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1. Miniature porcelain bust of Adolf Hitler
2008.242.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.242.8
Date:
found: approximately 2000
Artwork Title:
Miniature bust of Hitler
… efforts of the Nazi Party in Germany from 1933-1945.…
2. Medal commemorating the October 1, 1938, annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany
2009.361.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.361.1
Date:
commemoration: 1938 October 01
found: 2007
…Medal commemorating the October 1, 1938, annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany…
3. 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…
4. Teardrop pendant with an engraved inscription
2015.563.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.2
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Jewish children in the Holocaust--Germany.…
5. Pin commemorating a Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor’s receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor
2018.327.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.327.2
Date:
commemoration: 2005 September 23
… Hungarian government began aligning its policies with those of Nazi-controlled Germany. On September 1, 1939, Germany started World War II by invading Poland…
6. 60th anniversary medallion, liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora issued to US soldier / liberator
Object | Accession Number: 2013.464.1
Date:
received: 2005 April
commemoration: 1945 April 11
… of his hearing. His unit then advanced into Germany, capturing a great deal of territory an entering Cologne on March 5. Forrest’s platoon followed the…
7. Wooden sculpture of a grieving woman made by a Lithuanian Jewish artist
2016.111.1 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2016.111.1
Date:
creation: after 1983-before 2014
Artwork Title:
Day of Pain
… Jakovas attended a local Jewish primary school. In 1933, the Bunka family moved to Klaipėda (previously Memel, Germany), where Leib worked in a factory…
8. Handkerchief
2015.563.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.4
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Jewish children in the Holocaust--Germany.…
9. Mixed media painting of Jewish children behind a ghetto fence, painted by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.4
Date:
creation: 1996
depiction: 1941 September-1943 September
Title:
Behind the Wooden Fence
… accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and partitioned Poland. Vilna was in the Soviet zone, but was exchanged with…
10. Collage painting of a Jewish man’s beard being cut off created by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.1
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
Anguish
… accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and partitioned Poland. Vilna was in the Soviet zone, but was exchanged with…
11. Collage painting of a crying woman created by a Polish Jewish artist after the Holocaust
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.2
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
My Mother's Tears
… accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and partitioned Poland. Vilna was in the Soviet zone, but was exchanged with…
12. Commemorative ribbon for the 50th anniversary of Dachau concentration camp
2004.705.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.705.14
Date:
commemoration: 1945-1995
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
13. Late 20th-Century poster criticizing a court acquittal of Holocaust deniers
1995.96.162 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.96.162
Date:
publication/distribution: 1995
Title:
Auschwitz-Mythos
Alternate Title:
Auschwitz Myth
…Germany…
14. 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…
15. Prisoner badge likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.6
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…
16. Purple velvet tallit pouch made by a woman for her fiance in a DP camp
1999.7.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.11
Date:
creation: approximately 1946 January
use: after 1946 January 27-before 1992
…, Germany occupied Hungary. The Hungarians now cooperated with the Germans in the systemic deportation of all Jews in Hungary to concentration camps. The…
17. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport
2003.352.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.352.1 a-b
Date:
use: after 1938-approximately 1997
manufacture: 1938-1939
emigration: 1939 June
…Hilde Lotte Anker was born on May 29, 1926, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg Jakob Willie Anker and Gertrud Gottschalk Anker. She had two older sisters…
18. Concentration camp uniform likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
2012.441.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.2 a-b
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…
19. Quilted wall hanging made postwar by a survivor to honor family members killed in Chelmno
2004.530.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.530.1
Date:
creation: 2002
commemoration: 1942 April
Artwork Title:
We Never Said Good Bye
… experienced anti-Semitism regularly, they lived a comfortable and happy life. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Ozorkow was bombed on September 5…
20. Colorful watercolor of the house where the painter lived as a hidden child
Object | Accession Number: 2006.170.2
Date:
creation: 1994-2000
depiction: 1940 May-1940 September
Artwork Title:
Sainte Lizaigne (Indre), France
…Alfred Moritz was the son of Ludwig David Moritz and Klara Kaufman. He was born on June 13, 1930, in the small town of Becherbach, Germany, where his…