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1. Green canvas belt for a Boy Scout uniform used by a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2007.205.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.205.15
Date:
use: 1940-1945
emigration: 1939 February
… Dachau concentration camp. After his return, his business was taken away from him because he was Jewish. The only work he was able to get was temporary…
2. Blue and green plaid belt for a school uniform worn by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.5
Date:
use: approximately 1939 July-1946 May
… Synagogue burning from their window. Ellen Ruth’s father Georg was arrested and sent to Sachenhausen concentration camp. He was released on December 17. Ellen…
3. Bootjack used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.4
Date:
use: 1939-1945
…Wiener Neustadt (Concentration camp)…
4. US Army service hat and hat box owned by a Jewish soldier
2006.11.32 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.32 a-b
Date:
issue: after 1941 December 07
… captured the city of Regensburg. On April 13, George arrived at the recently liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany. There he saw the abysmal living…
5. Silver mesh coin purse used by a hidden child
2007.42.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.42.2
Date:
received: 1941
creation: approximately 1920
…, inside the engraved silver purse, 2007.42.1. On June 11, 1942, the Germans came to the house searching for Jews to deport to the concentration camps. Four…
6. Silver purse with an engraved butterfly and a chain strap used by a hidden child
2007.42.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.42.1
Date:
received: 1941
creation: approximately 1920
… concentration camps. Four year old Elizabeth hid, but her grandmother was taken by the Germans and shipped to Belzec extermination camp, where she was killed…
7. 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
… from the Kosice ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where they were killed upon arrival. His sister, Ilona, was deported to Bergen-Belsen…
8. Brown leather belt worn by a Dutch Jewish political prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau
2017.608.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.608.3
Date:
use: approximately 1941 October-approximately 1945 May 08
… liquidated, and in August 1943, Arie was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp. Upon arrival, the SS tattooed the inmate number, 141629, onto Arie…
9. 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
… nearly 440,000 Jews, likely including Elek’s parents and extended family members, were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland…