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1. 12/14 double edge iron shoemaking tool used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.13
Date:
use: 1925-1951
2. Double end flower making tool used by a refugee
2003.446.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.446.11
Date:
use: 1941 June-1942 November
3. Manhole cover from the Miła Street neighborhood in the former Warsaw ghetto
1990.293.1 a-b
Object | Accession Number: 1990.293.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1940 October 12-1943 May 16
4. Steel pliers used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.17
Date:
use: 1925-1951
5. Plastic button with metal eagle owned by a US soldier
2005.416.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.416.15
Date:
received: approximately 1941-1946
6. Wide rectangular shovel head recovered postwar at a mass execution site
2010.443.41 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.41
Date:
found: 2005 August 17-2005 October 16
use: 1941-1942
7. Tweezers used by a refugee to make artificial flowers
2003.446.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.446.12
Date:
use: 1941 June-1942 November
8. Asynchronous motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.10
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1889-1942
9. Rusted heel plate with screw recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.6
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
10. Railroad spike from Treblinka concentration camp
2004.705.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.705.2
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1943
11. Rusted heel plate with a screw and nail recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.24
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
12. Stitching awl with a 1.25 inch needle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.20
Date:
use: 1925-1951
13. Sewing needle case used for lipstick in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.15 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.15
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1947
14. Pfaff industrial sewing machine with treadle of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.3
Date:
manufacture: 1920
use: approximately 1930-approximately 1945
15. Combination fur scraper and stretching block brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.2
Date:
use: approximately 1924-1996
16. Singer 13 sewing machine with a fiddle base used by a tailor in a sealed ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2005.50.1 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1880
use: 1939-1945
17. Embossing tool with 3 wheel attachments used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.18_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.18 a-d
Date:
use: 1925-1951
18. Dark red shoe wax used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.24
Date:
use: 1925-1951
19. Shield shaped shovel head recovered postwar at a mass execution site
2010.443.43 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.43
Date:
found: 2005 August 17-2005 October 16
use: 1941-1942
20. Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.26
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26