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1. 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.…
2. 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…
3. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand memorializing the destruction of Jewish culture during the Holocaust
2009.400.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.400.11
Date:
creation: 2003
depiction: 1939-1945
Artwork Title:
Temple Ruins
… interned in ghettos and soon the Germans began systematic deportations of the Jewish population to concentration camps. In May, Daisy and her family were…
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. Upright domed traveling wardrobe trunk used by an Austrian Jewish family
Object | Accession Number: 2004.628.2
Date:
received: 1933
emigration: 1939 January
…Upright domed traveling wardrobe trunk used by an Austrian Jewish family…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. Mixed media wall sculpture in three sections by Daisy Brand memorializing the betrayal and destruction of Jewish culture and religious faith during the Holocaust
2009.400.8_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.400.8 a-c
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1939-1945
Artwork Title:
Broken Promise
… interned in ghettos and soon the Germans began systematic deportations of the Jewish population to concentration camps. In May, Daisy and her family were…
10. Monogrammed silver ladle brought with a German Jewish prewar refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2008.204.4
Date:
emigration: 1939
manufacture: after 1800-before 1888
…Ernestine Unger (1873-1947, later Wiesenthal) was born in Berlin, Germany, into a Jewish family that had lived in the city for generations. She…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. World Scout badge with a fleur-de-lis and star worn by a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2007.205.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.205.8
Date:
use: 1940-1945
emigration: 1939 February
…Jewish families--Austria--Vienna.…
14. 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.…
15. Rover Boy Scout set of green epaulets with fleur-de-lis worn by a Jewish refugee
2007.205.11_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.205.11 a-b
Date:
use: 1940-1945
emigration: 1939 February
…Jewish families--Austria--Vienna.…
16. World Scout badge with a fleur-de-lis and star worn by a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2007.205.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.205.9
Date:
use: 1940-1945
emigration: 1939 February
…Jewish families--Austria--Vienna.…
17. 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…
18. 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…
19. 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…
20. Leather Boy Scout badge with a red dragon worn by a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2007.205.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.205.10
Date:
use: 1940-1945
emigration: 1939 February
…Jewish families--Austria--Vienna.…