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1. 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
… was corrupt and became a self-employed businessman. During these years, he became friends with Kurt Daluege, commander of the SS (Schutzstaffel…
2. Tortoiseshell pencil box and lid carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.3 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.3 a-b
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…
3. Ritz of Paris lipstick case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.16
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… to the United States on the SS Marine Perch and settled in New York City. Irena graduated from Hunter College in 1956. She has two children and runs an…
4. Red drawstring pouch used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.6
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… to the United States on the SS Marine Perch and settled in New York City. Irena graduated from Hunter College in 1956. She has two children and runs an…
5. Brown cloth and leather trimmed suitcase used by a young Polish Jewish boy
2012.343.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.343.2
Date:
use: 1940 March
… passage to the United States, with the help of a ship captain who disregarded Israel’s lack of paperwork. On March 5, 1940, Hela and Israel boarded the SS…
6. Tin candy container and lid used to store beads by a Dutch Jewish girl in hiding
2003.155.4_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.155.4 a-d
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…
7. Black and white patterned case for medals awarded postwar to a Dutch resistance leader
1990.23.240.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.240.1
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May-1945 May
… set up a civil occupation administration under the auspices of the SS. Piet and Dina joined the resistance. Piet arranged hiding places for Jewish…
8. Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer
2017.661.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.3 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945
… States, arriving in San Francisco, California, on July 14, 1947, aboard the SS General W. H. Gordon. Alfred Americanized his name to Fred Loy, and settled…
9. 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
… experiences of Leonie Roualet in the Vittel internment camp in France during the Holocaust, and in France and the United States after the Holocaust.…
10. Lightweight valise used by Cila and Baruch Knaster when they immigrated
2018.206.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.206.2
Date:
use: 1949
… Chana Knaster. Brucha Knaster and the children perished in the Holocaust. Baruch Knaster was deported to three forced labor camps. He was imprisoned in…
11. Silver-plated cup made in a slave labor camp and later engraved with Kato Ritter's name
2010.442.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.2
Date:
commemoration: 1944 May-1945 May 08
creation: approximately 1989
manufacture: 1944 May-1945 April
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…
12. 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
… on the tourist ship, SS Sobiesky, and arrived in New York on October 25. Michel later married and had 2 children.…
13. Small wooden barrel with a door from the home where Alfred Munzer lived in hiding
2012.355.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.355.1
Date:
received: 2002
use: 1942-1945
…, Eva, on July 10, 1936, and their second, Leana, on November 12, 1938. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. An SS controlled civil…
14. Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.661.2 Cover
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.2
Date:
emigration: 1939-1947
… Sterns learned that almost all their European relatives had been killed during the Holocaust, including Hugo’s sisters, Erna and Frieda, and Käthe’s sister…
15. Dark brown leather briefcase brought to the US by a Jewish Hungarian refugee
2013.117.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.117.2
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…
16. Wooden box with inlaid initials used by a Polish Jew in hiding in the Boryslaw ghetto
2004.706.8 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.706.8
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… in a Ukrainian organized pogrom. This was followed by several joint German SS and Ukrainian attacks to eliminate the Jewish population. In March 1942…
17. Large brown suitcase used by Hungarian Jewish refugees on the Kasztner train
2003.198.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.1
Date:
use: 1944 June-1952
… Rezso Kasztner to get the German SS to allow a train of Jews to leave the country in exchange for money. Bela and his family reported to assembly camp in…
18. Aluminum food container lid used by a Hungarian Jewish family on the Kasztner train
2003.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.3
Date:
use: approximately 1937-1946
… Rezso Kasztner to get the German SS to allow a train of Jews to leave the country in exchange for money. Bela and his family reported to assembly camp in…
19. 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
… before, during, and after the Holocaust as a Kindertransport refugee from Munich, Germany, to the United Kingdom, and her 1944 emigration to the United…
20. Brown cloth bag with a red, white, and blue stripe carried by a hidden Dutch Jewish woman
1990.23.198 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.198
Date:
use: 1942 June-1945 May
… 17, 1939, Flora and Felix sailed on the SS Simon Bolivar. The next day, the ship was hit with two German mines and sunk. It was the first neutral ship…