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1. Inscribed wooden box with painted lid bought by a Roman Catholic Polish former forced laborer
2014.469.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.469.3 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1944 November
… banned by German authorities. One of his school teachers was the scout leader, and through this group, Zbigniew became involved with the underground…
2. Leather pouch for a dog tag given to a Danish resistance member
1989.297.2.2_001.JPG
Object | Accession Number: 1989.297.2.2
Date:
acquired: 1944-1945
… Neuengamme and Buchenwald concentration camps in Germany. Knud knew that he was not safe now that the police had been arrested, so he went underground and…
3. Storage trunk owned by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-approximately 1946
… following day, Harry and his underground connections formed a search party for Michael, and discovered he had been killed by the smugglers and buried in a…
4. Strongbox and 2 skeleton keys used by a Dutch resistance member
2004.301.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.301.3 a-c
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
…, Maurits, born on November 26, 1931. Germany occupied the Netherlands on May 10, 1940. Herman, a member of the Dutch underground, stole from the Germans…
5. British ordnance box given to a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.3
Date:
received: 1944 September-1944 December
… following day, Harry and his underground connections formed a search party for Michael, and discovered he had been killed by the smugglers and buried in a…
6. Rucksack used by a German Jewish family going into hiding
1990.307.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.5
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 June
… following day, Harry and his underground connections formed a search party for Michael, and discovered he had been killed by the smugglers and buried in a…
7. Red drawstring pouch used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.6
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… Berlin, along with her aunt. She was assigned to work in the Schwartzkopf ammunition factory. In September 1944, Irena joined the underground resistance…
8. 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
…, they met Dr. Max Knapp, who worked with the underground. He and his wife Ans hid Lina and Marion in their home overnight and contacted the underground to…
9. 4711 glass perfume bottle carried by a Jewish refugee searching for her family
2008.228.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.21
Date:
use: 1943-1947
… Berlin, along with her aunt. She was assigned to work in the Schwartzkopf ammunition factory. In September 1944, Irena joined the underground resistance…
10. 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
…, they met Dr. Max Knapp, who worked with the underground. He and his wife Ans hid Lina and Marion in their home overnight and contacted the underground to…
11. Ritz of Paris lipstick case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.16
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… Berlin, along with her aunt. She was assigned to work in the Schwartzkopf ammunition factory. In September 1944, Irena joined the underground resistance…
12. 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
… Elisabeth and they went into hiding. With the help of the Dutch underground, in particular Willem Schalbroeck, they were moved from place to place. They kept…
13. Macramé bag with 2 wooden handles used by a Polish Jewish family while in hiding
2008.117.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.117.3
Date:
use: 1943-1945
… weeks, the family is sold to an underground Jewish organization, which arranges for their transportation to Hungary. In July 1943, they arrive in Budapest…
14. 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
…. They were sent to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bonneau, Protestant members of the underground, who placed Michel and Simon with a man named Ernst and Alice…
15. 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
… demonstrations and publishing underground newsletters. The UFF was officially organized by a congress in December 1944 at the initiative of the French Communist…
16. 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
… lived there for approximately six months before leaving Poland with the help of the Bricha, an underground immigration movement that helped Jews from…
17. 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
… Jews in Amsterdam. The family’s non-Jewish neighbors who were active in the Dutch underground often hid Klara and the children. Through the underground…
18. Art Deco style lipstick case carried by a Jewish refugee while searching for her family
2008.228.24 open
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.24
Date:
use: 1943-1947
… Berlin, along with her aunt. She was assigned to work in the Schwartzkopf ammunition factory. In September 1944, Irena joined the underground resistance…
19. Satchel carried by partisans in Lithuania
1996.2.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.2.5
Date:
approximately 1941-1942
… and her family were forced into the Kovno Ghetto by August 1941. She soon joined the underground resistance group Anti‐Fascist Organization (AFO). Sara…
20. Egg crate used as a suitcase by family living in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2005.380.1
Date:
use: 1942-1945
creation: 1940
… underground groups offering to provide refuge for Jews. In 1943, they took in Elfriede and soon afterwards, Adolph as well, when their hiding place with another…