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1. 4711 glass perfume bottle carried by a Jewish refugee searching for her family
2008.228.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.21
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
2. Abridged prayer book for Jews in the armed forces of the United States used by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.204.3
Date:
publication: 1943
use: after 1943 April 06-approximately 1946 March 17
Title:
Prayer Book Abridged for Jews in the Armed Forces of the United States
…Berthold Meier (1911-1999) was born in Littfeld, Germany, to Toni (neé Heumann, 1880-?) and Seligmann Meier (1878-1920). Seligmann was born in…
3. 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)…
4. Allach porcelain figure given to a US Army doctor by recently liberated prisoners of Dachau
Sean P. Tully Collection Image, 2007.194.2
Object | Accession Number: 2007.194.2
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1943-1945
received: 1945 April 29-1945 April 30
Artwork Title:
Offizier d.Schlosswache
Alternate Title:
Seydlitz Kurassier
Officer of the Castle Guard
Garde du Corps
…. There his team joined the 10th Field Hospital, supporting the 70th Infantry Division as the Allies fought to break through the Siegfried Line into Germany…
5. Allach porcelain figure given to a US Army doctor by recently liberated prisoners of Dachau
Sean P. Tully Collection Image, 2007.194.1
Object | Accession Number: 2007.194.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1943-1945
received: 1945 April 29-945 April 30
Artwork Title:
Musketier
Alternate Title:
Musketeer
…. There his team joined the 10th Field Hospital, supporting the 70th Infantry Division as the Allies fought to break through the Siegfried Line into Germany…
6. Allach porcelain figurine found by a US Army nurse in Dachau concentration camp post-liberation
1994.46.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.46.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1942-1945
found: 1945 April 29-1945 July
… into France and Germany. Helen’s team accompanied the Seventh Army. On April 29, 1945, the 42nd Infantry Division, the 45th Infantry Division, and the…
7. 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…
8. 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…
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. 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…
11. Antisemitic cartoon workers were required to post in a factory in German occupied Ukraine
Object | Accession Number: 2004.231.1
Date:
publication/distribution: approximately 1941-approximately 1944
… emigrated to Brazil, and then to the United States. See 2016.184.662 for a color poster of this handbill. Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22…
12. Antisemitic flyer acquired by a French Jewish child in hiding
1991.209.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.209.6
Date:
acquired: approximately 1942-approximately 1945
Artwork Title:
TUBERCULOSE SYPHILIS CANCER SONT GUÉRISSABLES…
Alternate Title:
TUBERCULOSIS SYPHILIS CANCER ARE CURABLE...
…Rudolf (Rudi) Appel (later Rudy, 1925-2016) was born in Mannheim, Germany, to Julius (1881-1952) and Rose (or Rosa, nee Hofmann, later Strauss,1895…
13. Ardal brand civilian gas mask placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.18 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1938-1939 September
…. 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…
14. Art Deco style lipstick case carried by a Jewish refugee while searching for her family
2008.228.24 open
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.24
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
15. Article about the films “Hitler’s Children” (1943) and “Education for Death” (1943) from Life Magazine
2018.590.89 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.89
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1943 January
publication: 1943 February 01
… former headmaster of Berlin’s American Colony School. “Hitler’s Children” focused on a young American woman in Germany, who denounced Nazi ideology and the…
16. 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)…
17. Auschwitz concentration camp scrip type 3, .50 Reichsmark, received by a Polish Jewish inmate
2010.191.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.191.4
Date:
issue: 1944 August
received: 1943 December-1944 January
…, Rushkal (?), born 1933, and Lushka (?), born 1938. Germany invaded Poland in September 1, 1939, and Chaim’s business was confiscated because he was Jewish…
18. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a starving man eating from a ghetto garbage can
1998.79.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.79.1
Date:
creation: 1964
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Looking for some food in backyards was forbidden!
Alternate Title:
Hunger in Lodzer Ghetto
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…
19. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of despairing and hungry Jews in the Łódź Ghetto
1988.182.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.1
Date:
creation: 1963 December
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Hunger in Lodzer Ghetto
Alternate Title:
Despairing and hungry Jews in Lodzer ghetto
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…
20. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of two Jewish couples and their children huddled on a Ghetto street
1993.165.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.165.2
Date:
creation: 1963
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Hunger im Łódźer Ghetto 1941 - 1945
Alternate Title:
Hunger in Łódź Ghetto
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…