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1. Red leather photograph case carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2011.433.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2011.433.1
Date:
use: 1939-1941
… deported to a detention camp in Gurs in southern France. Margit was ordered to report in to the Paris police on a regular basis. In May1940, Germany invaded…
2. Green canvas knapsack taken from a German soldier by a partisan
1992.169.26 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.26 a-c
Date:
use: approximately 1941 September-1944
… Yaffa, Moshe, and her brother Yitzhak. The police arrested the assailants, but freed them almost immediately. After the funeral, Moshe left with the…
3. Glass bottle handcrafted prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.21
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… Yaffa, Moshe, and her brother Yitzhak. The police arrested the assailants, but freed them almost immediately. After the funeral, Moshe left with the…
4. 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
… police what he had done and who his accomplices were, insisting that he worked alone. The Germans tortured him by hanging him in a water filled cabinet…
5. Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.661.2 Cover
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.2
Date:
emigration: 1939-1947
… arrested by the Nordhausen Gestapo. Although they were released the next day, Käthe returned to the police headquarters daily to enquire about Hugo…
6. Large, ribbed burlap covered trunk used by Jewish Czech inmates
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.53
Date:
use: 1941 December-1944 September 24
manufacture: approximately 1900-1925
… invade and annexed the provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, which included Prague. It was governed by a Reich Protector. Anti-Jewish polices were put in place…
7. Wooden box with a painted Lithuanian folk scene with man given to a German Jewish refugee
2007.101.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2007.101.5
Date:
received: approximately 1938
emigration: 1941 February
… with the NKVD, the Soviet secret police. Their relatives in the US had to send $800 to Intourist, the Soviet government travel agency. Once they had all…
8. Wooden box painted with a woman in Lithuanian folk dress given to a German Jewish refugee
2007.101.6 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2007.101.6
Date:
received: approximately 1938
emigration: 1941 February
… with the NKVD, the Soviet secret police. Their relatives in the US had to send $800 to Intourist, the Soviet government travel agency. Once they had all…
9. Black Vulcanfiber suitcase used by a Dutch Jewish family while in hiding
2004.301.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.301.2
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
… papers for hidden Jews. He was arrested, but refused to tell the police what he had done and who his accomplices were, insisting that he worked alone. The…
10. 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
… from anywhere, at any time, even from operating tables. Felix’s mother Jette was undergoing an operation. The hospital was warned by that German police…