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1. Escutcheon placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.58
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
2. German marching compass in a case taken from an SS officer by a US soldier
2000.598.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2000.598.2
Date:
found: approximately 1945 May
manufacture: after 1930-before 1945
3. Metal balance scale with two measuring trays used in a store
Object | Accession Number: 1990.81.1
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
4. Crochet hook used in the Theresienstadt ghetto
2002.436.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.436.22
Date:
use: 1940-1943
5. Small cap placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.33
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1902-before 1943
6. Wooden spinning wheel used while in hiding in Belgium
2005.523.2 a-i front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.523.2 a-i
Date:
use: 1942-1945
7. Safety pin from a Nazi badge
1996.75.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.75.7
Date:
approximately 1933-1945
8. Shoemaker's peg breaker of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.4.9
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
9. Shoemaker's hammer of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.4.5
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
10. Medical field sterilizer kit used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
2005.579.21_a closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.21 a-g
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
11. Fan flywheel placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.38
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
12. Shoemaker's round file of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.4.6
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
13. Chain stitch sewing machine of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.78.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.5 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1900-approximately 1939
use: approximately 1900-1945
14. Identification card template used by Gerry van Heel to forge identity documents
2010.441.105 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.441.105
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1944
15. Set of scale weights brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.7 a-i front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.7 a-i
Date:
use: approximately 1924-1996
16. Bag and supplies used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.28 a-f
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
17. 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
18. Charred electrical insulator from Auschwitz found by a Sinti inmate
1987.75.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.75.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-approximately 1945 January
19. Padlock placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
1992.240.26 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.26
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
20. Straight needle awl with an .875 inch needle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.21
Date:
use: 1925-1951