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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. Hand-colored glass slide
Object | Accession Number: 2003.214.36 | RG Number: RG-10.479
Date:
1939 September
…Poles observe a truck draped in the American flag in besieged Warsaw.…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … lady–cover book, Josephina Drzewowska, priest, Dadlinski, Bay on Asher–truck driver Richard Pajewski. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…
4. Hand-colored glass slide
Object | Accession Number: 2003.214.124 | RG Number: RG-10.479
Date:
1939 September
…Handcolored glass lantern slide; image shows close view of license plate on military truck. Inscribed with "EDWARD VAN ALTENA/71-79 W. 45TH ST. N…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … lady–cover book, Josephina Drzewowska, priest, Dadlinski, Bay on Asher–truck driver Richard Pajewski. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…
5. Hand-colored glass slide
Object | Accession Number: 2003.214.123 | RG Number: RG-10.479
Date:
1939 September
…Handcolored glass lantern slide; image shows wide view of civilian crowd gathered around military truck. Inscribed with "EDWARD VAN ALTENA/71-79 W…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … lady–cover book, Josephina Drzewowska, priest, Dadlinski, Bay on Asher–truck driver Richard Pajewski. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. Black leather infant's ankle boots worn by a German Jewish child
Object | Accession Number: 2013.456.2 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1911-1915
emigration: 1939
… German flag where he was given thirty lashes. The detainees were then put on trucks and taken outside the city to work construction on a future…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. Pelikan fountain pen used by Mayer Altarac who fled German-occupied Belgrade with his family
2002.438.10
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.10 a-b
Date:
use: 1935-1941
… 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…
14. 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…
15. Silver-plated axe and sword shaped letter opener won in a prewar swim meet by Polish Catholic youth
2004.374.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.374.4
Date:
received: before 1939 September
… had papers and spoke German, they beat and arrested him and loaded him into a truck, where twenty friends from the YMCA sat. They were taken to…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. World War I Honor & Iron Crosses buttonhole ribbon bar with Combatant’s swords awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.1
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: after 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…
19. 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…
20. 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…