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1. Print of the Zülz synagogue brought to the US by German Jewish refugees
Object | Accession Number: 2004.482.2
Date:
1920-1945 May 09
Artwork Title:
Synagoge Zülz
…Donald Harry Hirschberg (later Harter, 1933-2019) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to Harry Morton (1899-1957) and Lenore Evelyne…
2. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.5
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
3. German election poster featuring a photographic portrait of Adolf Hitler
1990.333.33 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.33
Date:
depiction: approximately 1927-1945
Title:
ja!
Alternate Title:
yes!
…Germany…
4. German Rentenbank, 2 Rentenmark note
2003.413.97 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.97
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
…Germany.…
5. Tool used to classify skin color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
2017.355.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.355.2 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1905-1914
use: approximately 1905-1945
…Tool used to classify skin color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
6. German Rentenbank, 1 Rentenmark note
2003.413.95 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.95
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
…Germany.…
7. Slate pencil covered with a blue patterned wrapper used by a student in Nazi Germany
1990.45.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.45.4
Date:
use: 1940-1944
use: before 1945
…Slate pencil covered with a blue patterned wrapper used by a student in Nazi Germany…
8. Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
…Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
9. Anthropometer used to measure length of body parts in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.255.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: approximately 1920-1945
…Anthropometer used to measure length of body parts in Nazi Germany…
10. Tool used to classify eye color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 2017.355.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1930-1945
use: approximately 1930-1945
…Tool used to classify eye color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
11. Pelvic calipers used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.4
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
12. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.10
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
13. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.9
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
14. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.11
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
15. Bronze Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal, 3rd Class Order
Object | Accession Number: 2017.254.1
Date:
issue: 1939 May-1945 May
…Germany…
16. Faber dermatograph pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.3
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
manufacture: approximately 1940-1945
…Faber dermatograph pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
17. Electric retinoscope used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.3
Date:
manufacture: 1893-1945
acquired: after 1932
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
18. Sliding calipers from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: after 1897-1945
…Sliding calipers from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
19. SSB blue enamelled badge with a snowflake acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2013.453.35
Date:
found: 1945
creation: 1907-1945
… following day the United States declared war on Japan, and on December 11, Germany declared war on the United States. On October 31, 1942 Harold was drafted…
20. Spreading calipers from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
…Spreading calipers from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
21. NSDAP membership badge found by Zaro Calabrese
1994.124.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.124.1
Date:
acquired: 1944-1945
manufacture: 1933-1945
… beachhead and the liberation of France in 1944, and then fought their way through Germany. On April 4, 1945, they liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp, a…
22. German Rentenbank, 2 Rentenmark note
2003.413.96 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.96
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
…Germany.…
23. Child’s coat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.1
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
24. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.12
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
25. Hitler Youth flag
Object | Accession Number: 1992.201.1
Date:
use: 1922-1945
…Germany.…
26. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.2
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
27. Baby doll owned by a Jewish Yugoslavian girl in hiding
2019.20.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.20.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1908-before 1945
… forces and was partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, with Skopje falling under Bulgarian control. Bulgarian authorities passed many…
28. False tooth with a cavity for a poison capsule
Object | Accession Number: 2016.561.1
Date:
acquired: approximately 1939-approximately 1945
… to forced labor in Germany along with other Polish men and women. On July 20, 1943 Ita was sent to Göttingen, Germany, and from there to a small farm…
29. 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…
30. German Rentenbank, 1 Rentenmark note
2003.413.94 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.94
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
…Germany.…
31. Staedtler pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.4
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: after 1900-1945
…Staedtler pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
32. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.13
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
33. Tool used to classify hair color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 a
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…Tool used to classify hair color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
34. Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
1990.300.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
35. 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…
36. G. Boulitte brand manual aneroid sphygmomanometer and case
1990.80.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 1990.80.2 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
…Germany.…
37. Small wood-framed chalkboard used by a student in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.44.2
Date:
use: 1934-1945
…Small wood-framed chalkboard used by a student in Nazi Germany…
38. Reich service flag with a swastika and Nazi eagle captured by an uknown soldier
2000.610.1 detail
Object | Accession Number: 2000.610.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1936-1945
…Königsberg (Germany)…
39. Buchenwald concentration camp scrip, -.50 Reichsmark note, inscribed by an inmate
2003.413.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.34
Date:
issue: 1937 July 19-1945 April 11
…Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)…
40. 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…
41. German Rentenbank, 1 Rentenmark note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.3
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
… was not aware of the rise of Nazism and persecution of Jews in Germany until the German army invaded Poland on September 1. In response, Ludwik and…
42. 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…
43. Enameled stick pin bearing a swastika retrieved by US soldier Harry S. Kent
Object | Accession Number: 2017.690.5
Date:
issue: 1933-1945
acquired: after 1944
…Germany…
44. Mauser HSc pistol, magazine, firing pin, and mainspring used by a Yugoslavian partisan
1992.230.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.230.1 a-d
Date:
manufacture: 1940 December-1945 May
acquired: 1941 April 06-1945 May
… activities, but he was released due to lack of evidence. On April 6, 1941, Germany and Italy, supported by Hungary and Bulgaria, invaded Yugoslavia…
45. Unused forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, to identify a Polish forced laborer
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.6
Date:
issue: approximately 1940-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
46. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, to identify a Polish forced laborer
2005.83.12.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.83.12.2
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
…Germany…
47. Sudetenland medal, ribbon, and Prague Castle Bar retrieved by US soldier Harry S. Kent
Object | Accession Number: 2017.690.3
Date:
issue: after 1938 October 01-before 1945 May
acquired: after 1944
…Germany…
48. Richard Grune lithograph with an image of a child looking at a hanging victim
2012.316.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.316.11
Date:
creation: 1945 April-1945 December
depiction: after 1937 October-before 1945 April
…Richard Grune was born on August 2, 1903, in Flensburg, Germany. He attended the Municipal Arts and Craft School in Kiel. In 1926, he studied at the…
49. Sculpture of a discus thrower used to teach racial science in Nazi Germany
1990.47.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.47.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
Artwork Title:
Discus Thrower
…Sculpture of a discus thrower used to teach racial science in Nazi Germany…
50. Nazi Germany, 10 reichspfennig coin
2008.201.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.201.9
Date:
issue: 1940-1945
…Nazi Germany, 10 reichspfennig coin…