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1. White lace collar with a rosettes worn by a young Austrian Jewish refugee to the US
2010.194.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.7
Date:
emigration: 1946 July
received: 1945 June-1946 June
… family moved there. In May, Holland was occupied by Germany and restrictions on the Jewish population were instituted. They had to wear Star of David…
2. 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
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
3. White handkerchief with a stitched border carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.9
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
4. 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
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
5. Wehrmacht M1936 belt and embossed buckle acquired by US soldier
1985.1.4 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.4 a-b
Date:
found: approximately 1945
manufacture: 1941
…Germany…
6. Waffen SS red fez found at Dachau concentration camp after liberation
1992.212.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.212.2
Date:
found: after 1945 April 29
…Dachau (Germany)…
7. Waffen SS red fez acquired by a US soldier following the liberation of Dachau concentration camp
1992.73.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.73.1
Date:
received: 1945 April 29
…Dachau (Germany)…
8. Waffen SS green fez given to a US officer by his soldiers after the liberation of Dachau concentration camp
1991.196.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.196.1
Date:
received: 1945 May
…Dachau (Germany)…
9. U.S. Army uniform tan necktie worn by a Signal Corps photographer for the war crimes trials
Object | Accession Number: 2013.458.4
Date:
use: approximately 1945 September-1949
… London for just over a year before being dispatched in 1944 to Wiesbaden, Germany. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. In August 1945, the United…
10. 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
… London for just over a year before being dispatched in 1944 to Wiesbaden, Germany. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. In August 1945, the United…
11. Red wool felt cap with stick figure silhouettes worn by a young Austrian Jewish refugee to the US
2010.194.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.6
Date:
emigration: 1946 July
received: 1945 June-1946 June
… family moved there. In May, Holland was occupied by Germany and restrictions on the Jewish population were instituted. They had to wear Star of David…
12. Red plaid handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.5
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
13. Red fez found at Dachau concentration camp after liberation
1992.212.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.212.1
Date:
found: after 1945 April 29
…Dachau (Germany)…
14. 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
… fascist regime, allied with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor…
15. 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
… part of a field artillery unit. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. On May 16, Durkee was promoted to first lieutenant. In August…
16. Pair of toddler's well used black and white leather lace-up boots worn in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp
2002.447.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.447.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1945
…Judis Baehr (now Urbanova) was born on October 2, 1940, in Berlin, Germany. Her mother, who was Jewish and possibly named Mimi, died six days after…
17. Pair of leather slippers received from Oskar Schindler by a Jewish Polish worker
2004.702.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.702.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1945 May
… drafted into the Polish Army. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland which soon surrendered to the Germans. Sam was sent to a prisoner of war…
18. Pair of leather boots given to a US liberator by a concentration camp inmate
2014.479.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.479.1 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April 27
…. Reichshofen, and Soufflenheim. In mid-March 1945, the Division crossed into Germany, pushing toward the Rhine valley. On April 27, James participated in the…
19. Officer's garrison cap worn by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.5
Date:
use: 1945 May 09-approximately 1946 June
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
20. Officer's garrison cap worn by a German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.4
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.4
Date:
use: 1945 May 09-approximately 1946 June
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…