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1. 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
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
2. Black leather covered fiberboard knapsack used by a student in Nazi Germany
1990.44.1 back
Object | Accession Number: 1990.44.1
Date:
use: 1933-1945
…Black leather covered fiberboard knapsack used by a student in Nazi Germany…
3. 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
…Bertl (Bertha) Rosenfeld (Rosenfelt) was born on October 28, 1925, in Korb, Germany, the eldest child of Adolf and Katherine (Katty) Lemburger…
4. 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
… Yiddish and Hebrew. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and on September 4, the German army entered Będzin. The soldiers burned the Great…
5. Brown Vulcan fiber suitcase inscribed and used by a German Jewish couple
Object | Accession Number: 2012.299.3
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1945 May
…Mathilde Rebecca Scheunpflug was born on March 14, 1876, in Salzwedel, Germany. Mathilde converted to Judaism in order to marry Adolf Daniel de Beer…
6. 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
…Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
7. Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
…Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
8. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
… boarded with the family. In late 1939, the Folger family arrived from Poland following its invasion by Germany that September 1. The father told of the…
9. 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
… at home, but did celebrate the high holidays. On January 30, 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, and the Nazi regime passed legislation to…
10. Embroidered floral silk handkerchief case given to one inmate by another inmate in Liebenau
Object | Accession Number: 2012.407.1
Date:
received: after 1942-before 1944 March
… Catholic. In October 1938, Nazi Germany annexed the Sudetenland border region of Czechoslovakia. In the Munich Pact, the major European powers, not including…
11. 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
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
12. 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
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
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
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
14. 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
… him and considered him their uncle. On September 29, 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border region of Czechoslovakia. On March 15, 1939, Germany…
15. Metal lid from a cremation urn stamped Dachau
2005.448.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.448.1
Date:
use: 1942 February 21
… Germany. He was 28 years old.…
16. Red drawstring pouch used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.6
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
17. Ritz of Paris lipstick case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.16
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
18. Rucksack used by a German Jewish family going into hiding
1990.307.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.5
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 June
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
19. 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
…Walter Gumpert was born in Germany to a Jewish couple, Isidor and Gertrud Kohls Gumpert. His father Isidor was born on July 18, 1869, in Ratzebuhr…
20. 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
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…