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1. Yellow handkerchief with red dots previously owned by Roszi Landesmann
2008.337.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.337.3
Date:
received: 1944
use: 1940-1944
…Handkerchief sent to Charlotte Landesmann Hirsch by her 16 year old sister, Roszi, shortly before Roszi and other family members were executed by…
2. US Army olive drab knit balaclava used by a soldier
2006.11.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.14
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
…'nai B'rith and he was a Member of the Executive Board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which named him "Man of the Year" in 2003.…
3. US Army garrison cap with black piping and captain's insignia worn by a Jewish soldier
2006.11.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.17
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
…'nai B'rith and he was a Member of the Executive Board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which named him "Man of the Year" in 2003.…
4. US Army garrison cap with piping and captain's insignia worn by a Jewish soldier
2006.11.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.16
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
…'nai B'rith and he was a Member of the Executive Board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which named him "Man of the Year" in 2003.…
5. US Army issued brown shoelaces used by a soldier
2006.11.12 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.12 a-b
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
…'nai B'rith and he was a Member of the Executive Board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which named him "Man of the Year" in 2003.…
6. US Army M1 combat helmet worn by a Jewish soldier
2006.11.31 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.31
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
…'nai B'rith and he was a Member of the Executive Board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which named him "Man of the Year" in 2003.…
7. US Army olive drab knit balaclava used by a soldier
2006.11.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.13
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
…'nai B'rith and he was a Member of the Executive Board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which named him "Man of the Year" in 2003.…
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’s paternal uncle Julius had been killed. A journalist, he had fled to Czechoslovakia after the Nazis came to power. He was caught and executed after…
9. Colorful plaid handkerchief found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Birkenau
1988.99.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.3
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
… Ruth’s paternal uncle Julius had been killed. A journalist, he had fled to Czechoslovakia after the Nazis came to power. He was caught and executed after…
10. 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
… as an execution site for Jews. Ellen’s maternal grandparents Eduard and Dorothea were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia on…