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1. Running shoes worn by a German Jewish runner in pre-Olympic training
1998.121.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.121.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1935
… ploy designed to counter criticism of Nazi regime policies and portray the country as open minded and tolerant. During the Kristallnacht pogrom on…
2. MS St. Louis captain's hat
1991.167.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.167.1
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1939
… power and began systematically persecuting the Jewish population. The family’s grocery store was destroyed on Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. Herbert…
3. Green handkerchief case used by a German Jewish emigre
2003.132.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.132.2
Date:
emigration: 1936
… visa. On November 10, 1938, the second day of Kristallnacht, Samuel was arrested. He was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp and assigned prisoner…
4. Black and white tweed patterned wool knit hat brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.15
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
5. Brown leather right hand glove brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.30 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.30
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
6. Four leather shoelaces brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.33 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.33
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
7. Multicolored woven wool scarf brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.7
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
8. Pair of black and white tweed patterned wool knit mittens brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.16_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.16 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
9. Pair of black cotton midcalf socks with a black name tag brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.17_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.17 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
10. Folding Fan owned by a Japanese aid coordinator for Jewish refugees in Shanghai
2003.464.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.464.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… 1938 and August 1939, approximately 20,000 European refugees, predominately Jews, fleeing the Anschluss in Austria and the Kristallnacht pogrom in German…
11. Pair of black cotton midcalf socks with a white name tag brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.18_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.18 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
12. Red-brown leather document wallet used by a German Jewish refugee
2003.149.64 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.64
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1937
… Kristallnacht pogrom, Rudolph’s father, Ernst, was arrested, marched down the street with his hands up in the air, and taken to Buchenwald concentration camp. He…
13. Pair of gray and white wool knit socks brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.25_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.25 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
14. Oak leaf wreath separated into sections awarded prewar to a Jewish youth for swimming across the Rhine River
2012.444.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.444.2 a-e
Date:
received: 1933-approximately 1937
… Kristallnacht pogrom, Max’s brother Albert was attacked in Mainz. In March 1939, Max helped Albert immigrate to the US. He joined Max in New Jersey and worked for…
15. Pair of light brown cotton knee high socks brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.26_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.26 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
16. Brown Nappa leather left hand glove brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.28 back
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.28
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
17. Dark brown leather document wallet used by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.63 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.63
Date:
received: after 1920-before 1939
… Kristallnacht pogrom, Rudolph’s father, Ernst, was arrested, marched down the street with his hands up in the air, and taken to Buchenwald concentration camp. He…
18. Pair of gray wool knit knee high ribbed socks brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.27_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.27 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
19. Pair of tan and white wool knit knee high socks brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.22_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.22 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
20. Brown leather billfold used by a Latvian Jewish refugee and aid worker from Nazi Germany
2005.379.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.5
Date:
use: 1935-1947
emigration: 1941 February 21
… Germany illegally following Kristallnacht. They were supported by HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) while in Belgium and during their immigration to the…