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1. Adolf Hitler bas-relief commemorative plaque aquired by a US soldier
2006.258.11 front.JPG
Object | Accession Number: 2006.258.11
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1940
… advance through to Germany of the Third Army under General George S. Patton. The division was deployed in France on July 13, 1944. On December 26, it…
2. AEG motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.12
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1887-before 1943
…Allgemeine Elektricita?ts-Gesellschaft (Germany)…
3. Airmail box used to store his war medals by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.17 a-b
Date:
use: after 1940
…Carl Werner Lenneberg (1899-1989) was born on November 5, 1899 in Remscheid, Germany and had an older brother Georg (b. 1898). Their father, and…
4. Allach porcelain figurine collected postwar by a Jewish member of the French resistance
Object | Accession Number: 2020.12.4
Date:
manufacture: 1940
…Dachau (Germany)…
5. All Our Yesterdays [Book]
Object | Accession Number: 2004.661.2
Date:
use: 1941-1945
publication/distribution: 1940
Title:
All Our Yesterdays
…Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemoeller was born on January 14, 1892, in Lippstadt, Germany, to Heinrich and Paula Muller Niemoeller. His father was…
6. Almanacs
Object | Accession Number: 2006.481.6
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940
Title:
Auerbachs Deutscher Kinder-Kalender 1940 : Vereinigt mit Meidingers Kinder-Kalender. 52. Jahrgang
Series Title:
Auerbachs Deutscher Kinder-Kalender
…Leipzig (Germany)…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. Anti-British propaganda poster reminding people of previous British conquests of French territory
1998.136.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.136.4
Date:
publication: after 1940 September 23-before 1944 August
Artwork Title:
Français, n'oublie pas
Alternate Title:
French do not forget
…Propaganda poster in French stating how Britain created its Empire by taking French territories. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. In…
10. Antisemitic poster concerning Jews in allied armies
1990.333.50 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.50
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 June 25-1940 July 01
Title:
Juda-ganz gross !!
Series Title:
Parole der Woche
Alternate Title:
Judah-very big!!
Word of the Week
…Munich (Germany)…
11. Asynchronous motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.10
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1889-1942
…Allgemeine Elektricita?ts-Gesellschaft (Germany)…
12. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.82
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
Gurs
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
13. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin
2010.502.79 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.79
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
An old man in gurs. Will he survive deportation?
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
14. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.77
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
Card playing will kill time - worthless anyway
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
15. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin
2010.502.65 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.65
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
Lunel South of France - founded by Jews from Jericho, 70 C.E.
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
16. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.78
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
1944 Paris
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
17. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.81
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
18. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.83
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
Simone brings us water from the well
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
19. 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…
20. 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…
21. Beige and orange embroidered linen napkin used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.3
Date:
creation: 1937
use: 1937-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
22. Birds-eye view of the overcrowded Gurs barracks drawn by a German inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1988.4.1
Date:
creation: 1940 November 01-1940 December 31
Series Title:
Gurs Internment Camp, November 1940-January 1941
Artwork Title:
Barackenlandschaft
Alternate Title:
Landscape of Barracks
…Gert Heinrich Wollheim was born on September 11, 1894, in Loschwitz, Germany, to Heinrich and Gertrud Gehlert Wollheim. He had two brothers: Hasso…
23. Black Bakelite circular eyeglasses worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train
2003.198.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.8
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1946
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
24. Black Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to German Jewish prewar emigre
2012.455.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.9
Date:
received: approximately 1940
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
25. Black fountain pen from the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.23
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
26. Black leather covered fiberboard knapsack used by a student in Nazi Germany
1990.44.1 back
Object | Accession Number: 1990.44.1
Date:
use: 1933-1945
…Black leather covered fiberboard knapsack used by a student in Nazi Germany…
27. Black suitcase with leather trim used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
