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1. Brown Vulcan fiber suitcase inscribed and used by a German Jewish couple
Object | Accession Number: 2012.299.3
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1945 May
… illegally emigrated to Palestine to join his sister in January 1937. During the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938, the synagogue was destroyed in a…
2. 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
… aunts Friedel (Friederike) and her sister, in Aachen where there was a Jewish school. On November 9 or 10, 1938, the time of the Kristallnacht pogrom…
3. 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
… released from Sachsenhausen along with several other Jewish men. Three weeks previously, thousands of Jewish men were arrested during the Kristallnacht…
4. 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
… two. On November 8, 1938, during Kristallnacht, Lola spent the night at the hospital caring for the Jewish men who had been injured. Her father, Hugo…
5. Jewelry box with a secret compartment used to hide documents belonging to German Jewish prisoners
2019.180.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.180.2 a-b
Date:
creation: after 1944 April-before 1945
…, though the quota had already been filled months before. In early November 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, 3-year-old Lore was playing with some…
6. 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
… November 14. Unbeknownst to her, Georg was briefly arrested during the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9 and 10. At the outbreak of war on September 1, 1939…
7. 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
… Jewish Refugee Committee and assisted Jews fleeing from Germany. After the Kristallnacht pogrom occurred in Germany and Austria in November 1938, they took…
8. 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
… Jewish Refugee Committee and assisted Jews fleeing from Germany. After the Kristallnacht pogrom occurred in Germany and Austria in November 1938, they took…
9. 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
… Kristallnacht in November 1938. Gisele’s sister and her son Jossi were deported to the camps. When Gisele returned, Alfred no longer remembered his mother…
10. 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
… England. Irene’s sister, Helene, and her two children fled Germany for the Netherlands shortly after the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom. Irene’s brother…