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1. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a non-Jewish doctor/resistance member
2004.554.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.554.1
Date:
received: 1944 September-1945 April
… German Security Police headquarters in Amsterdam. On May 12, while Zubli was visiting van der Veen, both were arrested by the Gestapo. Zubli’s wife hurried…
2. Blue two-piece dress with multicolored hearts
2008.226.4_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.226.4 a-b
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… Hungary. Hungarian police units deported many Jews into the custody of German police, who transported them to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where the majority was…
3. Concentration camp uniform jacket with purple triangle worn by Jehovah’s Witness
1989.271.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.271.1
Date:
use: 1938 September-1945 April
… placed under police surveillance. He attempted to illegally escape to Switzerland but was unsuccessful, so he returned home. He got a job but was fired…
4. Child’s coat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.1
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
…. Soviet prisoners of war had dug the pits for the mass graves in advance. The shootings were carried-out by Police Battalion 33 (Ostland) and Police…
5. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Jewish Latvian prisoner
2003.174.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 October-1945 February
… conducted by the German Order Police resulted in the deaths of 25,000 Latvian Jews in the ghetto, which was then repopulated with Jews deported from other…
6. Long underwear worn by a Jewish Polish partisan in the Soviet Army
2003.193.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.193.4
Date:
use: approximately 1944
…, 1945, Germany surrendered. Josef left the army and started working for the Soviet police in Zdzieciol, Poland (Dziatlava, Belarus). His sister Michla…
7. Concentration camp uniform jacket and pants worn by a Catholic Polish prisoner in several camps
2006.404.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.404.1 a-f
Date:
use: 1942 September-1945 April
…. They demanded to see what was in his briefcase; when they found food, they took Mieczyslaw to the police station. His father managed to bribe the German…
8. Young girl's floral print romper worn by a hidden child
2008.349.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.349.2
Date:
use: 1940-1944
… the train station; they had been brought there by two young men in the French underground. The police did not search the Mendels’ train, as they did…
9. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Romanian Jewish inmate at Buchenwald
2002.467.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.467.2
Date:
received: approximately 1944
… Kolozsvár ghetto by local authorities and police working in cooperation with the Germans. The conditions in the makeshift ghetto were appalling. It was on the…
10. Child's white blouse with red, yellow, and pink floral embroidery worn by 2 sisters prior to living in hiding
2008.349.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.349.3
Date:
use: 1940-1944
… the train station; they had been brought there by two young men in the French underground. The police did not search the Mendels’ train, as they did…
11. Lace dress worn by a Jewish baby in Yugoslavia before and during the Holocaust
2018.281.2 side A
Object | Accession Number: 2018.281.2
Date:
use: 1939-1944
… the Albanian border, the Behars sighted guards and police, and fearing arrest, they returned to Skopje. On March 11, 1943, the Jewish population of…
12. Floral embroidered dress worn by a Jewish baby in Yugoslavia before and during the Holocaust
2018.281.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.281.1
Date:
use: 1939-1944
… the Albanian border, the Behars sighted guards and police, and fearing arrest, they returned to Skopje. On March 11, 1943, the Jewish population of…
13. Sheepskin vest worn by a Jewish girl living in hiding
2008.105.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.105.2
Date:
use: 1939-1944
… after this, Rivka and Sonja were arrested in the street by the Lithuanians and put into prison. Sonja managed to convince the police that they were Polish…
14. Concentration camp uniform jacket with post liberation Buchenwald patch worn by a Romanian Jewish inmate
2002.467.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.467.1 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1944
… Kolozsvár ghetto by local authorities and police working in cooperation with the Germans. The conditions in the makeshift ghetto were appalling. It was on the…
15. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish woman in multiple concentration camps
1989.162.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.162.1
Date:
use: approximately 1943 September-1945 April
… border at night. The high amount of activity at the farm raised suspicions and they were reported. German police searched the farm. Mania hid in the bed…
16. White baby's bib with red trim worn by a Jewish infant while living in hiding
2011.424.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.424.4
Date:
use: 1942 November-1944 September
… Paesen, the assistant police superintendent, to come see him at his butcher shop. Alfred asked if he was a “good Belgian” while threatening him with his…
17. Floral print skirt worn by a Polish Jewish girl living with an assumed identity
Object | Accession Number: 2010.465.3
Date:
use: 1941 December-1948 September
… they were eating, the police arrived and they were put in prison. They were interrogated for a week, all saying that they had gone to relieve themselves…
18. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Hungarian Jewish prisoner
2011.449.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.449.1
Date:
issue: 1944 June 24-1945 April 11
…) and Esther Friedman (1900-1945) Karl. In early May 1944, the family was forced into the Kolozsvár ghetto by the Hungarian police, and deported to…
19. Short sleeved smock with tassels and floral embroidery worn by a Polish Jewish girl living with an assumed identity
Object | Accession Number: 2010.465.1
Date:
use: 1941 December-1948 September
… they were eating, the police arrived and they were put in prison. They were interrogated for a week, all saying that they had gone to relieve themselves…
20. Concentration camp uniform jacket and pants worn by an inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945
… the bank was Aryanized. Henry then got a job with a luxury department store, Hirsch & Co. In October 1938, the family was taken to police headquarters…