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1. 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
… of the Hungarian Zionist Association in Budapest to get the German SS to allow a train of Jews to leave the country in exchange for money. Judit and…
2. Red plaid handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.5
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… to the United States on the SS Marine Perch and settled in New York City. Irena graduated from Hunter College in 1956. She has two children and runs an…
3. Brown and yellow striped silk handkerchief found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Birkenau
1988.99.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.2
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
…. Ruth and Hanna sailed from Bremen on the SS Marine Marlin on February 21, 1947, arriving in New York on March 3. They moved to New Jersey, where Hanna…
4. Women’s blue cloth and wood sandals worn by an American internee
2018.426.12 a 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.12 a-b
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… experiences of Leonie Roualet in the Vittel internment camp in France during the Holocaust, and in France and the United States after the Holocaust.…
5. Black textured leather trifold wallet used by a Hungarian Jewish youth and former concentration camp inmate
2012.409.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.409.3
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1944
… labor battalion was shipped back to Hungary that summer and put under the control of the German SS. They then began a death march to the Austrian border…
6. 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
… York on the SS Exeter. The family settled in St. Paul, Minnesota, near Gitta and other family members. The spelling of the family surname was changed to…
7. Geometric floral patterned pink scarf worn by an infant while the family lived in hiding
2005.600.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.2
Date:
use: 1943-1945
… 1943, two SS officers arrived at the house to check identity papers. Walter and Ruth provided identity papers that they had been given by Maria Nickel, a…
8. 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
… labor battalion was shipped back to Hungary that summer and put under the control of the German SS. They then began a death march to the Austrian border…
9. Brown leather wallet with laced edges used by a Czech Jewish refugee during his service in the US Army
2009.364.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.364.13
Date:
emigration: 1940 February
use: 1943-1946
…, and family papers documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Kovary family from Bratislava and the Neuhaus family from Hamburg.…
10. Cream colored handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.4
Date:
use: 1943-1947
… to New York on the transport ship, SS Marine Perch, in 1947, and settled in New York City. Felicia died in the Queens borough of New York City in 1983…
11. 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
… relating to the experiences of Ellen Ruth Fass before the Holocaust in Germany, during the Holocaust in England, and after the Holocaust in the United States…
12. 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
… had a girlfriend, Klara Tabak,who lived in a nearbv village, Ksawerowka, with her father, Josef Tabak, and her extended family on the estate of a Polish…
13. Handkerchief
Object | Accession Number: 1991.226.18
Date:
1943
… associate. In early August, the SS staged a night raid on the Heppner’s block. Albert went to the roof to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they…
14. White handkerchief with openwork flowers carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.10
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…. Germany surrendered in May 1945, ending the war in Europe. On June 8, 1946, Ina boarded the S.S. Drottningholm in Liverpool, England and sailed to the…
15. Dark red leather wallet used by a Polish Army officer to hold military ID
2004.40.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.40.2
Date:
use: before 1943 September 04
…, they hid in a secret cellar room. On September 4, 1943, the Germans began to destroy the ghetto. It was surrounded by Latvian Schutzstaffel [SS] and…
16. White handkerchief with a fan design carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.11
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…. Germany surrendered in May 1945, ending the war in Europe. On June 8, 1946, Ina boarded the S.S. Drottningholm in Liverpool, England and sailed to the…
17. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.2
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… married in April 1938, in Pisa, Italy. In late November 1938, the couple boarded the SS Conte di Savoia in Genoa, Italy, and sailed for the United States…
18. Geometric patterned leather wallet made by a Dutch Jewish couple in hiding
1990.23.203 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.203
Date:
creation: 1942 June-1945 May
… take Flora with him to save her life. On November 17, 1939, they sailed on the SS Simon Bolivar. The next day, the ship hit two German mines and sunk…
19. 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…
20. Beige purse with cross stitched initials used by a Jewish woman in hiding
2003.318.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.318.4
Date:
use: 1942-1944
… 1. On November 25, Lea and the children sailed on the SS Queen Mary, arriving in New York on November 30. The family settled in New York. Georges…