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41. 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…
42. Green painted aluminum trunk used by Gisela Marx Eden
2013.476.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.476.2
Date:
use: 1939 August
…. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. Gisela’s family perished in the Holocaust. Her parents, Leopold and Erna, were deported from…
43. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
… Holocaust in Germany, Belgium, and Palestine, during the Holocaust in Miranda del Ebro internment camp in Spain, and of both Ernest and his wife, Ruth, in…
44. Aluminum wardrobe trunk used by a German Jewish emigrant family
Object | Accession Number: 2011.441.2
Date:
use: 1939 November 06
… California. In 1939, the family went to Genoa, Italy. On November 6, 1939, Bruno, Frieda, and Dieter sailed from Genoa on the SS Saturnia, arriving in New York…
45. 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
… of the village seemed to switch from one armed faction to another. Soon, SS personnel arrived and harsh anti-Jewish measures were enacted. Nechama and…
46. 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
… Trieste, Italy, and boarded the SS Conte Verde. In March, they arrived in Shanghai and a Jewish organization transported the family to a refugee boarding…
47. Brown alligator leather holder used by Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.13
Date:
emigration: 1939 July 25
… relating to the experiences of Ellen Ruth Fass before the Holocaust in Germany, during the Holocaust in England, and after the Holocaust in the United States…
48. Leather suitcase used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
Object | Accession Number: 2016.553.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1939 March 08-1941
… American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). The children traveled through Spain to Lisbon, Portugal, and boarded the SS Mouzinho on June 10, 1941. They sailed…
49. Inscribed wooden box with painted lid bought by a Roman Catholic Polish former forced laborer
2014.469.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.469.3 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1944 November
… with his father, and SS officers came around collecting wallets, IDs, cash, and jewelry. One of the officers made Zbigniew go with the women who had…
50. Briefcase
2018.572.2 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.572.2
… includes a souvenir booklet from the SS General Greely and Israel Mauerstein's briefcase which he brought with him from Italy.…
51. 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
… around the camp. Fischer later got Karel a position in the camp technical department. He recorded statistics and made charts and graphs for the German SS…
52. Faux alligator suitcase issued to inmates released in Bergen-Belsen prisoner exchange
2005.89.1 top
Object | Accession Number: 2005.89.1
Date:
received: 1944 June 10
… of bread at night. There were constant roll calls when they had to spend hours standing in the square. People often fell, and if you looked, the SS…
53. Red gift box owned by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.16
Date:
use: after 1942 August
…Edward Henryk Herzbaum (later Hartry) was born on October 6, 1920, in Vienna, Austria. He was the only son of a Jewish couple, Dr. Alexander and…
54. Brown leather pouch brought with a Jewish Hungarian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.117.6
Date:
emigration: 1939 May 17-1939 May 24
… England in 1939. On May 17, Paul boarded the S.S. Manhattan in Southampton, England, and sailed to New York City, where he lived with his cousin Emil and…
55. Aluminum suitcase used by Jewish Polish postwar refugees
1997.102.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.102.1
Date:
acquired: 1946
… 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…
56. Rucksack used by a German Jewish family going into hiding
1990.307.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.5
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 June
… August, the SS staged a night raid on the Heppner’s block. Albert went to the roof to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they took Irene instead…
57. Green school box carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.2
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…
58. 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
… brother Louis de Groot during the Holocaust while in hiding in the Netherlands, and a wall hanging relating to the experiences of their mother, Sophia de…
59. Button-flap, cloth pouch used by John Bolé
2011.174.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.174.3
Date:
use: approximately 1944 November-1945 April
… a radio transmitter across the border and was arrested by the German SS security force in Trieste. John was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp…
60. Identification case used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
2015.533.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2015.533.2
Date:
use: 1939-1941
… American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). The children traveled through Spain to Lisbon, Portugal, and boarded the SS Mouzinho on June 10, 1941. They sailed…