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1. Brown cloth bag with a red, white, and blue stripe carried by a hidden Dutch Jewish woman
1990.23.198 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.198
Date:
use: 1942 June-1945 May
…Holocaust survivors--California--Biography.…
2. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp wrapper for 100 kronen note stack issued to a German Jewish inmate
2015.522.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.522.8
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
received: 1943-1944
…Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography.…
3. Drawstring cloth pouch handmade by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.31.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.31.2
Date:
creation: after 1944 July-before 1945 April
…Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography.…
4. 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
…Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography.…
5. Small wooden barrel with a door from the home where Alfred Munzer lived in hiding
2012.355.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.355.1
Date:
received: 2002
use: 1942-1945
…Holocaust survivors--Netherlands--Hague--Biography.…
6. 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 survivors--United States--Biography.…
7. Green knapsack used by a Hungarian Jewish man in forced labor
2002.176.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.176.1
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
…Holocaust survivors--New York--Biography.…
8. 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
…Holocaust survivors--California--Biography.…
9. 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
…Holocaust survivors--California--Biography.…
10. Burlap purse made from a mattress cover by a Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate
1989.303.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.23
Date:
creation: 1944 September
use: approximately 1944 September-1945 May
…Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography.…
11. Gold painted metal box with heart and initials made by a Jewish Polish slave labor camp inmate
1997.102.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.102.2 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1944 September-1945 January
…Holocaust survivors--Washington (D.C.)--Biography.…
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
…Holocaust survivors--United States.…
13. Wehrmacht waterproof gas cape pouch found by US soldier
2000.526.4 open
Object | Accession Number: 2000.526.4
Date:
found: after 1943 June-1945
manufacture: 1942
…,000 survivors in the camp and 2,310 corpses on a train. Walter witnessed and photographed atrocities, the horrible camp conditions, and the surviving inmates…
14. Silver-plated cup made in a slave labor camp and later engraved with Kato Ritter's name
2010.442.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.2
Date:
commemoration: 1944 May-1945 May 08
creation: approximately 1989
manufacture: 1944 May-1945 April
… concentration camp, where she died from typhus. His brother, Ference, was selected for forced labor and presumably perished. He met Kato Ritter, a survivor from…
15. Handmade aluminum box incised with the name of a concentration camp inmate found by another inmate
2004.340.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.340.2
Date:
found: 1944 August-1945 January
… survivor of 5 camps, but was sick. Roman got into a fight with 3 Poles. A group gathered and chanted “Kill the Jew”. One man approached Roman with a brick…
16. 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
…, Chana ended up at Feldafing displaced persons (DP) camp in the American zone of occupation in Germany. At Feldafing, she met fellow survivor David (Dawid…
17. 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
… children for the neighboring town of Aran. Two months later, in December 1944, Moshe was denounced by other Jewish survivors, arrested by the NKVD (Soviet…