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1. 4711 glass perfume bottle carried by a Jewish refugee searching for her family
2008.228.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.21
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
2. Agfa metal film canister used by a German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.47_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.47 a-b
Date:
manufacture: 1946 May
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
3. Agfa metal film canister used by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.48_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.48 a-b
Date:
manufacture: 1946 May
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
4. Agfa metal film canister used by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.49_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.49 a-b
Date:
manufacture: 1946 May
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
5. Aluminum food container lid used by a Hungarian Jewish family on the Kasztner train
2003.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.3
Date:
use: approximately 1937-1946
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
6. Aluminum suitcase used by Jewish Polish postwar refugees
1997.102.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.102.1
Date:
acquired: 1946
… York, sent Kadysh papers to come to the US, but he would not leave his wife and children. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Motek was in…
7. Art Deco style lipstick case carried by a Jewish refugee while searching for her family
2008.228.24 open
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.24
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
8. Black Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to German Jewish prewar emigre
2012.455.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.9
Date:
received: approximately 1940
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
9. Black leather case presented to the Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
1988.72.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.4
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…
10. Black leather covered fiberboard knapsack used by a student in Nazi Germany
1990.44.1 back
Object | Accession Number: 1990.44.1
Date:
use: 1933-1945
…Black leather covered fiberboard knapsack used by a student in Nazi Germany…
11. Black suitcase with leather trim used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
2000.258.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.1
Date:
use: approximately 1939 March-1947 November
…Bertl (Bertha) Rosenfeld (Rosenfelt) was born on October 28, 1925, in Korb, Germany, the eldest child of Adolf and Katherine (Katty) Lemburger…
12. Briefcase
2014.415.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.415.3
… to the experiences of the Charnitzki family in prewar Königsberg, Germany, in Shanghai during the Holocaust, and in the United States after the war.…
13. British ordnance box given to a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.3
Date:
received: 1944 September-1944 December
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
14. Brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1949 November
…Dorothea (Dorit) Isaacsohn (later Dorothy Isaacsohn, 1933-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Julius and Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn. Julius (1891-1943…
15. Brown leather briefcase brought by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.4
Date:
received: before 1938
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
16. Brown leather satchel used by a Polish Jewish prisoner
2016.151.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.151.2
Date:
use: after 1941 December-1949 September
… Yiddish and Hebrew. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and on September 4, the German army entered Będzin. The soldiers burned the Great…
17. Brown leather suitcase used by a Polish Jewish refugee family
2009.157.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.157.2
Date:
emigration: 1949 September
…, Germany invaded and occupied Poland. In February 1940, the Jews in Łódź were incarcerated in a ghetto. Bela escaped the ghetto through a tunnel later that…
18. Brown textured suitcase used by a young German Jewish woman
2005.415.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.415.3
Date:
use: 1938 September
…Anne (Anneliese) Weil was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, on August 23, 1921, to Elfriede Meyer, who was born on October 27,1886, in Mannheim, and Max…
19. Burlap covered steamer trunk used by a German Jewish family
2008.199.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.199.1
Date:
manufacture: 1938
emigration: 1938
…Gisela (Jill) Renate Berg was born on May 1, 1933, to Josef and Klara Meyer Berg, in the small farming community of Lechenich, Germany, near Cologne…
20. Burlap purse made from a mattress cover by a Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate
1989.303.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.23
Date:
creation: 1944 September
use: approximately 1944 September-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…