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41. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate
2005.522.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.522.2
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…
42. 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…
43. Shaving brush used by a German Jewish refugee in hiding
1990.307.7_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 a
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…
44. 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…
45. Quartz whetstone used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.7_c front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 c
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…
46. Leather pouch for a dog tag given to a Danish resistance member
1989.297.2.2_001.JPG
Object | Accession Number: 1989.297.2.2
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…
47. 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…
48. 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…
49. 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…
50. Allied Military Authority currency, German 1 mark, acquired by a female forced laborer
2006.473.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.473.9
Date:
issue: 1944
… transported by truck and forced into a small, crowded space with other Jews. The SS members randomly whipped people and shot into the crowd. Ruth had no access…
51. Charred electrical insulator from Auschwitz found by a Sinti inmate
1987.75.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.75.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-approximately 1945 January
… loaf for every night he helped collect the dead from the hospital barrack, load them into a truck, and take them to the crematorium. Hans got more extra…
52. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp wrapper for 100 kronen note stack issued to a German Jewish inmate
2015.522.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.522.8
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…
53. 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…
54. 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…
55. 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…
56. 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…
57. 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…
58. Brown enamel mug used by a Polish Jewish concentration camp prisoner
1996.5.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.1
Date:
issue: after 1943 January-before 1945 February
… 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…
59. 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…
60. Maroon handkerchief with acorns used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.6
Date:
use: 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…