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21. Small blank wooden tile made by a former Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate
1989.342.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.342.7
Date:
undated: 
… difficult to get paper and pencils, and Irma would sometimes trade her scarce bread for supplies. Over 90% of the children in Theresienstadt did not survive…
22. Small wooden shield with a Terezin crest made by a former Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate
1989.342.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.342.10
Date:
undated: 
… difficult to get paper and pencils, and Irma would sometimes trade her scarce bread for supplies. Over 90% of the children in Theresienstadt did not survive…
23. Small blank wooden tile made by a former Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate
1989.342.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.342.8
Date:
undated: 
… difficult to get paper and pencils, and Irma would sometimes trade her scarce bread for supplies. Over 90% of the children in Theresienstadt did not survive…
24. Small hexagonal wooden tile with a Star of David and menorah made by a former Jewish Czech inmate
1989.342.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.342.3
Date:
undated: 
… difficult to get paper and pencils, and Irma would sometimes trade her scarce bread for supplies. Over 90% of the children in Theresienstadt did not survive…
25. Sailboat shaped picture frame with a red sail created for a labor camp inmate by a fellow inmate
2004.332.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.332.3
Date:
creation: 1944 January-1944 April
received: 1944 January-1944 April
…, she met Lazar (Bonzo) Derera, born on April 12, 1920. He was a bookkeeper in Craiova, who had survived multiple forced labor battalions and…
26. Small red glass beads used by a Dutch Jewish girl in hiding
2003.155.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.155.5
Date:
use: after 1942 November-before 1944 April
recovered: approximately 1946 August-1950
… 30, 1944. Her brother Louis survived the Holocaust in hiding.…
27. Circular, crocheted, floral and geometric doily owned by Cila Knaster
2018.206.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.206.5
Date:
emigration: approximately 1949
… and likely shot by Nazis. Cila Knaster survived the Holocaust. After the war, Cila met Baruch Knaster in a displaced persons camp and they married on…
28. Cluster of flowers
2019.512.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.512.11
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1944
…. Hilda was a nurse and survived the war in the Netherlands. Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, and by 14 February 1942 Pieterdina, Katherine…
29. Four white filet embroidered net inserts brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.21_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.21 a-d
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…, and her father died there of starvation on January 20, 1942. Her brother Zachar and family survived in Palestine. Upon acquiring United States…
30. Hand-carved wooden chain carried to Australia by a Jewish refugee
2016.183.1 side A
Object | Accession Number: 2016.183.1
Date:
creation: before 1924
… likely died of natural causes in Paris. Yakob survived and remained in France. He later married Hentsza and they had a son, Bernard. Sarah had sailed to…
31. Doily with floral lace border brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.41 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.41
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…, and her father died there of starvation on January 20, 1942. Her brother Zachar and family survived in Palestine. Upon acquiring United States…
32. Enameled porcelain vase with a floral pattern owned by Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1925-approximately 1945
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… August 14, Japan surrendered to the US. The Kupinski family learned that Slawa’s brothers had survived in France, but that her parents were killed in the…
33. Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.6
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1940
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… August 14, Japan surrendered to the US. The Kupinski family learned that Slawa’s brothers had survived in France, but that her parents were killed in the…
34. Porcelain souvenir dish of the Marchenbrunnen owned by a young German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2012.438.2
Date:
emigration: 1936 December
… learned that the family remaining in Germany did not survive. Ruth's father Siegfried was living in Frankfurt at the end of 1937. At some point, he moved to…
35. Cut-paper work created by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.2
Date:
emigration: 1940 March
Artwork Title:
Scherenschnitte v. Adi Beister
…, Irene learned that only a few distant relatives and her cousins from Hamburg had survived. Her mother and brother had been forced from their home. She…
36. Cut-paper work created by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.3
Date:
emigration: 1940 March
Artwork Title:
Scherenschnitte v. Adi Beister II
…, Irene learned that only a few distant relatives and her cousins from Hamburg had survived. Her mother and brother had been forced from their home. She…
37. Medal presented to former inmates of the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the 50th anniversary of its opening
2018.228.2 a-b 3/4 view open
Object | Accession Number: 2018.228.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1941
received: 1991
…, Frank returned to Lipník and then went to Brno, Czechoslovakia, after learning that relatives had survived and were living there. He enrolled at the…
38. Porcelain figurine of a young girl in a white dress given to a Ukrainian Jewish family
2017.358.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.358.2
Date:
manufacture: 1895-1927
received: 1944 May
… Poland. Frida was murdered at Auschwitz. One of her sons survived the war and came back to Beregszász, but left shortly after.…
39. Wooden Lazy Susan decorated with an inlaid windmill scene created by a Latvian in a displaced persons camp
2018.276.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.276.1
Date:
creation: 1945-1951
…, especially those that had survived concentration and labor camps. As the sheer quantity of displaced individuals became evident, the camps provided longer-term…
40. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.7
Date:
manufacture: 1870-1948
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… August 14, Japan surrendered to the US. The Kupinski family learned that Slawa’s brothers had survived in France, but that her parents were killed in the…