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1. Waffen-SS ladle
2000.562.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.562.1
Date:
found: 1945
…Large metal ladle with "Waffen-SS" engraved on the back and "Neoveda-Rust Free."…
2. Metal dish inscribed for a matron of an SS Lebensborn
2001.204.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.204.6
Date:
commemoration: 1943 April
…The collection consists of artifacts, books, pamphlets, and photographs relating to the Lebensborn program in Nazi Germany which encouraged the birth…
3. Stainless steel fork with SS runes acquired by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1998.130.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.130.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
… Fine) during the Holocaust when he was a prisoner in Kaufering X concentration camp in Germany and after the Holocaust in Feldafing displaced persons…
4. Teacup and saucer with blue and pink flowers carried by Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.5_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.5 a-b
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…
5. Porcelain and metal bottle stopper recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.14 side a
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.14
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… killing center operated by the German SS and police authorities in German-occupied Poland.…
6. Pitcher made from an Eatonia Brand butter can and used by an American internee
2018.426.9 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.9
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.…
7. Kettle made from a can of Klim powdered milk and used by an American internee
2018.426.10 a-b side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.10 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.…
8. Cup and saucer from a café run by Jewish Austrian family
2017.259.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.259.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1919-1938
manufacture: after 1918 September-1937
… Hamburg, Germany, and boarded the SS President Harding which left for New York on May 23. Once they arrived in New York the children were taken to the Brith…
9. Salad plate with a floral design carried by Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.6
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…
10. Monogrammed silver napkin rings owned by a German Rabbi
2018.290.2 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.290.2 a-b
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…
11. Copper food bowl used in Treblinka concentration camp
2009.353.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.353.1
Date:
use: 1941-1944
…Copper bowl that was used by inmates of the Treblinka concentration and extermination camp in Poland from 1941-1944. In November 1941, the SS and the…
12. Metal teaspoon recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.21
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… killing center operated by the German SS and police authorities in German-occupied Poland.…
13. Metal teaspoon recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.3 side
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.3
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… killing center operated by the German SS and police authorities in German-occupied Poland.…
14. Tablespoon with scratched initials used by a German Jewish concentration camp inmate
1994.75.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.75.1
Date:
use: after 1943 March-1945 April
…). Many prisoners were killed and SS guards deserted their posts. The transport group stayed in Gleiwitz for a few days before being marched to the train…
15. Henckels dinner knife brought with a German Jewish prewar refugee
2012.493.5 left
Object | Accession Number: 2012.493.5
Date:
emigration: 1939
… friend, Frau Kehrli, arrived at the children’s home to take 8-year-old Nellie to Paris, France, and then on to Cherbourg. Nellie boarded the SS Deutschland…
16. Monogrammed dinner knife brought with a German Jewish prewar refugee
2012.493.4 left
Object | Accession Number: 2012.493.4
Date:
emigration: 1939
… friend, Frau Kehrli, arrived at the children’s home to take 8-year-old Nellie to Paris, France, and then on to Cherbourg. Nellie boarded the SS Deutschland…
17. Metal bowl recovered from a concentration camp by a Polish Jewish man
1990.115.2 top
Object | Accession Number: 1990.115.2
Date:
found: after 1944 August 07-1944 December 31
… Janowska Street labor camp for the SS German Armament Works. His family was likely killed in 1943, when the ghetto and camp were liquidated. The couple…
18. German military canteen with leather strap acquired by US soldier
1985.1.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.2
Date:
found: 1945
manufacture: 1943-1944
…Bernard Baruch Cohen was born on June 22, 1920, in Philadelphia, PA, to Simon and Sarah Cohen. His Yiddish speaking parents had immigrated to the…
19. Red enamel cup used by an inmate in a slave labor camp
2008.228.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.12
Date:
use: 1943-1947
… 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…
20. Napkin ring with a silver initial S used for Passover seder by a Jewish refugee
1992.8.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.4
Date:
emigration: 1939
… interrogated several times by the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) who gathered intelligence on opponents of the Nazi state and policed racial purity. In…