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1. Certificate of Citizenship document holder owned by Hedwig Sanders Neu
2018.519.10 open/side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.519.10
Date:
use: after 1945 March
… staying with Beatrice’s grandmother, whose home was ransacked by the German authorities during Kristallnacht, November 9-10. Hedwig, Beatrice, and her…
2. Certificate of Citizenship document holder owned by Richard Neu
2018.519.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.519.9
Date:
use: after 1945 March
… staying with Beatrice’s grandmother, whose home was ransacked by the German authorities during Kristallnacht, November 9-10. Hedwig, Beatrice, and her…
3. Large suitcase with a broken handle used by a young Austrian Jewish refugee during emigration
2016.112.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.8
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
4. Suitcase used by a Jewish family for their flight from Germany
2000.546.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.546.1
Date:
use: 1941 October
… she learned to knit and cook along with academics. During Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, the family’s butcher store was vandalized. Afraid that…
5. Brown leather portfolio carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2003.454.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.454.19
Date:
emigration: 1939 July 13
… Germany in March 1938. Edi emigrated to Palestine that October. During the Kristallnacht pogrom that November 9-10, Wilhelm was arrested and detained in…
6. Embossed aluminum flat top steamer trunk used by a German Jewish refugee
2005.140.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.140.4
Date:
emigration: 1938 December 15
… Kristallnacht, the Nazis conducted a sweep of Landau. Ernest was arrested and put on a transport for Dachau concentration camp. During the trip, the guards…
7. Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer
2017.661.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.3 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945
… refugee in August 1938. In early November 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Siegmund was arrested and transported to Buchenwald concentration camp. He…
8. Small suitcase carried by a Jewish boy from Berlin to England on a Kindertransport
2000.265.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2000.265.1
Date:
use: 1939 July
… leave Germany, but Julius, a World War I veteran of the German Army, resisted the idea. On Kristallnacht eve, November 8, 1938, Julius was beaten…
9. Engraved wooden Havana cigar box acquired by Austrian Jewish refugee
2010.240.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.2
Date:
received: 1940 November 27
emigration: 1938 December
… and he applied as an apprentice at Siemens-Schuckertwerke, a German electrical engineering company. During the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10…
10. Zippered leather medical bag used by an Austrian Jewish physician
2017.541.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.4
Date:
after 1935
… practicing medicine. On November 9-10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Jews and their businesses, homes, and places of worship were freely and…
11. Small yellow suitcase used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport
2012.454.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.454.2
Date:
use: 1939 June
…, 1938, the first night of the Kristallnacht pogrom, two Gestapo members ransacked their apartment and took their valuables. They ordered Ruth off the bed…
12. Small suitcase with a metal handle used by a Jewish Austrian physician
2017.541.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.5
Date:
use: 1939 June-1940 June
… practicing medicine. On November 9-10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Jews and their businesses, homes, and places of worship were freely and…
13. 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
… aunts Friedel (Friederike) and her sister, in Aachen where there was a Jewish school. On November 9 or 10, 1938, the time of the Kristallnacht pogrom…
14. Painted tin container base owned by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.3
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
… restrictions became increasingly harsh. Hans’ brothers, Alfred and Erich, emigrated to the United States circa December 1938. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on…
15. Medical bag used by an Austrian Jewish physician
2017.541.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.3
Date:
use: after 1935
… practicing medicine. On November 9-10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Jews and their businesses, homes, and places of worship were freely and…
16. Monogrammed green knapsack used by an Austrian Jewish child on the Kindertransport
2007.517.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.517.2
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: 1938-1942
… Vienna and, following the Kristallnacht pogrom that November, they decided to send Erika on a Kindertransport to England. Her parents were not able to get…
17. Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to German Jewish prewar emigre
2012.455.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.8
Date:
received: approximately 1940
… Plastics Corporation in New Brunswick. During the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, Jewish synagogues and businesses all over Germany were…
18. 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
… Plastics Corporation in New Brunswick. During the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, Jewish synagogues and businesses all over Germany were…
19. Brown alligator leather suitcase used by Austrian Jewish child on the Kindertransport
2007.517.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.517.1
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: 1938-1942
… laws passed after Germany annexed Austria in March 1938. Following the Kristallnacht pogrom that November, they decided to send Erika on a…
20. Brown leather briefcase brought by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.4
Date:
received: before 1938
… increasingly harsh. Carl’s business was not restricted and it converted to produce war rations for the Army. After the Kristallnacht destruction of November 9-10…