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1. Tortoiseshell pencil box and lid carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.3 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…. Germany surrendered in May 1945, ending the war in Europe. On June 8, 1946, Ina boarded the S.S. Drottningholm in Liverpool, England and sailed to the…
2. Ritz of Paris lipstick case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.16
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… to the United States on the SS Marine Perch and settled in New York City. Irena graduated from Hunter College in 1956. She has two children and runs an…
3. Red drawstring pouch used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.6
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… to the United States on the SS Marine Perch and settled in New York City. Irena graduated from Hunter College in 1956. She has two children and runs an…
4. Brown cloth and leather trimmed suitcase used by an American internee
2018.426.2 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945 December
… experiences of Leonie Roualet in the Vittel internment camp in France during the Holocaust, and in France and the United States after the Holocaust.…
5. 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
… set up a civil occupation administration under the auspices of the SS. Piet and Dina joined the resistance. Piet arranged hiding places for Jewish…
6. 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
… Sterns learned that almost all their European relatives had been killed during the Holocaust, including Hugo’s sisters, Erna and Frieda, and Käthe’s sister…
7. 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
… Rezso Kasztner to get the German SS to allow a train of Jews to leave the country in exchange for money. Bela and his family reported to assembly camp in…
8. Wooden box with carved floral decorations used by a hidden child
2009.204.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.5
Date:
use: 1941-1944
… Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family…
9. White handkerchief pouch with gnomes carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.8
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…. Germany surrendered in May 1945, ending the war in Europe. On June 8, 1946, Ina boarded the S.S. Drottningholm in Liverpool, England and sailed to the…
10. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
… Holocaust in Germany, Belgium, and Palestine, during the Holocaust in Miranda del Ebro internment camp in Spain, and of both Ernest and his wife, Ruth, in…
11. 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
… American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). The children traveled through Spain to Lisbon, Portugal, and boarded the SS Mouzinho on June 10, 1941. They sailed…
12. 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
… around the camp. Fischer later got Karel a position in the camp technical department. He recorded statistics and made charts and graphs for the German SS…
13. Green school box carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…. Germany surrendered in May 1945, ending the war in Europe. On June 8, 1946, Ina boarded the S.S. Drottningholm in Liverpool, England and sailed to the…
14. 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
… American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). The children traveled through Spain to Lisbon, Portugal, and boarded the SS Mouzinho on June 10, 1941. They sailed…
15. 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
… Germany. On April 19, 1936, Walter and Erna sailed on the SS Eubee to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. On May 21, they arrived in Montevideo, Uruguay, where they…
16. 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
… manipulated by the SS and other Nazis, and were not affiliated with the concentration camps or killing centers. Instead, the SS and medical personnel, such as…
17. Engraved silver perfume bottle carried postwar by a refugee searching for her family
2008.228.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.9
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… to the United States on the SS Marine Perch and settled in New York City. Irena graduated from Hunter College in 1956. She has two children and runs an…
18. 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
… August, the SS staged a night raid on the Heppner’s block. Albert went to the roof to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they took Irene instead…
19. Brown leather satchel used by a Polish Jewish prisoner
2016.151.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.151.2
Date:
use: after 1941 December-1949 September
… spinning mills. Later, Chana, and other women in the camp, were forced to work for the Berlin-based General Electric Company (AEG). The SS wardresses at…
20. Suitcase used by a Jewish family for their flight from Germany
2000.546.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.546.1
Date:
use: 1941 October
…, was a butcher and a veteran of the First World War. Her mother, Margaritha, stayed home to care for Ruth and her older brother Lothar. Ruth had another…