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1541. White striped blue shirt worn by Polish Jewish slave laborer
2003.294.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.294.2
Date:
use: 1945 January-approximately 1945 September
… connections with Armia Krajowa, the Home Army, a resistance group, which agreed to train fighters from the ghetto if they did not look too Jewish and had their…
1542. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of mothers, ordered to undress, who stare at their executioners as they march with their children into a mass grave
1988.182.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.5
Date:
depiction: approximately 1944 August-1944 December
creation: approximately 1946-1948
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Mass Grave
… his persecutors, Friedmann saw his art as a form of resistance that diminished the power of evil and gave him the will to survive. Conditions in the…
1543. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note
1992.62.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.62.4
Date:
issue: after 1943 January 01
… her sisters deported to a concentration camp and presumed killed. Raszka escaped and went into hiding. A resistance member, Jan Majewski, helped her…
1544. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
1999.296.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.296.5
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
… sought their support against anti-Polish, Ukrainian resistance forces in the area. For 23 months, Shmuel lived as a partisan in the forests, surviving by…
1545. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
1999.296.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.296.13
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
… sought their support against anti-Polish, Ukrainian resistance forces in the area. For 23 months, Shmuel lived as a partisan in the forests, surviving by…
1546. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 [funfzig] kronen note
2013.391.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.391.3
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
… woman who had two young sons. When the danger became too great, they moved into the home of Mrs. Klompe, a teacher. Resistance members built a false tile…
1547. Eclaireurs Israélites de France shirt and kerchief worn by former hidden Jewish boy
2008.142.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.142.2 a-c
Date:
received: 1945
use: 1945-1947 April
… identity papers for at risk Jews. In fall 1943, Germany occupied the south. EIF formed a resistance fighting unit called Compagnie Marc Haguenau, after the…
1548. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of naked women and children entering the showers at Auschwitz
1988.182.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.2
Date:
creation: 1964 March
depiction: after 1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Bathhouse Auschwitz
… his persecutors, Friedmann saw his art as a form of resistance that diminished the power of evil and gave him the will to survive. Conditions in the…
1549. Striped silk tallit, green velvet bag and white liner used by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.147.1_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.1 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… for him. With the aid of a friend with connections to the underground resistance movement, Frank was smuggled on a fishing boat to Sweden, where he…
1550. Austrian 10,000 Kronen banknote owned by a Viennese Jewish refugee family
2017.517.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.517.3
Date:
issue: 1918 November 02
use: 1919 March 12-1925
… France, he was transported to the unoccupied French zone and joined the French Resistance. Irma’s sister and brother, along with their spouses, were…
1551. Pen and ink drawing by David Friedmann of Jews hauling waste in the Ghetto given postwar to a fellow former resident
1993.126.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.126.1
Date:
depiction: 1942
creation: 1942
received: 1950 June 16
Artwork Title:
1942 Ghetto Łódź
… his persecutors, Friedmann saw his art as a form of resistance that diminished the power of evil and gave him the will to survive. Conditions in the…
1552. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
1999.296.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.296.12
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
… sought their support against anti-Polish, Ukrainian resistance forces in the area. For 23 months, Shmuel lived as a partisan in the forests, surviving by…
1553. 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
… the Maquis, a French resistance group. In late 1942, Adrian was called-up to serve in the Australian army. He joined the 6th Employment Company, though…
1554. Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of freed prisoners homeward bound
1988.182.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.4 a-b
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1945 January
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
From Concentration Camps to Liberty
… his persecutors, Friedmann saw his art as a form of resistance that diminished the power of evil and gave him the will to survive. Conditions in the…
1555. Silver-plated table knife with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.5
Date:
found: 1945 April
…front, blade, stamped : WELLNER / NICHT / ROSTEND [rust resistant] front, handle, stamped : R H back, handle, maker's mark, stamped : 90(?) / 4…
1556. Drawing of farmhouse and trees done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.4
Date:
creation: 1944 January 06
… directions to a remote barn near De Houwen that was only used by locals to shelter herds during rough weather. Klaas was a resistance worker in the area, and…
1557. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a starving man eating from a ghetto garbage can
1998.79.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.79.1
Date:
creation: 1964
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Looking for some food in backyards was forbidden!
Alternate Title:
Hunger in Lodzer Ghetto
… his persecutors, Friedmann saw his art as a form of resistance that diminished the power of evil and gave him the will to survive. Conditions in the…
1558. Enameled stickpin for the Studiosorum World Congress owned by a former Czech Jewish soldier
2004.692.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.692.2
Date:
commemoration: 1946
… for him. With the aid of a friend with connections to the underground resistance movement, Frank was smuggled on a fishing boat to Sweden, where he…
1559. 13 dental hand tools in a fitted wooden box used by a Croatian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.487.2 a-n
Date:
use: 1911-1945
… and the resistance. Ferdinand, Teresia, and Gertruda Renata remained in German occupied Asti. In April 1945, Ferdinand and his family were liberated by…
1560. Courtroom portrait of Hermann Göring listening on headphones created during the Trial of German Major War Criminals at Nuremberg
Ed Vebell Artwork Collection Image, 2003.435.7
Object | Accession Number: 2003.435.7 a-b
Date:
creation: after 1945 November 20-before 1945 December 09
publication/distribution: 1945 December 09
Artwork Title:
Field Marshal Goering, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1945
… during the spring 1944 Monte Cassino campaign, with French troops in the Alps, and with French resistance fighters in the Pyrenees. He was sketching…