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1. Model built by the rescuer of his house where 32 Jews lived in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 1991.142.1 a-f
Date:
creation: 1967
…Model built by the rescuer of his house where 32 Jews lived in hiding…
2. Doors
Object | Accession Number: 2016.560.1 a-f
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Memorial Center for the Jews from Macedonia…
3. Windows
Object | Accession Number: 2016.560.2 a-i
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Memorial Center for the Jews from Macedonia…
4. Vent cover
2017.638.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.638.2
… under the floorboards served as a hiding place for Jews during the Holocaust. The trap door and hiding place are described in detail in the Holocaust…
5. Inscribed marble tympanum from the former synagogue of Vrable, Slovakia
Object | Accession Number: 1993.66.1
Date:
creation: 1872
commemoration: 1993 April 22
…Ornamental stone from above the entrance to the 1872 synagogue of Vrable, Slovakia, inscribed with Psalm 118, verse 19. The Jews of Vrable were…
6. Trap door
2017.638.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.638.1
… under the floorboards served as a hiding place for Jews during the Holocaust. The trap door and hiding place are described in detail in the Holocaust…
7. Shutters
Object | Accession Number: 2018.232.1 a-b
… including Jews. The shutters served as a sign indicating to the refugees after police visits to the premises, the point at which the refugees could come back…
8. Wooden trap door beneath a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.42
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
9. Casting of the doorway surround from the Łódź ghetto Hospital No.1
Object
Date:
manufacture: after 1989 August 15-before 1991 March 18
…, and forced 160,000 Jews to relocate into one and a half square miles. The ghetto was surrounded by barbed wire fencing, and sealed on April 30. The…
10. Casting of a brick wall from the closed Warsaw Jewish Ghetto
Object
Date:
manufacture: after 1989 August 15-before 1991 March 18
…,000 Jews from Warsaw and nearby towns to relocate there. The ghetto was 1.3 square miles in area, and surrounded by a guarded, ten-foot-high wall, which was…
11. Star of David window from Velikiy Komjati / Magyarkomjat synagogue
2017.679.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.679.1 a-c
…Star of David window from Velikiy Komjati / Magyarkomjat synagogue. The local Jews were rounded up in the synagogue before they were transported to…
12. Casting of a cobblestone pathway at Treblinka killing center
Object
Date:
manufacture: after 1989 August 15-before 1991 March 18
… Jews under Operation Reinhard (Aktion Reinhard). Operation Reinhard was a code name for the plan to kill the two million Jews who resided in specific…
13. Ornamental stone rosette from the Hauptsynagoge of Mainz destroyed in Kristallnacht
Object | Accession Number: 1998.144.2
Date:
creation: 1912
use: 1912-1938
recovered: 1988
…Jews--Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)--History.…
14. Entrance doors from Hospital No. 1 in the Łódź ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1989.335.1 a- e
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1989 December 07
… the Łódź ghetto in the existing slum of Baluty, and forced 160,000 Jews to relocate into one and a half square miles of space. The ghetto was surrounded…
15. Casting of a wall made from fragments of Jewish headstones at the Remu Cemetery in Kraków
Object
Date:
manufacture: after 1989 August 15-before 1991 March 18
… the German persecution of the city’s Jews, they implemented a forced labor program, established a Jewish ghetto in 1941, and began mass deportations to…
16. Wrought iron gates and related parts from the Jewish cemetery in Tarnow, Poland
Object | Accession Number: 1991.236.1 a-t
Date:
manufacture: 1920-1929
use: 1920-1990
… settlement in the city and the cemetery date back to the 16th century and prior to World War II, 25,000 Jews lived in Tarnów. In September 1939, in accordance…
17. Frieze from a colonnade of the Hauptsynagoge of Mainz destroyed in Kristallnacht
Object | Accession Number: 1998.144.1
Date:
creation: 1912
use: 1912-1938
recovered: 1988
…Jews--Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)--History.…
18. Reproduction of a decorative block from the Neue Synagoge in Berlin, mounted on a commemorative plank with an original brick
Object | Accession Number: 1990.159.2
Date:
creation: 1988
commemoration: 1990 December 06
…Jews--Germany--Berlin--History.…
19. Double-sided casting of a gas chamber door from Majdanek concentration camp
Object
Date:
manufacture: after 1989 August 15-before 1991 March 18
… under Operation Reinhard (Aktion Reinhard). Operation Reinhard was a code name for the plan to kill the two million Jews who resided in specific areas of…
20. Damaged stained glass window likely from the desecrated Tempel Synagogue
Object | Accession Number: 1990.287.1
Date:
found: after 1945 May-before 1990
creation: approximately 1875-approximately 1925
…,000 of the 70,000 Jews in Krakow were expelled. German troops badly damaged the synagogue and used it as a military warehouse and stable. The German forces…