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1. Tin box used to store beads by a Dutch Jewish girl in hiding
2003.155.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.155.1
Date:
use: after 1942 November-before 1944 April
recovered: approximately 1946 August-1950
… working with the resistance. He had a trial and was released in February 1941. Mass deportations began in July 1942. On November 16, 1942, Dutch police…
2. Tin candy container and lid used to store beads by a Dutch Jewish girl in hiding
2003.155.4_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.155.4 a-d
Date:
use: after 1942 November-before 1944 April
recovered: approximately 1946 August-1950
… working with the resistance. He had a trial and was released in February 1941. Mass deportations began in July 1942. On November 16, 1942, Dutch police…
3. Red gift box owned by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.16
Date:
use: after 1942 August
…. In June 1940, Edward was arrested by the NKVD (Soviet Security Police), tortured, and exiled to a gulag near Rybinsk on the Volga River. The prisoners…
4. 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…
5. Wooden box with inlaid initials used by a Polish Jew in hiding in the Boryslaw ghetto
2004.706.8 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.706.8
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… barracks, but then learned that Eduard Goldman, the liaison between the German police and the Jewish Council, had removed his name because he was not a…
6. Tan woolen pouch used by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.6
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1945
…. In June 1940, Edward was arrested by the NKVD (Soviet Security Police), tortured, and exiled to a gulag near Rybinsk on the Volga River. The prisoners…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. Brown burlap pouch used to carry money by a hidden Dutch Jewish woman
1990.23.191 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.191
Date:
use: 1942 June-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…