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1. Plaid handkerchief monogrammed HG given by Hermann Goering to an American guard at Nuremberg
Object | Accession Number: 1988.175.3
Date:
received: 1945 August-1946 January
… before his scheduled execution, Göring committed suicide by cyanide in his prison cell.…
2. Brown leather belt worn by a Jewish Polish inmate at Buchenwald concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 2012.465.2
Date:
use: 1945 January-1945 April
… were to be executed. Rosenbaum changed his mind and didn’t shoot Zelig. Instead, he told Zelig to bury all the others. In August 1942, Zelig was allowed…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. U.S. Army tailor made, short waisted officer's jacket worn by a Signal Corps photographer for the war crimes trials
Object | Accession Number: 2013.458.5
Date:
use: approximately 1945 September-1949
… / WORKERS OF AMERICA / 242 / REGISTERED [illegible logo] interior, left breast pocket, label, black and red ink : GENERAL EXECUTIVE / ORG. / April 12th / 1891…
6. 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…
7. 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
…, the Germans took him to the market place and executed him. Kyla was then transported to Belzec extermination camp, where she was later killed. On June…
8. 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
…Execution sites.…
9. 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’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…