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1. 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
… spring 1945, Hy’s unit advanced eastward across Germany. During the advance, Hy and eight other soldiers were riding in a truck pulling the unit’s 105 mm…
2. Drawing by William Sharp
1995.132.65 back
Object | Accession Number: 1995.132.65 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1930-1945
Artwork Title:
Double Axel
… center, tracing of the rear axle of the truck in graphite; lower right quadrant, tracing of man's boot in graphite; approx. 2" up from bottom edge, center…
3. Star of David membership pin owned by a former concentration camp inmate
1993.90.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.90.4
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… 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. Tefillin and green velvet pouch used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2006.285.4_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.285.4 a-c
Date:
use: 1939-1945
…, taking only a few belongings to avoid detection by their neighbors, the family took a night train to Szczecin, Poland. From there, they went by truck to…
5. 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
…, under the orders of German authorities, the Jewish Order Police began dragging patients from their beds into trucks waiting outside. Some escaped through…
6. Storage trunk owned by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-approximately 1946
… empty gasoline truck to unoccupied southern France. On August 9, Albert, Irene, and Max left Amsterdam, with only the clothes they were wearing, for a…
7. Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.6
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1940
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… 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…
8. Enameled porcelain vase with a floral pattern owned by Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1925-approximately 1945
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… 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…
9. Dark red shoe wax used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.24
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
10. Cobbler's hammer used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.23
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
11. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service buttonhole ribbon bar awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.4
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… start his life over in a new place with a new language. In February 1946, Kurt was catching a ride in the back of a truck, when the tailgate gave way and…
12. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.3
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… start his life over in a new place with a new language. In February 1946, Kurt was catching a ride in the back of a truck, when the tailgate gave way and…
13. Straight razor with an offwhite plastic handle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.5
Date:
use: 1928-1980
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
14. Leather creaser with a curved needle point head used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.11
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
15. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1948
issue: after 1914 August 05
… start his life over in a new place with a new language. In February 1946, Kurt was catching a ride in the back of a truck, when the tailgate gave way and…
16. Leather creaser with an grooved head engraved 6 used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.12
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
17. 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
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
18. Leather creaser used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.8
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
19. 7/8 double edge iron shoemaking tool used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.16
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
20. Straight half inch stitching awl used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.10
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…