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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. Navy blue pinstriped jacket and pants worn by the groom at his wedding to another survivor in a DP camp
2004.682.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.680.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1947 March 02
… mechanic with his own business. The couple had three children. William and Helen were dedicated to Holocaust education and shared their personal experiences…
3. 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…
4. Pink child's sweater and bonnet set knit by Cila Knaster and worn by Mirka Knaster
2018.206.6 b right
Object | Accession Number: 2018.206.6 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1947
use: after 1947 May
… and likely shot by Nazis. Cila Knaster survived the Holocaust. After the war, Cila met Baruch Knaster in a displaced persons camp and they married on…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. Child's striped yellow vest knit by Cila Knaster and worn by Mirka Knaster
2018.206.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.206.8
Date:
creation: approximately 1947
use: after 1947 May
… and likely shot by Nazis. Cila Knaster survived the Holocaust. After the war, Cila met Baruch Knaster in a displaced persons camp and they married on…
8. Sport shirt worn by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
1999.100.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.7
…. On April 20, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners marched under SS guard towards an undisclosed location. On the night of May 2, Wollheim fled to…
9. Pink and black floral patterned chiffon dress owned by a Jewish refugee from Austria
2004.628.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.628.6
Date:
emigration: 1939
received: 1933
… for Italy and on January 20, they sailed on the SS Esperia from Genoa, arriving on January 26 in Haifa, Palestine. They lived in a small room in a…
10. 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…
11. Toddler's red and blue striped rompers worn by Alain Markon in Vichy France
1998.41.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.41.2
Date:
use: after 1941 June-1942
emigration: 1942 October
… Portuguese ship, the SS Carvalho Araujo. The family sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, on October 20, 1942, and arrived in Baltimore, MD, on November 2. From there…
12. Wedding dress with ruffle made for the marriage of 2 German Jewish DP camp aid workers
2005.579.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.2
Date:
use: 1948 June 20
…). Many prisoners were killed and SS guards deserted their posts. The transport group stayed in Gleiwitz for a few days before being marched to the train…
13. Wedding dress shipped to the United States by a German Jewish woman murdered at Riga
2018.58.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.58.2
Date:
use: after 1930-before 1941
… sister Alice Lubran Plocki before, during, and after the Holocaust in Europe and the United States.…
14. Yellow sport short listing concentration camps where the owner was imprisoned
2005.579.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.3
Date:
emigration: 1949 August 26
…). Many prisoners were killed and SS guards deserted their posts. The transport group stayed in Gleiwitz for a few days before being marched to the train…
15. 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…
16. 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…
17. Child's red dress worn by Ava Kormes aboard the SS Patria
Object | Accession Number: 2021.185.3
Date:
use: approximately 1940
…Child's red dress worn by the donor's sister Ava (or Eva) Kormes Becker on the SS Patria. She survived its bombing with her parents, Karl and Martha…
18. Formal, patterned kimono and shibori obi owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1941 February-1941 October
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
19. Blue shirt with white stripes worn by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.6
…. On April 20, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners marched under SS guard towards an undisclosed location. On the night of May 2, Wollheim fled to…
20. 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…