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6481. Yellow cloth Star of David badge with a blank center
2007.45.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.6
Date:
found: approximately 1944 July
… deportations to concentration camps and were still living in the ghetto when the city was liberated by the Russian Army in early 1945. The family left Poland for…
6482. Three drawings created by an 11 year old girl about her trip on the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis
1991.164.117 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.164.117
Date:
creation: 1939 August
depiction: 1939 May 13-1939 August
Artwork Title:
Journey of the M.S. St. Louis
… her two sons had been killed in a concentration camp. The members of Lilly’s family who had remained in Germany, including her mother and two sisters…
6483. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note
2007.45.79 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.79
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
found: approximately 1944 July
… to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the subsequent deportations to concentration camps…
6484. Large black wardrobe trunk used by German Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis
Object | Accession Number: 1998.65.1 a-f
Date:
use: 1939 May-1940 April
… pogrom occurred. Egon’s father Paul was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. On November 20, Erna received a letter from him with this news. He…
6485. Occupation currency note, 100 Karbowanez, issued by Nazi Germany in eastern Poland
2010.443.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.5
Date:
issue: 1942 March 10
found: 2005
… a German concentration camp. As an adult, he learned from his mother that the family had often hidden members of the French Resistance on the farm…
6486. Bronze Star medal with ribbon presented to a Jewish US soldier
2011.447.11.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.447.11.5
Date:
commemoration: 1945 January-1945 May
… concentration camp survivors and helped them receive valuable training and much needed supplies. Sidney settled 300 displaced people into the commandeered former…
6487. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
2007.45.32 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.32
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
found: approximately 1944 July
… to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the subsequent deportations to concentration camps…
6488. Burgundy velvet tefillin pouch saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.11
Date:
use: before 1942
… Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, and killed on December 7, 1942. Almost all of Abraham’s family was killed in Auschwitz: his sister Clara and her…
6489. Striped black coatdress with belt made by a German Jewish woman
2002.474.3 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.3 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1938
…. Gertrud’s brother Ludwig survived several concentration camps, but the rest of their family perished. In late 1945, Dorit was sent to Lüneburg, Germany…
6490. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note
2007.45.86 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.86
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
found: approximately 1944 July
… to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the subsequent deportations to concentration camps…
6491. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark note
2007.45.90 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.90
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
found: approximately 1944 July
… camp overseers managed to keep the gates unlocked and told everyone to flee and hide. Inka and her parents found a small, dilapidated wooden house and…
6492. Knight cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.13
Date:
use: 1939 March-before 1947 March
… concentration camp in 1945. Ralf's paternal grandmother and cousin, Gertrude and Peter, died in Auschwitz death camp. Gerda’s brother, Werner, emigrated to…
6493. Drawing of the stairway near her hiding place by Jewish teenager
2007.521.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.521.6
Date:
creation: approximately 1941-approximately 1944
Artwork Title:
Wagon by the Stairs, 1941-1944
… her father Leo and her grandmother Hermina had been deported from Novi Sad by the German and Hungarian authorities to Auschwitz concentration camp and…
6494. Red medical service collar patch worn by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.477.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.477.5
Date:
use: after 1942 December-approximately 1947
…. His father Mosze was deported to Klooga concentration camp in Estonia, where he perished. His maternal aunt Gitka, and her husband Israel Obloska, were…
6495. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
2007.45.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.34
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
found: approximately 1944 July
… to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the subsequent deportations to concentration camps…
6496. Silver napkin ring with an engraved floral design and name brought with a German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.8
Date:
emigration: 1940 August
… the violent antisemitism she witnessed during Kristallnacht. After a few days, the family heard that Friedrich had been taken to Dachau concentration…
6497. Occupation currency note, 200 Karbowanez, issued by Nazi Germany in eastern Poland
2010.443.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.4
Date:
issue: 1942 March 10
found: 2005
… a German concentration camp. As an adult, he learned from his mother that the family had often hidden members of the French Resistance on the farm…
6498. Lyon town hall stamp made to forge papers for the resistance
1988.77.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.77.9
Date:
use: 1942-1944
… concentration camp on February 3, 1944, where they were killed. Lina married an American soldier and immigrated to the United States. Rosette died of tuberculosis…
6499. Boxed Tisch-Tennis set with net, paddles, and 6 balls brought with a young German Jewish refugee
2013.495.8 a-l front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.495.8 a-l
Date:
emigration: 1938 July
… Henrietta is believed to have been killed in a concentration camp gas chamber. Anneliese graduated from Hunter College High School and received a cum laude…
6500. Occupation currency note, 5 Karbowanez, issued by Nazi Germany in eastern Poland
2010.443.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.8
Date:
issue: 1942 March 10
found: 2005
… a German concentration camp. As an adult, he learned from his mother that the family had often hidden members of the French Resistance on the farm…