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21. 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
… became a police state and Jews often were forced to give up their businesses. Ernest and his mother were preparing to leave Germany when Ernest was…
22. Upright embossed aluminum wardrobe trunk used by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.140.3
Date:
emigration: 1938 December 15
…, Germany became a police state and Jews often were forced to give up their businesses. Ernest and his mother were preparing to leave Germany when Ernest was…
23. 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
… arrested by the Nordhausen Gestapo. Although they were released the next day, Käthe returned to the police headquarters daily to enquire about Hugo…
24. 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
… police what he had done and who his accomplices were, insisting that he worked alone. The Germans tortured him by hanging him in a water filled cabinet…
25. Small suitcase used by a Hungarian Jewish family while living in hiding
1999.282.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.282.2
Date:
use: 1944 March-1945 January
… mid-May 1944, the Hungarian authorities, in coordination with the German Security Police, began to systematically deport the Hungarian Jews. In less…
26. Upright domed traveling wardrobe trunk used by an Austrian Jewish family
Object | Accession Number: 2004.628.2
Date:
received: 1933
emigration: 1939 January
… Isidor’s, were confiscated. During the Kristallnacht pogrom that November 10, Isidor was arrested and taken to the police riding school on Kenyongasse…
27. 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
… invade and annexed the provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, which included Prague. It was governed by a Reich Protector. Anti-Jewish polices were put in place…
28. 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
… the Canton’s Alien Police to reside in the canton of Zurich, rather than the labor camp. He began working as an office assistant and accountant for…
29. Wooden box owned by a Japanese aid coordinator for Jewish refugees in Shanghai
2003.464.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.464.3 a-c
… restrictive Jewish polices. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the United States declared war and withdrew support for the Shanghai Jews. In 1943…
30. Brown leather briefcase acquired by a Polish Jewish woman in a DP camp
1989.277.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.277.1
Date:
received: approximately 1946
… Polish police to arrest her mother. Her mother had been a delegate for the Soviet government, traveling to different districts and serving in court. Now…
31. Wooden box painted with a woman in Lithuanian folk dress given to a German Jewish refugee
2007.101.6 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2007.101.6
Date:
received: approximately 1938
emigration: 1941 February
… with the NKVD, the Soviet secret police. Their relatives in the US had to send $800 to Intourist, the Soviet government travel agency. Once they had all…
32. Wooden box with a painted Lithuanian folk scene with man given to a German Jewish refugee
2007.101.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2007.101.5
Date:
received: approximately 1938
emigration: 1941 February
… with the NKVD, the Soviet secret police. Their relatives in the US had to send $800 to Intourist, the Soviet government travel agency. Once they had all…
33. Green painted aluminum trunk used by Gisela Marx Eden
2013.476.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.476.2
Date:
use: 1939 August
… boarding school in Lancashire. In 1941, Gisela was called for military service after she turned sixteen. She had to choose between the army, police, or…
34. 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
… papers for hidden Jews. He was arrested, but refused to tell the police what he had done and who his accomplices were, insisting that he worked alone. The…
35. 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
… from anywhere, at any time, even from operating tables. Felix’s mother Jette was undergoing an operation. The hospital was warned by that German police…
36. 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
… from anywhere, at any time, even from operating tables. Felix’s mother Jette was undergoing an operation. The hospital was warned by that German police…
37. 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
… the camp. Fischer arranged for Karel to get a job in the ghetto order police. Karel stood on a street corner and directed the flow of people moving…