacsohn, 1933-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Julius and Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn. Julius (1891-1943…
80. Black leather case presented to the Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
1988.72.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.4
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…