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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
… inmates in Natan’s train car, only 17 survived. Upon arrival on January 22, Natan was assigned prisoner number 117583. After a week, Natan was sent to labor…
2. Leather wallet with embossed images of Egyptian pharaohs acquired by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.105.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.105.2
Date:
received: approximately 1943
… in Landsberg displaced persons camp near Munich, Germany. They had survived the war by living under false identities as Polish Catholics in Milanowek…
3. Pair of gloves worn by Lili Lax Friedman and many additional 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
… in Celle displaced persons camp and found another cousin, Rosie Silverstein. Lili felt they survived because they held onto and helped each other…
4. 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
… survived the war in the Hongkew ghetto. Hanni married a US soldier and emigrated to the United States in 1946. Her family emigrated the next year. following…
5. 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
…, Rebecca Adler, survived the war in Berlin; her husband, who was not Jewish, had been able to save her, but both their sons were killed by the Nazis. For two…
6. Brown alligator wallet carried by a Hungarian Jewish youth while a forced laborer and concentration camp inmate
2012.409.4 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.409.4
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1944
… sisters, Edith and Klari, were deported to Auschwitz in May 1944; only Edith survived. Ladislav emigrated to El Paso, Texas, with the assistance of his…
7. Light brown leather billfold used by a Polish Jewish refugee
2012.358.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.358.2
Date:
unavailable: 
…, had survived with his wife, Shanke, and two young sons, Henikel and Kalmanke, by living with the Lenin Partisan Brigade in the Lipiczanski (Lipichanski…
8. 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
… safely live under a false name. She got a job working as a maid for a Gestapo officer, survived the war and later moved to England. Charlotte’s children…
9. Adult's pith helmet acquired in India during the journey to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.28
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
received: 1941 January
…, and her father died there of starvation on January 20, 1942. Her brother Zachar and family survived in Palestine. Upon acquiring United States…
10. 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
… Maastricht, The Netherlands. Klara notified their family in the United States and Palestine of their survival. They began sending aid packages and sent the…