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1. Black beret owned postwar by Natan Caron who was interned in multiple concentration camps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.3
Date:
received: after 1945 April
… 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…
2. Book of sketches printed postwar and acquired by a former Polish Jewish prisoner
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.5
Date:
publication/distribution: 1947
received: approximately 1947
Title:
Tsurik fun Gehenem : 22 tseykhenungen fun Berl Fridler
Subtitle:
miṭ a for-ṿorṭ un ṭeḳsṭ fun Pol Ṭrepman.
Alternate Title:
Back from Hell : 22 collected sketches by Berl Friedler
… Yiddish and Hebrew. After finishing school, Jakob became a tailor like his father. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the army entered…
3. Brown plastic wallet with a memorial emblem owned by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.5
Date:
received: approximately 1950
… 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…
4. Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer
2017.661.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.3 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945
…Julius Löwenstein (later Loewenstein, 1913-1995) was born in Ortenberg, Germany, to Siegmund (1876-1942) and Sophie (1885-1942) Zimmermann Löwenstein…
5. 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…
6. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1995.57.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.3
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
use: approximately 1944-1945 April 22
… Yiddish and Hebrew. After finishing school, Jakob became a tailor like his father. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the army entered…
7. 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…
8. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1995.57.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.2
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
use: approximately 1944-1945 April 22
… Yiddish and Hebrew. After finishing school, Jakob became a tailor like his father. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the army entered…
9. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.4
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. 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…
11. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Hungarian Jewish prisoner
2011.449.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.449.1
Date:
issue: 1944 June 24-1945 April 11
… independent state with an authoritarian government that collaborated closely with Germany. In August 1940, Axis powers Germany and Italy had arbitrated a…
12. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1995.57.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.1
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
use: approximately 1944-1945 April 22
… Yiddish and Hebrew. After finishing school, Jakob became a tailor like his father. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the army entered…
13. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.3
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…
14. Drawing of a large white rabbit done by a Dutch Jewish man in hiding
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.5
Date:
creation: 1944 January 12
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…
15. Drawing of a man at a spinning wheel done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.2
Date:
creation: 1944 January 10
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…
16. Drawing of a yellow field done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.1
Date:
creation: 1944 January 10
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…
17. Drawing of black and white cows in a barn done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.3
Date:
creation: 1944 January 20
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…
18. Drawing of farmhouse and trees done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.4
Date:
creation: 1944 January 06
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…
19. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Juif, belonging to a Jewish family.
Object | Accession Number: 2014.230.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942 June-1944 August 25
… deported on convoy 8 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland. He arrived there on July 23 and was killed. In mid-September, Germany…
20. Hand-carved wooden chain carried to Australia by a Jewish refugee
2016.183.1 side A
Object | Accession Number: 2016.183.1
Date:
creation: before 1924
… moved to Plauen, Germany, in 1917, where the local Jewish community employed Hillel as a reader. Dora often listened to classes at a local college through…