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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. Handknit green sweater worn by a young girl while living in hiding in the Lvov sewers
2004.484.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.484.1
Date:
use: 1943 June-1944 July
… into a truck for deportation. Her grandmother waved in her direction and the guard hit her in the head with his rifle. The transport was presumably for…
4. Concentration camp uniform cap with 90065 worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1993.90.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.90.3
Date:
use: 1942 December-1945 January
… 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…
5. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1993.90.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.90.1
Date:
use: 1942 December-1945 January
… 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…
6. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1993.90.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.90.2
Date:
use: 1942 December-1945 January
… 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. White armband with a red cross worn by a concentration camp inmate
1993.90.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.90.5
Date:
use: approximately 1943-1945 January
… 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…
8. 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…
9. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note, found postwar
1986.33.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1986.33.1
Date:
found: after 1945 May
issue: 1940 June-1944 August
… parts of the city. In 1942, she began giving private Russian lessons to a SS member who was in charge of a truck factory. During the lessons he told her…
10. Medallion with Moses and the S'hma prayer found by a young Jewish woman on a camp transport
2009.359.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.359.3
Date:
found: 1943-1945
… a large scale round-up and ghetto residents were loaded onto trucks. The sisters were separated from their parents and evaded this and subsequent…
11. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 2 mark note, found postwar
1986.33.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1986.33.2
Date:
issue: 1940 June-1944 August
found: after 1945 May
… parts of the city. In 1942, she began giving private Russian lessons to a SS member who was in charge of a truck factory. During the lessons he told her…
12. Allied Military Authority currency, 2 francs, for use in France, owned by a US soldier
1992.122.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.9
Date:
issue: 1944
…. Harold grew up in Mansfield, Ohio. He was a truck driver. In early December 1941, the United States entered World War II (1939-1945.) Harold entered the…
13. Allied Military Authority currency, 5 francs, for use in France, owned by a US soldier
1992.122.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.10
Date:
issue: 1944
…. Harold grew up in Mansfield, Ohio. He was a truck driver. In early December 1941, the United States entered World War II (1939-1945.) Harold entered the…
14. Print 15 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner
Object | Accession Number: 2012.71.2.15
Date:
depiction: 1944 April-1944 September
publication/distribution: 1946
Series Title:
Struthof Natzwiller
Artwork Title:
Le Crématoire
Alternate Title:
The Crematorium
… bodies from the back of a truck toward the basement entrance of a crematorium. Two of the men carry a body slung between them toward a shouting guard…
15. Jewelry box with a secret compartment used to hide documents belonging to German Jewish prisoners
2019.180.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.180.2 a-b
Date:
creation: after 1944 April-before 1945
… Jews in town being collected into a truck and taken away. She quickly went home to tell her grandfather what the Nazis were doing. He had always helped…
16. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2008.319.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.1
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-before 1947 December
… relocated them to the Nexon internment camp, from which they were to be deported to Poland. Tonia, Vera, and Marcel were already loaded in the cattle truck…
17. 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…
18. 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…
19. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2008.319.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.2
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-before 1947 December
… loaded in the cattle truck when the camp commander felt pity for her two small children and let them get off the truck. They returned to Limoges to hide in…
20. 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…