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1. First lieutenant dress jacket, medals and shirt worn by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.3 b front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1945 May 09-approximately 1946 June
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
2. Wedding dress with ruffle made for the marriage of 2 German Jewish DP camp aid workers
2005.579.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.2
Date:
use: 1948 June 20
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
3. Child's flowered blue dress received by girl in DP camp
2007.520.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.520.4
Date:
received: approximately 1947
… after Nazi Germany invaded the country. In June 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union. The Germans occupied the town on June 28 and during the summer…
4. Wedding gown made from a white rayon parachute worn by multiple Jewish brides in a DP camp
1999.7.12_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.12 a
Date:
creation: approximately 1946 January
use: 1946 January 27-before 1948 February
…, they no longer received mail and lost contact with Celia. In March 1944, Germany occupied Hungary. The same month, Lili got a letter from Yitzhak to…
5. Wedding gown with green embroidery worn by Raya Kirschner Feig in Barletta DP camp
2008.393.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.393.1
Date:
use: 1948 May 27
… closed and property was appropriated by the state. Raya’s school had to quit teaching Hebrew, but began teaching Yiddish. In June 1941, Germany launched a…
6. Striped wool jacket used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.2
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, born in 1924, and Danuta, born in 1929. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 and, by November 1940, the family was confined to the ghetto. Nineteen…
7. 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…
8. US Army officer's summer weight tunic worn by the director of the Vaad Hatzala Emergency Committee in postwar Germany
2008.180.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.180.10 | RG Number: RG-19.072.03.05
Date:
use: 1946-1949
…US Army officer's summer weight tunic worn by the director of the Vaad Hatzala Emergency Committee in postwar Germany…
9. Man's short-sleeved linen jacket made in a displaced person's camp
2005.369.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.369.3
Date:
manufacture: 1945-1949
… 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…
10. Man's long-sleeved linen jacket made in a displaced person's camp
2005.369.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.369.2
Date:
manufacture: 1945-1949
… 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…
11. Navy blue pinstriped jacket and pants worn by the groom at his wedding to another survivor in a DP camp
2004.682.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.680.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1947 March 02
… by classmates, and taunted with antisemitic slurs, such as "Christ killer." Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Welek watched German soldiers…
12. Yellow sport short listing concentration camps where the owner was imprisoned
2005.579.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.3
Date:
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
13. Dark blue dress with black stripes worn by a young Jewish refugee during her voyage to the US
2010.194.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.4
Date:
emigration: 1946 July
received: 1945 June-1946 June
… family moved there. In May, Holland was occupied by Germany and restrictions on the Jewish population were instituted. They had to wear Star of David…
14. Infant’s open back blouse with blue monogram made in DP camp
2010.337.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.337.2
Date:
creation: 1946 August
…Vladimir Brandwajn was born on August 14, 1946, in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in Germany, to Rachmiel and Luba Goldziuk Brandwajn. Rachmiel…
15. Infant’s open back white blouse with a light blue monogram made in DP camp
2010.337.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.337.3
Date:
creation: 1946 August
…Vladimir Brandwajn was born on August 14, 1946, in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in Germany, to Rachmiel and Luba Goldziuk Brandwajn. Rachmiel…
16. 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…
17. Peach chemise with black and white floral appliques saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.5
Date:
received: 1934
use: 1934-1946
… Judit spent the summers visiting Anna’s family in Bekes. Hungary was governed by a fascist regime, allied with Nazi Germany. From 1939, Jewish men were…
18. Peach chemise with floral embroidery saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.4
Date:
received: 1934
use: 1934-1946
… Judit spent the summers visiting Anna’s family in Bekes. Hungary was governed by a fascist regime, allied with Nazi Germany. From 1939, Jewish men were…
19. Peach floral printed chemise saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.6
Date:
received: approximately 1935-1940
use: 1935-1946
… Judit spent the summers visiting Anna’s family in Bekes. Hungary was governed by a fascist regime, allied with Nazi Germany. From 1939, Jewish men were…
20. Green striped wool knit cardigan made from a US Army blanket by a Jewish refugee in a DP camp
2007.511.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.511.2
Date:
use: 1945-1949
…Olga Waldman was born in Breslau, Germany, (Wroclaw, Poland) on March 7, 1904, to Anna and Meier. She married Pinio Wisniarski and they had one son…