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1. Red leather photograph case carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2011.433.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2011.433.1
Date:
use: 1939-1941
… to some other country. When their money ran low, they received financial aid from the American rescuer Varian Fry. They eventually obtained transit…
2. False tooth with a cavity for a poison capsule
Object | Accession Number: 2016.561.1
Date:
acquired: approximately 1939-approximately 1945
… German owners of the farm. Collection of photographs (40), pre- and post-war; false documents; wartime correspondence from Ita's rescuer's family, Brust…
3. Gold hoop earrings worn by a hidden child in Poland
2005.157.1_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.157.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… with a non-Jewish family in Lvov. Zosia was taken to Lvov, but the rescuers became afraid for their safety if they were caught harboring a Jew, so Zosia…
4. Les Gueules Cassées French National Lottery ticket
2013.391.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.391.2
Date:
issue: 1939
… languages. Hiding them was riskier, because the neighbors of their rescuer were Dutch Nazis. After a while, their rescuers grew tired of hiding them, fed them…
5. Belt for a kittel [ceremonial robe] saved by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.147.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.6
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… to some other country. When their money ran low, they received financial aid from the American rescuer Varian Fry. They eventually obtained transit…
6. Pametni Medaile Ceskoslovenska Armada V Zahranici (Czechoslovak Army Abroad) awarded to a Czech Jewish soldier
2007.228.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.228.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 October
… to some other country. When their money ran low, they received financial aid from the American rescuer Varian Fry. They eventually obtained transit…
7. Striped silk tallit, green velvet bag and white liner used by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.147.1_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.1 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… to some other country. When their money ran low, they received financial aid from the American rescuer Varian Fry. They eventually obtained transit…
8. Blue striped tallit with embroidered Hebrew text used by a Czech Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.4
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… to some other country. When their money ran low, they received financial aid from the American rescuer Varian Fry. They eventually obtained transit…
9. Red and black plastic cigarette holder used by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.147.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.5
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… to some other country. When their money ran low, they received financial aid from the American rescuer Varian Fry. They eventually obtained transit…
10. Pair of tefillin with an embroidered green velvet bag used by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.147.2_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.2 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… to some other country. When their money ran low, they received financial aid from the American rescuer Varian Fry. They eventually obtained transit…