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101. Man's long-sleeved linen jacket made in a displaced person's camp
2005.369.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.369.2
Date:
manufacture: 1945-1949
… to the west, ahead of approaching American forces. Many people died on the trip. Those still alive lay on the bodies to stay off the cold floor. The…
102. Man's short-sleeved linen jacket made in a displaced person's camp
2005.369.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.369.3
Date:
manufacture: 1945-1949
… to the west, ahead of approaching American forces. Many people died on the trip. Those still alive lay on the bodies to stay off the cold floor. The…
103. 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
… family members had been deported and killed in Sobibor and Auschwitz. Jacqueline met her American husband, Richard, while he was studying in Paris. They…
104. 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
… family members had been deported and killed in Sobibor and Auschwitz. Jacqueline met her American husband, Richard, while he was studying in Paris. They…
105. Embroidered floral smock worn by a Jewish girl in prewar Poland
2003.193.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.193.2
Date:
received: 1935
… the Holocaust. In May 1946, Josef and Chana went to Funk-Kaserne, a displaced persons camp in the American controlled zone near Munich, Germany. In…
106. Embroidered nightgown made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.4
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… could. He began working with the German Jewish Children’s Aid Society, an American organization that helped resettle Jewish children in the United States…
107. 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
… American Zone and a Jewish dp camp in Backnang. Renia was hospitalized and, upon returning, met Henia’s boyfriend, Izak Perel, and his brother, Morris…
108. 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
… American Zone and a Jewish dp camp in Backnang. Renia was hospitalized and, upon returning, met Henia’s boyfriend, Izak Perel, and his brother, Morris…
109. Short sleeved henley undershirt with 3 buttons brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.12
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
110. Embroidered dress made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.9
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… could. He began working with the German Jewish Children’s Aid Society, an American organization that helped resettle Jewish children in the United States…
111. 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
…Machine stitched costume with a fitted bodice and an A-line skirt painted and stamped to resemble an American flag. The front left bodice, back…
112. Short sleeved henley undershirt with 2 buttons brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.11
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
113. Long sleeved Henley undershirt with a name tag brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.14
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
114. Long sleeved Henley undershirt brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.13
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
115. Checkered dress with heart patches made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.2 back
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.2
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… could. He began working with the German Jewish Children’s Aid Society, an American organization that helped resettle Jewish children in the United States…
116. Red checked dress with smocking made for a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport
2003.200.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.200.1
Date:
received: 1939
… Sigmund Rosenfeld, both residents of Washington DC, saw Herman's name in a list of refugees published in an American German newspaper and Herman went to…
117. Nightgown with floral embroidery made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before emigration
2016.112.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.3
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… could. He began working with the German Jewish Children’s Aid Society, an American organization that helped resettle Jewish children in the United States…
118. Child's beige summer suit worn by Joseph Oppenheimer
1994.105.1_b-d front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.105.1 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1935
…’s maternal uncle, Kurt Schwarzenberger, lived. The family became active members of the local Jewish community. Josef and Mary Americanized the spelling of…
119. Child's white smocked dress worn by 2 sisters while living in hiding
2008.349.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.349.4
Date:
use: 1941-1942
… family members had been deported and killed in Sobibor and Auschwitz. Jacqueline met her American husband, Richard, while he was studying in Paris. They…
120. 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
… stayed for half a year. Ber eventually made his way to Landsberg displaced persons (DP) camp near Munich, in the American zone of Germany, and later moved…