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1. Yellow warning skull and crossbones pennant found by a concentration camp inmate after liberation
2014.461.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.461.4
Date:
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 September
use: 1941 July-1945
… 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Czestochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the ghetto after it was…
2. Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
…Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
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3. Ceramic change holder in the shape of an Orthodox Jewish man
2016.184.4 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.4
Date:
manufacture: 1890-1962
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
4. Coat design, Ulla, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.10
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Ulla
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
5. Political cartoon depicting world peace perched on a swastika created by an American journalist
2018.298.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.3
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Artwork Title:
On the Spot
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
6. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… inhabitants were Jewish. Beryl Mutterperl (d. 1937) was a businessman who bought cattle and farm products for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border…
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 … for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border garrison. Dina owned a thriving fabric store. The Mutterperls lived in the center of town. Their…
7. German Rentenbank, 2 Rentenmark note
2003.413.97 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.97
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
…Germany.…
8. Ester Ajzen Lewin family photographs
2004.396 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.396
Date:
creation: circa 1927-circa 1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
9. Robert H. Harlan diary
2000.190 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2000.190
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
bulk: 1938-1939
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…-Universitat in Marburg, Germany. Following Kristallnacht, Robert helped his friend Bruno Stern (1880-1957) and his family escape to the United States. Robert…
10. Political cartoon depicting Agustín Justo created by an American journalist
2018.298.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.11
Date:
creation: 1936-1943
Artwork Title:
Augustin (sic) Justo
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
11. Greta Braude Heiman photographs
2003.246.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2003.246.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1952
… Hamm an der Sieg, Germany before the Holocaust and in Milwaukee following their immigration to the United States. Photographs depict Greta, her parents…
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 … prints of Greta Braude Heiman and her Meyer and Michel relatives and friends in Hamm an der Sieg, Germany before the Holocaust and in Milwaukee following…
12. Political cartoon depicting King Christian X of Denmark created by an American journalist
2018.298.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.4
Date:
creation: 1936-1943
Artwork Title:
Christian X
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
13. Myron and Dottie Miller collection
2013.39.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.39.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1936-1948
… Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Palestine, and Switzerland.…
14. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection
1988.132.4 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.132.4
Date:
interview: circa 1918-circa 1949
… by classmates, and taunted with antisemitic slurs, such as "Christ killer." Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Welek watched German soldiers…
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 … Afterwards, he worked cleaning soldiers’ barracks. Eventually he returned to his uncle’s house in Bayreuth, Germany where he learned of the death of his family…
15. Coat design, Turin, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.6
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Turin
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
16. Sigall family papers
2017.237.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2017.237.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1949
…Emmy Loeb (1923-2015) was born Emmy Hanna Sigall in Darmstadt, Germany, on 31 May 1923, the daughter of Hermann Nathan Sigall (1898-1941), a furrier…
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 … Darmstadt, Germany, on a “Kindertransport” to Britain in 1939; her settlement in Britain; and the efforts of her parents, Hermann and Natalie Sigall, and…
17. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers
2016.443.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2015
bulk: 1920-1950
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… children. In the mid-1930s, Henry’s older brother, Alfred, left Germany with the hopes of training at a Zionist-sponsored camp in Yugoslavia, in order to…
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 … currency from Poland and Germany from the 1910s and 1920s; and luggage tags and labels used when Henry Wachs immigrated to the United States in 1938…
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18. Michael V. Roth photographs
1997.A.0446 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0446
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1955
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … Second World War in Germany. A misty cold morning in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. On that morning, the clouds were hanging low on the mountain top on…
19. Rosenwald and Stahl families papers
2017.222.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2017.222.1
Date:
inclusive: 1885-1980
bulk: 1920-1955
…Gerhard (later Gerald) Stahl was born on 3 May 1922, to Martin and Sofie (née Bauer) Stahl, in Nuremberg, Germany. He left for Britain (on a…
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 … of Otto and Elfriede Rosenwald, and their daughter, Helene, from Germany in 1936, to escape Nazi persecution. Includes materials from their extended…
20. German Prisoner of War Camp general issue currency, kriegsgefangenen lagergeld, 10 Reichspfennig
2003.413.42 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.42
Date:
issue: 1939-1944
…Germany…