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1. Ceremonial Masonic blue and white ribbon collar owned by a Hungarian Jewish emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.8
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April 01
emigration: 1949 March 29
…, 1906. He was a member of the socialist party and the Freemasons, an illegal, secret fraternal society. On March 19, 1944, German forces occupied Hungary…
2. Leather belt taken from an SS storeroom at a concentration camp and worn by a Hungarian Jewish inmate after liberation
2002.175.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.175.2
Date:
use: 1945 May 05-1945 May 07
…Steven Vogel (formerly István, 1922-2012) was born in Budapest, Hungary, to Vilma (née Deutsch, 1895-1944) and Ödön (Edmond, 1883-1944) Vogel. Vilma…
3. Apron embroidered with a multicolored, floral garland recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.14
Date:
creation: 1939
recovered: 1945 July
…Kato Ritter (later Katie, Ida Katie Frankfurter) was born on August 26, 1925, in Vilmany, Hungary, to David and Gizella Weissburg Ritter. David was…
4. Cantor’s black tufted hat worn by a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.7
Date:
use: after 1922-before 1952
…Ferenc Hevesi (1898-1952) was born in Lugos, Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania) to Simon (1868-1943) and Janka Hevesi (nee Brody, 1864-1945). He had four…
5. Brown leather work boots worn by a Hungarian Jewish man for forced labor and in hiding
2003.442.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.442.3 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1943 March
use: 1943 March-1956
emigration: 1956 December
…György (George Pick) was born March 28, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. He was the only child of middle class Jewish parents. György’s father, Istvan, was…
6. Leather wallet with an embossed floral design used by a Hungarian Jewish youth and former concentration camp inmate
2012.409.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.409.2
Date:
use: approximately 1945
… Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, and Hungary annexed the Supcarpathian Rus, which included Mukacevo. Hungary had anti-Jewish laws similar to the Nuremberg racial…
7. 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
…Judit Gondos was born on April 27, 1937, in Budapest, Hungary, the only child of a Jewish couple, Bela and Anna Ilona Havas Gondos. Bela was born on…
8. Fringed apron embroidered with a blue and orange geometric band recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.16
Date:
creation: 1941
recovered: 1945 July
…Kato Ritter (later Katie, Ida Katie Frankfurter) was born on August 26, 1925, in Vilmany, Hungary, to David and Gizella Weissburg Ritter. David was…
9. Floral embroidered apron worn by a Jewish Czech woman in a DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.10
Date:
use: after 1945 May-before 1948 February
…, Hungary annexed the Subcarpathian Rus in Czechoslovakia, which included Zarice. The Hungarians imposed harsh anti-Semitic restrictions. The Jewish school…