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1. Boy Scout uniform shirt worn in Shanghai
2000.24.35_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.24.35 a
Date:
approximately 1939-1948
… Austria for Shanghai shortly after Kristallnacht in 1938 and was forced to live in the Hongkew Ghetto for three years as the war intensified. Eric was…
2. 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
… Kurt immigrated to Kenya. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht, the town synagogue was burned down. Because of his wealth and influence, Werner…
3. SA brown uniform shirt with Rottenfuhrer insignia acquired by a US soldier
1988.99.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.5
Date:
found: approximately 1945-before 1945 November
manufacture: after 1934-before 1945
… a gun on his desk for intimidation. Following the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9 and 10, 1938, Ruth’s teachers tried to act like everything was…
4. 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
… Kristallnacht pogrom, Rudolph’s father, Ernst, was arrested, marched down the street with his hands up in the air, and taken to Buchenwald concentration camp. He…
5. 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
… religious activities and socialize with their community. After the November 9 - 10, 1938, Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany, Moritz and Else sent Theo out of…
6. Concentration camp uniform dress with number 94593 worn by a German Jewish inmate
1994.24.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.24.1
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 January
… left Germany for New York in August 1938. On November 9 and 10, the Kristallnacht pogrom occurred and the synagogue in Hannover was destroyed. Hannah…