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1. 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…
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. Handmade shoes worn by an inmate of Buchenwald concentration camp
1990.333.60 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.60 a-b
Date:
use: 1937-1945
…Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)…
4. Brown and yellow striped silk handkerchief found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Birkenau
1988.99.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.2
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
…Ruth Krautwirth was born on June 23, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Yitzhak (Isak) and Hanna Bina Grossman Krautwirth. She had one brother, Wolfgang…
5. Colorful plaid handkerchief found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Birkenau
1988.99.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.3
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
…Ruth Krautwirth was born on June 23, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Yitzhak (Isak) and Hanna Bina Grossman Krautwirth. She had one brother, Wolfgang…
6. Blue felt belt with appliqued flowers found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Auschwitz
1988.99.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.1
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
…Ruth Krautwirth was born on June 23, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Yitzhak (Isak) and Hanna Bina Grossman Krautwirth. She had one brother, Wolfgang…
7. Black leather wallet used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.9
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
8. Laced leather billfold with a painted harbor owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.2
Date:
received: after 1938-before 1947 December
…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…
9. FK monogrammed leather document case made by a Jewish Hungarian woman
2003.198.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1942-1944 May
… 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…
10. Red and yellow floral handkerchief carried by a young Hungarian Jewish girl on the Kasztner train
2003.198.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.10
Date:
received: approximately 1942
use: approximately 1942-1946
… fascist regime, allied with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor…
11. Pair of toddler's well used black and white leather lace-up boots worn in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp
2002.447.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.447.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1945
…Judis Baehr (now Urbanova) was born on October 2, 1940, in Berlin, Germany. Her mother, who was Jewish and possibly named Mimi, died six days after…
12. Geometric floral patterned pink scarf worn by an infant while the family lived in hiding
2005.600.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.2
Date:
use: 1943-1945
…Frieda Lewin Fromm was born on December 4, 1882, in Ortelsburg, Germany (Szczytno, Poland). She married her sister Henriette's husband, Meyer Fromm…
13. Brown leather billfold used by a Latvian Jewish refugee and aid worker from Nazi Germany
2005.379.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.5
Date:
use: 1935-1947
emigration: 1941 February 21
…Brown leather billfold used by a Latvian Jewish refugee and aid worker from Nazi Germany…
14. Handkerchief
2015.563.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.4
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Jewish children in the Holocaust--Germany.…
15. 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…
16. Woven miniature hat
2019.512.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.512.8
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1944
…. Hilda was a nurse and survived the war in the Netherlands. Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, and by 14 February 1942 Pieterdina, Katherine…
17. Brown leather belt worn by a Dutch Jewish political prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau
2017.608.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.608.3
Date:
use: approximately 1941 October-approximately 1945 May 08
… France declared war on Germany. The Netherlands planned to stay neutral in this war, as they had done in World War I. Adolf Hitler, Germany’s chancellor…
18. Bootjack used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.4
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… landowner, whose land they rented. On September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. Salek was mobilized into the 19th Infantry Battalion, Polish Army…
19. White handkerchief with a fan design carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.11
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
20. White handkerchief with openwork flowers carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.10
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…