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51. 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…
52. 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…
53. Allied Military Authority currency, German ½ mark, acquired by a female forced laborer
2006.473.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.473.8
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…
54. Yellow, rectangular patch on cloth backing worn by a German Jewish woman in a concentration camp
2016.496.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.2
Date:
use: 1944 December 10-1945 May 08
… left the camp, walking and hitchhiking until they reached Dresden. From there, Irene got a ride on an Army truck to Berlin and snuck into the city…
55. 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…
56. 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…
57. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate
2005.522.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.522.4
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…
58. 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…
59. Small, handmade, palm leaf cross carried by Anthony Acevedo as a medic and POW
Object | Accession Number: 2010.440.2
Date:
bulk: 1944 April-1945 June
… then walk down the hill in waist deep snow to the train depot. After a short truck ride, they marched for six days and nights to prisoner of war camp…
60. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate
2005.522.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.522.5
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…