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1. Leather coin purse made by a concentration camp survivor in Landsberg DP camp
2015.229.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.229.4
Date:
creation: 1946
… camp in Landsberg, Germany. She learned that her parents and brothers were deported by the Germans in August 1943 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center…
2. Leather wallet made by a concentration camp survivor in Landsberg DP camp
2015.229.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2015.229.3
Date:
creation: 1946
… camp in Landsberg, Germany. She learned that her parents and brothers were deported by the Germans in August 1943 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center…
3. Brown plastic wallet with a memorial emblem owned by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.5
Date:
received: approximately 1950
… 16 and 17. They were given no food or water. One of Natan’s friends hanged himself on the first night. On November 3, they arrived in Auschwitz. Natan…
4. Small leather wallet with buckle used by a teenage girl to hold her diary in a labor camp
2005.349.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.349.3
Date:
use: 1946-1949
… were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Julia was transferred to the Kratzau labor camp in Czechoslovakia. It is likely she was put to…
5. 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
… Auschwitz. The Germans started separating people and it was chaotic. Lili, Faige, and their maternal cousin Lili Berkovitz were separated from Eva, their…
6. 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
… deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp; it was the last letter the family received. In 1943, the arrests escalated again. Klara and the children were…
7. Wedding veil worn by Lili Lax Friedman and many additional Jewish brides in a DP camp
1999.7.12 b front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.12 b
Date:
creation: approximately 1946 January
use: 1946 January 27-before 1948 February
… Auschwitz. The Germans started separating people and it was chaotic. Lili, Faige, and their maternal cousin Lili Berkovitz were separated from Eva, their…
8. Pair of gloves worn by Lili Lax Friedman and many additional Jewish brides in a DP camp
1999.7.12 c-d front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.12 c-d
Date:
creation: approximately 1946 January
use: 1946 January 27-before 1948 February
… Auschwitz. The Germans started separating people and it was chaotic. Lili, Faige, and their maternal cousin Lili Berkovitz were separated from Eva, their…
9. Burlap purse with yarn flowers and monogram carried by a 10 year old Jewish Austrian refugee
2010.194.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.2
Date:
received: 1945 June-1946 June
emigration: 1946 July
… deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp; it was the last letter the family received. In 1943, the arrests escalated again. Klara and the children were…
10. 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
… deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp; it was the last letter the family received. In 1943, the arrests escalated again. Klara and the children were…
11. Leather belt with 2 sets of holes worn postwar by Lithuanian labor camp inmate / aid worker
2010.107.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.107.2
Date:
use: 1945 July-1948 May
… concentration camp Auschwitz. Her mother managed to escape and returned home two days later. In 1943, Pola went to work at a furniture factory in a suburb of…
12. 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
… in 1938, a refugee from Nazi ruled Vienna. Her parents, Joseph and Anna Scheier Neidermann, were murdered in Auschwitz. Peter and Berta settled in…
13. 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
… Department of Justice. He searched for surviving relatives, but found only one cousin, Herta Fuchs, who survived Auschwitz death camp. After the war, Tom…
14. Leather coin purse with 3 pins, a Dutch coin, and a metal key carried by a young Jewish Austrian refugee to the US
2010.194.3_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.3 a-f
Date:
received: 1945 June-1946 June
emigration: 1946 July
… deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp; it was the last letter the family received. In 1943, the arrests escalated again. Klara and the children were…
15. 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
…, but could not get her released. Pircsi was deported to Auschwitz and later to Bergen-Belsen. On April 15, 1945, Bergen-Belsen was liberated by British…
16. 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
… than two months, nearly 440,000 Jews were deported from Hungary. Most were deported to Auschwitz, but thousands were also sent to the border with Austria…
17. Black leather photo wallet used by a young German Jewish refugee
2013.486.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.17
Date:
use: approximately 1939-approximately 1946
… and kept them from four deportation transports. But the next month, they were sent to Rivesaltes camp where transports were loaded for Auschwitz. Ernst…
18. Faux alligator photo wallet used by a young German Jewish refugee
2013.486.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.18
Date:
use: approximately 1939-approximately 1946
… and kept them from four deportation transports. But the next month, they were sent to Rivesaltes camp where transports were loaded for Auschwitz. Ernst…
19. Silk scarf with a handpainted clown and an inscription created by a Jewish Polish refugee in Bergen-Belsen DP camp
2012.443.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.443.3
Date:
creation: 1946 November 14
…, sisters, and youngest brother had been deported to Auschwitz and killed. In 1990, Leopold traveled to Poland and discovered that they had been shot by a…