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1. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.2
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
2. G. Boulitte brand manual aneroid sphygmomanometer and case
1990.80.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 1990.80.2 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
…Germany.…
3. Child’s coat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.1
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
4. 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…
5. Wool blanket found by a Jewish Latvian concentration camp prisoner after escaping a death march
2003.174.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
…. Around this time, the Soviets transported Ber’s family to Riga. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and entered Riga on July 1. In August, the…
6. Curtain that was used as a towel found by a Polish Jewish forced laborer
Object | Accession Number: 2018.208.1
Date:
found: 1944 August-1945 April
Title:
Dash family collection
… that Germany had invaded Poland. One week later, the German army occupied Łódź and immediately instigated violence and anti-Semitic policies. Jews were…
7. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Jewish Latvian prisoner
2003.174.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 October-1945 February
…. Around this time, the Soviets transported Ber’s family to Riga. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and entered Riga on July 1. In August, the…
8. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note issued to a Polish Jewish woman
2018.31.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.31.2
Date:
issue: 1940 July-1944 August 21
… that Germany had invaded Poland. One week later, the German army occupied Łódź and immediately instigated violence and anti-Semitic policies. Jews were…