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1. Black beret owned postwar by Natan Caron who was interned in multiple concentration camps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.3
Date:
received: after 1945 April
… 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…
2. 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…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Brown alligator wallet carried by a Hungarian Jewish youth while a forced laborer and concentration camp inmate
2012.409.4 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.409.4
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1944
… Auschwitz, she and Klari were selected for labor. His father was killed in the gas chambers. Klari got a rash a few weeks later and was sent to the gas…
6. Leather bi-fold wallet with two photographs glued inside owned by a German Jewish refugee
2018.340.2 closed side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.340.2
Date:
depiction: 1940
… family members who were not able to escape Germany were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German occupied Poland. Erich’s parents, Emil and…
7. Blue laced tan leather billfold with an oval image of a man pullling 2 women in a rickshaw acquired by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.6
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
… concentration camp in 1945. Ralf's paternal grandmother and cousin, Gertrude and Peter, died in Auschwitz death camp. Gerda’s brother, Werner, emigrated to…
8. Red laced brown leather billfold with an image of a man pulling 2 women in a rickshaw acquired by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.7
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
… concentration camp in 1945. Ralf's paternal grandmother and cousin, Gertrude and Peter, died in Auschwitz death camp. Gerda’s brother, Werner, emigrated to…