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1. Glass piece depicting the Holsten gate in Lubeck
2014.480.65 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.65
Date:
found: 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Tara Barenok…
2. Wood relief depicting a soldier taking prisoners owned by George John Meade
Object | Accession Number: 2019.629.3
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of George J. Meade…
3. SS Bergensfjord sailor's ribbon
2002.173.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.173.3
Date:
approximately 1939
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Fritz Goldschmidt…
4. Handthrown ceramic vase with relief design of birds used by a German Jewish refugee family
2005.564.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.564.3
Date:
emigration: 1937
… family left Germany for the United States in 1937 and settled in Philadelphia. She married Harry Rosenthal and they had two children. Many family members…
5. Textile with embroidered names
2015.563.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.3
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Estate of Anita and Rudolf Fellner…
6. Figurine of a man in folk costume playing a clarinet brought to the US by a Jewish refugee from prewar Germany
2008.362.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.362.3
Date:
received: 1938 April
… of Jews by the Nazi government, the family decided to send Hans and his sisters to the United States. Max's son, Gottfried, handled the travel…
7. Figurine of a man in folk costume playing an accordion brought to the US by a Jewish refugee from prewar Germany
2008.362.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.362.2
Date:
received: 1938 April
… of Jews by the Nazi government, the family decided to send Hans and his sisters to the United States. Max's son, Gottfried, handled the travel…
8. Painted wooden figure of a Jewish man praying and holding a book
2016.184.533 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.533
Date:
creation: approximately 1880
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the…
9. Small Allach porcelain vase found by a US Army nurse in Dachau concentration camp post-liberation
2007.515.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.515.4
Date:
found: 1945 June
…. Dachau concentration camp was liberated by the United States Army on April 29, 1945. The 127th Evacuation Hospital, the unit with which Irene served…
10. Wood panel painting of two Jewish men with fire sale sandwich boards
2016.184.290 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.290
Date:
creation: approximately 1900
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the…
11. Barbed wire and a key in a shadow box display belonging to a German-American internee
2017.632.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.632.1
Date:
commemoration: 1946 January 31-1946 February 07
… immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1928, and Paula immigrated in 1929. Two years later, the couple married, and Paula gave birth to Arthur…
12. 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
… overrun by German national fanaticism and the suppression of decency, Irene decide to pursue her dream of going to the United States. She had a Slovakian…
13. 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
… overrun by German national fanaticism and the suppression of decency, Irene decide to pursue her dream of going to the United States. She had a Slovakian…
14. Framed annotated article from the 65th Halbert newsletter saved by a US soldier
2006.11.36, Framed 1987 article from The 65th Halbert, J. George Mitnick Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.36
Date:
publication/distribution: 1987
…United States. Army…
15. Porcelain souvenir dish of the Marchenbrunnen owned by a young German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2012.438.2
Date:
emigration: 1936 December
…'s sister Helen, her husband, Otto Lederer, and their children, Robert and Elain, had left for the United States. At some point, Siegfried and Erna moved to…
16. Wooden plaque with the Hashomer Hatzair emblem given to a US soldier
1996.38.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.38.1
Date:
received: 1946
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joe Friedman…
17. Allach gold-ringed porcelain vase with presentation box found in the Reichstag, Berlin
2008.341.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.341.1 a-b
Date:
found: 1945
… the University of Oregon, he joined the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company. By 1941, he had joined the United States Amy and graduated from the…
18. Bronze figurine mocking a pompous Jewish man with an accent
2016.184.146 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.146
Date:
creation: approximately 1850-approximately 1920
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the…
19. Crocheted tablecloth pattern in 4 pieces saved by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.15 a-d
Date:
use: after 1938
…, 1945. Shanghai was liberated by the United States Army on September 3, 1945. Peter worked as a dispatcher and driver for the US Army Air Force motor pool…
20. Plastic cigarette case with the 102nd Infantry insignia and Bavaria used by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2011.75.12
Date:
received: after 1945 May-approximately 1946
commemoration: 1945
… after the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States entered World War II. In spring 1944, David completed high school. On September 11…