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1. Glass and silver keepsake box used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
2005.579.19_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.19 a-b
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…, mother, and brother were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. At the DP camp, Alice met Hans Finke, born in Berlin on August 12, 1920. He was a former…
2. Small leather case with a detached lid used by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.461.2 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1936-1945
… to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed in 1943. Most of Walter’s extended family perished in the Holocaust.…
3. Small suitcase carried by a Jewish boy from Berlin to England on a Kindertransport
2000.265.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2000.265.1
Date:
use: 1939 July
… surrender of Germany in May 1945. Max learned that, in 1942, his brother Herbert had been deported from Denmark to Auschwitz concentration camp, but he had…
4. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
… later, the train stopped near a river and Elly was allowed to fill the bucket with muddy water. The train arrived at Auschwitz concentration camp on June…
5. Black suitcase with leather trim used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
2000.258.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.1
Date:
use: approximately 1939 March-1947 November
…, they were sent from Rivesaltes to Drancy transit camp in Paris. From there, they were deported and murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp. Friedel died…
6. Aluminum food container lid used by a Hungarian Jewish family on the Kasztner train
2003.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.3
Date:
use: approximately 1937-1946
… children: Andor, Peter, Tamas, and his maternal aunt Sarolta Feuerlicht had all been killed in Auschwitz in 1944. Bela’s brother Sandor was taken by the…
7. Pouch with a false base used by a German Jewish émigré to smuggle money out of the country
1991.133.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.133.1 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1939 July-1939 August
… deported to Auschwitz killing center in German-occupied Poland, on transport Ea, and likely killed upon arrival. After the war, Antonia, Jenny’s friend, had…
8. Painted tin container base owned by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.3
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
… concentration camp in 1945. Ralf's paternal grandmother and cousin, Gertrude and Peter, died in Auschwitz death camp. Gerda’s brother, Werner, emigrated to…
9. Identification case used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
2015.533.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2015.533.2
Date:
use: 1939-1941
… Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach while on an outing with friends. Sigrid had been deported to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland, and Bergen-Belsen…
10. Small yellow suitcase used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport
2012.454.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.454.2
Date:
use: 1939 June
… to Theresienstadt labor camp-ghetto. Solomon died there on October 1, 1943. Hedwig was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 18, 1944, and murdered. On…
11. Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
1990.300.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…. Mengele was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, in order to perform experiments on Jewish and Roma twins and dwarves…
12. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women
2017.480.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.6
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1920-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… 901-19 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland. Fritz was later transported to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, and then…
13. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women
2017.480.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.5
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1920-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… 901-19 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland. Fritz was later transported to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, and then…
14. Leather suitcase used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
Object | Accession Number: 2016.553.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1939 March 08-1941
… Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach while on an outing with friends. Sigrid had been deported to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland, and Bergen-Belsen…