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21. 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…
22. Identification tag 68122 worn by a Jewish slave laborer at Ebensee/Mauthausen concentration camp
2007.445.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.445.2
Date:
use: 1944-1945 May 06
… population. Jews were brought in boxcars from other areas and taken out on trucks into the country side and gunned down. One morning, Lou and his family were…
23. 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…
24. Knife taken from a German soldier and acquired by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.10
Date:
received: approximately 1944
… 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…
25. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate
2005.522.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.522.6
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
received: 1943-1944
… Red Cross camp about 5 miles away. From there, she was sent by truck to a displaced persons camp. During this time, she learned that her brother, Carl…
26. Handmade metal comb used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
2013.379.8 right side
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.8
Date:
creation: 1944 October-1945
… and their passports were invalidated. They were taken to the railway station in open trucks to shame them publicly and deported to Poland along with…
27. Faux alligator suitcase issued to inmates released in Bergen-Belsen prisoner exchange
2005.89.1 top
Object | Accession Number: 2005.89.1
Date:
received: 1944 June 10
… who cried when their parents died were hung on the electric fence around the camp. In the morning, a truck would come and a doctor would tell them which…
28. British ordnance box given to a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.3
Date:
received: 1944 September-1944 December
… 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…
29. Handkerchief bearing a two-headed eagle owned by the Altarac family who fled from German occupying forces
2002.438.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.3
Date:
acquired: 1943 October-1944 September
… 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…
30. Black leather wallet used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.9
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
… connected to a group who promised to smuggle their families in the back of an empty gasoline truck to unoccupied southern France. On August 9, Albert, Irene…
31. German military identification tag given to a Danish resistance member
1989.297.2.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.297.2.1
Date:
acquired: 1944-1945
… policemen into trucks. Knud quickly ducked into a nearby station storehouse to stay out of sight. Blank forms and documents, as well as official stamps to…
32. Underground Danish periodical circulating news from the United Kingdom
Object | Accession Number: 1989.297.66
Date:
publication/distribution: 1944 April 29
Title:
Nyheder fra storbritanien
Alternate Title:
News from the UK
… policemen into trucks. Knud quickly ducked into a nearby station storehouse to stay out of sight. Blank forms and documents, as well as official stamps to…
33. 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…
34. Green knit cap worn by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.4
Date:
use: approximately 1944 October-1945
… and their passports were invalidated. They were taken to the railway station in open trucks to shame them publicly and deported to Poland along with…
35. Hunting knife with leather sheath used by Lithuanian labor camp inmate
1999.155.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.155.3 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1944 July 09
… being evacuated to the Kovno ghetto. The transport came and while the guard talked to the truck driver, Hirsch, Abel, and another man approached the fence…
36. Pair of dice carried by a Dutch resistance member
2004.301.4_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.301.4 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
…. They also lived on Burmenstraat which had bunkers at the end of the street where the Germans held Jews until trucks came to take them away. One day…
37. 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…
38. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate
2005.522.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.522.3
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
received: 1944
… Red Cross camp about 5 miles away. From there, she was sent by truck to a displaced persons camp. During this time, she learned that her brother, Carl…
39. Razor used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.7_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 b
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
… connected to a group who promised to smuggle their families in the back of an empty gasoline truck to unoccupied southern France. On August 9, Albert, Irene…
40. White patch with prisoner number 82609 worn by German Jewish inmate
1995.A.0274.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0274.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1945 May
… Łódź and Hermann saw Jews beaten, loaded on trucks, and taken away. Soon, the Germans interned the Jews in a ghetto. On June 24, 1940, Hermann escaped to…