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1. Vulcanized fiber suitcase owned by a member of the Frank family

2018.613.7 3/4 view

Date:: manufacture: after 1871
use: after 1931

2. Engraved wooden Havana cigar box acquired by Austrian Jewish refugee

2010.240.2 closed

Date:: received: 1940 November 27
emigration: 1938 December

3. Black Vulcanfiber suitcase used by a Dutch Jewish family while in hiding

2004.301.2 closed

Date:: use: approximately 1941-1945

4. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee

2004.286.2 front

Date:: use: 1933-1947

5. Large suitcase with a broken handle used by a young Austrian Jewish refugee during emigration

2016.112.8 front

Date:: emigration: 1940 November 23

6. Small wooden barrel with a door from the home where Alfred Munzer lived in hiding

2012.355.1 front

Date:: received: 2002
use: 1942-1945

7. Drawstring cloth pouch handmade by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate

1997.31.2 front

Date:: creation: after 1944 July-before 1945 April

8. Black and white patterned case for medals awarded postwar to a Dutch resistance leader

1990.23.240.1 closed

Date:: commemoration: 1940 May-1945 May

9. Multi-colored, cloth document cover used by Marietta Gruenbaum

2018.565.4 side a

Date:: use: after 1945 May 08

10. Square, brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee

2003.242.3 front

Date:: emigration: 1949 November

11. Black flat top steamer trunk used by a Jewish Austrian refugee

2004.526.2 front

Date:: emigration: 1938 September

12. Small square black painted wooden trunk used by Jewish refugees

2004.322.2 front

Date:: use: approximately 1950

13. Imitation leather hatbox used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee

2003.242.4 closed

Date:: use: 1949 November

14. Upright, wardrobe-style trunk used by a Jewish family during their postwar emigration

Date:: emigration: 1948 October 21-1948 October 30

15. Brown cloth pouch with leather belt used by a Polish Jewish refugee

Date:: emigration: 1950 January

16. Burlap purse made from a mattress cover by a Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate

1989.303.23 front

Date:: creation: 1944 September
use: approximately 1944 September-1945 May

17. Lightweight brown suitcase carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee child

2011.281.2 closed

Date:: received: 1946 March-1946 July
use: 1946 July

18. Red leather photograph case carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee

2011.433.1 closed

Date:: use: 1939-1941

19. Brown cloth bag with a red, white, and blue stripe carried by a hidden Dutch Jewish woman

1990.23.198 front

Date:: use: 1942 June-1945 May

20. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women

2017.480.5 front

Date:: manufacture: approximately 1920-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February

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