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1. Hagadah
Object | Accession Number: 2020.336.3
Date:
publication: 1930
Title:
Erzählungen vom Auszuge der Juden aus Ägypten für die beiden ersten Abende der Pessach-Feiertage
Alternate Title:
Narratives of the exodus of the Jews from Egypt for the first two evenings of the Passover holiday
… hiding underground in France during the war. At one point, he fought for the French Foreign Legion.…
2. Weimar Germany Reichsbanknote, 1000 marks, kept by a Polish Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.358.3
Date:
issue: 1923 January 01
received: approximately 1946
… others hid in the underground hiding place. After three days, Shanke decided to flee with her sons to the nearby forest. Harold’s grandmother, Rivka…
3. Oberhausen, Germany, emergency currency, 5 million marks, kept by a Polish Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.358.5
Date:
issue: 1923 August 10
received: approximately 1946
… others hid in the underground hiding place. After three days, Shanke decided to flee with her sons to the nearby forest. Harold’s grandmother, Rivka…
4. Red and silver enamel sign featuring the Polish Imperial eagle emblem
1992.119.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.119.1
Date:
use: 1927 December 13-1939 September 01
… continued to be used by the Polish Underground and the Polish Government in Exile. After World War II ended in May 1945, Poland regained its independence, but…
5. Haganah War Ribbon bar awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter for his postwar support in Palestine
2012.473.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.14
Date:
issue: 1958-1966
commemoration: 1920-1948
… in Belgium, after the war and provided a living for four families. Postwar, Menachem supported and supplied weapons to Haganah, the Jewish underground…
6. Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands 1898-1948 miniature medal owned by a former hidden child
2003.419.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.419.2
Date:
received: 1898-1948
…, they met Dr. Max Knapp, who worked with the underground. He and his wife Ans hid Lina and Marion in their home overnight and contacted the underground to…
7. Orange tablecloth with green flowers used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.7
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1947
… Berlin, along with her aunt. She was assigned to work in the Schwartzkopf ammunition factory. In September 1944, Irena joined the underground resistance…
8. MS St. Louis captain's hat
1991.167.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.167.1
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1939
… a mental asylum in Narbonne and a farm in Castelsarrasin. In 1943 or 1944, the Eclaireurs Israelites de France underground sent Walter to Saint Junien…
9. Weimar Germany Reichsbanknote, 10000 mark note owned by Fanni Reznicki
2007.151.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.151.3
Date:
issue: 1922 January 19
publication/distribution: 1922 January 19-1923 November 16
… underground during the war.…
10. Tefillin worn by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.2 cover on
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.2
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
… assigned to sort the clothing of murdered Jews and found his mother’s dress. Nachman joined the underground and smuggled stolen medicine into the ghetto…
11. Tefillin worn by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.3 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.3
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
… assigned to sort the clothing of murdered Jews and found his mother’s dress. Nachman joined the underground and smuggled stolen medicine into the ghetto…
12. Mother of pearl pendant
2005.209.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.209.1
Date:
received: approximately 1968
creation: approximately 1925
use: 1925
… Czech underground, on August 16, 1945. They emigrated from Czechoslovakia to the United States in November 1946 with their infant daughter, and settled in…
13. Embroidered blue tefillin bag carried by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.1
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
… assigned to sort the clothing of murdered Jews and found his mother’s dress. Nachman joined the underground and smuggled stolen medicine into the ghetto…
14. White embroidered fine cotton slip with lace inlay brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.7
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
creation: 1926
… entrepreneur, Jerzy directed such projects as installing sound systems in movie theaters and devised plans for an underground train system in Warsaw. Following…
15. White embroidered cotton slip with an NS monogram and interior flap brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.8
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
creation: 1926
… entrepreneur, Jerzy directed such projects as installing sound systems in movie theaters and devised plans for an underground train system in Warsaw. Following…
16. White square cotton pillowcase with a cutwork border brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.42 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.42
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
received: 1926
… entrepreneur, Jerzy directed such projects as installing sound systems in movie theaters and devised plans for an underground train system in Warsaw. Following…
17. Motorboat used to take Jewish people in Denmark to safety in Sweden
Danish Rescue Boat Collection Image, 1989.222.1
Object | Accession Number: 1989.222.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1930
use: 1943 October-1944 May
… went underground. On May 12, 1944, a German patrol, likely tipped-off by an informant, captured Kiær during a crossing. They arrested him, and…
18. Cutting nippers used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.22 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.22
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… released and returned to Łódź. Antisemitism was prevalent and Simon felt it put his family at risk. He paid an underground Zionist group to help the family…
19. White silk handkerchief with a drawing of 2 women on horseback brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.38 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.38
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
creation: approximately 1925
… entrepreneur, Jerzy directed such projects as installing sound systems in movie theaters and devised plans for an underground train system in Warsaw. Following…
20. White fine cotton slip with whitework embroidery and an NS monogram brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.6
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
creation: 1926
… entrepreneur, Jerzy directed such projects as installing sound systems in movie theaters and devised plans for an underground train system in Warsaw. Following…