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1. 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
… Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, as part of the Team 110 Jewish Relief Unit, she left for Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in Germany…
2. 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
… any food or water. Kasztner was not able to raise sufficient funds, so the transport was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. They went…
3. 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
… any food or water. Kasztner was not able to raise sufficient funds, so the transport was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. They went…
4. 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
… transport to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In late March or early April, Karel and a group of friends escaped from the camp through an unlocked door. They…
5. 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
…. Bunzlau was also under the auspices of Organisation Schmelt, and had become a subcamp of Gross-Rosen. On February 7, 1944, David was deported to Bergen…
6. 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
… Wehrmacht factory, and one man brought Regina an apple and bread daily. On October 15, they were transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She was not…
7. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
… Eva were staying. Their parents had been killed in Auschwitz on May 24, 1944. Elly's maternal aunt, Mathild, and her husband were killed in Bergen…
8. 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
…, Gisele was sent on a forced march through several towns and camps: Zittau, Adelsheim, Binau, and in December 1944, arrived in Bergen-Belsen. In spring 1945…
9. 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
… from the Kosice ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where they were killed upon arrival. His sister, Ilona, was deported to Bergen-Belsen…
10. 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
… returned to his parents in Amsterdam. Some of Maurits’ maternal aunts and uncles, including Sally Santilhano, were deported to Bergen-Belsen concentration…