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61. Aluminum suitcase used by Jewish Polish postwar refugees
1997.102.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.102.1
Date:
acquired: 1946
… 1942 to work in Pionki labor camp. Around September 1944, the camp inmates were loaded on cattle cars and taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp…
62. Orange decorated candy tin with lid distributed on the liberation of the Netherlands received by a former hidden child
2003.419.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.419.1 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1945 May 05
received: 1945 May 05
… to Richmond, Canada in 1989. She remained in contact with the Beelen family throughout her life. Walter, age 39, died of pneumonia in Auschwitz on…
63. Handmade woven wicker basket made by a Sinti family
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.4
Date:
use: approximately 1945
… pharmaceutical company, but was not subjected to sterilization. They were not deported, though a number of other relatives were deported to Dachau and Auschwitz…
64. Yellow and green suitcase with key used by a German Jewish girl
2012.261.3 a open
Object | Accession Number: 2012.261.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1949
… to Richmond, Canada in 1989. She remained in contact with the Beelen family throughout her life. Walter, age 39, died of pneumonia in Auschwitz on…
65. Small milk can with lid used by a Sinti family
2005.453.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1945-1955
… pharmaceutical company, but was not subjected to sterilization. They were not deported, though a number of other relatives were deported to Dachau and Auschwitz…
66. Brown Vulcan fiber suitcase inscribed and used by a German Jewish couple
Object | Accession Number: 2012.299.3
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1945 May
… and her husband had been deported on April 19, 1943, via Berlin to Auschwitz concentration camp. Ilse was killed in Ravensbrueck concentration camp on…
67. Brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
2003.242.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.242.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1949 November
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, on transport 45, and was killed. Dorit’s maternal uncle Ludwig survived several…
68. Wooden keepsake box from a Sinti family
2005.453.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.3
Date:
received: approximately 1946
… pharmaceutical company, but was not subjected to sterilization. They were not deported, though a number of other relatives were deported to Dachau and Auschwitz…
69. Metal school supply box inscribed in Yiddish used by a Polish Jewish teenager
2006.479.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2006.479.3
Date:
use: 1947-1951
… imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland and Dachau concentration camp in Germany. Judith and Barry lived in New York and had two…
70. Pouch with a false base used by a German Jewish émigré to smuggle money out of the country
1991.133.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.133.1 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1939 July-1939 August
… deported to Auschwitz killing center in German-occupied Poland, on transport Ea, and likely killed upon arrival. After the war, Antonia, Jenny’s friend, had…
71. 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
… to Theresienstadt labor camp-ghetto. Solomon died there on October 1, 1943. Hedwig was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 18, 1944, and murdered. On…
72. Engraved silver cup given to Erwin Rösener by Heinrich Himmler
Object | Accession Number: 2014.198.1
Date:
commemoration: 1943 February 18
… fall of 1942, and began deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in late November. They also arrested other dissidents and intellectuals, and…
73. 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
… Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach while on an outing with friends. Sigrid had been deported to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland, and Bergen-Belsen…
74. Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
1990.300.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…. Mengele was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, in order to perform experiments on Jewish and Roma twins and dwarves…
75. Wooden perfume bottle holder with recessed designs owned by a Yugoslavian family
2017.609.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.609.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: before 1941 April 06
… and killed in the spring of 1942, likely in Auschwitz. Esther was able to avoid deportation and stayed in Osijek until May, when she travelled to Hvar…
76. Painted tin container base owned by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.3
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
… concentration camp in 1945. Ralf's paternal grandmother and cousin, Gertrude and Peter, died in Auschwitz death camp. Gerda’s brother, Werner, emigrated to…
77. 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
…. Flora learned that many of her relatives perished in the Holocaust. Flora’s mother Alijda was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp or Sobibor…
78. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women
2017.480.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.5
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1920-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… 901-19 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland. Fritz was later transported to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, and then…
79. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women
2017.480.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.6
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1920-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… 901-19 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland. Fritz was later transported to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, and then…
80. Brown leather suitcase used by a Polish Jewish refugee family
2009.157.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.157.2
Date:
emigration: 1949 September
… no other survivors. Her parents had been killed in Auschwitz and her brothers in other concentration camps in 1942. She then went to a displaced…