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1. Soap issued to a concentration camp prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau
1995.15.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.15.1
Date:
1944
…Soap issued to a concentration camp prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau…
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2. Woman's engraved gold wrist watch given to one inmate by another in Auschwitz
2009.119.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.119.2
Date:
received: approximately 1945 January
…Woman's engraved gold wrist watch given to one inmate by another in Auschwitz…
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3. Bar of soap stamped RIF issued to an inmate of Auschwitz-Birkenau
2007.469.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.469.2
Date:
issue: 1945 January-1945 April 23
…Bar of soap stamped RIF issued to an inmate of Auschwitz-Birkenau…
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4. Harmonica
2016.506.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.506.2
… and raised in Prague, Czech Republic and survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps. Materials also illustrates his mother [d. 1932…
5. Walking stick received as a gift by a French Jewish boy who survived in hiding
1999.170.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.170.2
Date:
creation: before 1942 June
received: approximately 1942 June
… had been killed in Auschwitz. On June 25, 1942, Charles was deported from Pithiviers on convoy #4 to Auschwitz concentration camp, registered as…
6. Comb made from airplane parts by a Polish Jewish female slave laborer
1990.220.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.220.1
Date:
creation: 1944 November
… times. In August 1944, they were found and taken to Auschwitz concentration camp, along with their aunt Hela. Her sister was sent to the gas chambers and…
7. Silver plated ashtray with an engraving of Skansen Kronan acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
2013.496.2 top
Object | Accession Number: 2013.496.2
Date:
received: 1945 December-1946 October
… Auschwitz concentration camp on transport Ep, arriving on October 11. Sali and Malvine were separated from Arnold. On October 23, Sali and Malvine were sent…
8. Soap acquired by a prisoner in Buna concentration camp
1991.123.2 back
Object | Accession Number: 1991.123.2
Date:
found: 1944
…Oświęcim (Poland)…
9. Hair comb worn by a German Sinti woman
1989.311.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.311.9
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1939
…The hair comb belonged to an unnamed Sinti woman. The woman who owned this comb was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The comb was…
10. Wrist watch kept by a Hungarian Jewish concentration camp inmate
2004.593.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.593.2
Date:
received: approximately 1943 October
… transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. After few days, they were separated by gender. The males were shaved and tattooed with consecutive numbers…
11. Cigarette lighter crafted from a bullet shell casing by a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp
2007.47.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.47.1
Date:
creation: 1944-1945
…, had been deported and killed at Auschwitz death camp. From that moment on, he swore never to allow himself the pleasure of smoking another cigarette…
12. Harmonica with case
2019.515.1 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2019.515.1 a-b
Title:
Harmonica
… immediate families. Abraham survived the Bedzin ghetto and subsequent transfer through multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz, before his…
13. Shaving brush received in a concentration camp
2005.256.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.256.1
Date:
received: 1944
… ghetto. Their daughter, Miriam, was born there in December, 1941. In November 1942, the family was included in a transport to Auschwitz. When they arrived…
14. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
2008.226.3
Object | Accession Number: 2008.226.3
Date:
received: approximately 1944 June
… men and sent to the Topoya holding center. From there, they were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. In 1944, Yehudit, her mother, and her…
15. Cigarette holder made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp
2003.64.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.64.1
Date:
creation: after 1945 May 02-before 1945 June
… Tauba, Irma, and her sister Ruth were loaded on a cattle car. After several days with no water, they arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The…
16. Plastic eyeglass frames, temple and lenses worn by a Jewish concentration camp inmate
2010.494.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.494.2 a-d
Date:
use: 1939 May-1945 April
… Siegbert telling him his parents were sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942. In August 1943, Karl was deported to Auschwitz death camp. During…
17. Yellow and brown plastic hair clip owned by a young girl in German occupied Budapest
2008.337.4 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.337.4 a-b
Date:
received: 1944
use: 1940-1944
… were murdered in the same way. Charlotte learned from a former neighbor that her husband, Louis, had been deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration…
18. Pocket watch with chain traded for food by a concentration camp inmate and recovered postwar
2006.450.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 2006.450.1
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… a family friend that Karpeck and Beneck, had been deported from Krakow to Auschwitz concentration camp where they were considered too young to work…
19. Silver hair brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.4
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
… Auschwitz concentration camp in early January 1943. Ruth and Walter were forced laborers and feared deportation. On January 22, 1943, three days after Reha…
20. Silver clothes brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.3
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
… Auschwitz concentration camp in early January 1943. Ruth and Walter were forced laborers and feared deportation. On January 22, 1943, three days after Reha…