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1. U.S. army issue khaki cap worn by the director of the Vaad Hatzala Emergency Committee in postwar Germany
2008.180.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.180.8 | RG Number: RG-19.072.03.03
Date:
use: 1946-1949
…U.S. army issue khaki cap worn by the director of the Vaad Hatzala Emergency Committee in postwar Germany…
2. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.2
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…
3. Leather coin purse with 3 pins, a Dutch coin, and a metal key carried by a young Jewish Austrian refugee to the US
2010.194.3_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.3 a-f
Date:
received: 1945 June-1946 June
emigration: 1946 July
… 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…
4. Leather clutch purse owned by Runia Korman Maizels
2018.63.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2018.63.2
Date:
use: approximately 1950
… (later Chana Kucheik, 1920-1942) and a brother, Abraham (1922-1942). In September 1939, Poland was invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union. Kraśnik was…
5. Brown hat with a triangular patch bearing a J and initials worn by John Bolé
2011.174.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.174.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 November-1945 April
…, French, and Serbo-Croatian. On April 6, 1941, the Axis powers, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria, invaded and divided Yugoslavia. Laibach was in the…
6. Luftwaffe M1935 Schirmmutze with visor acquired by US soldier
1985.1.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.16
Date:
manufacture: 1938
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
7. Luftwaffe M1935 Schirmmutze without visor acquired by US soldier
1985.1.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.17
Date:
manufacture: 1939
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
8. Luftwaffe ground crew overseas cap with eagle acquired by US soldier
1985.1.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.14
Date:
found: approximately 1945
manufacture: 1938
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
9. Luftwaffe ground crew overseas cap with eagle acquired by US soldier
1985.1.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.15
Date:
found: approximately 1945
manufacture: 1938
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
10. Luftwaffe M1942 helmet taken from a German soldier by US soldier
1985.1.3 left side
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.3
Date:
found: 1945
manufacture: 1942 August 01-before 1944
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
11. Wehrmacht M1936 belt and embossed buckle acquired by US soldier
1985.1.4 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.4 a-b
Date:
found: approximately 1945
manufacture: 1941
…Germany…
12. Cantor's cap
1990.41.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.1
…Germany…
13. Leather bi-fold wallet with two photographs glued inside owned by a German Jewish refugee
2018.340.2 closed side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.340.2
Date:
depiction: 1940
…Erich Marcus (1889-1972) was born in Prenzlau, Germany, to Emil (1859-1940) and Margarethe (1867-1940) Zippert Marcus. Erich had a sister, Charlotte…
14. Belt buckle with an embossed Nazi Imperial eagle and motto acquired by a US soldier
1992.104.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.104.3
Date:
found: approximately 1945 May
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
15. Lace-trimmed Handkerchief with a cutwork floral accent owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.3
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
16. Child's white rabbit fur hand muff received in a displaced persons camp
2009.372.4, Child's, white, rabbit fur hand muff, Robinson Family Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2009.372.4
Date:
received: 1948
emigration: 1948 October 21
… family. Efraim was in Warsaw with his mother and brother, following his father’s death, when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Germany began…
17. Child's white rabbit fur bonnet received in a displaced persons camp
2009.372.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.372.3
Date:
received: 1948
emigration: 1948 October 21
… family. Efraim was in Warsaw with his mother and brother, following his father’s death, when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Germany began…
18. Wedding veil and train worn by multiple Jewish brides in a DP camp
1999.7.12 b front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.12 b
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…
19. Handkerchief
2015.563.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.4
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Jewish children in the Holocaust--Germany.…
20. Red plaid handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.5
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…