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1. Black beret owned postwar by Natan Caron who was interned in multiple concentration camps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.3
Date:
received: after 1945 April
… Yiddish. Natan attended private school and was a good student. He did not experience anti-Semitism. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The Chorowicz…
2. Black headband embroidered MS St. Louis worn by a young girl on board the ship
2004.575.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.575.2
Date:
use: 1939 May 13-1939 June 17
…Annette Virginia Metis (later Gallagher) was born on December 20, 1930, in Grunberg, Germany, to Felix and Lotte Metis. Felix (1989-1984) was born in…
3. Blue laced tan leather billfold with an oval image of a man pullling 2 women in a rickshaw acquired by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.6
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
4. Green handkerchief case used by a German Jewish emigre
2003.132.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.132.2
Date:
emigration: 1936
…Heinz Jakob Kis was born on March 5, 1914, in Erfurt, Germany, to Samuel and Frieda Emanuel Kis. Samuel, a merchant, was born on April 10, 1881, most…
5. Hand carved wooden clogs found in Dachau concentration camp by an American soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2013.378.1 a-b
Date:
found: 1945 May 03-1945 May 08
…. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7. On May 8, Aubrey left Dachau when the 179th returned to Munich for occupational duty. On October 20…
6. 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
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
7. Leather bi-fold wallet with two photographs glued inside owned by a German Jewish refugee
2018.340.2 closed side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.340.2
Date:
depiction: 1940
…Erich Marcus (1889-1972) was born in Prenzlau, Germany, to Emil (1859-1940) and Margarethe (1867-1940) Zippert Marcus. Erich had a sister, Charlotte…
8. Leather coin purse with 3 pins, a Dutch coin, and a metal key carried by a young Jewish Austrian refugee to the US
2010.194.3_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.3 a-f
Date:
received: 1945 June-1946 June
emigration: 1946 July
… family moved there. In May, Holland was occupied by Germany and restrictions on the Jewish population were instituted. They had to wear Star of David…
9. Leather document holder with CIC credentials used by a Jewish American soldier
2011.395.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.395.4
Date:
received: 1944 October
use: 1944 October-1945 May
… to the III Corps, Third Army, under General Patton. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and reached Germany in early February 1945. One of Martin…
10. Pair of 2 button gloves worn by multiple Jewish brides in a DP camp
1999.7.12 c-d front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.12 c-d
Date:
creation: approximately 1946 January
use: 1946 January 27-before 1948 February
…, they no longer received mail and lost contact with Celia. In March 1944, Germany occupied Hungary. The same month, Lili got a letter from Yitzhak to…
11. Red-brown leather document wallet used by a German Jewish refugee
2003.149.64 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.64
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1937
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
12. Red laced brown leather billfold with an image of a man pulling 2 women in a rickshaw acquired by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.7
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
13. U.S. army issue khaki cap worn by the director of the Vaad Hatzala Emergency Committee in postwar Germany
2008.180.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.180.8 | RG Number: RG-19.072.03.03
Date:
use: 1946-1949
…U.S. army issue khaki cap worn by the director of the Vaad Hatzala Emergency Committee in postwar Germany…
14. U.S. Army tailor made, short waisted officer's jacket worn by a Signal Corps photographer for the war crimes trials
Object | Accession Number: 2013.458.5
Date:
use: approximately 1945 September-1949
… London for just over a year before being dispatched in 1944 to Wiesbaden, Germany. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. In August 1945, the United…