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1. Waffen SS red fez acquired by a US soldier following the liberation of Dachau concentration camp
1992.73.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.73.1
Date:
received: 1945 April 29
…Waffen SS red fez acquired by a US soldier following the liberation of Dachau concentration camp…
2. Leather belt taken from an SS storeroom at a concentration camp and worn by a Hungarian Jewish inmate after liberation
2002.175.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.175.2
Date:
use: 1945 May 05-1945 May 07
… 1945. Steven Vogel took the shirt and belt from an SS storeroom housing clothing and supplies at the camp. Letter: handwritten by Tomi Baratod [sic] in…
3. Waffen SS green fez given to a US officer by his soldiers after the liberation of Dachau concentration camp
1991.196.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.196.1
Date:
received: 1945 May
…Waffen SS green fez given to a US officer by his soldiers after the liberation of Dachau concentration camp…
4. Waffen SS red fez acquired by a US soldier
2003.173.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.173.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
…Red fez that was part of the dress uniform of a Waffen-SS military detachment composed of Muslims from Bosnia, Croatia, and Herzegovina in occupied…
5. 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
… of the Hungarian Zionist Association in Budapest to get the German SS to allow a train of Jews to leave the country in exchange for money. Judit and…
6. Waffen-SS Muslim red fez found by a US soldier at Ohrdruf concentration camp
2006.167.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.167.1
Date:
found: after 1945 April
… Waffen-SS military detachment composed of Muslims from Bosnia, Croatia, and Herzegovina in occupied Yugoslavia. There was a field gray one for combat. The…
7. Waffen SS red fez acquired by a US soldier in Germany
1994.101.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.101.1
Date:
received: 1945
…The collection consists of two Waffen SS fezzes and a Nazi banner relating to the experiences of Kurt Weiler, a refugee from Nazi Germany before…
8. Waffen SS red fez found at Dachau concentration camp after liberation
1992.212.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.212.2
Date:
found: after 1945 April 29
… 29 liberation by US troops. The red fez was part of the dress uniform of a Waffen-SS military detachment composed of Muslims from Bosnia, Croatia, and…
9. Waffen SS green fez found in Dachau by a US soldier
1994.101.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.101.2
Date:
found: 1945 April
…The collection consists of two Waffen SS fezzes and a Nazi banner relating to the experiences of Kurt Weiler, a refugee from Nazi Germany before…
10. 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
… quotas, the children sailed in July 1946 from Goteborg, Sweden, to New York aboard the SS Gripsholm. They were adopted by their paternal uncle Benjamin and…
11. Red plaid handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.5
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… to the United States on the SS Marine Perch and settled in New York City. Irena graduated from Hunter College in 1956. She has two children and runs an…
12. Wedding veil worn by Lili Lax Friedman and many additional 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
… if they did not walk fast enough. Eva was very small, so Lili and Faige helped her. An SS officer told a Jewish kapo to beat the women. He refused, and…
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
… York on the SS Exeter. The family settled in St. Paul, Minnesota, near Gitta and other family members. The spelling of the family surname was changed to…
14. Women’s blue cloth and wood sandals worn by an American internee
2018.426.12 a 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.12 a-b
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… experiences of Leonie Roualet in the Vittel internment camp in France during the Holocaust, and in France and the United States after the Holocaust.…
15. 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
… a radio transmitter across the border and was arrested by the German SS security force in Trieste. John was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp…
16. Blue leather billfold used by a Latvian Jewish refugee and aid worker from Nazi Germany
2005.379.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.6
Date:
use: 1945-1947
emigration: 1941 February 21
… York on the SS Exeter. The family settled in St. Paul, Minnesota, near Gitta and other family members. The spelling of the family surname was changed to…
17. 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 and Hanna sailed from Bremen on the SS Marine Marlin on February 21, 1947, arriving in New York on March 3. They moved to New Jersey, where Hanna…
18. Burlap purse with yarn flowers and monogram carried by a 10 year old Jewish Austrian refugee
2010.194.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.2
Date:
received: 1945 June-1946 June
emigration: 1946 July
… quotas, the children sailed in July 1946 from Goteborg, Sweden, to New York aboard the SS Gripsholm. They were adopted by their paternal uncle Benjamin and…
19. Plaid handkerchief used by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
1999.100.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.8
…. On April 20, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners marched under SS guard towards an undisclosed location. On the night of May 2, Wollheim fled to…
20. Black textured leather trifold wallet used by a Hungarian Jewish youth and former concentration camp inmate
2012.409.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.409.3
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1944
… labor battalion was shipped back to Hungary that summer and put under the control of the German SS. They then began a death march to the Austrian border…