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1. Wooden horse and wagon pull toy
2002.433.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.433.1 a-b
Date:
1940-1945
…The toy was created by for Max Arpels-Lezer by his rescuer while he was in hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust. Max (Marcus) Lezer was…
2. Egg crate used as a suitcase by family living in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2005.380.1
Date:
use: 1942-1945
creation: 1940
… Cohn family later moved to Israel. Their rescuers have been recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. 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…
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…