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1. Plastic cigarette case with the 102nd Infantry insignia and Bavaria used by a US soldier

Date:: received: after 1945 May-approximately 1946
commemoration: 1945

2. Cut-paper work created by an Austrian Jewish refugee

Date:: emigration: 1940 March
Artwork Title:: Scherenschnitte v. Adi Beister

3. Small silhouette of his father brought to the US by a Jewish refugee from Vienna

2004.704.3 front

Date:: creation: before 1938
Artwork Title:: Silhouette of Salomon Mentkewicz

4. Cut-paper work created by an Austrian Jewish refugee

Date:: emigration: 1940 March
Artwork Title:: Scherenschnitte v. Adi Beister II

5. Porcelain souvenir dish of the Marchenbrunnen owned by a young German Jewish prewar emigre

Date:: emigration: 1936 December

6. SS Bergensfjord sailor's ribbon

2002.173.3 front

Date:: approximately 1939

7. Mickey Mouse figurine in a handmade frame

2015.83.1 a front

Date:: creation: approximately 1941 May
use: 1941 May-1945 May

8. Wooden tile with Terezin coat of arms made by a Czech Jewish inmate

1989.303.19 front

Date:: undated:

9. Wood link pieces created by a concentration camp inmate

2011.161.5_d front

Object | Accession Number: 2011.161.5 a-g

…Concentration camp inmates--Biography.…

10. Roll of blue stitched ribbon from shop of Parisian Jews who survived in hiding

2006.490.2 front

Date:: use: 1937-1945

11. Needlepoint wall hanging of a biblical scene from the office of a former concentration camp inmate and postwar aid worker

Date:: use: 1947 July-1949 March
Artwork Title:: Needlepoint of a Turbaned King, His Advisor, and a Supplicant

12. White knitted lace doily with a center flower saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre

Date:: creation: approximately 1903-1912
emigration: 1939 July

13. Floral patterned crocheted doily given to a Jewish Hungarian woman by a friend

2003.113.1 front

Date:: undated:

14. Small wooden shield with a Terezin crest made by a former Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate

1989.342.10 front

Date:: undated:

15. Scale model of Block 5 men's barracks at Theresienstadt made by a former Jewish Czech inmate

Date:: creation: approximately 1970

16. Doily with a gray and red cross stitched couple with flowers recovered postwar by a Polish Jewish girl

Date:: recovered: approximately 1944 September

17. White floral netted lace rectangular doily saved a German Jewish prewar emigre

Date:: creation: approximately 1903-1912
emigration: 1939 July

18. Small blank wooden tile made by a former Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate

1989.342.8 front

Date:: undated:

19. Unfinished red glass beadwork made by a Dutch Jewish girl in hiding

2003.155.2 front

Date:: creation: approximately 1942 November-before 1944 April
recovered: approximately 1946 August-1950

20. Small colored wooden pendant with the Terezin crest made by a former Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate

1989.342.11 front

Date:: undated:

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