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1. Concentration camp uniform worn by Mihaly Borsa
Object | Accession Number: 2018.672.1 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1944-1945
…Dachau (Germany)…
2. 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
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
3. Stars and stripes dress worn by a German Jewish woman for a DP camp theatrical performance
2018.70.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.70.2
Date:
creation: after 1945 May-before 1946 May
…Margret (Miriam) Hantman (née Simon) (b. 1926) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Willy Simon (1896-1944) and Ella Anita Stahl Simon (1901-1944). She…
4. Concentration camp uniform pants recovered from a concentration camp by an American administrator
Object | Accession Number: 2017.544.3
Date:
acquired: after 1945 May
… in both the Mediterranean and European theaters, and participated in campaigns through France and Germany. On April 29, 1945, the 42nd Infantry…
5. Concentration camp uniform pants recovered from a concentration camp by an American administrator
Object | Accession Number: 2017.544.2
Date:
acquired: after 1945 May
… in both the Mediterranean and European theaters, and participated in campaigns through France and Germany. On April 29, 1945, the 42nd Infantry…
6. Concentration camp uniform coat recovered from a concentration camp by an American administrator
2017.544.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.544.1
Date:
acquired: after 1945 May
… in both the Mediterranean and European theaters, and participated in campaigns through France and Germany. On April 29, 1945, the 42nd Infantry…
7. Striped prisoner pants worn by a concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2016.118.1
Date:
use: 1944 May-1945 May
…Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)…
8. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
2014.557.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.5
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
… September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The country was quickly occupied, and Herman was among the large portion of Polish soldiers captured as prisoners of…
9. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.4
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
… September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The country was quickly occupied, and Herman was among the large portion of Polish soldiers captured as prisoners of…
10. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.3
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
… September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The country was quickly occupied, and Herman was among the large portion of Polish soldiers captured as prisoners of…
11. Hitler Youth jacket with insignia and armband found by a US soldier
2013.512.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.512.2
Date:
found: 1945
… Soviets in late April 1945. The war ended with Germany's surrender on May 7. Myers returned to New York. He also served in the Army during the Korean War…
12. U.S. Army regulation uniform shirt worn by a Signal Corps photographer for the war crimes trials
Object | Accession Number: 2013.458.3
Date:
use: approximately 1945 September-1949
… London for just over a year before being dispatched in 1944 to Wiesbaden, Germany. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. In August 1945, the United…
13. U.S. Army regulation uniform shirt worn by a Signal Corps photographer for the war crimes trials
Object | Accession Number: 2013.458.2
Date:
use: approximately 1945 September-1949
… London for just over a year before being dispatched in 1944 to Wiesbaden, Germany. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. In August 1945, the United…
14. US Army regulation uniform shirt worn by a Signal Corps photographer for the war crimes trials
Object | Accession Number: 2013.458.1
Date:
use: approximately 1945 September-1949
… London for just over a year before being dispatched in 1944 to Wiesbaden, Germany. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. In August 1945, the United…
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
…Henry Dressler (born Heniz, 1919-2005) was born on October 22, 1919, in Dresden, Germany, to Joachim (1888-1971) and Martha Miriam (1896-1956) and…
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
…Henry Dressler (born Heniz, 1919-2005) was born on October 22, 1919, in Dresden, Germany, to Joachim (1888-1971) and Martha Miriam (1896-1956) and…
17. 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
…Manfred Gans was born on April 27, 1922, in Borken, Germany, to Moritz and Else Fraenkel Gans. His family had been in Borken for over 300 years…
18. Concentration camp uniform likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
2012.441.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
… Yiddish. Natan attended private school and was a good student. He did not experience anti-Semitism. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The Chorowicz…
19. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate in several camps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.356.1
Date:
use: approximately 1943 November-1945 April
…. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The German authorities immediately began instituting anti-Jewish legislation. They confiscated Jewish…
20. 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
… independent state with an authoritarian government that collaborated closely with Germany. In August 1940, Axis powers Germany and Italy had arbitrated a…