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841. Broadside proclaiming public support for the declaration of Hitler as both Chancellor and President
1990.333.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.28
Date:
publication/distribution: 1934 August 02-1934 August 19
Title:
Am.19.August wird deutschen Volke folgende Frage vorgelegt
Alternate Title:
On August 19 the following question will be presented to the German people
… other political parties. On June 30, 1934, the Schutzstaffel (SS), acting on orders from Hitler, executed the party’s political enemies and rival members…
842. Barbed wire and a key in a shadow box display belonging to a German-American internee
2017.632.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.632.1
Date:
commemoration: 1946 January 31-1946 February 07
… Navy at Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the United States. An executive order in February 1942 allowed government agencies to rationalize the…
843. Silver-plated axe and sword shaped letter opener won in a prewar swim meet by Polish Catholic youth
2004.374.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.374.4
Date:
received: before 1939 September
… told him nail guns were used in executions to save ammunition. One morning, the work leader asked who spoke German. Henryk raised his hand and was chosen…
844. Singer Model 15 sewing machine and table used by Jewish Romanian woman who was massacred
2017.218.1_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.218.1 a-d
Date:
manufacture: 1927
use: before 1941
… the terrain”, a codename for mass-execution. On July 13, Romanian soldiers and gendarmes entered Pepeni and organized small groups of local residents to…
845. Gray wood and metal ladder used while in hiding by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2018.9.1
Date:
use: 1945 January 20-1945 January 26
… officers present to testify that Adolf Eichmann had been executed. He later scattered the cremated remains beyond Israeli territorial waters. In the mid-1960…
846. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1995.57.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.1
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
use: approximately 1944-1945 April 22
… in one of 30 forced labor camps in the region carrying out road construction projects. Beginning in 1943, in conjunction with the execution of the Nazi…
847. Belgian Nationalist Movement armband stencilled M.N.B. issued to a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.6
Date:
received: approximately 1942-1944
… September 1944. At the war’s end, Moliere Group had been reduced by deportation and execution by the Germans to 130 members. During the war, Menachem’s sister…
848. Belgian Nationalist Movement armband with an attached ribbon, BNB patch and star pin worn by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.5
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1944
… September 1944. At the war’s end, Moliere Group had been reduced by deportation and execution by the Germans to 130 members. During the war, Menachem’s sister…
849. Blue and white armband with a red triangle marked P worn by a Polish Catholic political prisoner
2004.374.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.374.3
Date:
use: 1942 June-1945 April
… told him nail guns were used in executions to save ammunition. One morning, the work leader asked who spoke German. Henryk raised his hand and was chosen…
850. Book
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1936
received: 1945 April
Title:
El Hakim: Roman
Alternate Title:
Doctor Ibrahim
… day, a Belgian girl was caught trying to escape. All the inmates were called to see her execution by hanging; someone slipped her a razor blade and she…
851. Armband with red cross worn by Anthony Acevedo in a slave labor camp and signed post-liberation by fellow POWs
Object | Accession Number: 2010.440.3
Date:
use: 1945 February-1945 April
… could only comfort him as he died in his arms. Some tried to escape and were executed with wooden bullets; medics had to fill the holes with wax. They…
852. Leather pouch for a dog tag given to a Danish resistance member
1989.297.2.2_001.JPG
Object | Accession Number: 1989.297.2.2
Date:
acquired: 1944-1945
… Geneva Convention, resistance members could be considered guerillas and executed. After the war, Knud decided to keep the surname Dyby, and immigrated to…
853. Autobiographical painting by David Friedman of a woman in a brown dress resting on a bed
1987.114.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.114.4
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Sleeping Woman
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
854. Charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a Jewish man from a suburb of Prague waiting for deportation
1987.121.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.121.1
Date:
creation: 1963
depiction: approximately 1941 October
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Awaiting deportation
Alternate Title:
Before Evacuation to the Ghetto
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
855. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a mother with two children in Lodzer Ghetto
1988.173.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.3
Date:
creation: 1964 January
depiction: approximately 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Mother with Two Children
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
856. Black leather mid-calf boots worn by a female Jewish concentration camp prisoner
2002.366.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.366.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1944 December-1945
acquired: 1944 December-1945 January
…, the Germans took him to the market place and executed him. Kyla was then transported to Belzec extermination camp, where she was later killed. On June…
857. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of newcomers to the Łódź Ghetto pulling a carriage
1988.173.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.4
Date:
creation: 1964 January 04
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Newcomers to the Ghetto
Alternate Title:
2 Horseman pulling a carriage in Lodzer Ghetto
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
858. Autobiographical tempera painting by David Friedmann of two men pumping water in the Łódź Ghetto
1988.173.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.1 a-c
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1941 October-1944 March
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Pumping Water in Łódźer Ghetto
Alternate Title:
Two Łódź Ghetto Inmates On A Water Pump
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
859. Engraved color vignettes on the life and death of Jud Süss Oppenheimer
2016.184.242 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.242
Date:
publication/distribution: approximately 1740
Artwork Title:
Deß justificirten Juden, Joseph Süß Oppenheimers: Geburt Leben und Tod
Alternate Title:
The justification of the Jew, Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, Birth, Life, and Death
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… Fortune, who would have thought, that you should be hanged, and that Fortune would soon give you into the executioner’s hand. It allows the whole country to…
860. Autobiographical drawing by David Friedmann of Jewish prisoners on their way to bury a shot comrade
1988.173.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.2
Date:
depiction: 1944 August-1945 January
creation: 1945
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Burying a Shot Comrade
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…