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1. 20 Reichsmark banknote found during postwar reconstruction
2007.477.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.477.8
Date:
found: 1949-1953
…Diane Keeley was the daughter of James E. Keeley Sr., one of the first American civilian employees stationed in Germany, in January 1946, as part of…
2. Announcement and political proclamation issued postwar by a Jewish cultural group in Munich
Object | Accession Number: 2012.143.12
Date:
publication/distribution: 1951 March
…Munich (Germany)…
3. 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…
4. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of concentration camp inmates who preferred the electric wire rather than more tortures
1998.80.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.80.1
Date:
creation: 1964 January 23
depiction: 1944 August-1945 January
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Electrocution by Choice
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…
5. 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…
6. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of naked women and children entering the showers at Auschwitz
1988.182.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.2
Date:
creation: 1964 March
depiction: after 1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Bathhouse Auschwitz
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…
7. 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…
8. Bearded man hand puppet created by a German Jewish Holocaust survivor and World War II veteran
2017.213.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.213.10
Date:
creation: 1956-1957
…Albert Günther Hess (1909-1993) was born in Pirna, Germany, to Gustav (1862-1923) and Hermione (Hermine) Bauer Hess (1874-1955). He had two siblings…
9. Bird head hand puppet created by a German Jewish Holocaust survivor and World War II veteran
2017.213.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.213.6 a-b
Date:
creation: 1956-1957
…Albert Günther Hess (1909-1993) was born in Pirna, Germany, to Gustav (1862-1923) and Hermione (Hermine) Bauer Hess (1874-1955). He had two siblings…
10. Blond haired hand puppet created by a German Jewish Holocaust survivor and World War II veteran
2017.213.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.213.3
Date:
creation: 1956-1957
…Albert Günther Hess (1909-1993) was born in Pirna, Germany, to Gustav (1862-1923) and Hermione (Hermine) Bauer Hess (1874-1955). He had two siblings…
11. Book
Object | Accession Number: 2016.472.5 a-c
Date:
publication: 1964
Title:
Die Schone Heimat: Bilder aus Deutschland
Series Title:
Blauen Bücher.
… their daughters, Dorothea and Stephanie, during the Holocaust when they left Germany for the United States in 1938-1939 and a memoir by Dorothea Hirsch…
12. Booklet
Object | Accession Number: 2006.496.3
Date:
publication/distribution: 1961
Title:
Gedenkbuch zum tragischen Schicksal unserer judischen Mitburger
…Hagen (Germany)…
13. Brown leather lace-up boots worn by a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport
Object | Accession Number: 2012.451.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1939
recovered: 1964
…Brown leather lace-up boots worn by a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport…
14. Carved upright wooden bench owned by Jakob Krämer and the Heppner family
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.11 a-d
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1911
use: before 1942 August
received: approximately 1958
…Jakob Krämer (1868-1943) was born in Ichenhausen, Germany, to Raphael, a leather dealer, and Sophie (nee Seligmann) Krämer. He had four siblings…
15. 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…
16. Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to a German Jewish refugee couple
2012.478.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.478.6
Date:
received: after 1945 May 09-before 1955 April 14
…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…
17. Commemorative armband likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.7
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
… Yiddish. Natan attended private school and was a good student. He did not experience anti-Semitism. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The Chorowicz…
18. Commemorative desk set presented by the JRSO to a chief prosecutor, Nuremberg Trials
1994.97.5_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.97.5 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1984 August-1956 April
received: 1956
… Hague reparations negotiations, Germany-Israel, 1952; Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, 1953-1956; Counsel, International Council of B…
19. Commemorative plate to honor a lawyer for his work on behalf of Holocaust survivors
1994.97.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.97.3
Date:
commemoration: 1962
… Hague reparations negotiations, Germany-Israel, 1952; Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, 1953-1956; Counsel, International Council of B…
20. Commemorative ribbon for Dachau concentration camp from the 16th National Congress in Liege
1995.128.261 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.128.261
Date:
issue: 1961
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Dachau--Anniversaries, etc.--Souvenirs (Keepsakes)…