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1. Robert Capa photograph of 3 soldiers loading a truck in Tel Aviv
Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.3
Date:
depiction: 1948 June
publication/distribution: 1948 August 27
Artwork Title:
Soldiers on a street corner
…Robert Capa photograph of 3 soldiers loading a truck in Tel Aviv…
2. Gouache created postwar by a former inmate of a people in a transit camp being loaded on a truck
Object | Accession Number: 2003.463.1
Date:
creation: 1949-1950
depiction: approximately 1942
Artwork Title:
Pendant mon enfance
Alternate Title:
During my childhood
…Gouache created postwar by a former inmate of a people in a transit camp being loaded on a truck…
3. Autobiographical ink drawing of a group of men and women in a Jewish Brigade truck
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.9
Date:
creation: approximately 1994
depiction: 1946 June
Artwork Title:
Ma'apilim en route to France, June 1946
…Autobiographical ink drawing of a group of men and women in a Jewish Brigade truck…
4. Robert Capa photograph of the ship Altalena, Israeli War for Independence
Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.6
Date:
depiction: 1948 July
Artwork Title:
United Nations observers view of the beach from the terrace of their Tel Aviv Headquarters
… are relaxing in deckchairs on the beach facing the ship. / In the foreground are the trucks of the U.N. and the radio station / which is manned by…
5. Franz Reisz painting
2018.25.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.25.1
Date:
creation: 1946
Artwork Title:
Auschwitz
… tree; in the background is a concentration camp that has dark smoke billowing from multiple smoke stacks and has military jeeps, trucks, and an ambulance…
6. Robert Capa photograph of a people on shore observing a stranded ship
Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.5
Date:
depiction: 1948 July
Artwork Title:
Irgun members and sympathizers watch swimmers abandon the Altalena
… line of people looking toward the ship. In the middle ground is a stretch of beach, with trucks and a circular bandstand. On the verso are 3 adhered…
7. Autobiographical drawing of a burning synagogue created by Alfred Glück in Hasenhecke DP camp
1993.59.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.4
Date:
creation: after 1945 May-1946
…front, on truck, charcoal : K.L. / Buchenwald…
8. Engraved silver trophy cup won by a Polish Jewish refugee in a sports tourney at Bergen-Belsen DP camp
2000.291.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.291.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1946 April
… to Gostynin. In June 1941, Itche, Icek, and Lejzor were rounded up in a search for forced laborers. Itche escaped, but Lejzor was put on a truck for…
9. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.9
Date:
found: 1945 April-1946 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
10. L'Enfant Jesus Miraculeux de Prague [Miraculous Infant Jesus of Prague] medallion given to an young Austrian Jewish woman
2009.359.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.359.2
Date:
received: 1946
… 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. 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…
12. 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…
13. Monogrammed pink silk pillow sham recovered by a Hungarian Jewish refugee postwar
2004.219.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.219.2
Date:
recovered: after 1945 May
received: after 1946 May
… camp, so she was placed on a pickup truck. Gabriella asked to stay with her sister, but the Germans did not allow it. The camp barracks were infested…
14. 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…
15. Almanacs
Object | Accession Number: 2005.452.4
Date:
publication/distribution: 1947
Title:
B'Midbar
… truck en route to a concentration camp where it is presumed his mother and sister were killed. Kasriel married and had two children.…
16. 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…
17. Autobiographical ink drawing of a man walking along a traffic filled highway
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.18
Date:
creation: approximately 1994
depiction: 1946
Artwork Title:
Man walking along a busy street, Summer 1946
… truck with Hebrew writing and Tel. 6347 on the side. There is a paragraph length artist’s caption in Hebrew, date, and the artist’s name inscribed on the…
18. 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…
19. Upright, wardrobe-style trunk used by a Jewish family during their postwar emigration
Object | Accession Number: 2002.416.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1948 October 21-1948 October 30
… farmer got the family across the border in two trucks, likely into Soviet-occupied Romania. Once over the border, Jewish agents helped the family continue…
20. Rosh Hashana card with a photo of a young woman made in Celle DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.22
Date:
commemoration: 1947 September 15
creation: approximately 1947 September
… the officer commanded the dogs to attack and he was killed. Lili and her sisters were assigned to dig ditches. The Germans brought a truck of political…