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1. Yellow warning skull and crossbones pennant found by a concentration camp inmate after liberation
2014.461.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.461.4
Date:
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 September
use: 1941 July-1945
… 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Czestochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the ghetto after it was…
2. Belgium, 10 francs or 2 belga note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee in the British army
2012.478.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.478.5
Date:
publication: after 1943 February 01-before 1946 August 01
use: after 1943 February 01-before 1947 November 03
…Manfred Gans was born on April 27, 1922, in Borken, Germany, to Moritz and Else Fraenkel Gans. His family had been in Borken for over 300 years…
3. Political cartoon depicting Jawaharlal Nehru created by an American journalist
2018.298.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.9
Date:
creation: 1936-1943
Artwork Title:
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
4. Coat design, Culm, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.13
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Culm
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
5. Staedtler pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.4
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: after 1900-1945
…Staedtler pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
6. Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
1990.300.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
7. 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…
8. Political cartoon depicting terrorism in Europe created by an American journalist
2018.298.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.2
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Artwork Title:
At Large
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
9. Luftwaffe M1942 helmet taken from a German soldier by US soldier
1985.1.3 left side
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.3
Date:
found: 1945
manufacture: 1942 August 01-before 1944
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
10. Jacket design, Gussi, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.14
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Gussi
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
11. Political cartoon depicting King Christian X of Denmark created by an American journalist
2018.298.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.4
Date:
creation: 1936-1943
Artwork Title:
Christian X
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
12. Magazine advertisement for the film “Hitler’s Children” (1943)
2018.590.88 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.88
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1943 January
…’s American Colony School. The film focuses on a young American woman in Germany, who denounces Nazi ideology and the state-sanctioned treatment of women as…
13. Political cartoon depicting Lázaro Cárdenas created by an American journalist
2018.298.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.13
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Artwork Title:
Cardenas (sic)
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
14. Slate pencil covered with a blue patterned wrapper used by a student in Nazi Germany
1990.45.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.45.4
Date:
use: 1940-1944
use: before 1945
…Slate pencil covered with a blue patterned wrapper used by a student in Nazi Germany…
15. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.10
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
16. Small, yellow warning pennant with a skull and crossbones acquired by a US soldier
2013.453.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.453.7
Date:
found: 1945-1946
use: 1941 July-1945
… following day the United States declared war on Japan, and on December 11, Germany declared war on the United States. On October 31, 1942 Harold was drafted…
17. Child’s coat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.1
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
18. Electric retinoscope used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.3
Date:
manufacture: 1893-1945
acquired: after 1932
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
19. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.13
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
20. Pelvic calipers used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.4
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…