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1. Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht armband with an Imperial eagle taken by a US soldier
2010.456.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.456.3
Date:
received: after 1945 March
use: approximately 1944 September-1945 May
… General George S. Patton. The unit fought its way through France and into Germany. James participated in the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp on…
2. 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…
3. Print
1989.126.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.126.24
Date:
1944-1946
Title:
His master's voice
Series Title:
Hitleriada furiosa
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
4. 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…
5. Jo Spier watercolor of people dancing through a gate and given to another inmate
2003.361.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.6
Date:
creation: 1944 January 26
received: approximately 1944 January 26
Artwork Title:
L'Shana Haba a' B'yerushalayim
Alternate Title:
Next Year in Jerusalem
…Moritz Henschel was born on February 17, 1879, in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), to Karl and Emma Deutsch Henschel. In January 1910, he…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. Shaving brush received in a concentration camp
2005.256.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.256.1
Date:
received: 1944
… taken west into Germany on a series of trains and death marches that included brief stays at the Oranienburg and Flossenbürg concentration camps, and then…
9. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
2014.557.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.5
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
… September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The country was quickly occupied, and Herman was among the large portion of Polish soldiers captured as prisoners of…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. 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)…
17. 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…
18. 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…
19. Paint roller and stencil used by Jehovah's Witness labor camp inmate
2006.448.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.448.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1945
… attended a Catholic school but in 1934, he began to assist his father with his missionary work. Nazi Germany banned the Watchtower Society, the Jehovah…
20. 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…