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1. Monogrammed pink silk pillow sham recovered by a Hungarian Jewish refugee postwar
2004.219.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.219.2
Date:
recovered: after 1945 May
received: after 1946 May
… camp, so she was placed on a pickup truck. Gabriella asked to stay with her sister, but the Germans did not allow it. The camp barracks were infested…
2. Duvet cover made from a US Army parachute by a Jewish family in a displaced persons camp
2009.372.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.372.2
Date:
manufacture: 1944 October
creation: 1945-1948
emigration: 1948 October 21
… farmer got the family across the border in two trucks, likely into Soviet-occupied Romania. Once over the border, Jewish agents helped the family continue…
3. Monogrammed bath towel used in the Krakow ghetto
2008.227.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.227.3
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… to escape. Seeing trucks arriving to transport the prisoners to concentration camps, Edward and Kay decided to escape through a weak link in the fence…