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1. Ceramic change holder in the shape of an Orthodox Jewish man
2016.184.4 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.4
Date:
manufacture: 1890-1962
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
2. Inscribed Siddur carried through hiding and slave labor by a Jewish Polish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 2018.369.3
Date:
use: approximately 1921-approximately 1998
…-?), Samuel (1916-?), Lana (later Lena Mandelkorn, 1916-?), Etta (1918-?), and Chaia (later Chust, 1920-?). On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded and occupied…
3. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1948
issue: after 1914 August 05
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
4. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport
2003.352.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.352.1 a-b
Date:
use: after 1938-approximately 1997
manufacture: 1938-1939
emigration: 1939 June
…Hilde Lotte Anker was born on May 29, 1926, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg Jakob Willie Anker and Gertrud Gottschalk Anker. She had two older sisters…
5. Glass and silver keepsake box used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
2005.579.19_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.19 a-b
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…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…
6. Violin used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.8
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
7. Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.26
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…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…
8. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.12
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
9. Violin used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.9
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
10. Violin case used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.10 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.10
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
11. Storage trunk owned by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-approximately 1946
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
12. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.11
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
13. Container used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.29
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…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…
14. Handkerchief
2015.563.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.4
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Jewish children in the Holocaust--Germany.…
15. Bag and supplies used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.28
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…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…
16. Pouch and medical instruments used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.22 a-j
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…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…
17. Straight razor in a black plastic cover brought to Shanghai by an Austrian Jewish refugee
2010.240.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.5
Date:
emigration: 1938 November
use: 1938-1949
… filled. A year later, he emigrated to the United States and on January 25, he married Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Gerda was born in Berlin, Germany, and fled to…
18. Pressed tin cap badge of a Reichsadler acquired by a US soldier
2011.75.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.75.8
Date:
found: 1945-1946
issue: 1936-1945
…, he enlisted in the US Army and was assigned to the 102nd Combat Infantry Division, nicknamed the Ozarks Division. He was deployed to Germany in…
19. Aluminum food container lid used by a Hungarian Jewish family on the Kasztner train
2003.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.3
Date:
use: approximately 1937-1946
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
20. Needle packet used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.25
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…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…