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1. Concentration camp uniform coat with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate
1990.222.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.222.1.3
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… camp Commandant explaining that the subject could be dismissed from the camp if he was willing to sign a declaration stating that he would respect the…
2. Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1990.222.1.1
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… camp Commandant explaining that the subject could be dismissed from the camp if he was willing to sign a declaration stating that he would respect the…
3. Concentration camp uniform trousers worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate
1990.222.1.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.222.1.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… camp Commandant explaining that the subject could be dismissed from the camp if he was willing to sign a declaration stating that he would respect the…
4. Concentration camp uniform skirt worn by a Czech Jewish inmate
1989.303.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.24
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945 May
… camp command. Karel had to report the statistics to the commandant, and sometimes got yelled at or threatened if the statistics were not to his liking…
5. Concentration camp uniform cap with number 107310 issued to a Jewish Czech inmate
1989.303.25_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.25 a
Date:
use: after 1942 November-1945 April 15
… camp command. Karel had to report the statistics to the commandant, and sometimes got yelled at or threatened if the statistics were not to his liking…
6. Infantry tank officer’s field jacket with several ribbon bars and pins worn by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2013.442.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 November-approximately 1945
manufacture: approximately 1944
commemoration: 1939-1945
…, as part of the Third Army. James was made commanding officer of C Company, 21st Armored Infantry Battalion. The unit was deployed in September to Great…
7. Peach chemise with black and white floral appliques saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.5
Date:
received: 1934
use: 1934-1946
… forced into the Hungarian labor service, which was put under army command in 1940. In approximately 1940, Anna’s brother Imre was conscripted into the…
8. Peach floral printed chemise saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.6
Date:
received: approximately 1935-1940
use: 1935-1946
… forced into the Hungarian labor service, which was put under army command in 1940. In approximately 1940, Anna’s brother Imre was conscripted into the…
9. Peach chemise with floral embroidery saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.4
Date:
received: 1934
use: 1934-1946
… forced into the Hungarian labor service, which was put under army command in 1940. In approximately 1940, Anna’s brother Imre was conscripted into the…
10. Blue two-piece dress with multicolored hearts
2008.226.4_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.226.4 a-b
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… they would take care of the apartment and the contents. While they were in the Bacsalmas ghetto, the German commandant received a letter from Budapest…
11. Striped concentration camp uniform trousers worn by Polish Jewish inmate
1992.36.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.36.1
Date:
use: 1945 February-1945 April
…. The guards and camp commander, Amon Göth, regularly shot and beat prisoners. Once, while working outside the camp, a prisoner in Moses’s work group ran…
12. Dark blue concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1992.36.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.36.2
Date:
issue: approximately 1945 February
…. The guards and camp commander, Amon Göth, regularly shot and beat prisoners. Once, while working outside the camp, a prisoner in Moses’s work group ran…
13. First lieutenant dress jacket, medals and shirt worn by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.3 b front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1945 May 09-approximately 1946 June
… Rudolph as Chief Interrogator and second in command of Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13. In July 1944, Rudolph landed on Utah Beach in France. In…
14. US Army regulation uniform with a 63rd infantry sleeve patch worn by a Jewish soldier
2011.447.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.447.11.2 a-c
Date:
use: approximately 1943 June-approximately 1945 May
… concentration camp survivors and helped them receive valuable training and much needed supplies. Sidney settled 300 displaced people into the commandeered former…
15. 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
… after 3 days. The Wasserbergers fled east, eventually reaching New York. The house was occupied by the German Army commandant, but Henry and his family…
16. Concentration camp uniform jacket and pants worn by an inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945
… after 3 days. The Wasserbergers fled east, eventually reaching New York. The house was occupied by the German Army commandant, but Henry and his family…
17. Concentration camp striped uniform coat with yellow triangle worn by a Polish Jewish female inmate
2004.411.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.411.1
Date:
received: 1943 September 23
use: 1943 September 23-1945 January
… was sent to various camps or taken to Ponary forest and murdered. In June 1944, the camp commander ordered the prisoners to be deported. Wilhelm…
18. British Army paratrooper's jacket worn in combat by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.478.2
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-1945
… received a field promotion to captain. He served as the Deputy Commander of the Intelligence Section at Sennelager, a prisoner of war camp for high ranking…
19. Man’s dark blue pajama shirt given to a Czech Jewish inmate of Theresienstadt by another inmate
2001.3.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.3.2
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
… were waiting for the train to arrive, an SS commander came to get workers to repair a roof recently damaged in a windstorm. Jiri and a few others…