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1. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.4
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
… as Kristallnacht. During the pogroms, 30,000 Jewish men were incarcerated and held in German concentration camps until they promised to leave Germany…
2. White, monogrammed tablecloth belonging to the family of a German Rabbi
2018.290.1 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.290.1
Date:
use: before 1959
… Kristallnacht. The following morning, the SA (or Sturmabteilung, a paramilitary organization) went to Georg’s synagogue, burned the Holy texts, looted valuables…
3. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.3
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
… as Kristallnacht. During the pogroms, 30,000 Jewish men were incarcerated and held in German concentration camps until they promised to leave Germany…
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
… refugee in August 1938. In early November 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Siegmund was arrested and transported to Buchenwald concentration camp. He…
5. Monogrammed silver napkin rings owned by a German Rabbi
2018.290.2 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.290.2 a-b
Date:
use: before 1959
… Kristallnacht. The following morning, the SA (or Sturmabteilung, a paramilitary organization) went to Georg’s synagogue, burned the Holy texts, looted valuables…
6. Buchenwald concentration camp scrip, -.50 Reichsmark note, inscribed by an inmate
2003.413.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.34
Date:
issue: 1937 July 19-1945 April 11
… officers began sending large numbers of Jewish men following the Kristallnacht program. Women were not sent to the camp until late 1943 or early 1944, and…
7. 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
… situation as an excuse not to arrest them at the time. On November 9, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, the family received a phone call from relatives…
8. Jewelry box with a secret compartment used to hide documents belonging to German Jewish prisoners
2019.180.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.180.2 a-b
Date:
creation: after 1944 April-before 1945
…, though the quota had already been filled months before. In early November 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, 3-year-old Lore was playing with some…
9. Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.661.2 Cover
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.2
Date:
emigration: 1939-1947
… two. On November 8, 1938, during Kristallnacht, Lola spent the night at the hospital caring for the Jewish men who had been injured. Her father, Hugo…