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1. MS St. Louis captain's hat
1991.167.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.167.1
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1939
… a mental asylum in Narbonne and a farm in Castelsarrasin. In 1943 or 1944, the Eclaireurs Israelites de France underground sent Walter to Saint Junien…
2. Silk circus print handkerchief brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.35 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.35
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
manufacture: approximately 1935
… entrepreneur, Jerzy directed such projects as installing sound systems in movie theaters and devised plans for an underground train system in Warsaw. Following…
3. Pink handkerchief embroidered GS owned by a Slovakian Jewish girl
Object | Accession Number: 2011.434.2
Date:
acquired: after 1935 October 25
…, the Slovakian underground resistance staged a revolt, and the German army moved into the country to quell the uprising. The new German authorities once…
4. Wedding veil worn by a Jewish woman in prewar Budapest
Object | Accession Number: 2007.468.2
Date:
use: 1931 June 18
…, Judit, her mother, and the family for which they worked moved to an underground bunker to escape the frequent Allied bombing raids. Judit and her mother…
5. 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
… moved every few days, aided by members of the underground resistance. In November, a closed Jewish ghetto was created in the area around her father…