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1. Jewelry box with a secret compartment used to hide documents belonging to German Jewish prisoners
2019.180.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.180.2 a-b
Date:
creation: after 1944 April-before 1945
… Jews in town being collected into a truck and taken away. She quickly went home to tell her grandfather what the Nazis were doing. He had always helped…
2. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2008.319.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.1
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-before 1947 December
… relocated them to the Nexon internment camp, from which they were to be deported to Poland. Tonia, Vera, and Marcel were already loaded in the cattle truck…
3. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2008.319.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.2
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-before 1947 December
… loaded in the cattle truck when the camp commander felt pity for her two small children and let them get off the truck. They returned to Limoges to hide in…
4. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Juif, belonging to a Jewish family.
Object | Accession Number: 2014.230.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942 June-1944 August 25
…, but was arrested and interned in the La Lande-à-Monts transit camp. David was later taken by truck to the city of Angers and on July 10, 1942, he was…
5. Brown enamel mug used by a Polish Jewish concentration camp prisoner
1996.5.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.1
Date:
issue: after 1943 January-before 1945 February
… his father was placed in another, then loaded onto trucks. Erich’s parents and uncle were likely gassed. While his group waited to take showers, Erich…
6. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1996.5.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.2
Date:
issue: 1945 February-1945 March
… his father was placed in another, then loaded onto trucks. Erich’s parents and uncle were likely gassed. While his group waited to take showers, Erich…
7. Yellow, rectangular patch on cloth backing worn by a German Jewish woman in a concentration camp
2016.496.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.2
Date:
use: 1944 December 10-1945 May 08
… left the camp, walking and hitchhiking until they reached Dresden. From there, Irene got a ride on an Army truck to Berlin and snuck into the city…
8. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.18
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
… Theresienstadt, and they were picked up by the American army and taken to Deggendorf displaced persons (DP) camp. On the way, the trucks were involved in an…
9. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.19
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
… Theresienstadt, and they were picked up by the American army and taken to Deggendorf displaced persons (DP) camp. On the way, the trucks were involved in an…
10. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.15
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
… Theresienstadt, and they were picked up by the American army and taken to Deggendorf displaced persons (DP) camp. On the way, the trucks were involved in an…
11. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.14
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
… Theresienstadt, and they were picked up by the American army and taken to Deggendorf displaced persons (DP) camp. On the way, the trucks were involved in an…
12. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.16
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
… Theresienstadt, and they were picked up by the American army and taken to Deggendorf displaced persons (DP) camp. On the way, the trucks were involved in an…
13. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.17
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
… Theresienstadt, and they were picked up by the American army and taken to Deggendorf displaced persons (DP) camp. On the way, the trucks were involved in an…
14. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1996.5.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.3
Date:
issue: 1945 February-1945 March
… his father was placed in another, then loaded onto trucks. Erich’s parents and uncle were likely gassed. While his group waited to take showers, Erich…
15. Hand-carved wooden chain carried to Australia by a Jewish refugee
2016.183.1 side A
Object | Accession Number: 2016.183.1
Date:
creation: before 1924
… him and 14-year-old Abraham. Some neighbors tried to prevent their arrest, but they were forced into a truck flanked by SS officers who beat people as…
16. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1996.5.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.5
Date:
issue: 1945 February-1945 March
… his father was placed in another, then loaded onto trucks. Erich’s parents and uncle were likely gassed. While his group waited to take showers, Erich…
17. Concentration camp uniform coat worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1996.5.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.4
Date:
issue: 1945 February-1945 March
… his father was placed in another, then loaded onto trucks. Erich’s parents and uncle were likely gassed. While his group waited to take showers, Erich…
18. Black leather mid-calf boots worn by a female Jewish concentration camp prisoner
2002.366.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.366.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1944 December-1945
acquired: 1944 December-1945 January
… rented a truck, and Samuel, Henry, and his father drove through the snow to Tarnów. The trip was very dangerous; none of them had official papers and the…
19. Set of seven lobby cards for the film “Ostatni Etap” (1948)
2018.590.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.154
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1948 March 28
distribution: approximately 1961 January
… back of a truck. Beneath the photograph, in the bottom right corner of the card, are additional production and distribution credits, printed in red and…