Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

You searched for: POLICE Remove constraint POLICE Digital Availability In English Remove constraint Digital Availability: In English Objects Containers Remove constraint Objects: Containers
New Search

Search

Search Results

1. Red gift box owned by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.16
Date:
use: after 1942 August
…. In June 1940, Edward was arrested by the NKVD (Soviet Security Police), tortured, and exiled to a gulag near Rybinsk on the Volga River. The prisoners…
2. Embossed aluminum flat top steamer trunk used by a German Jewish refugee
2005.140.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.140.4
Date:
emigration: 1938 December 15
… became a police state and Jews often were forced to give up their businesses. Ernest and his mother were preparing to leave Germany when Ernest was…
3. Upright embossed aluminum wardrobe trunk used by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.140.3
Date:
emigration: 1938 December 15
…, Germany became a police state and Jews often were forced to give up their businesses. Ernest and his mother were preparing to leave Germany when Ernest was…
4. Upright domed traveling wardrobe trunk used by an Austrian Jewish family
Object | Accession Number: 2004.628.2
Date:
received: 1933
emigration: 1939 January
… Isidor’s, were confiscated. During the Kristallnacht pogrom that November 10, Isidor was arrested and taken to the police riding school on Kenyongasse…
5. Large, ribbed burlap covered trunk used by Jewish Czech inmates
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.53
Date:
use: 1941 December-1944 September 24
manufacture: approximately 1900-1925
… invade and annexed the provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, which included Prague. It was governed by a Reich Protector. Anti-Jewish polices were put in place…
6. Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer
2017.661.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.3 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945
… the Canton’s Alien Police to reside in the canton of Zurich, rather than the labor camp. He began working as an office assistant and accountant for…
7. Green painted aluminum trunk used by Gisela Marx Eden
2013.476.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.476.2
Date:
use: 1939 August
… boarding school in Lancashire. In 1941, Gisela was called for military service after she turned sixteen. She had to choose between the army, police, or…
8. Brown leather briefcase acquired by a Polish Jewish woman in a DP camp
1989.277.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.277.1
Date:
received: approximately 1946
… Polish police to arrest her mother. Her mother had been a delegate for the Soviet government, traveling to different districts and serving in court. Now…
9. Black Vulcanfiber suitcase used by a Dutch Jewish family while in hiding
2004.301.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.301.2
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
… papers for hidden Jews. He was arrested, but refused to tell the police what he had done and who his accomplices were, insisting that he worked alone. The…