2000.258.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.1
Date:
use: approximately 1939 March-1947 November
…Bertl (Bertha) Rosenfeld (Rosenfelt) was born on October 28, 1925, in Korb, Germany, the eldest child of Adolf and Katherine (Katty) Lemburger…
28. Blank diplomatic ausweis document retrieved by US soldier Harry S. Kent
Object | Accession Number: 2017.690.6
Date:
issue: 1933-1945
acquired: after 1944
…Germany…
29. Blonde haired, male, felt doll carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.13
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
30. Blue and green plaid belt for a school uniform worn by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.5
Date:
use: approximately 1939 July-1946 May
…Ellen Ruth Thea Fass was born on October 6, 1928, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Georg Karl and Nanette Simon Fass. Ellen Ruth had a brother…
31. Blue and white checkered dish towel embroidered JK saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.6
Date:
emigration: 1940 August
…Jella Furth was born on January 25, 1879, in Eppingen, Germany, to Max and Elise Furth. She was the youngest of seven children, five girls and two…
32. Blue striped pajama pants worn during hospital stays by soldiers serving in the German military
2009.396.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.396.2
Date:
use: approximately 1940
…Soldiers--Germany.…
33. Blue striped pajama top with a Reichsadler stamp worn during hospital stays by soldiers in the German military
2009.396.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.396.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940
…Soldiers--Germany.…
34. Book
Object | Accession Number: 2006.481.9
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940
Title:
Der grossdeutsche Freiheitskampf, Reden Adolf Hitlers
Series Title:
Reden des Führers
…Munich (Germany)…
35. Book
Object | Accession Number: 2006.481.10
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940
Title:
Der grossdeutsche Freiheitskampf, Reden Adolf Hitlers vom 1.September 1939 bis 10.Marz 1940
Series Title:
Reden des Führers
…Munich (Germany)…
36. Book
1992.8.24_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.24
Date:
use: 1910-1943
emigration: 1938
Title:
Megillat Ester
… a shochet and Isaac attended Yeshiva in Russia. He resettled in Germany, first in Frankfurt am Main, then in Berlin. He married Frieda Schwartzbardt…
37. Book
1992.8.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.23
Date:
use: 1910-1943
emigration: 1938
Title:
Megilat Ester
… a shochet and Isaac attended Yeshiva in Russia. He resettled in Germany, first in Frankfurt am Main, then in Berlin. He married Frieda Schwartzbardt…
38. Book
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.31 a-b
Date:
publication/distribution: 1936-1943
emigration: 1938
creation: 1936
Title:
Megillat Ester
Alternate Title:
Bible. OT. Esther
…Sally (Sol) Ossowski was born on January 1, 1919, in Berlin, Germany, to Frieda Schwartzbardt, born in 1888, and Rabbi Issac Ossowski, born in 1877…
39. Book
Object | Accession Number: 1991.5.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940
Title:
Lebensvoller Religionsunterricht: Für das zweite Schuljahr
…Dusseldorf (Germany)…
40. Book
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.586
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940
Title:
Jud Süss: Maitressen- und Judenregiment in Wurttemberg vor 200 Jahren: die Blutsaugerei der Würben-Grävenitz, des Jud Suss und des Grafen Montmartin
Alternate Title:
Jud Süss, 3 Auflage 1940
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Books--Germany (lcsh)…
41. Book
2016.184.268 cover
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.268
Date:
publication: 1940
Title:
Israel in Karikatur und Satire mit 126 Zeichungen des Verfassers
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Beuern (Germany)…
42. Book
Object | Accession Number: 2006.258.2
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940
Title:
Das Reich Adolf Hitlers- Ein Bildbuch vom Werden Grossdeutschlands 1933 bis 1940
… advance through to Germany of the Third Army under General George S. Patton. The division was deployed in France on July 13, 1944. On December 26, it…
43. Book
Object | Accession Number: 1993.8.15
Date:
publication: 1940
Title:
Das 4000 jährige Reich der Deutschen
…Berlin (Germany)…
44. Book of musical compositions transcribed by a female Jewish musician
Object | Accession Number: 2013.311.5
Date:
creation: 1937-1941
recovered: approximately 1945 June
… orphan, six year old Shmuel. Hungary had anti-Jewish laws similar to those of its ally, Nazi Germany. In 1940, Miriam went to Budapest to stay with her…
45. Bootjack used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.4
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… landowner, whose land they rented. On September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. Salek was mobilized into the 19th Infantry Battalion, Polish Army…
46. Bosch engine component placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.15
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1900-before 1943
…. Stefan was Greek Catholic and his wife was Roman Catholic. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and much of the country was under aerial…
47. 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…
48. Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.27
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…
49. 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…
50. Brown leather billfold used by a Latvian Jewish refugee and aid worker from Nazi Germany
2005.379.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.5
Date:
use: 1935-1947
emigration: 1941 February 21
…Brown leather billfold used by a Latvian Jewish refugee and aid worker from Nazi Germany…