Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

You searched for: concentration camp Remove constraint concentration camp Objects All Remove constraint Objects: All
New Search

Search

Search Results

6501. Ribbon bar with British War Medal 1939-1945 and Polish Army Medal for War 1939-1945 awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.477.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.477.9
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
…. His father Mosze was deported to Klooga concentration camp in Estonia, where he perished. His maternal aunt Gitka, and her husband Israel Obloska, were…
6502. Four child's playthings: a handkerchief, glass bear, and two seashells, and a box used by a young Jewish Polish refugee
2012.249.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.249.2 a-f
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-1944 August 01
… sister, were transported to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered. Her brother, Avraham, did survive. Emil’s sisters and their families had also gone…
6503. Pope Pius XI medal, ribbon and case worn to disguise the identity of a Jewish woman in hiding
2008.117.2_a closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.117.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1943-1945
… them cousins, from Krakow, where they are in danger of deportation to the concentration camps. Franka later wrote about these years in her diary…
6504. Dark red velvet square tefillin pouch saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.12
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…
6505. Japanese invasion banknote, 10 pesos, acquired postwar by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2004.709.4
Date:
issue: approximately 1942
received: approximately 1945-1946
… that Erich’s other five siblings were killed in concentration camps: Benno in Jasenovac in Croatia in 1941; Leo in Gyor, Hungary, presumably during…
6506. Japanese propaganda matchbox with a Japanese sword piercing the US flag acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.9
Date:
emigration: 1947 March
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
… concentration camp in 1945. Ralf's paternal grandmother and cousin, Gertrude and Peter, died in Auschwitz death camp. Gerda’s brother, Werner, emigrated to…
6507. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
2007.45.55 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.55
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
found: 1944
… to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the subsequent deportations to concentration camps…
6508. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note
2007.45.78 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.78
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…
6509. 3 9mm Luger bullet casings recovered during the excavations of mass execution sites
2010.443.24-.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.25
Date:
found: 2005
use: 1941-1942
… 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…
6510. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note
2007.45.89 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.89
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…
6511. Treadle sewing machine table of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1930-1945
… destruction, was included and censored by Mordechai. Deportations to the concentration camps began in December 1940. Mordechai cooperated and fulfilled the…
6512. Poster expressing Austrian Bishops' support for Anschluss
1990.333.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.6
Date:
publication/distribution: 1938 March 18
Title:
Einheitliche Stellungnahme der Bischöfe Österreichs zur Wahl
Alternate Title:
Unified statement of the bishops of Austria for election
…The collection consists of anti-Semitic, advertising, and political posters, and a pair of shoes worn in Buchenwald concentration camp.…
6513. Jewish War Veterans Past Commander medal and ribbon issued to a US soldier
2011.447.11.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.447.11.6
Date:
issue: after 1946-before 2014
… concentration camp survivors and helped them receive valuable training and much needed supplies. Sidney settled 300 displaced people into the commandeered former…
6514. Occupation currency note, 500 Karbowanez, issued by Nazi Germany in eastern Poland
2010.443.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.3
Date:
issue: 1942 March 10
use: 1943
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…
6515. Yellow cloth Star of David badge with a blank center
2007.45.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.5
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…
6516. Two mother-of-pearl shards saved from a Jewish owned factory and given to a survivor 50 years later
1989.204.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.204.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1937
received: 1987 July
… deported to a concentration camp and presumed killed. Raszka escaped and went into hiding. A resistance member, Jan Majewski, helped her obtain false papers…
6517. Drawing of her mother's shoes by a Jewish teenager in hiding
2007.521.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.521.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1942-approximately 1944
Artwork Title:
Mother's Shoes, 1942-1944
… her father Leo and her grandmother Hermina had been deported from Novi Sad by the German and Hungarian authorities to Auschwitz concentration camp and…
6518. Drawing of a large leafy tree near her hiding place by a Jewish teenager
2007.521.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.521.7
Date:
creation: approximately 1941-approximately 1944
Artwork Title:
Tree near the Farm, 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…
6519. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark note
2007.45.100 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.100
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…
6520. Weimar Germany Reichsbanknote, 100 billion marks, owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2004.709.7
Date:
issue: 1923 October 23
… that Erich’s other five siblings were killed in concentration camps: Benno in Jasenovac in Croatia in 1941; Leo in Gyor, Hungary, presumably during…