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1. 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…
2. 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…
3. Small, yellow warning pennant with a skull and crossbones acquired by a US soldier
2013.453.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.453.7
Date:
found: 1945-1946
use: 1941 July-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…
4. Hebrew prayer book, owned by a Romanian Jewish woman killed in a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.2
Date:
use: 1940-before 1944
recovered: 1946
Title:
Ünnepi Imádságok A Templomban Használatos Sorrendben
Subtitle:
ros-hasono ünnep második napjára
Second day of the Rosh-Hashanah holiday
Alternate Title:
Festive Prayers In The Order Used In The Temple
… learned several languages, including Hebrew, Romanian, Hungarian, French, and German. In the late 1930s, Hungary made an alliance with Nazi Germany that…
5. 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…
6. Rhine Army Ranges (Hohne) map with overprinting, acquired by an American soldier stationed in Germany during the 1980s
2018.389.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.389.2
Date:
publication: 1942-1953
Title:
RHINE ARMY RANGES (HOHNE)
…Rhine Army Ranges (Hohne) map with overprinting, acquired by an American soldier stationed in Germany during the 1980s…
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7. 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…
8. Violin used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.8
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
9. Hebrew prayer book, owned by a Romanian Jewish woman killed in a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.3
Date:
use: 1940-before 1944
recovered: 1946
Title:
Ünnepi Imádságok A Templomban Használatos Sorrendben
Subtitle:
Kol-nidre vagyis az engesztelő nap előző való estéjére
Kol-nidre, that is, the previous evening of the Day of Atonement
Alternate Title:
Festive Prayers In The Order Used In The Temple
… learned several languages, including Hebrew, Romanian, Hungarian, French, and German. In the late 1930s, Hungary made an alliance with Nazi Germany that…
10. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.11
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
11. Kenyan wood bust of an African youth owned by a German Jewish refugee family
1989.306.13 right
Object | Accession Number: 1989.306.13
Date:
received: after 1939 June-before 1947 March
…Gisela (Jill) Renate Berg was born on May 1, 1933, to Josef and Klara Meyer Berg, in the small farming community of Lechenich, Germany, near Cologne…
12. 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…
13. Container used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.29
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…
14. 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
…Gisela (Jill) Renate Berg was born on May 1, 1933, to Josef and Klara Meyer Berg, in the small farming community of Lechenich, Germany, near Cologne…
15. Hebrew prayer book, owned by a Romanian Jewish woman killed in a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.1
Date:
use: 1940-before 1944
recovered: 1946
Title:
Ünnepi Imádságok A Templomban Használatos Sorrendben
Subtitle:
Jomkipur vagyis az engesztelő ünnep napjára
Yom Kippur, that is, the Day of Atonement
Alternate Title:
Festive Prayers In The Order Used In The Temple
… learned several languages, including Hebrew, Romanian, Hungarian, French, and German. In the late 1930s, Hungary made an alliance with Nazi Germany that…
16. Laced leather billfold with a painted harbor owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.2
Date:
received: after 1938-before 1947 December
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
17. Drawing of a house exterior and a woman by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.29
Date:
creation: 1940-1957
Artwork Title:
Woman looking at a house
…Nelly (Cornelia) Bertha Schwabacher was born on February 14, 1899, in Frankfurt, Germany to Anna Cahn and Heinrich Schwabacher. Her father, a…
18. Central Reserve Bank of China, 10 yuan note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee
1990.114.66 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.114.66
Date:
issue: 1940
received: 1940-1947
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
19. Textile with embroidered names
2015.563.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.3
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Jewish children in the Holocaust--Germany.…
20. Storage trunk owned by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-approximately 1946
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…