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1. Small white bag with a button saved from the coat of a young Jewish girl deported to Auschwitz
1993.27.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.5
Date:
use: 1940-1942
received: 1945 June
…Small white bag with a button saved from the coat of a young Jewish girl deported to Auschwitz…
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2. Leather briefcase made by a concentration camp survivor in Landsberg DP camp
2015.229.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.229.2 a-b
Date:
creation: 1946
… camp in Landsberg, Germany. She learned that her parents and brothers were deported by the Germans in August 1943 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center…
3. Film canister for a Leica camera that was used in Krakow
1991.103.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.103.1
Date:
manufacture: 1936
…The collection consists of artifacts relating to the Holocaust in Krakow and to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.…
4. Certificate of Citizenship document holder
2014.451.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.451.6
… Wesley and his mother Janina were arrested for their political activities and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.…
5. Trunk used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.30
Date:
use: approximately 1946-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…, mother, and brother were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. At the DP camp, Alice met Hans Finke, born in Berlin on August 12, 1920. He was a former…
6. Handmade aluminum box incised with the name of a concentration camp inmate found by another inmate
2004.340.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.340.2
Date:
found: 1944 August-1945 January
… Herschel and Faiga to Auschwitz. Miriam, Hozia, an uncle, and an aunt, Bella Naiberg and her baby, were forced into a shared home in the Ostrowiec ghetto…
7. Box owned by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.22
… to Auschwitz concentration camp. His pregnant wife, Rosa, and their 3-year old son, Uriel perished there. Norbert’s arm was tattooed with the number…
8. Box owned by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.14.2
… to Auschwitz concentration camp. His pregnant wife, Rosa, and their 3-year old son, Uriel perished there. Norbert’s arm was tattooed with the number…
9. Box owned by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.15.2
… to Auschwitz concentration camp. His pregnant wife, Rosa, and their 3-year old son, Uriel perished there. Norbert’s arm was tattooed with the number…
10. Monogrammed red pouch used by an American concentration camp inmate
2016.468.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.468.3
Date:
use: 1945
… as political spies, and Elsie was imprisoned in Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps, and after the war when, after liberation, she was taken…
11. Metal Box
2016.565.2 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2016.565.2
… deported to Theresienstadt and then Auschwitz. Margarit and Karl-Heinz did not survive. Siegfried and Marion survived and immigrated to the United States…
12. 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
…, Marta, and Karel were deported to Auschwitz. On October 1, 1944, Bruno was deported and Hana volunteered to go with him. They were put on a dirty…
13. 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
…, mother, and brother were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. At the DP camp, Alice met Hans Finke, born in Berlin on August 12, 1920. He was a former…
14. Trunk used by a former German Jewish concentration camp inmate and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.31
Date:
use: approximately 1946-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…, mother, and brother were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. At the DP camp, Alice met Hans Finke, born in Berlin on August 12, 1920. He was a former…
15. 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
… in prison in May. On September 28, 1944, Otto, Irma, and Helene were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied Poland. Before he was…
16. Brown textured suitcase used by a young German Jewish woman
2005.415.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.415.3
Date:
use: 1938 September
… 1941 but her parents either died there or were deported to Auschwitz in 1942, where they perished: Max on February 16; Elfriede on August 15 or 16. Arno…
17. 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
… Henriette’s, wrote Schoontje, and told her that the couple had been deported to Auschwitz concentration camp together by ambulance on March 14, 1944. Many of…
18. 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
… about missing their old house and having moved an hour away from Będzin to share a summer place with another family transported from Oświęcim, Poland…
19. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp wrapper for 100 kronen note stack issued to a German Jewish inmate
2015.522.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.522.8
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
received: 1943-1944
… factory, splitting the mineral mica into thin shards. Siegfried again worked as a police officer. Early in 1944, Siefried was transported to Auschwitz…
20. Lightweight brown suitcase carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee child
2011.281.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2011.281.2
Date:
received: 1946 March-1946 July
use: 1946 July
… family a letter during deportation to Auschwitz; they never heard from him after that. In 1943, the Germans increased the roundups and deportations of…