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21. 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
… 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…
22. US Army garrison cap worn by Arthur Schmitt
Object | Accession Number: 2019.627.2
… Arthur (Abraham) Schmitt and Meta (Miriam) Grunebaum Schmitt and their families in Germany and the United States before, during, and after World War II.…
23. Scarf worn by a German Jewish displaced person
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.2
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
24. 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
… September 10, but on September 1, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. When the war began, the Polish government called for all able bodied men to report for…
25. Coin purse owned by Otto Frank
2018.613.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.3
Date:
use: approximately 1935
…Otto Frank (1889-1980) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Michael (1851-1909) and Alice Betty (nee Stern, 1865-1953) Frank. Otto had three…
26. Pair of black leather gaiters
2003.467.8_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.467.8 a-b
Date:
undated: 
…Deiderode (Germany)…
27. Leather wallet with 6 pockets used by a German Jewish refugee to hold wartime documents
2004.577.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.577.2
Date:
received: approximately 1938
…Erna Landau was born on January 8, 1915, in Rhede Germany, to Jewish parents, Arthur and Bertha Stern Landau. Bertha was born in 1887. Arthur…
28. Black headband embroidered MS St. Louis worn by a young girl on board the ship
2004.575.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.575.2
Date:
use: 1939 May 13-1939 June 17
…Annette Virginia Metis (later Gallagher) was born on December 20, 1930, in Grunberg, Germany, to Felix and Lotte Metis. Felix (1989-1984) was born in…
29. Bootjack used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.4
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… landowner, whose land they rented. On September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. Salek was mobilized into the 19th Infantry Battalion, Polish Army…
30. Passport holder, carried to Ecuador by a German Jewish woman
2019.18.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.18.2
Date:
use: 1939 January 02-before 1942 June 13
…, 1875-1943) Brilling. Isidor’s mother was a Lithuanian immigrant, and he had at least six sisters and two brothers. He fought for Germany in World War I…
31. Black leather infant's ankle boots worn by a German Jewish child
Object | Accession Number: 2013.456.2 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1911-1915
emigration: 1939
…Bruno Korn was born on October 2, 1911, in Hindenburg, Germany (Zabrze, Poland), to Simon and Jetka Jakobwitz Korn. His older brother, Rudolf, was…
32. Small straw purse made in Gurs internment camp for a German Jewish prisoner
2004.233.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.233.2
Date:
received: 1940 October-1941 September
…Johanna (Hanne) Eva Hirsch was born on November 28, 1924, in Karlsruhe, Germany, to Jewish parents, Max and Ella. Max was a photographer and operated…
33. 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…
34. 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…
35. 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…
36. Brodie pattern MK II green steel helmet worn by a Belgian officer
2012.229.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.229.1
Date:
use: 1945
…, Nazi Germany invaded Belgium. The Franks tried to flee to England through Normandy, but were turned back by the Germans. It is unclear whether Marcel was…
37. 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
…Fanny Dominitz was born September 9, 1925 in Cologne, Germany, to Jakob Dominitz, a traveling businessman, born on November 26, 1899, and Scheindel…
38. Multicolored woven wool scarf brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.7
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
39. Black and white tweed patterned wool knit hat brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.15
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
40. Pair of 2 button gloves worn by multiple 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
…, they no longer received mail and lost contact with Celia. In March 1944, Germany occupied Hungary. The same month, Lili got a letter from Yitzhak to…