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1. 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…
2. 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…
3. 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…
4. Collage in two sections of a teacher with students by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.106 a-b
Date:
creation: 1920-1939
Artwork Title:
Teacher and students in class
… merchant and dealer in rare coins, was from a large, wealthy, prominent Jewish family which had lived in Frankfurt for generations. She had an older brother…
5. Metal identification tag used by Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to the US
2005.288.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.288.3
Date:
use: approximately 1942
emigration: 1938
… sisters, Betty and Helene. His father had a butcher shop. The family was Jewish and moderately observant. Gustav was the first in his family to graduate…
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. Drawing of a country house and fields by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.72
Date:
creation: 1920-1939
Artwork Title:
House with Fence in the Countryside
… merchant and dealer in rare coins, was from a large, wealthy, prominent Jewish family which had lived in Frankfurt for generations. She had an older brother…
8. Illustration for an advertisement for fine teas by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.81
Date:
creation: 1920-1939
Artwork Title:
Sugar Shack advertisement
… merchant and dealer in rare coins, was from a large, wealthy, prominent Jewish family which had lived in Frankfurt for generations. She had an older brother…
9. 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…
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. Pair of black leather lace-up ice skates owned by a German Jewish refugee
2007.101.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.101.13 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1938
emigration: 1946
…, 1926. They were an observant Jewish family. Moritz owned a leather goods store. After Hitler came to power in 1933, the Nazi government sanctioned anti…
12. Dark brown leather satchel used by a Polish Jewish refugee
2005.427.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.427.2
Date:
use: 1938-1948
…Jewish families--Poland--Biography.…
13. Ritual slaughter instrument set: 3 knives, 3 cases, 2 whetstones, a bag, a band, and 4 cloths used by a shochet
1992.8.39_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.39 a-n
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
… [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…
14. Drawing of a store and two houses at an intersection by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.77
Date:
creation: 1920-1939
Artwork Title:
Shop and Houses on Street Corner
… merchant and dealer in rare coins, was from a large, wealthy, prominent Jewish family which had lived in Frankfurt for generations. She had an older brother…
15. Realistic drawing of a wooden barn by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.5
Date:
creation: 1920-1939
Artwork Title:
Hillside Country Barn
… merchant and dealer in rare coins, was from a large, wealthy, prominent Jewish family which had lived in Frankfurt for generations. She had an older brother…
16. Book of musical compositions transcribed by a female Jewish musician
Object | Accession Number: 2013.311.5
Date:
creation: 1937-1941
recovered: approximately 1945 June
… Hungarians were more anti-Semitic but their lives continued normally. Terez encouraged the family to adopt a child, and her grandmother Zeni adopted a Jewish…
17. Agfa Box 44 camera carried with a German Jewish boy on a Kindertransport to France
Object | Accession Number: 2013.440.2
Date:
received: 1938 March
manufacture: approximately 1932-approximately 1938
…Jewish families--Germany--Berlin--Biography.…