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1. Brown enamel mug used by a Polish Jewish concentration camp prisoner
1996.5.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.1
Date:
issue: after 1943 January-before 1945 February
… September 1, 1939, Germany invaded western Poland, and in mid-September, the Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop…
2. Detachable knife used by an inmate in a slave labor camp
2008.228.18_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.18 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
3. Dinner spoon used by an inmate in a slave labor camp
2008.228.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.17
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
4. Fork given to a Polish Catholic forced laborer by liberating US troops
2014.477.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.477.2
Date:
received: after 1945 May
…Schwarzburg (Germany)…
5. Inscribed wooden spoon and patch saved by a former Jewish Latvian slave labor camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.3 a-b
Date:
received: 1965
commemoration: 1945 January 23-1965 January 23
… in the area. In 1940, the Soviet Army invaded and occupied Lithuania and the persecution of Jews became widespread. In June-July 1941, Germany invaded…
6. International Military Tribunal Stork Club white porcelain mug
2004.705.12 back
Object | Accession Number: 2004.705.12
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1945
…Weiden in der Oberpfalz (Germany)…
7. Luftwaffe teaspoon acquired by a Romanian Jewish woman at Salzwedel
2002.467.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.467.3
Date:
manufacture: 1937
acquired: approximately 1945 April
… 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…
8. Metal soup canteen used by an inmate in a slave labor camp
2008.228.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.20
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
9. Metal tablespoon used by a Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate
1989.303.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.22
Date:
use: approximately 1944 September-1945 May
… regime came to power in Germany, Prague saw a large influx of Jews fleeing persecution. In September 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border region…
10. Red enamel cup used by an inmate in a slave labor camp
2008.228.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.12
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
11. Salad plate with a floral design carried by Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.6
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
12. Silver floral patterned dinner fork used by an inmate in a slave labor camp
2008.228.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.19
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
13. Silver-plated table fork with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.4
Date:
found: 1945 April
…-lived. During this time, Hungary began allying itself with Nazi Germany. Beginning in March 1938, Hungary began instituting race laws modeled on Germany…
14. Silver-plated table fork with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.1
Date:
found: 1945 April
…-lived. During this time, Hungary began allying itself with Nazi Germany. Beginning in March 1938, Hungary began instituting race laws modeled on Germany…
15. Silver-plated table fork with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.3
Date:
found: 1945 April
…-lived. During this time, Hungary began allying itself with Nazi Germany. Beginning in March 1938, Hungary began instituting race laws modeled on Germany…
16. Silver-plated table fork with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.2
Date:
found: 1945 April
…-lived. During this time, Hungary began allying itself with Nazi Germany. Beginning in March 1938, Hungary began instituting race laws modeled on Germany…
17. Silver-plated table knife with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.5
Date:
found: 1945 April
…-lived. During this time, Hungary began allying itself with Nazi Germany. Beginning in March 1938, Hungary began instituting race laws modeled on Germany…
18. Silver-plated table knife with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.6
Date:
found: 1945 April
…-lived. During this time, Hungary began allying itself with Nazi Germany. Beginning in March 1938, Hungary began instituting race laws modeled on Germany…
19. Stainless steel fork with SS runes acquired by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1998.130.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.130.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
…, Lithuania, during the period from June 1940-May 1941 when Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union. When Germany declared war on the USSR and invaded…
20. Stainless steel toothbrush rinse cup given to a Holocaust survivor in Sweden
2016.325.1 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2016.325.2
Date:
received: 1945-1946
…, Hungary joined the Axis Powers, allying with Germany and Italy. Between 1938 and 1941, Hungary passed a number of racial laws based on Nazi Germany…