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1. Red plaid handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.5
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…Red plaid handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto…
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
…Black cap worn by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate…
3. 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
… Jewish ghetto of Kowale Panskie, or Kolonie Heidemühle, in German-occupied Poland. Arie continued working for the resistance while detained within the…
4. 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
… camp. When his captors discovered that he was Jewish, he was sent to the Jewish ghetto in Krakow. On June 2, 1941, Sam was sent to Reichshof (Rzeszow…
5. Brown leather belt secretly made by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate
1993.156.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.156.2 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1944 January-1944 March
use: approximately 1944 January-1945 May
…Brown leather belt secretly made by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate…
6. Folding Fan owned by a Japanese aid coordinator for Jewish refugees in Shanghai
2003.464.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.464.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… reduced the value of the community as a resource in the eyes of many Japanese officials. In 1943, the Japanese military forced Jewish refugees into ghettos…
7. Leather wallet with gold leaf monogram kept by a Jewish girl while living in hiding
2006.44.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.44.2
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… to transfer the Jewish girls to Warsaw, where she established an orphanage in an abandoned building on the site of the destroyed ghetto. After the…
8. 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
…Black leather mid-calf boots worn by a female Jewish concentration camp prisoner…
9. Embossed brown leather bi-fold wallet used by a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, British Army
2007.492.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.492.2
Date:
use: 1944 September-1946 July
…Embossed brown leather bi-fold wallet used by a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, British Army…
10. 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
…Brown leather work boots worn by a Hungarian Jewish man for forced labor and in hiding…
11. Brown leather trifold wallet used by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2003.160.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.160.2
Date:
use: 1941-1946
…Brown leather trifold wallet used by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps…
12. Green canvas belt for a Boy Scout uniform used by a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2007.205.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.205.15
Date:
use: 1940-1945
emigration: 1939 February
…Green canvas belt for a Boy Scout uniform used by a Jewish refugee in Shanghai…
13. Laced leather billfold with a painted harbor owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.2
Date:
received: after 1938-before 1947 December
…Laced leather billfold with a painted harbor owned by a German Jewish refugee…
14. 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 was deported from a Jewish children’s home in Oranienburg to Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia. When the train…
15. Brown leather wallet with laced edges used by a Czech Jewish refugee during his service in the US Army
2009.364.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.364.13
Date:
emigration: 1940 February
use: 1943-1946
…Brown leather wallet with laced edges used by a Czech Jewish refugee during his service in the US Army…
16. 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
…Leather wallet with an embossed floral design used by a Hungarian Jewish youth and former concentration camp inmate…
17. Cream colored handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.4
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…Cream colored handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto…
18. 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
… and anti-Jewish decrees were put in place; Jews had to wear Star of David armbands, move into ghettos, and deportations to concentration camps began. On…
19. 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
…Floral embroidered apron worn by a Jewish Czech woman in a DP camp…
20. 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
…Brown leather belt worn by a Jewish Polish inmate at Buchenwald concentration camp…