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1. Cigar tin used by a Dutch Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2022.41.2
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… they were not Jewish and were only going on vacation. They were on the run for two years. They went to occupied France, Vichy France, then, once they…
2. Presentation box for medal awarded to a French children’s home director
1992.72.1 b top
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.1 b
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
… conscripted for forced labor. In 1938, Juliette fled to Pau, about 31 miles over the border in France. In 1939, Juliette was recruited by Marguerite de Felice…
3. Portfolio of French Resistance mementos given to former Vice President Henry A. Wallace by female French partisans
2017.362.9.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.362.9
Date:
received: 1947
…The Union des femmes françaises (UFF, now known as Femmes solidaires) was created by former members of the Union des jeunes filles de France and…
4. 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
…. On August 1, Fritz was deported to Saint-Cyprien internment camp in France and later transferred to Drancy transit camp. His wife, Sidi, and son, Paul…
5. Portfolio of handmade French Resistance mementos given to former Vice President Henry A. Wallace by female French partisans
2017.362.8.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.362.8
Date:
received: 1947
…The Union des femmes françaises (UFF, now known as Femmes solidaires) was created by former members of the Union des jeunes filles de France and…
6. Wood snuff box with a carving of three Jewish hareskin dealers
2016.184.42 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.42
Date:
creation: 1829
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Alsace (France)…
7. Upright, wardrobe-style trunk used by a Jewish family during their postwar emigration
Object | Accession Number: 2002.416.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1948 October 21-1948 October 30
… had a French passport from the prior year, when he studied agronomy and worked at a dairy in France. He escaped and fled alone to Soviet-controlled…
8. Burgundy Hermès briefcase given to former Vice President Henry A. Wallace by female French partisans
2017.362.2 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.362.2
Date:
received: 1947
…The Union des femmes françaises (UFF, now known as Femmes solidaires) was created by former members of the Union des jeunes filles de France and…
9. Bifold document case for a certificate issued to Juliette Usach by Yad Vashem
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.2 b
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
… conscripted for forced labor. In 1938, Juliette fled to Pau, about 31 miles over the border in France. In 1939, Juliette was recruited by Marguerite de Felice…
10. 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
…. On August 1, Fritz was deported to Saint-Cyprien internment camp in France and later transferred to Drancy transit camp. His wife, Sidi, and son, Paul…
11. Burgundy document holder used by Lieselotte Bohm or her family
Object | Accession Number: 2020.336.4
… Liselotte Böhm and her extended family in Germany, France, and Czechoslovakia before, during, and after the war.…
12. Dark green, plastic document holder used by Lieselotte Bohm or her family
Object | Accession Number: 2020.336.7
… Liselotte Böhm and her extended family in Germany, France, and Czechoslovakia before, during, and after the war.…
13. Burgundy, flap top document holder used by Lieselotte Bohm or her family
Object | Accession Number: 2020.336.6
… Liselotte Böhm and her extended family in Germany, France, and Czechoslovakia before, during, and after the war.…
14. Vulcanized fiber suitcase owned by a member of the Frank family
2018.613.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.7
Date:
manufacture: after 1871
use: after 1931
… in October, Herbert had left Germany and settled in Paris, France. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. Under…
15. 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
… orphanage sent on a larger transport to Paris, France, organized by the orphanage. He and the other children who kept kosher spent a few weeks at the…
16. Brown cloth and leather trimmed suitcase used by an American internee
2018.426.2 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945 December
… and Henry were both originally from France, where they worked as champagne vintners. They immigrated to New York in 1890, where they continued to work…
17. 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
… orphanage sent on a larger transport to Paris, France, organized by the orphanage. He and the other children who kept kosher spent a few weeks at the…
18. Burgundy, flap top document holder used by Lieselotte Bohm or her family
Object | Accession Number: 2020.336.5
… Liselotte Böhm and her extended family in Germany, France, and Czechoslovakia before, during, and after the war.…
19. Engraved wooden box presented to a Lieutenant General of the SS by his troops
2005.525.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.525.2
Date:
found: after 1945 May-1946
commemoration: 1944 August-1945 February
…Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger (1894-1945) was born in Strasbourg, Germany (now France) to Alfred (? – 1914) and Helene Glünder Krüger (?-1930). Friedrich…
20. Small suitcase used by a former hidden child to emigrate to the US
2001.309.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.309.1
Date:
use: 1949 October
…Michel Jeruchim was born on April 4, 1937, in Paris, France. His father, Samuel, was born on December 24, 1898, in Ostrow, Poland, and his mother…