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1. Red leather purse with decorative lacing carried by a Jewish refugee during her escape from Vienna
2004.628.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.628.8
Date:
emigration: 1939 January 20-1939 December 18
received: 1938
… Isidor’s, were confiscated. During the Kristallnacht pogrom that November 10, Isidor was arrested and taken to the police riding school on Kenyongasse…
2. Pair of men's black leather lace-up ankle boots owned by a Jewish refugee during his escape from Vienna
2004.628.5_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.628.5 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1939
received: 1938
… confiscated. During Kristallnacht on November 10, Isidor was arrested and severely beaten. Fanny was forced to scrub the streets. The family's apartment was…
3. Black cloth cap owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.12
Date:
use: after 1938
… increasingly harsh. Carl’s business was not restricted and it converted to produce war rations for the Army. After the Kristallnacht destruction of November 9-10…
4. 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…
5. Leather wallet with flap closure carried by a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany to the US
2005.288.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.288.2
Date:
emigration: 1938
…, with the plan to emigrate to Palestine. Her father was arrested during the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom and sent to Dachau, but released. He…
6. Laced leather billfold with a painted harbor owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.2
Date:
received: after 1938-before 1947 December
… increasingly harsh. Carl’s business was not restricted and it converted to produce war rations for the Army. After the Kristallnacht destruction of November 9-10…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. Brown leather document wallet used by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.62 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.62
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…