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1. Medical bag used by a Jewish Polish man while living in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2014.487.2
Date:
use: 1939-1946
… Jocheved, and their son Adolf (later Al) survived by living in hiding and also photographs relating to the experiences of the Denker and Kleiner families in…
2. Strongbox and 2 skeleton keys used by a Dutch resistance member
2004.301.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.301.3 a-c
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
… survived the war as a hidden child in Amsterdam.…
3. 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
… Hungarian Labor Service and was presumed dead. His brother Zoltan, who had emigrated to the United States before the war, was his only surviving relative…
4. 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
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
5. Brown cloth and leather trimmed suitcase used by a young Polish Jewish boy
2012.343.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.343.2
Date:
use: 1940 March
… immigrated to Montreal after the war. His sister, Paula, survived. Mendel's mother Regina died in the Warsaw Ghetto. Most of the extended family in Poland…
6. Wooden trunk used by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.9 a-c
Date:
use: 1940 March
…, Irene learned that only a few distant relatives and her cousins from Hamburg had survived. Her mother and brother had been forced from their home. She…
7. Storage trunk owned by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-approximately 1946
… Irene’s father, Jakob, would not survive the perilous journey, and were forced to leave him in an elder care facility in Amsterdam. For the next month…
8. Black and white patterned case for medals awarded postwar to a Dutch resistance leader
1990.23.240.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.240.1
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May-1945 May
… camp. She knew she was going to be deported and believed she would not survive. Piet helped look for Alijda and went to Westerbork, where he learned that…
9. Small white bag with a button saved from the coat of a young Jewish girl deported to Auschwitz
1993.27.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.5
Date:
use: 1940-1942
received: 1945 June
…. The Germans used his skills as a chemist at various textile plants and he believes this is why he survived. Julian was liberated from Buchenwald on…
10. Engraved wooden Havana cigar box acquired by Austrian Jewish refugee
2010.240.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.2
Date:
received: 1940 November 27
emigration: 1938 December
… (Ukraine) and survived. Rachel died of natural causes on December 24, 1940. Gerda passed away on November 22, 1996, age 91. Viktor passed away on May 5, 2003…