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1. Lace-trimmed headband or cap owned by a Hungarian chambermaid
2018.409.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.5
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1944
…Livia Schwarcz (later Lilly Brust Gach, 1912-2001) was born in Budapest, Hungary, to Adolf (1880-1959) and Szeren (Serena, nee Deutsch, 1889-1942…
2. Yellow handkerchief with red dots owned by a young girl in German occupied Budapest
2008.337.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.337.3
Date:
received: 1944
use: 1940-1944
…Charlotte (Sari) Landesmann was born on May 30, 1910, in Budapest, Hungary, to Abraham and Margot Landesmann. Charlotte had four brothers, Imre…
3. Plastic identification badge holder used by a Hungarian Jewish emigre
2010.81.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.11
Date:
emigration: 1939 February 03
…Gabor (Gabi) Krausz was born on March 20, 1915, in Budapest, Hungary, to Jewish parents. His father, Bela Krausz, was a lawyer born on August 9, 1878…
4. Pair of white leather Masonic gloves with button cuffs owned by a Hungarian Jewish emigre
2010.81.4_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.4 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1935 February
emigration: 1949 September 21
…Vilmos Deutsch was born in 1855 in Tolna, Hungary, to a poor family. He moved to Budapest and married Iren Muller, the daughter of a wealthy…
5. White leather wrist length left hand Masonic glove with side vent owned by a Hungarian Jewish emigre
2010.81.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.5
Date:
received: approximately 1934
emigration: 1949 September 21
…Laszlo (Laci) Deutsch was born in 1884 in Budapest, Hungary, to Orthodox Jewish parents. His father Vilmos, a grain dealer, was born in 1855 in Tolna…
6. Wedding veil worn by a Jewish woman in prewar Budapest
Object | Accession Number: 2007.468.2
Date:
use: 1931 June 18
…Ella Lichtig was born in Budapest, Hungary, on April 19, 1904. She married Lorand Schichtanz, born February 25, 1900, also in Budapest, on June 18…
7. Freemason white knit cotton gloves presented to a Hungarian Jewish emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.6 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1949 March 29
received: 1950-1951
…George Stephen Veres was born on September 7, 1906, in Budapest, Hungary, to Armin Veres, a lawyer, born on September 22, 1876, in…
8. Cantor’s black tufted hat worn by a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.7
Date:
use: after 1922-before 1952
…Ferenc Hevesi (1898-1952) was born in Lugos, Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania) to Simon (1868-1943) and Janka Hevesi (nee Brody, 1864-1945). He had four…
9. Ceremonial Masonic blue and white ribbon collar owned by a Hungarian Jewish emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.8
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April 01
emigration: 1949 March 29
…, 1906. He was a member of the socialist party and the Freemasons, an illegal, secret fraternal society. On March 19, 1944, German forces occupied Hungary…
10. Red and yellow floral handkerchief carried by a young Hungarian Jewish girl on the Kasztner train
2003.198.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.10
Date:
received: approximately 1942
use: approximately 1942-1946
…Judit Gondos was born on April 27, 1937, in Budapest, Hungary, the only child of a Jewish couple, Bela and Anna Ilona Havas Gondos. Bela was born on…
11. Pink handkerchief embroidered GS owned by a Slovakian Jewish girl
Object | Accession Number: 2011.434.2
Date:
acquired: after 1935 October 25
…. In the fall of 1938, Czechoslovakia ceded parts of its western region, the Sudetenland, to Germany, and territory in the south to Hungary. In March…
12. Leather belt taken from an SS storeroom at a concentration camp and worn by a Hungarian Jewish inmate after liberation
2002.175.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.175.2
Date:
use: 1945 May 05-1945 May 07
…Steven Vogel (formerly István, 1922-2012) was born in Budapest, Hungary, to Vilma (née Deutsch, 1895-1944) and Ödön (Edmond, 1883-1944) Vogel. Vilma…
13. Brown leather wallet brought to the US by a Jewish Hungarian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.117.3
Date:
emigration: 1939 May 17-1939 May 24
…Paul Zilczer was born on August 30, 1908, in Budapest, Hungary, to a Jewish couple. He graduated from college and worked as a physicist. Paul married…
14. Patchwork leather wallet brought to the US by a Jewish Hungarian refugee
2013.117.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.117.4
Date:
emigration: 1939 May 17-1939 May 24
…Paul Zilczer was born on August 30, 1908, in Budapest, Hungary, to a Jewish couple. He graduated from college and worked as a physicist. Paul married…
15. FK monogrammed leather document case made by a Jewish Hungarian woman
2003.198.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1942-1944 May
…, 1908, in Honcto. Her father Jakab was born in 1871 in Transylvania, Romania. He was a merchant and owned a brewery and bar in Bekes, Hungary. Her mother…
16. Fringed apron embroidered with a blue and orange geometric band recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.16
Date:
creation: 1941
recovered: 1945 July
…Kato Ritter (later Katie, Ida Katie Frankfurter) was born on August 26, 1925, in Vilmany, Hungary, to David and Gizella Weissburg Ritter. David was…
17. Brown leather wallet with a strap brought to the US by a Jewish Hungarian refugee
2013.117.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.117.5
Date:
emigration: 1939 May 17-1939 May 24
…Paul Zilczer was born on August 30, 1908, in Budapest, Hungary, to a Jewish couple. He graduated from college and worked as a physicist. Paul married…
18. Brown alligator wallet carried by a Hungarian Jewish youth while a forced laborer and concentration camp inmate
2012.409.4 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.409.4
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1944
… Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, and Hungary annexed the Supcarpathian Rus, which included Mukacevo. Hungary had anti-Jewish laws similar to the Nuremberg racial…
19. Leather wallet with an embossed floral design used by a Hungarian Jewish youth and former concentration camp inmate
2012.409.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.409.2
Date:
use: approximately 1945
… Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, and Hungary annexed the Supcarpathian Rus, which included Mukacevo. Hungary had anti-Jewish laws similar to the Nuremberg racial…
20. Brown leather work boots worn by a Hungarian Jewish man for forced labor and in hiding
2003.442.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.442.3 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1943 March
use: 1943 March-1956
emigration: 1956 December
…György (George Pick) was born March 28, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. He was the only child of middle class Jewish parents. György’s father, Istvan, was…