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1. Baby doll owned by a Jewish Yugoslavian girl in hiding
2019.20.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.20.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1908-before 1945
… forces and was partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, with Skopje falling under Bulgarian control. Bulgarian authorities passed many…
2. Denk fix! [Think Quick] game turntable spinner, cards, and box brought with a young German Jewish refugee
2013.495.2 a top
Object | Accession Number: 2013.495.2 a-ba
Date:
emigration: 1938 July
…Anneliese Centawer was born on January 10, 1930, to James and Recha Huetzler (Hützler) Centawer in Nuremberg, Germany. Her mother Recha was born on…
3. Marchen Quartett deck of fairy tale cards with box brought with a German Jewish refugee
2013.495.7 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.495.7 a-aq
Date:
emigration: 1938 July
…Anneliese Centawer was born on January 10, 1930, to James and Recha Huetzler (Hützler) Centawer in Nuremberg, Germany. Her mother Recha was born on…
4. Plastic doll with a burgundy dress brought with a young Austrian Jewish refugee
2016.112.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.10
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… was annexed into Germany, in what became known as the Anschluss. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. Jews…
5. Blonde haired, male, felt doll carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.13
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
6. Two decks of skat cards used by a concentration camp inmate saved by Schindler's list
2013.379.10 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.10 a - bl
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945 May
…Henry Dressler (born Heniz, 1919-2005) was born on October 22, 1919, in Dresden, Germany, to Joachim (1888-1971) and Martha Miriam (1896-1956) and…
7. Handmade wooden checkers set presented to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
1988.72.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.1
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
8. Boxed Tisch-Tennis set with net, paddles, and 6 balls brought with a young German Jewish refugee
2013.495.8 a-l front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.495.8 a-l
Date:
emigration: 1938 July
…Anneliese Centawer was born on January 10, 1930, to James and Recha Huetzler (Hützler) Centawer in Nuremberg, Germany. Her mother Recha was born on…
9. Wehrmacht Siege Game box, board, instructions, dice, and 29 tokens
Belagerungs-Spiel board game
Object | Accession Number: 2013.72.1 a-ai
Date:
publication/distribution: 1941
…Nuremberg (Germany)…
10. Teddy bear carried by a young boy on the Kindertransport
2000.326.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.326.1 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1939
… sent him away to boarding school in Frankfurt, Germany, to escape the vicious anti-semitism in his hometown, Tann. During the Kristallnacht pogrom of…
11. Klick-Klack handheld pinball game with box brought with a young German Jewish refugee
2013.495.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.495.3 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938 July
…Anneliese Centawer was born on January 10, 1930, to James and Recha Huetzler (Hützler) Centawer in Nuremberg, Germany. Her mother Recha was born on…
12. Toy Nazi SS figurine in a black uniform with swastika armband acquired by a US family in Vienna
Object | Accession Number: 2006.265.5
Date:
received: 1937-1938
… was annexed into Germany, in what became known as the "Anschluss." Helen kept a detailed diary describing what she saw as Austria was absorbed into Nazi…
13. Two decks of Patience cards with 3 boxes brought with a young German Jewish refugee
2013.495.6 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.495.6 a-dg
Date:
emigration: 1938 July
…Anneliese Centawer was born on January 10, 1930, to James and Recha Huetzler (Hützler) Centawer in Nuremberg, Germany. Her mother Recha was born on…
14. Hand crafted wooden pull toy of a Jewish man praying
2016.184.566 c 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.566 a-c
Date:
creation: approximately 1800
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany?…
15. Plastic doll named Zsuzsi carried by a young Hungarian Jewish girl on the Kasztner train
2003.198.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.9
Date:
received: 1942 December
use: 1942-1946
… fascist regime, allied with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor…
16. Model Stuka airplane made by liberated concentration camp inmate and given to US military aid worker
1988.112.61 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.61
Date:
received: 1945 April-1945 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
17. Wooden marionette dressed as a Jewish banker
2016.184.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1850
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
18. Doll's offwhite hand knit wool sweater and pants with red flowers made by a young girl after her release from Theresienstadt
1992.4.1 a-f front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.4.4 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1945 May
…Inge Auerbacher was born on December 31, 1934, in Kippenheim, Germany, the only child of Berthold and Regina Lauchheimer Auerbacher, observant…
19. Toy Nazi SA figurine in a brown uniform with swastika armband acquired by a US family in Vienna
Object | Accession Number: 2006.265.4
Date:
received: 1937-1938
… was annexed into Germany, in what became known as the "Anschluss." Helen kept a detailed diary describing what she saw as Austria was absorbed into Nazi…
20. Bear, a stuffed koala bear, with modern covering, carried by a German Jewish girl on a Kindertransport
2013.476.8 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.476.8 a-b
Date:
use: 1939 August
…Gisela Amalie Marx was born on April 24, 1925, in Dulken, Germany, the nly daighter of a Jewish couple, Leopold and Erna Lifges Marx. Her father…