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1. Small leather case with a detached lid used by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.461.2 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1936-1945
…Jews, German--Uruguay--Montevideo--Biography.…
2. Wooden box painted with a woman in Lithuanian folk dress given to a German Jewish refugee
2007.101.6 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2007.101.6
Date:
received: approximately 1938
emigration: 1941 February
… for a while. They went to Kobe, but were told by JEWCOM, the Jewish Community Council, that refugee aid in that city was only for Polish Jews; German…
3. 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
… for a while. They went to Kobe, but were told by JEWCOM, the Jewish Community Council, that refugee aid in that city was only for Polish Jews; German…
4. Wooden box with a painted Lithuanian folk scene with man given to a German Jewish refugee
2007.101.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2007.101.5
Date:
received: approximately 1938
emigration: 1941 February
… for a while. They went to Kobe, but were told by JEWCOM, the Jewish Community Council, that refugee aid in that city was only for Polish Jews; German…
5. Glass thermometer with cardboard case taken with Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.4 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938 December
manufacture: 1935
…Jews, German--China--Shanghai.…
6. Gillette razor blade, cover and wrapper featuring King C. Gillette brought to Shanghai by an Austrian Jewish refugee
2010.240.20_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.20 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1938 December
…Jews, German--China--Shanghai.…
7. 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
…Jews, German--China--Shanghai.…
8. Kenyan wood sculpture of two gazelles owned by a German Jewish refugee family
1989.306.14 right
Object | Accession Number: 1989.306.14
Date:
received: after 1938 July-before 1947 March
…Jews, German--Kenya--Biography.…
9. Burlap covered steamer trunk used by a German Jewish family
2008.199.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.199.1
Date:
manufacture: 1938
emigration: 1938
…Jews, German--Kenya.…
10. Netherlands, 1 gulden silver voucher, kept by a Dutch Jewish woman in hiding
1990.23.197 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.197
Date:
issue: 1938 October 01
… summer 1942, German authorities began arresting and deporting Jews. Flora’s mother Alijda was taken and her siblings were missing. In June, Flora got a…
11. Netherlands, 1 gulden silver voucher, kept by a Dutch Jewish woman in hiding
1990.23.242 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.242
Date:
issue: 1938 October 01
… summer 1942, German authorities began arresting and deporting Jews. Flora’s mother Alijda was taken and her siblings were missing. In June, Flora got a…
12. Soviet treadle sewing machine with Singer storage table of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.78.6 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.6 a-b
Date:
manufacture: after 1917-1950
use: approximately 1917-1945
…Treadle sewing machines like this Russian model with Singer sewing table were used by Jewish forced laborers in Łódź Ghetto in German occupied Poland…
13. Singer style treadle sewing machine table of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.78.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.1
Date:
manufacture: 1920
use: 1920-1945
… choose 31 prominent Jews. On November 11, the Germans arrested the 31 members and they were taken to Radogoszcz prison; eight were released and the rest…
14. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.5
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic…
15. Netherlands, 1 gulden silver voucher, kept by a Dutch Jewish woman in hiding
1990.23.192 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.192
Date:
issue: 1938 October 01
… summer 1942, German authorities began arresting and deporting Jews. Flora’s mother Alijda was taken and her siblings were missing. In June, Flora got a…
16. Siemens-Schuckert generator placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.20
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1902-before 1943
…. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw…
17. Small cap placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.33
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1902-before 1943
… might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to…
18. Watercolor painting of a domestic scene by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.4
Date:
depiction: 1933 June-1947 October
Artwork Title:
Villiers-sur-Morin
… citizenship, which would keep him off the transport lists of German Jews. On March 21, Jacob was placed in a group of twenty men loyal to France and transported…
19. Pelvic calipers used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.4
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…Pelvic calipers used by a Jewish German US Army medic…
20. Painted plastic doll given to a young Jewish girl in hiding in France
2015.489.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.489.2
Date:
received: approximately 1944
manufacture: after 1926-before 1940
… Paris and the northern and western regions were placed under German military administration. This included an SS run Jewish Affairs office which enacted…