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1. Shirt taken from an SS storeroom at a concentration camp by a Hungarian Jewish inmate and worn after liberation
2002.175.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.175.1
Date:
use: 1945 May 05-1945 May 07
… 1945. Steven Vogel took the shirt and belt from an SS storeroom housing clothing and supplies at the camp. Letter: handwritten by Tomi Baratod [sic] in…
2. Military blouse, trousers, and General Service Cap worn by a Dutch Jewish corporal in the Prinses Irene Brigade
1991.119.1_c front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.119.1 a-c
Date:
use: approximately 1942 September-approximately 1945 September
manufacture: approximately 1942-approximately 1945
… their extended family was killed during the Holocaust. Jack’s parents, Pauline and Izak, were sent to Westerbork transit camp and then deported and killed…
3. Striped wool jacket used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.2
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… to New York on the transport ship, SS Marine Perch, in 1947, and settled in New York City. Felicia died in the Queens borough of New York City in 1983…
4. 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
… plan negotiated by Rezso Kasztner of the Relief and Rescue Committee of the Hungarian Zionist Association in Budapest to get the German SS to allow a…
5. 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
… for the United States aboard the SS Berengaria. He arrived In New York City on May 26, and moved in with his aunt and uncle, Ida and Moe Blum. Later…
6. Child’s blue, white and red striped button vest worn by a little girl while living in hiding
2005.175.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.175.4
Date:
use: approximately 1944-1945
… via Sweden aboard the SS Gripsholm. In New York, Truusje lived with her maternal uncle and his wife, Siegfried and Gertrude Katz. They adopted her and…
7. Dark blue dress with black stripes worn by a young Jewish refugee during her voyage to the US
2010.194.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.4
Date:
emigration: 1946 July
received: 1945 June-1946 June
… quotas, the children sailed in July 1946 from Goteborg, Sweden, to New York aboard the SS Gripsholm. They were adopted by their paternal uncle Benjamin and…
8. 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
… SS men on the train were not suspicious and just wanted to talk to her. They got off at Nienburg and found a convent where they were given food. While…
9. Child’s white dress with embroidered flowers and hearts worn by a little girl while living in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2005.175.5
Date:
use: approximately 1943-1945
… via Sweden aboard the SS Gripsholm. In New York, Truusje lived with her maternal uncle and his wife, Siegfried and Gertrude Katz. They adopted her and…
10. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1988.132.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.132.1
Date:
use: 1944 May 03-1945 May
… mechanic with his own business. The couple had three children. William and Helen were dedicated to Holocaust education and shared their personal experiences…
11. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1995.57.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.1
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
use: approximately 1944-1945 April 22
… forced labor camps and Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, and Schörzingen concentration camps during the Holocaust.…
12. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Jewish German man
1994.115.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.115.1
Date:
use: 1945 January-1945 March
…. Eventually, an SS Officer, Fritz Scherwitz, asked for a bricklayer and Werner was selected. Werner was marched daily from the ghetto to an apartment building…
13. 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
… plan negotiated by Rezso Kasztner of the Relief and Rescue Committee of the Hungarian Zionist Association in Budapest to get the German SS to allow a…
14. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate
1989.248.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.248.2
Date:
use: 1940 August 10-1945 May 06
…. Jehovah’s Witness prisoners worked in construction and upkeep at the Berghaus, a former restaurant that was turned into an SS rest and convalescent home…
15. 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
… Office, which facilitated emigration to Mandate Palestine. In September 1941, Heydrich, SS Chief of RSHA, became Reich Protector, and prioritized the…
16. Striped concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1993.34.1
Date:
use: 1944 December 24-1945 April 11
…, Hela Wargon and her husband Karl, in New York a letter explaining the deportation of the family. The SS discovered that Symcho was Jewish. He was also…
17. Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate
1989.248.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.248.1
Date:
use: 1940 August 10-1945 May 06
…. Jehovah’s Witness prisoners worked in construction and upkeep at the Berghaus, a former restaurant that was turned into an SS rest and convalescent home…
18. 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
… Buchenwald and Flossenburg concentration camps in Germany before and during the Holocaust.…
19. 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
…, they hid in a secret cellar room. On September 4, 1943, the Germans began to destroy the ghetto. It was surrounded by Latvian Schutzstaffel [SS] and…
20. 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
… experiences of Beryl Miklin in Stutthof concentration camp in Poland during the Holocaust, and to the experiences of Beryl and Marian Miklin in Neu Freimann…