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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. 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 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…
4. 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…
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. 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…
7. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand evoking her memories of arrival at a concentration camp and the crematoria
2009.400.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.400.10
Date:
creation: 2003
depiction: 1944 May-1945 May
Artwork Title:
Descent
… 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. Cartoon of an ailing Jewish man worrying about the shop
2016.184.201.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.201.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1910
Artwork Title:
VeIl, who's looking after der shop?
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Cartoon drawing in paint with ink on paper of a living room interior of a family with stereotypically Jewish facial features: very large, curved…
9. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand evoking cherished memories of the her childhood
2009.400.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.400.9
Date:
creation: 1999
Artwork Title:
Memories
… 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. 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. Central Bank of China, 100 yuan note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee
1990.114.67 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.114.67
Date:
issue: 1944
received: 1944-1947
…Jewish families--Germany--Berlin.…
12. Japanese invasion banknote, 10 pesos, acquired postwar by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2004.709.4
Date:
issue: approximately 1942
received: approximately 1945-1946
… 25, 1931. Erich and Ella were a well-to-do Jewish family. Nazi Germany merged Austria into the German Reich in March 1938. They enacted anti-Jewish…
13. 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…
14. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand depicting graveled train tracks entering a concentration camp
2009.400.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.400.2
Date:
creation: 2000
depiction: 1944 May-1945 April
Artwork Title:
Graveled Road and Tracks
… 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. Blue envelope with American and German censorship marks mailed to the US by a Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2005.376.2
Date:
postmark: 1941 August 12
… Karolina, born on January 1, 1922. Her father had a small factory where he manufactured paper bags for cement. They were a traditional Jewish family, and…
16. Drawing of a water wheel by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.60
Date:
creation: 1940-1957
Artwork Title:
View of a Water Wheel and Building
… 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…
17. Blue envelope with German censorship marks mailed to the US by a Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2005.376.3
Date:
postmark: 1941 July 28
… Karolina, born on January 1, 1922. Her father had a small factory where he manufactured paper bags for cement. They were a traditional Jewish family, and…
18. 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…
19. 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…
20. Small suitcase used by a former hidden child to emigrate to the US
2001.309.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.309.1
Date:
use: 1949 October
…Jewish families--France--Biography.…