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1. Watercolor painting of a children’s home given to an UNRRA official
2015.110.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.110.11
Date:
creation: 1947
… War II, worked as a Medical Officer at the Aglasterhausen Children’s Center, run by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA).…
2. Watercolor painting of a crowd gathered in front of a decorative building in Vittel internment camp acquired by an American internee
2018.426.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.19
Date:
creation: 1943
… invaded Poland, and two days later France and Britain declared war on Germany, officially starting World War II. In May 1940, Germany invaded France and…
3. Wooden pen made for the son of a transit camp inmate by another inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1999.170.1 a-b
Date:
creation: before 1942 June
received: approximately 1942 June
… and uncle in Paris, which was liberated in August 1944. The war ended when Germany surrendered in May 1945. Georges waited every day at the train…
4. Small copper tray with a landscape scene owned by a Yugoslavian family
2017.609.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.609.7
Date:
acquired: before 1941 April 06
… population of approximately 10,500 before the war, making it the third largest Jewish center in Yugoslavia. Lottie and Mento were married in 1936 and had a son…
5. Letterhead stationery of The Jewish Brigade kept by a young female recruit
Object | Accession Number: 2006.129.1
Date:
creation: 1945 May-1946 July
… 10, 1943, police came to remove all the children from the orphanage. But Cilly and Jutta escaped the roundup and went into hiding with the assistance…
6. Toddler's red leather shoe worn by Alain Markon in Vichy France
1998.41.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.41.1
Date:
use: after 1941 June-1942
emigration: 1942 October
…The collection consists of a blanket and children's clothing relating to the experiences of Alexander and Raya Magid Markon and their young son…
7. Silver pin with floral engraving found by a German Jewish survivor while imprisoned by the Soviet Army
2004.658.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.658.2
Date:
found: 1945 February
… a woman named Gerda Frohbart. In June 1943, Dr. Abegg sent Evy to Bloestau, East Prussia, where she lived with Frieda Bunke and her three children on…
8. Child’s pencil sketch of 2 boys in beds listening to the radio by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.10
Date:
creation: approximately 1945
Artwork Title:
Wir Kommen
Alternate Title:
We are Coming
… World War I, David served for over a year in a German Field Artillery Regiment. Charlotte was born in Hachenburg, to Jenny (née Stern, 1867-1940) and…
9. Handkerchief bearing a two-headed eagle owned by the Altarac family who fled from German occupying forces
2002.438.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.3
Date:
acquired: 1943 October-1944 September
… Palestine before the war. Mayer was born in 1901 in Sarajevo (later in Bosnia and Hercegovina) and had a successful business as a marble craftsman and home…
10. Brown leather billfold used by a Latvian Jewish refugee and aid worker from Nazi Germany
2005.379.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.5
Date:
use: 1935-1947
emigration: 1941 February 21
… summer months at a children’s home in Oostduinkerke, where they explored the dunes and the bulwarks that remained from World War I. In May 1940, Germany…
11. Voigtlander Bessa camera and case used by a German Jewish family while imprisoned in Gurs
Object | Accession Number: 2013.478.3 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1940 May-approximately 1940 August
manufacture: after 1929-before 1936
… served in the German Army during the First World War amd was seriously injured and partially paralyzed on his left side. Friedel was born on December 29…
12. Leather bi-fold wallet with two photographs glued inside owned by a German Jewish refugee
2018.340.2 closed side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.340.2
Date:
depiction: 1940
… safely live under a false name. She got a job working as a maid for a Gestapo officer, survived the war and later moved to England. Charlotte’s children…
13. Painting of a large estate given to an UNRRA official
2015.110.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.110.5
Date:
creation: 1947
… War II, worked as a Medical Officer at the Aglasterhausen Children’s Center, run by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA).…
14. German Jewish refugee child's still life of an apple, ashtray, and a smoking pipe
2013.486.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.3
Date:
creation: 1944 December 04
Artwork Title:
Fruit, Pipe, and Ashtray, Maur, Switzerland, December 4, 1944
… World War I, David served for over a year in a German Field Artillery Regiment. Charlotte was born in Hachenburg, to Jenny (née Stern, 1867-1940) and…
15. Blue leather billfold used by a Latvian Jewish refugee and aid worker from Nazi Germany
2005.379.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.6
Date:
use: 1945-1947
emigration: 1941 February 21
… summer months at a children’s home in Oostduinkerke, where they explored the dunes and the bulwarks that remained from World War I. In May 1940, Germany…
16. Book written by the Captain of the MS St. Louis and owned by a passenger and German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1999.317.2
Date:
publication: 1949
Title:
Heimatlos auf hoher See
Alternate Title:
Homeless on the High Seas
… World War I, David served for over a year in a German Field Artillery Regiment. Charlotte was born in Hachenburg, to Jenny (née Stern, 1867-1940) and…
17. Watercolor painting of a street scene given to an UNRRA official
2015.110.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.110.4
Date:
creation: 1947
… War II, worked as a Medical Officer at the Aglasterhausen Children’s Center, run by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA).…
18. American Joint Distribution Committee booklet on Hanukkah used by a Polish Jewish teenager
Object | Accession Number: 2006.479.4
Date:
publication/distribution: 1947-1951
Title:
! מוֹעֲדיק לְשִׂמְחָה
Alternate Title:
Happy Holidays!
… 1914 to assist Jewish persons in Palestine during World War I. The Holocaust and World War II caused the JDC to ramp up its relief efforts. With the end…
19. Burlap covered steamer trunk used by a German Jewish family
2008.199.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.199.1
Date:
manufacture: 1938
emigration: 1938
… children: Julius, Fritz, Sofia, Henrietta, and two sons who died in World War I (1914-1918). The family was Jewish Orthodox. Max was president of the local…
20. Eyeglasses and case used Mayer Altarac whose family fled from German occupying forces
2002.438.5 b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.5 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1948
… Palestine before the war. Mayer was born in 1901 in Sarajevo (later in Bosnia and Hercegovina) and had a successful business as a marble craftsman and home…