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1. Doily printed with the wedding photograph of a young couple married in a displaced persons camp

2009.150.3 front

Date:: creation: approximately 1947

2. Doily printed with the portrait photograph of a young bride in a displaced persons camp

2009.150.2 front

Date:: creation: approximately 1947

3. Embroidered doily made by a Polish inmate in Ravensbrueck depicting the camp

2014.511.1 front

Date:: creation: 1944 July 29

4. Quilted wall hanging made postwar by a survivor to honor family members killed in Chelmno

2004.530.1 front

Date:: creation: 2002
commemoration: 1942 April
Artwork Title:: We Never Said Good Bye

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

Date:: recovered: approximately 1944 September

6. Doily with embroidered yellow, red, and pink flowers recovered postwar by a Polish Jewish girl

2000.270.1 front

Date:: recovered: approximately 1944 September

7. Doily with floral lace border brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

2009.376.41 front

Date:: emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17

8. Four white filet embroidered net inserts brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

2009.376.21_a front

Date:: emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17

9. Hand-carved wooden chain carried to Australia by a Jewish refugee

2016.183.1 side A

Date:: creation: before 1924

10. Enameled porcelain vase with a floral pattern owned by Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

2017.513.4 front

Date:: creation: approximately 1925-approximately 1945
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31

11. Sailboat shaped picture frame with a red sail created for a labor camp inmate by a fellow inmate

2004.332.3 front

Date:: creation: 1944 January-1944 April
received: 1944 January-1944 April

12. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

2017.513.7 3/4 view

Date:: manufacture: 1870-1948
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31

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

1989.303.19 front

Date:: undated:

14. Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

2017.513.6 front

Date:: manufacture: 1900-1940
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31

15. Small linen square with an embroidered boy and a bird recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors

2010.442.3 front

Date:: creation: approximately 1870
recovered: 1945 July

16. Medallion for the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps received by a former child inmate

2010.453.2 front

Date:: commemoration: 2010 April 11

17. Embroidery sampler depicting a woman and a cat recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors

Date:: creation: 1932
recovered: 1945 July

18. Small linen square with an embroidered girl recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors

2010.442.4 front

Date:: creation: approximately 1870
recovered: 1945 July

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