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1. Shoebrush made by underground resistance member
1994.42.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.42.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1941-1945
…Shoebrush made by underground resistance member…
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2. Shaving brush used by a German Jewish refugee in hiding
1990.307.7_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 a
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
… Elli Graumann, and the refugees were all placed in an empty chicken house. The following day, Harry and his underground connections formed a search party…
3. Moustache brush owned by a German Jewish refugee
1990.307.6 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.6
Date:
use: approximately 1907-approximately 1917
… Elli Graumann, and the refugees were all placed in an empty chicken house. The following day, Harry and his underground connections formed a search party…
4. Razor used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.7_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 b
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
… Elli Graumann, and the refugees were all placed in an empty chicken house. The following day, Harry and his underground connections formed a search party…
5. Handbell
1991.226.105 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.226.105
Date:
1945 March 11
… following day, Harry and his underground connections formed a search party for Michael, and discovered he had been killed by the smugglers and buried in a…
6. 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
… in the underground Zionist movement. She obtained false papers under the name Barbara. She never worried that she would be caught because she looked…
7. Bar of soap issued to a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate
1994.55.6
Object | Accession Number: 1994.55.6
Date:
issue: approximately 1944 August-approximately 1945 April
… subcamp of Krakau-Płaszów. Airplane production had been moved to the old, underground salt mine near this camp. Several days later, Edmund was deported to…
8. Straight razor with an offwhite plastic handle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.5
Date:
use: 1928-1980
… released and returned to Łódź. Antisemitism was prevalent and Simon felt it put his family at risk. He paid an underground Zionist group to help the family…
9. 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
… family. This underground network then helped them travel by train and foot across the Slovak-Hungarian border to Budapest where they stayed in a pension…
10. Red and black plastic cigarette holder used by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.147.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.5
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… for him. With the aid of a friend with connections to the underground resistance movement, Frank was smuggled on a fishing boat to Sweden, where he…
11. 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
… the war, Herbert lived underground in Belgium. Siegburt was killed in Auschwitz in 1942. Karl learned that Tony was killed by German guards because he…
12. Wooden comb and handmade paper case given to a prisoner by a friend in Kaiserwald concentration camp
2012.310.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.310.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1944 December 27
… and her friends were transferred to Stutthof concentration camp and then to Thorn subcamp, in Torun, Poland. They worked in an underground factory with…
13. Violin, case and spare parts used by a Jewish Latvian musician while imprisoned in several concentration camps
2006.133.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.2 a-j
Date:
received: approximately 1921
use: 1940-1949
… prisoner number 92894 and was likely put to work as a forced laborer at an underground airplane factory code-named Weingut I. Grunia’s husband, Elias, Leo…