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1. Handknit green sweater worn by a young girl while living in hiding in the Lvov sewers
2004.484.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.484.1
Date:
use: 1943 June-1944 July
… into a truck for deportation. Her grandmother waved in her direction and the guard hit her in the head with his rifle. The transport was presumably for…
2. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1993.90.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.90.1
Date:
use: 1942 December-1945 January
… SS came to take all the patients to the gas chambers and Dr. Klein forced Henryk and the other nurses to load them onto the trucks. Dr. Klein put any…
3. Concentration camp uniform cap with 90065 worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1993.90.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.90.3
Date:
use: 1942 December-1945 January
… SS came to take all the patients to the gas chambers and Dr. Klein forced Henryk and the other nurses to load them onto the trucks. Dr. Klein put any…
4. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1993.90.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.90.2
Date:
use: 1942 December-1945 January
… SS came to take all the patients to the gas chambers and Dr. Klein forced Henryk and the other nurses to load them onto the trucks. Dr. Klein put any…
5. Checkered dress with heart patches made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.2 back
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.2
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
6. Woman's nightgown with lacework trim brought to the US by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.396.2
Date:
emigration: 1939 July
… stating where he was being held. The same day, Elsa, her mother, and Gertrude were taken from their apartment and forced into trucks by the Gestapo. They…
7. Embroidered dress made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.9
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
8. Man's tailored nightshirt with braided trim brought to the US by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.396.1
Date:
emigration: 1939 July
… stating where he was being held. The same day, Elsa, her mother, and Gertrude were taken from their apartment and forced into trucks by the Gestapo. They…
9. Nightgown with floral embroidery made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before emigration
2016.112.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.3
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
10. Embroidered nightgown made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.4
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
11. Embroidered blouse made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.5
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
12. Embroidered, pink dress once worn by Lela Altarac, who was killed in a bombing raid
2002.438.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.8
Date:
use: before 1941 April 14
… command decided to transfer the Jewish prisoners to Albania. They were divided into groups and each group had to find trucks to take them to different…
13. 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…
14. Child's blue striped sweater vest worn by a former hidden child on her arrival to the US
Object | Accession Number: 2013.470.2
Date:
use: 1946 May
… church where laborers gathered. They were put on a truck for Germany and Janina worked as a farm hand. She constantly needed to stop working to care for 1…
15. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Jewish German man
1994.115.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.115.1
Date:
use: 1945 January-1945 March
… Cross, loading and unloading trucks with supplies for the front. Josef once stole a can of condensed milk and was afraid he would be killed, but the…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1991.112.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.112.1
Date:
issue: 1942 December 17
use: 1942 December 17-1945 May 06
… march. Any prisoner that stopped running or went too slow was shot. In February, the prisoners were loaded onto open trucks and transported to…
19. Wedding gown made from a parachute worn by Lili Lax Friedman and many additional Jewish brides in a DP camp
1999.7.12_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.12 a
Date:
creation: approximately 1946 January
use: 1946 January 27-before 1948 February
… the officer commanded the dogs to attack and he was killed. Lili and her sisters were assigned to dig ditches. The Germans brought a truck of political…
20. Formal, patterned kimono and shibori obi owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1941 February-1941 October
… students were transported there by truck. Sara and Hirsz also spent time at a Jewish recreation club, Maccabi, which was strongly pro-Zionist, and joined the…