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1. Belt created from leather scraps by a concentration camp prisoner
1988.126.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.126.28
Date:
received: 1944
…Belsen (Bergen, Celle, Germany)…
2. Black cap worn by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate
1994.55.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.55.1
Date:
use: approximately 1944 August-approximately 1945 April
… worked as an electrician. In September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. Germany occupied regions west of the Bug River, the Soviet Union…
3. Black leather mid-calf boots worn by a female Jewish concentration camp prisoner
2002.366.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.366.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1944 December-1945
acquired: 1944 December-1945 January
…, and Alice and her siblings belonged to Zionistic organizations. Alice had just returned home from vacation when Germany invaded Poland on September 1…
4. Black leather wallet used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.9
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
5. 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
…Ellen Ruth Thea Fass was born on October 6, 1928, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Georg Karl and Nanette Simon Fass. Ellen Ruth had a brother…
6. Blue felt belt with appliqued flowers found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Auschwitz
1988.99.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.1
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
…Ruth Krautwirth was born on June 23, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Yitzhak (Isak) and Hanna Bina Grossman Krautwirth. She had one brother, Wolfgang…
7. 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
… landowner, whose land they rented. On September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. Salek was mobilized into the 19th Infantry Battalion, Polish Army…
8. 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 Krautwirth was born on June 23, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Yitzhak (Isak) and Hanna Bina Grossman Krautwirth. She had one brother, Wolfgang…
9. Brown hat with a triangular patch bearing a J and initials worn by John Bolé
2011.174.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.174.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 November-1945 April
…, French, and Serbo-Croatian. On April 6, 1941, the Axis powers, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria, invaded and divided Yugoslavia. Laibach was in the…
10. 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
… France declared war on Germany. The Netherlands planned to stay neutral in this war, as they had done in World War I. Adolf Hitler, Germany’s chancellor…