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1. Silver clothes brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.3
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
…Frieda Lewin Fromm was born on December 4, 1882, in Ortelsburg, Germany (Szczytno, Poland). She married her sister Henriette's husband, Meyer Fromm…
2. Silver hair brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.4
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
…Frieda Lewin Fromm was born on December 4, 1882, in Ortelsburg, Germany (Szczytno, Poland). She married her sister Henriette's husband, Meyer Fromm…
3. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.11
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
4. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.12
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
5. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.13
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
6. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.9
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
7. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.10
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
8. Yellow warning skull and crossbones pennant found by a concentration camp inmate after liberation
2014.461.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.461.4
Date:
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 September
use: 1941 July-1945
… 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Czestochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the ghetto after it was…
9. 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…
10. Drawing of Jewish Council member as circus ringmaster drawn by camp inmate
2003.361.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.4
Date:
received: after 1943 June-before 1944 October
Artwork Title:
Moritz as Circus Ringmaster, Theresienstadt
…Moritz Henschel was born on February 17, 1879, in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), to Karl and Emma Deutsch Henschel. In January 1910, he…
11. Drawing of woman scrubbing floor given to German Jewish inmate
2003.361.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.15
Date:
received: 1943 June-1945 May
Artwork Title:
Woman in blue dress scrubbing a floor, Theresienstadt
…Moritz Henschel was born on February 17, 1879, in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), to Karl and Emma Deutsch Henschel. In January 1910, he…
12. Pocket watch with chain traded for food by a concentration camp inmate and recovered postwar
2006.450.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 2006.450.1
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… Germany. Ana left Dora with her only surviving sister, Mele, and traveled for ten days through bombed roads and rail lines to see him. They did not…
13. 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…
14. Brown enamel mug used by a Polish Jewish concentration camp prisoner
1996.5.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.1
Date:
issue: after 1943 January-before 1945 February
… September 1, 1939, Germany invaded western Poland, and in mid-September, the Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop…
15. Woven napkin ring
2019.512.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.512.4
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1944
…. Hilda was a nurse and survived the war in the Netherlands. Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, and by 14 February 1942 Pieterdina, Katherine…
16. 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…
17. Drawing of Freddy Johnson by Josef Nassy
1991.245.176 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.245.176
Date:
creation: 1942 January-1944 February
… Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. Josef was arrested in April 1942 as an enemy national, as he had an American passport. Nassy was held in Beverloo…
18. Inert Zyklon B, spent Gypsum pellets, from Majdanek concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 1990.192.1 a-b
Date:
recovered: after 1944 July
manufacture: 1941 October-1944 July
…Dessau (Dessau, Germany)…
19. Portrait of a Theresienstadt inmate drawn by another inmate
2003.361.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.16
Date:
creation: 1943 June-1945 May
received: 1943 June-1945 May
Artwork Title:
Portrait of Moritz Henschel, Theresienstadt 1943-1945
…Moritz Henschel was born on February 17, 1879, in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), to Karl and Emma Deutsch Henschel. In January 1910, he…
20. German election poster featuring a photographic portrait of Adolf Hitler
1990.333.33 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.33
Date:
depiction: approximately 1927-1945
Title:
ja!
Alternate Title:
yes!
…Germany…