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1. Ceramic change holder in the shape of an Orthodox Jewish man
2016.184.4 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.4
Date:
manufacture: 1890-1962
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
2. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport
2003.352.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.352.1 a-b
Date:
use: after 1938-approximately 1997
manufacture: 1938-1939
emigration: 1939 June
…Hilde Lotte Anker was born on May 29, 1926, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg Jakob Willie Anker and Gertrud Gottschalk Anker. She had two older sisters…
3. Violin, case and spare parts used by a Jewish Latvian musician while imprisoned in several concentration camps
2006.133.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.2 a-j
Date:
received: approximately 1921
use: 1940-1949
…, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and, by July 1941, the country was occupied by German forces. On July 1, 1942, Grunia was forced into the newly formed…
4. Black suitcase with leather trim used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
2000.258.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.1
Date:
use: approximately 1939 March-1947 November
…Bertl (Bertha) Rosenfeld (Rosenfelt) was born on October 28, 1925, in Korb, Germany, the eldest child of Adolf and Katherine (Katty) Lemburger…
5. Period counterfeit Palestinian Currency Board money, 5 Palestine pound note
2017.628.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.628.21
Date:
use: after 1939 April 20-before 1948 September 15
…Intelligence service--Germany.…
6. Sketchbook of drawings created postwar by a former Polish soldier, POW, and refugee
2010.35.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.35.1
Date:
creation: 1949-1954
depiction: 1939-1954
… and sent to Stalag XIB prisoner of war camp outside Fallingbostel, Germany, and assigned prisoner number 140379. He worked in a smeltery as a crane…
7. Laced leather billfold with a painted harbor owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.2
Date:
received: after 1938-before 1947 December
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
8. UNRRA red felt patch with acronym worn by a refugee aid worker
2005.379.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.2
Date:
use: 1945-1947
emigration: 1941 February 21
…Joseph Schadur was born on April 23, 1928, in Riga, Latvia, to Manja (Masha) Hasenson and Michel Schadur. His parents moved to Berlin, Germany, in…
9. Central Reserve Bank of China, 10 yuan note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee
1990.114.66 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.114.66
Date:
issue: 1940
received: 1940-1947
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
10. Parker Lucky Curve duofold fountain pen used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.22
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
11. World War II Victory Medal with ribbon and box awarded to a US soldier
2011.75.11_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.75.11 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
issue: 1946-2010
…, he enlisted in the US Army and was assigned to the 102nd Combat Infantry Division, nicknamed the Ozarks Division. He was deployed to Germany in…
12. Omega wristwatch worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train
2003.198.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.7
Date:
received: approximately 1940-1941
use: approximately 1940-approximately 1965
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
13. Watercolor painting of a domestic scene by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.4
Date:
depiction: 1933 June-1947 October
Artwork Title:
Villiers-sur-Morin
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
14. Central Reserve Bank of China, 10 yuan note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee
1990.114.65 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.114.65
Date:
issue: 1940
received: 1940-1947
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
15. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
… boarded with the family. In late 1939, the Folger family arrived from Poland following its invasion by Germany that September 1. The father told of the…