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1. Certificate of Citizenship document holder owned by Richard Neu
2018.519.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.519.9
Date:
use: after 1945 March
… staying with Beatrice’s grandmother, whose home was ransacked by the German authorities during Kristallnacht, November 9-10. Hedwig, Beatrice, and her…
2. Certificate of Citizenship document holder owned by Hedwig Sanders Neu
2018.519.10 open/side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.519.10
Date:
use: after 1945 March
… staying with Beatrice’s grandmother, whose home was ransacked by the German authorities during Kristallnacht, November 9-10. Hedwig, Beatrice, and her…
3. Upright domed traveling wardrobe trunk used by an Austrian Jewish family
Object | Accession Number: 2004.628.2
Date:
received: 1933
emigration: 1939 January
… confiscated. During Kristallnacht on November 10, Isidor was arrested and severely beaten. Fanny was forced to scrub the streets. The family's apartment was…
4. Embossed aluminum flat top steamer trunk used by a German Jewish refugee
2005.140.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.140.4
Date:
emigration: 1938 December 15
… Kristallnacht, the Nazis conducted a sweep of Landau. Ernest was arrested and put on a transport for Dachau concentration camp. During the trip, the guards…
5. Airmail box used to store his war medals by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.17 a-b
Date:
use: after 1940
… to the United States in May 1937. Carl and Georg were arrested during Kristallnacht in November 1938 and sent to Dachau concentration camp. They were…
6. Upright embossed aluminum wardrobe trunk used by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.140.3
Date:
emigration: 1938 December 15
… Kristallnacht, the Nazis conducted a sweep of Landau. Ernest was arrested and put on a transport for Dachau concentration camp. During the trip, the guards…
7. 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
… refugee in August 1938. In early November 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Siegmund was arrested and transported to Buchenwald concentration camp. He…
8. Engraved wooden Havana cigar box acquired by Austrian Jewish refugee
2010.240.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.2
Date:
received: 1940 November 27
emigration: 1938 December
… and he applied as an apprentice at Siemens-Schuckertwerke, a German electrical engineering company. During the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10…
9. Painted tin container base owned by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.3
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
… restrictions became increasingly harsh. Hans’ brothers, Alfred and Erich, emigrated to the United States circa December 1938. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on…
10. Small yellow suitcase used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport
2012.454.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.454.2
Date:
use: 1939 June
…, 1938, the first night of the Kristallnacht pogrom, two Gestapo members ransacked their apartment and took their valuables. They ordered Ruth off the bed…