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1. Concentration camp inmate uniform cap worn by a German Jewish inmate
1999.100.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.4
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
2. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Jewish German man
1994.115.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.115.1
Date:
use: 1945 January-1945 March
…Werner Michaelis Sauer was born on November 2, 1918, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Leopold and Auguste Rothschild Sauer. Werner had…
3. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Jewish Latvian prisoner
2003.174.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 October-1945 February
…. Around this time, the Soviets transported Ber’s family to Riga. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and entered Riga on July 1. In August, the…
4. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1993.159.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.159.3
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945 May
…. Mieczyslaw’s oldest brother Jurek also married and had a daughter. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. German troops entered Warsaw on September 29…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. Concentration camp uniform cap with number 107310 issued to a Jewish Czech inmate
1989.303.25_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.25 a
Date:
use: after 1942 November-1945 April 15
… transportation expert, whom he thought of as an uncle. Karel was a draftsman at a design company. On September 29, 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border…
8. Dark blue concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1992.36.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.36.2
Date:
issue: approximately 1945 February
… the store. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. A week later, a group of German soldiers broke into the Silberberg's store and robbed it. On…
9. Green cardigan knit from the wool of US Army scarves by Olga Waldman 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…
10. Striped sweater vest worn by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate
1994.55.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.55.5
Date:
use: approximately 1944 August-approximately 1945 April
… worked as an electrician. In September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. Germany occupied regions west of the Bug River, the Soviet Union…
11. Red checked dress with smocking made for a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport
2003.200.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.200.1
Date:
received: 1939
…Red checked dress with smocking made for a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport…
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12. Wedding gown made from a parachute worn by Lili Lax Friedman and many additional 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…
13. White shirt made from a rayon parachute for a Czech Jewish man for his wedding in a DP camp
1999.126.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.126.1
Date:
use: 1946 January 27
creation: 1946 January
…, 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…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. Wool sweater vest worn by a German Jewish displaced person
1990.100.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.1
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
17. Wedding dress shipped to the United States by a German Jewish woman murdered at Riga
2018.58.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.58.2
Date:
use: after 1930-before 1941
…Alice Lubranitzky (later Plocki, 1914-1941) was born to Benno (1880-1942?) and Gertrude (nee Posner, 1885-1942?) Lubranitzsky in Sebnitz, Germany…
18. 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…
19. 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…
20. 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…
21. 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…
22. 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…
23. 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…
24. Long underwear worn by a Jewish Polish partisan in the Soviet Army
2003.193.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.193.4
Date:
use: approximately 1944
…, Edith, married, moved away, and gave birth to a child. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Rubin was drafted to serve in the Polish Army, but…
25. Embroidered floral smock worn by a Jewish girl in prewar Poland
2003.193.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.193.2
Date:
received: 1935
… Jewish school and knew Yiddish and Hebrew. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. On September 17, Germany handed the eastern half of Poland over…
26. SA-Wehrmannschaft combat uniform trousers
2004.686.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.686.3
Date:
use: approximately 1940
…Germany…
27. 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…
28. Sturmabteiling [Stormtrooper] brown shirt
1990.41.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.9
…The collection consists of artifacts and posters related to the history of Jewish culture in Germany and artifacts and antisemitic propaganda posters…
29. SA [Sturmabteilung/Storm Division] uniform jodphurs
2006.475.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.475.1
Date:
manufacture: 1935
…Germany…
30. 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…
31. 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…
32. 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…
33. Embroidered dress made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.9
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…
34. 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…
35. 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…
36. Coat worn by a female German Jewish member of the Red Orchestra resistance group
2015.298.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.298.2
… Egler. She was raised in Berlin, Germany. Inn 1933, the Nazi dictatorship took power in Germany. In her late teens, Lisa enrolled in the Museum School of…
37. Vest worn by a female German Jewish member of the Red Orchestra resistance group
2015.298.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.298.3
… Egler. She was raised in Berlin, Germany. Inn 1933, the Nazi dictatorship took power in Germany. In her late teens, Lisa enrolled in the Museum School of…
38. 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…
39. 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…
40. Concentration camp uniform jacket with badge worn by a Lithuanian Jewish inmate
1998.130.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.130.3
Date:
issue: 1944 November-1944 December
use: approximately 1944 October-1945 May
…, Lithuania, during the period from June 1940-May 1941 when Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union. When Germany declared war on the USSR and invaded…
41. Child's beige summer suit worn by Joseph Oppenheimer
1994.105.1_b-d front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.105.1 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1935
…Josef Ludwig Oppenheimer (later Joseph, 1927-2020) was born in Würburg, Germany, to Ludwig Emanuel (1892-1972) and Maria Schwarzenberger (later Mary…
42. SA (Sturmabteilungen/ Storm Division) brown uniform shirt with 2 detachable collars
2001.204.5_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.204.5 a-c
…The collection consists of artifacts, books, pamphlets, and photographs relating to the Lebensborn program in Nazi Germany which encouraged the birth…
43. 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…
44. 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…
45. 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…
46. Striped concentration camp uniform trousers worn by Polish Jewish inmate
1992.36.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.36.1
Date:
use: 1945 February-1945 April
… the store. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. A week later, a group of German soldiers broke into the Silberberg's store and robbed it. On…
47. Concentration camp uniform skirt worn by a Czech Jewish inmate
1989.303.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.24
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945 May
… regime came to power in Germany, Prague saw a large influx of Jews fleeing persecution. In September 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border region…
48. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Romanian Jewish inmate at Buchenwald
2002.467.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.467.2
Date:
received: approximately 1944
… significant part in the economic, social, and cultural life of the city. In August 1940, as part of the second Vienna Award, Germany forced Romania to cede…
49. Concentration camp uniform jacket with post liberation Buchenwald patch worn by a Romanian Jewish inmate
2002.467.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.467.1 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1944
… significant part in the economic, social, and cultural life of the city. In August 1940, as part of the second Vienna Award, Germany forced Romania to cede…
50. Floral evening dress with purple slip worn to the Celebration Ball on the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis
2003.58.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.58.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1939 June 13
…Liesl Joseph was born in Rheydt, Germany, on June 17,1928, the only child of Josef, born November 9, 1882, in Altenbamberg, and Lilly Salmon Joseph…