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1. Large wooden crate used by Zegota, a Polish underground group, to hide false documents
1990.296.1 3/4 view back
Object | Accession Number: 1990.296.1
Date:
use: approximately 1942 October-1945 January
…Large wooden crate used by Zegota, a Polish underground group, to hide false documents…
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2. Embroidered white pillowcase used in hiding in Poland
2008.222.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.222.2
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… a safehouse for the Polish underground. Elzbieta was told that she was Jewish; she went to the church and asked the priest if that meant she would go…
3. Fringed black silk piano shawl with embroidered silver flowers brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.5
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
… entrepreneur, Jerzy directed such projects as installing sound systems in movie theaters and devised plans for an underground train system in Warsaw. Following…
4. White square cotton pillowcase with a cutwork border brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.42 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.42
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
received: 1926
… entrepreneur, Jerzy directed such projects as installing sound systems in movie theaters and devised plans for an underground train system in Warsaw. Following…
5. 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
… often in hiding, assisted by non-Jewish neighbors who were active in the Dutch underground.Through the underground, Doriane and Alfred were placed with a…
6. Large white pillowcase embroidered with a floral design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.13
Date:
recovered: 1945 July
… on a seven hour train ride to Tasnad-Blaja, Romania, to cut stones to repair the roadways and later dig ditches for underground power cables. The…
7. Monogrammed bath towel used in the Krakow ghetto
2008.227.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.227.3
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… they contacted a friend of Edward’s, Alfred Zbik, whose parents were involved in the Polish underground. They gave them refuge in their home for two…
8. 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
… on a seven hour train ride to Tasnad-Blaja, Romania, to cut stones to repair the roadways and later dig ditches for underground power cables. The…
9. 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
… on a seven hour train ride to Tasnad-Blaja, Romania, to cut stones to repair the roadways and later dig ditches for underground power cables. The…
10. 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
… on a seven hour train ride to Tasnad-Blaja, Romania, to cut stones to repair the roadways and later dig ditches for underground power cables. The…