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1. Engraved wooden box presented to a Lieutenant General of the SS by his troops
2005.525.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.525.2
Date:
found: after 1945 May-1946
commemoration: 1944 August-1945 February
… was corrupt and became a self-employed businessman. During these years, he became friends with Kurt Daluege, commander of the SS (Schutzstaffel…
2. 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…
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. 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…
5. 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.…
6. 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
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…
7. 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…
8. Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer
2017.661.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.3 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945
… States, arriving in San Francisco, California, on July 14, 1947, aboard the SS General W. H. Gordon. Alfred Americanized his name to Fred Loy, and settled…
9. Large brown suitcase used by Hungarian Jewish refugees on the Kasztner train
2003.198.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.1
Date:
use: 1944 June-1952
… 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…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. 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
…, Eva, on July 10, 1936, and their second, Leana, on November 12, 1938. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. An SS controlled civil…
13. 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
… in a Ukrainian organized pogrom. This was followed by several joint German SS and Ukrainian attacks to eliminate the Jewish population. In March 1942…
14. 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
… rationed and Jews got half as much as non-Jews. Regina, 13, the youngest, was sent to stand in the breadline. Polish children who identified Jews for the SS…
15. 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
… 17, 1939, Flora and Felix sailed on the SS Simon Bolivar. The next day, the ship was hit with two German mines and sunk. It was the first neutral ship…
16. 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…
17. Art Deco style lipstick case carried by a Jewish refugee while searching for her family
2008.228.24 open
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.24
Date:
use: 1943-1947
… 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. 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
… 17, 1939, Flora and Felix sailed on the SS Simon Bolivar. The next day, the ship was hit with two German mines and sunk. It was the first neutral ship…
19. 4711 glass perfume bottle carried by a Jewish refugee searching for her family
2008.228.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.21
Date:
use: 1943-1947
… 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…
20. 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…