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1. Black yarmulke owned by Milton Emont and likely used during World War II
2018.565.3 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.3
Date:
use: approximately 1943-approximately 1946
… both France and Germany. In 1945, he was able to complete eight weeks of graduate coursework in French and French literature at the Sorbonne and…
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. US Army pouch for a shoe shine kit issued to Milton Emont
2018.565.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.2
Date:
use: 1943 March 05-1946 April 16
… both France and Germany. In 1945, he was able to complete eight weeks of graduate coursework in French and French literature at the Sorbonne and…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. Belgium, 10 francs or 2 belga note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee in the British army
2012.478.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.478.5
Date:
publication: after 1943 February 01-before 1946 August 01
use: after 1943 February 01-before 1947 November 03
…Manfred Gans was born on April 27, 1922, in Borken, Germany, to Moritz and Else Fraenkel Gans. His family had been in Borken for over 300 years…
7. Blank sheet of stationery
1990.335.5 b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.335.5 b
Date:
issue: 1948 May 28
commemoration: 1943 February 03
…Germany. Kriegsmarine…
8. 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…
9. Envelope and stamps commemorating chaplains killed on a ship sunk by a German U-boat
1990.335.5 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.335.5 a
Date:
issue: 1948 May 28
commemoration: 1943 February 03
…Germany. Kriegsmarine…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. 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…
14. Glass and silver keepsake box used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
2005.579.19_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.19 a-b
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…
15. Nazi Germany, 10 reichspfennig coin brought with a young German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.5
Date:
emigration: 1949 November
issue: 1943
…Nazi Germany, 10 reichspfennig coin brought with a young German Jewish refugee…
16. Handkerchief
2015.563.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.4
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Jewish children in the Holocaust--Germany.…
17. Drawing of a water wheel by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.60
Date:
creation: 1940-1957
Artwork Title:
View of a Water Wheel and Building
…Nelly (Cornelia) Bertha Schwabacher was born on February 14, 1899, in Frankfurt, Germany to Anna Cahn and Heinrich Schwabacher. Her father, a…
18. 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.…
19. 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…
20. 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…