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81. U.S. Army regulation uniform shirt worn by a Signal Corps photographer for the war crimes trials
Object | Accession Number: 2013.458.3
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…
82. Striped prisoner pants worn by a concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2016.118.1
Date:
use: 1944 May-1945 May
…Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)…
83. Woman's nightgown with lacework trim brought to the US by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.396.2
Date:
emigration: 1939 July
… granted the family access to modern public housing. Germany annexed Austria on March 13, 1938. Anti-Jewish policies were enacted that stripped Austrian Jews…
84. Striped concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1993.34.1
Date:
use: 1944 December 24-1945 April 11
… 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Czestochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the ghetto after it was…
85. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Jewish Latvian prisoner
2003.174.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 October-1945 February
…. Around this time, the Soviets transported Ber’s family to Riga. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and entered Riga on July 1. In August, the…
86. SA (Sturmabteilungen/ Storm Division) brown uniform shirt with 2 detachable collars
2001.204.5_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.204.5 a-c
…The collection consists of artifacts, books, pamphlets, and photographs relating to the Lebensborn program in Nazi Germany which encouraged the birth…
87. Child's flowered blue dress received by girl in DP camp
2007.520.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.520.4
Date:
received: approximately 1947
… after Nazi Germany invaded the country. In June 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union. The Germans occupied the town on June 28 and during the summer…
88. Navy blue pinstriped jacket and pants worn by the groom at his wedding to another survivor in a DP camp
2004.682.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.680.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1947 March 02
… by classmates, and taunted with antisemitic slurs, such as "Christ killer." Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Welek watched German soldiers…
89. Striped sweater vest worn by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate
1994.55.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.55.5
Date:
use: approximately 1944 August-approximately 1945 April
… worked as an electrician. In September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. Germany occupied regions west of the Bug River, the Soviet Union…
90. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
2014.557.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.5
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
… September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The country was quickly occupied, and Herman was among the large portion of Polish soldiers captured as prisoners of…
91. Green cardigan knit from the wool of US Army scarves by Olga Waldman in a DP camp
2007.511.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.511.2
Date:
use: 1945-1949
…Olga Waldman was born in Breslau, Germany, (Wroclaw, Poland) on March 7, 1904, to Anna and Meier. She married Pinio Wisniarski and they had one son…
92. Short sleeved henley undershirt with 3 buttons brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.12
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
93. Wedding dress with ruffle made for the marriage of 2 German Jewish DP camp aid workers
2005.579.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.2
Date:
use: 1948 June 20
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
94. Peach chemise with floral embroidery saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.4
Date:
received: 1934
use: 1934-1946
… Judit spent the summers visiting Anna’s family in Bekes. Hungary was governed by a fascist regime, allied with Nazi Germany. From 1939, Jewish men were…
95. White shirt made from a rayon parachute for a Czech Jewish man for his wedding in a DP camp
1999.126.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.126.1
Date:
use: 1946 January 27
creation: 1946 January
…, 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…
96. Coat worn by a female German Jewish member of the Red Orchestra resistance group
2015.298.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.298.2
… Egler. She was raised in Berlin, Germany. Inn 1933, the Nazi dictatorship took power in Germany. In her late teens, Lisa enrolled in the Museum School of…
97. Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate
1989.248.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.248.1
Date:
use: 1940 August 10-1945 May 06
… Stossier. On March 12, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. The Nazi regime actively persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses, whose religious convictions led them to refuse…
98. Concentration camp uniform coat with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate
1990.222.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.222.1.3
Date:
use: 1939-1945
…The subject, a male, was born on June 8, 1907, in Colmar, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany (now France). His mother was born in 1885, in Sierenz, Germany…
99. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a non-Jewish doctor/resistance member
2004.554.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.554.1
Date:
received: 1944 September-1945 April
… his wife, daughters Julda and Pom and oldest son "Co." The Netherlands was occupied by Germany in May 1940. Dr. Zubli was recognized by the Red Cross…
100. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Romanian Jewish inmate at Buchenwald
2002.467.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.467.2
Date:
received: approximately 1944
… significant part in the economic, social, and cultural life of the city. In August 1940, as part of the second Vienna Award, Germany forced Romania to cede…