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1. Monogrammed tablecloth owned by Otto and Edith Frank
2018.613.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.5
Date:
received: 1925 May 08
… Holocaust, but her husband and son had not. Otto stayed with the Gies’ until 1952, when he immigrated to Basel, Switzerland. The following year, he and Fritzi…
2. Monogrammed napkin owned by Otto and Edith Frank
2018.613.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.6
Date:
received: 1925 May 08
… Holocaust, but her husband and son had not. Otto stayed with the Gies’ until 1952, when he immigrated to Basel, Switzerland. The following year, he and Fritzi…
3. Crocheted lace tablecloth with a rose and scrollwork design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.19
Date:
recovered: 1945 July
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…
4. Oval-shaped, embroidered whitework and cutwork table runner owned by Cila Knaster
2018.206.4 top
Object | Accession Number: 2018.206.4
Date:
emigration: approximately 1949
… and likely shot by Nazis. Cila Knaster survived the Holocaust. After the war, Cila met Baruch Knaster in a displaced persons camp and they married on…
5. Table runner with a tatted and red embroidered design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.17
Date:
recovered: 1945 July
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…
6. Hand-embroidered whitework and needle lace tablecloth owned by Cila Knaster
2018.206.10 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.206.10
Date:
emigration: approximately 1949
… and likely shot by Nazis. Cila Knaster survived the Holocaust. After the war, Cila met Baruch Knaster in a displaced persons camp and they married on…
7. Tablecloth embroidered with a blue bird and flower design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.15
Date:
creation: approximately 1930
recovered: 1945 July
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…
8. Silver engraved candelabrum commemorating the Stolp synagogue saved by refugees from Nazi Germany
2007.516.3 a-f front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.516.3 a-f
Date:
commemoration: 1895
emigration: 1939 March
… his family were able to escape by airplane for London, England. They obtained visas for the United States and sailed from Glasgow on the SS Cameronia…
9. White, monogrammed tablecloth belonging to the family of a German Rabbi
2018.290.1 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.290.1
Date:
use: before 1959
…, one of which made it back to her. Upon arriving at the camp, the train passengers were forced to run into the main square and were beaten by SS guards…
10. Dish towel with red radish applique brought to the US by a young Austrian Jewish refugee
2010.194.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.5
Date:
emigration: 1946 July
received: 1945 June-1946 June
… 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. Silver engraved candelabrum commemorating the Stolp synagogue saved by Jewish refugees
2007.516.2 a-f front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.516.2 a-f
Date:
commemoration: 1895
emigration: 1939 March
… for the United States and sailed on the SS Cameronia from Glasgow, arriving in the US on July 29, 1940. Werner obtained a position with Schwarzkopf…
12. Table covering with elaborate whitework embroidery and a crocheted border recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.6
Date:
recovered: 1945 July
creation: 1910
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…
13. Red checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees
2012.485.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.4
Date:
received: 1933
… sailed from Rotterdam on the SS Veendam, arriving in New York on February 5. They settled in Boston and Americanized their names to Fred and Juliana Elsa…
14. Floral pillow cover carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2005.492.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.12
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…. Germany surrendered in May 1945, ending the war in Europe. On June 8, 1946, Ina boarded the S.S. Drottningholm in Liverpool, England and sailed to the…
15. Duvet cover made from a US Army parachute by a Jewish family in a displaced persons camp
2009.372.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.372.2
Date:
manufacture: 1944 October
creation: 1945-1948
emigration: 1948 October 21
… only member of his family to survive the Holocaust, and his relatives wanted his family to join them in the US. They sent the Rubinzon family immigration…
16. Tablecloth embroidered with a multicolored floral design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.18
Date:
recovered: 1945 July
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…
17. Hand-embroidered floral tablecloth with cutwork elements owned by Cila Knaster
2018.206.9 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.206.9
Date:
emigration: approximately 1949
… and likely shot by Nazis. Cila Knaster survived the Holocaust. After the war, Cila met Baruch Knaster in a displaced persons camp and they married on…
18. Black checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees
2012.485.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.7
Date:
received: 1933
… sailed from Rotterdam on the SS Veendam, arriving in New York on February 5. They settled in Boston and Americanized their names to Fred and Juliana Elsa…
19. Railroad signal lantern with a reflector from Sobibor railroad station
1990.291.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.291.2
Date:
use: after 1900-before 1945
… railroads in Poland before and during the Holocaust.…
20. Large embroidered white pillowcase with scalloped edges recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.9
Date:
recovered: 1945 July
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…