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1. 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…
2. Luftwaffe Waffenrock dress uniform jacket acquired by US soldier
1985.1.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.18
Date:
manufacture: 1939
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
3. Hitler Youth jacket with insignia and armband found by a US soldier
2013.512.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.512.2
Date:
found: 1945
… Soviets in late April 1945. The war ended with Germany's surrender on May 7. Myers returned to New York. He also served in the Army during the Korean War…
4. Concentration camp uniform coat recovered from a concentration camp by an American administrator
2017.544.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.544.1
Date:
acquired: after 1945 May
… in both the Mediterranean and European theaters, and participated in campaigns through France and Germany. On April 29, 1945, the 42nd Infantry…
5. Stars and stripes dress worn by a German Jewish woman for a DP camp theatrical performance
2018.70.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.70.2
Date:
creation: after 1945 May-before 1946 May
…Margret (Miriam) Hantman (née Simon) (b. 1926) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Willy Simon (1896-1944) and Ella Anita Stahl Simon (1901-1944). She…
6. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1995.57.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.2
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
use: approximately 1944-1945 April 22
… Yiddish and Hebrew. After finishing school, Jakob became a tailor like his father. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the army entered…
7. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1995.57.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.3
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
use: approximately 1944-1945 April 22
… Yiddish and Hebrew. After finishing school, Jakob became a tailor like his father. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the army entered…
8. Concentration camp uniform likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
2012.441.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
… Yiddish. Natan attended private school and was a good student. He did not experience anti-Semitism. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The Chorowicz…
9. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1996.5.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.2
Date:
issue: 1945 February-1945 March
… September 1, 1939, Germany invaded western Poland, and in mid-September, the Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop…
10. Concentration camp uniform jacket with purple triangle worn by Jehovah’s Witness
1989.271.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.271.1
Date:
use: 1938 September-1945 April
…Max Eugen Hollweg was born on December 7, 1910, in Remscheid, Germany, to Otto and Anna Biesel Hollweg, who were Jehovah’s Witnesses. Max was the…
11. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1996.5.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.3
Date:
issue: 1945 February-1945 March
… September 1, 1939, Germany invaded western Poland, and in mid-September, the Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop…
12. Concentration camp uniform coat worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1996.5.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.4
Date:
issue: 1945 February-1945 March
… September 1, 1939, Germany invaded western Poland, and in mid-September, the Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop…
13. Concentration camp uniform coat with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate
1990.222.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.222.1.3
Date:
use: 1939-1945
…The subject, a male, was born on June 8, 1907, in Colmar, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany (now France). His mother was born in 1885, in Sierenz, Germany…
14. Gray dress with prison number 1195 and id tag worn by a Jehovah's Witness inmate
1995.95.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.95.1 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1939-1945
…Amberg (Germany : Landkreis)…
15. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1996.5.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.5
Date:
issue: 1945 February-1945 March
… September 1, 1939, Germany invaded western Poland, and in mid-September, the Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop…
16. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish woman in multiple concentration camps
1989.162.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.162.1
Date:
use: approximately 1943 September-1945 April
… live with her parents. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Mania and Szlama returned to Sosnowiec and moved in with her family. The Germans…
17. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1995.57.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.1
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
use: approximately 1944-1945 April 22
… Yiddish and Hebrew. After finishing school, Jakob became a tailor like his father. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the army entered…
18. Man's long-sleeved linen jacket made in a displaced person's camp
2005.369.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.369.1
Date:
manufacture: 1945
… put it out of business. In 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Moniek fled east, but encountered German troops near the Vistula River and returned to Dabrowa…
19. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Hungarian Jewish prisoner
2011.449.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.449.1
Date:
issue: 1944 June 24-1945 April 11
… independent state with an authoritarian government that collaborated closely with Germany. In August 1940, Axis powers Germany and Italy had arbitrated a…
20. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
2014.557.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.5
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
… September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The country was quickly occupied, and Herman was among the large portion of Polish soldiers captured as prisoners of…