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1. Wooden hearse used to bury Jews in the local cemetery of Piatra Neamt, Romania
2018.402.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.402.1 a-j
…Wooden hearse used to bury Jews in the local cemetery of Piatra Neamt, Romania…
2. Metal doorstop with a bas relief of 3 Jews on a red bench
2016.184.107 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.107
Date:
creation: 1800-1899
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Metal doorstop with a bas relief of 3 Jews on a red bench…
3. Manhole housing from the Miła Street neighborhood in the former Warsaw ghetto
1990.293.1 a-b
Object | Accession Number: 1990.293.1 a
Date:
use: 1940 October 12-1943 May 16
…. The population of the 1.3 square mile ghetto swelled to 400,000 as Jews from surrounding areas were forced to move in. The food allotments issued in the…
4. 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
… the 1.3 square mile ghetto swelled to 400,000 as Jews from surrounding areas were forced to move in. The food allotments issued in the ghetto were not…
5. Butter knife owned by a Romanian Jewish family
2014.490.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.5
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1930
… though Romanian authorities already pursued a policy of harsh, persecutory antisemitism against Jews. In September 1940, a coalition government came to…
6. Table knife owned by a Romanian Jewish family
2014.490.4 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.4
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1930
… though Romanian authorities already pursued a policy of harsh, persecutory antisemitism against Jews. In September 1940, a coalition government came to…
7. Porcelain thimble in the shape of Fagin's head
2016.184.75 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.75
Date:
manufacture: 1989
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
8. Singer sewing scissors used by Jewish Romanian woman who was killed during a massacre
2017.218.2 top
Object | Accession Number: 2017.218.2
Date:
use: before 1941 July
manufacture: approximately 1930
… the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in summer 1941, Romania, a German ally, recaptured the region and many of the Jews in Bălți took refuge in…
9. Colorful Fagin fireplace tool holder with poker and tongs
2016.184.72_b 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.72 a-c
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1934-approximately 1936
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
10. 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
… Hebrew. He asked to do outreach work with groups such as Roma, ex-prisoners, and Jews, and was appointed a liaison with the Jewish community in France. His…
11. Shovel head with a partial wooden handle recovered postwar at a mass execution and grave site in Ukraine
2010.443.42 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.42
Date:
found: 2005 August 17-2005 October 16
use: 1941-1942
… Hebrew. He asked to do outreach work with groups such as Roma, ex-prisoners, and Jews, and was appointed a liaison with the Jewish community in France. His…
12. 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
… Hebrew. He asked to do outreach work with groups such as Roma, ex-prisoners, and Jews, and was appointed a liaison with the Jewish community in France. His…
13. Drafting kit used by Mayer Altarac whose family fled from German occupying forces
2002.438.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.6 a-z
Date:
received: 1935
… Jews to the German run concentration camps. In December 1941, the Jewish refugees in Pristina were ordered to move into a transit camp at the main prison…
14. Loom shuttle used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.22
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
15. Cleaver used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.17
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
16. Kitchen pestle used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.18
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
17. Green painted arched bracket recovered during the excavations of mass execution sites
2010.443.24-.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.26
Date:
found: 2005
use: approximately 1941
… Hebrew. He asked to do outreach work with groups such as Roma, ex-prisoners, and Jews, and was appointed a liaison with the Jewish community in France. His…
18. 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
…-old Mordechai the Älteste der Juden [Elder of the Jews], a position which gave him a wide range of powers over the Jewish community. He was ordered to…
19. Tan spool and black loose thread used by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.31.2.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.31.2.4
Date:
use: after 1944 July-before 1945 April
… belongings were confiscated, and many Jews were sent to Siberia to work in labor camps. On June 24, 1941, Soviet forces fled as Germany occupied Kovno…
20. Singer Model 15 sewing machine and table used by Jewish Romanian woman who was massacred
2017.218.1_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.218.1 a-d
Date:
manufacture: 1927
use: before 1941
… the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in summer 1941, Romania, a German ally, recaptured the region and many of the Jews in Bălți took refuge in…