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1. Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to German Jewish prewar emigre
2012.455.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.8
Date:
received: approximately 1940
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
2. Postcard of 4 children dancing around a Jewish man
2016.184.774 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.774
Date:
creation: approximately 1900
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Jewish families--Caricatures and cartoons.…
3. Black layered evening dress brought with a Polish Jewish emigre
2009.117.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.117.3
Date:
emigration: 1939
…Jewish families--Poland.…
4. Black Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to German Jewish prewar emigre
2012.455.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.9
Date:
received: approximately 1940
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
5. Small silhouette of his father brought to the US by a Jewish refugee from Vienna
2004.704.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.704.3
Date:
creation: before 1938
Artwork Title:
Silhouette of Salomon Mentkewicz
… for a family. Nazi Germany annexed Austria on March 13, 1938. Anti-Jewish policies were enacted that stripped Austrian Jews of their rights. The…
6. Der Baalschem von Michelstadt : Kulturgeschichte. Erzahlung [Book]
1992.8.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.3 a-b
Date:
publication/distribution: 1921-1922
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
received: 1927-1927
Title:
Der Baalschem von Michelstadt : Kulturgeschichte. Erzahlung
… [scribe], and cantor. The family attended the Alte Schul synagogue where Sol sang in the choir. He attended the Jewish Community School for Boys until he…
7. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand mourning the cremation of her father at Auschwitz
2009.400.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.400.5
Date:
creation: 2003
depiction: 1944 May
Artwork Title:
Looking Back: Then and Now
… interned in ghettos and soon the Germans began systematic deportations of the Jewish population to concentration camps. In May, Daisy and her family were…
8. Pencil portrait of his father brought to the US by a Jewish refugee from Vienna
2004.704.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.704.2
Date:
creation: 1929 April
Artwork Title:
Portrait of Salomon Mentkewicz
… for a family. Nazi Germany annexed Austria on March 13, 1938. Anti-Jewish policies were enacted that stripped Austrian Jews of their rights. The…
9. Black ribbon watch fob from prewar Netherlands
2008.354.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.354.5
Date:
creation: 1893
emigration: 1938 December
…Eliazer (Elie) Davids was born on March 27, 1904, in Amsterdam, Netherlands to an observant Jewish family, which had lived in Amsterdam for over…
10. canceled British postage stamp acquired by a German Jewish refugee
1990.114.73 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.114.73
Date:
received: approximately 1941 August 27
issue: 1937-1941
… Doreen, moved to the US in 1952. While in Chicago, Berta met Peter Victor, a German Jewish refugee. Peter and his family left Berlin in 1939 for Shanghai…
11. Laced leather billfold with a painted harbor owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.2
Date:
received: after 1938-before 1947 December
… Doreen, moved to the US in 1952. While in Chicago, Berta met Peter Victor, a German Jewish refugee. Peter and his family left Berlin in 1939 for Shanghai…
12. Kodak Retina handheld folding camera and leather case taken out of occupied Poland by a Jewish refugee
2010.211.2 b front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.211.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1941 June 23
…Moyshe Asz was born on July 29, 1914, in Kutno, Poland, near Łódź, to an upper middle class Hasidic Jewish family. His parents were Yankev Shie Asz…
13. Central Bank of China, 1000 yuan note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee
1990.114.64 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.114.64
Date:
issue: 1945
received: 1945-1947
…Jewish families--Germany--Berlin.…
14. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand depicting arrival at a concentration camp
2009.400.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.400.3
Date:
creation: 2003
depiction: 1944 May-1945 April
Artwork Title:
Relocation
… interned in ghettos and soon the Germans began systematic deportations of the Jewish population to concentration camps. In May, Daisy and her family were…
15. Central Reserve Bank of China, 10 yuan note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee
1990.114.65 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.114.65
Date:
issue: 1940
received: 1940-1947
…Jewish families--Germany--Berlin.…
16. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.272 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.272
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
… authorities quickly enacted anti-Jewish decrees that restricted every aspect of Jewish life. The family’s bank accounts were frozen. Ernst became ostracized at…
17. Silver-plated cup made in a slave labor camp and later engraved with Kato Ritter's name
2010.442.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.2
Date:
commemoration: 1944 May-1945 May 08
creation: approximately 1989
manufacture: 1944 May-1945 April
… German-allied Hungarian government began enacting anti-Jewish legislation, and Kato’s family was required to pay rent for their farm land to the state. In…
18. Pair of men's black leather lace-up ankle boots owned by a Jewish refugee during his escape from Vienna
2004.628.5_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.628.5 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1939
received: 1938
… to Jewish families in Golwice, Poland: Isidor in 1894 and Fanny in 1904. The couple married in Vienna, Austria, on July 6, 1924, where Isidor owned a…
19. Large painted plastic doll owned by a Jewish girl killed in Auschwitz
2011.424.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.424.1
Date:
received: after 1942 October
…. Ida was one of eight children in her Orthodox Jewish family: four boys, Hersz, born 1900, Barukh (Bruno), Willy (Ze’ev), born 1910, and Israel-Elyasz…
20. Black yarmulke worn by a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.8
Date:
use: before 1943
received: approximately 1939
… of the Jewish community in Budapest. At their invitation, the family moved to Budapest in 1905 and changed their last name to Hevesi. Simon became a…