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5901. Unused Star of David badge with Juif acquired by a Jewish chaplain, US Army
1988.39.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.39.3
Date:
received: approximately 1944 August-1944 September
… permitted to leave the camps, which were fenced with barbed wire just like the concentration camps. After a three month tour, his recommendations included the…
5902. Book of Jewish folksongs returned to a family after being confiscated during the war
Object | Accession Number: 2016.203.11
Date:
publication: 1923
Title:
JÜDISCHE VOLKSLIEDER
Subtitle:
für eine Singstimme mit Klavier
Alternate Title:
Jewish Folksongs: for a voice with piano
… the nearby Jungfernhof concentration camp. After contracting typhus, they were killed in a mass execution along with other elderly and ill people on…
5903. Forced March No. 2, an allegorical steel sculpture representing a childhood memory of a roundup of Jews for deportation
2012.338.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.338.8
Date:
creation: 2001
Series Title:
The War Series
Artwork Title:
Forced March No. 2.
… began to systematically deport all Jews to concentration camps. On April 6, Jews had to begin wearing Star of David patches which made Peter and his…
5904. Pea whistle brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.42 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.42
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…, where they were killed in 1944. Till was deported from Budapest to Lichtenworth concentration camp in November 1944, where she died of typhus and…
5905. Yellow handkerchief with red dots owned by a young girl in German occupied Budapest
2008.337.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.337.3
Date:
received: 1944
use: 1940-1944
… deported to a concentration camp. In the spring of 1944, Roszi and the rest of the family in the safe house were taken by German soldiers to the banks of the…
5906. Faux alligator photo wallet used by a young German Jewish refugee
2013.486.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.18
Date:
use: approximately 1939-approximately 1946
… Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, and imprisoned in Oranienburg concentration camp. Dr. Hugo Heim, a former Deutsche Bank director and relative by…
5907. Blue and white tube of sunscreen brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.47 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.47
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…, where they were killed in 1944. Till was deported from Budapest to Lichtenworth concentration camp in November 1944, where she died of typhus and…
5908. Blue striped white damask handkerchief used by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.9
Date:
emigration: 1939 July 25
… Synagogue burning from their window. Ellen Ruth’s father Georg was arrested and sent to Sachenhausen concentration camp. He was released on December 17. Ellen…
5909. Soviet Union, 10 chervonets note, acquired by a Hungarian Jewish forced laborer
2005.303.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.303.5
Date:
issue: 1937
… were aware of the concentration camps and would tell themselves, at least there are no crematoriums on the front lines. Louis later would be haunted by…
5910. Łódź ghetto scrip, 20 mark coin, acquired by a young Polish Jewish woman held as a slave laborer
Object | Accession Number: 2012.477.2
Date:
issue: 1943
found: after 1945 January
… camps and were living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in Germany. Her Uncle Mayer had been deported in 1944 to Buchenwald concentration camp and…
5911. Khaki canvas knapsack brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.6
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…, where they were killed in 1944. Till was deported from Budapest to Lichtenworth concentration camp in November 1944, where she died of typhus and…
5912. Black suitcase with leather trim used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
2000.258.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.1
Date:
use: approximately 1939 March-1947 November
…, they were sent from Rivesaltes to Drancy transit camp in Paris. From there, they were deported and murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp. Friedel died…
5913. Child's white smocked dress worn by 2 sisters while living in hiding
2008.349.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.349.4
Date:
use: 1941-1942
… concentration camp. She committed suicide with an overdose of Veronal, a barbiturate sleeping aid. Her brother, Erwin, had previously escaped from Germany to…
5914. Pink ribbon garter owned by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.6
Date:
emigration: 1939 July 25
… Synagogue burning from their window. Ellen Ruth’s father Georg was arrested and sent to Sachenhausen concentration camp. He was released on December 17. Ellen…
5915. Unused bookplate with a Star of David rose tree belonging to a Dutch Jewish pharmacist
Object | Accession Number: 2010.128.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1939
… 1942, many were deported to concentration camps. Around this time, Betty’s maternal grandmother, Betje Zion Gans, was deported to Sobibor extermination…
5916. XXX Corps patch worn by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee
2016.203.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.203.4
Date:
use: 1944-1945
… the nearby Jungfernhof concentration camp. After contracting typhus, they were killed in a mass execution along with other elderly and ill people on…
5917. Luger P08 pistol, holster, and magazine captured by a Yugoslavian partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2018.665.1 a-c
Date:
manufacture: 1920-1922
acquired: 1944
…. In 1943, he and other political prisoners were transferred from Tirana to the Pristina concentration camp. Prisoners in the camp were forced to sleep…
5918. Peaked cutting template brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.4
Date:
use: approximately 1924-1996
… the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9 and 10, 1938, and were deported to Dachau concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, where they were issued…
5919. Sketchbook with make believe drawings by a former hidden child
Object | Accession Number: 2002.420.2
Date:
creation: 1947
Artwork Title:
Child's sketchbook
… Rudolf Gelb. Rudolf was a married Austrian Jew who had escaped from Dachau concentration camp in Germany and was in France as a foreign worker. In 1940…
5920. Arthur Szyk drawing
CM_1995.40.70 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.40.70
Date:
creation: 1945 April
…, Eugenia, and her Polish companion were forced to live in the Łódź ghetto. In 1943, they were transported to Majdanek concentration camp and killed. In late…