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41. 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…
42. Yellow handkerchief with red dots owned by a young girl in German occupied Budapest
2008.337.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.337.3
Date:
received: 1944
use: 1940-1944
… were murdered in the same way. Charlotte learned from a former neighbor that her husband, Louis, had been deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration…
43. 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
… Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and offered him the chance to escape. Zelig did not know anyone in the area, and had nowhere to go, so he turned down…
44. Pink handkerchief embroidered GS owned by a Slovakian Jewish girl
Object | Accession Number: 2011.434.2
Date:
acquired: after 1935 October 25
…-?), and young son, Pavel (or Paul, 1940-?), from the town of Humenne, They were among the approximately 57,000 Jews deported to Auschwitz, Lublin/Majdanek…
45. Jewish ghetto police cap worn by an inmate/policeman at Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2007.177.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.177.2
Date:
use: 1944
… packages organized by the United States with favorable relations between guards and prisoners. Near the end of 1944, the Josephs’ were sent to Auschwitz…
46. 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
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…
47. Geometric floral patterned pink scarf worn by an infant while the family lived in hiding
2005.600.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.2
Date:
use: 1943-1945
… Auschwitz concentration camp in early January 1943. Ruth and Walter were forced laborers and feared deportation. On January 22, 1943, three days after Reha…
48. Lace-trimmed headband or cap owned by a Hungarian chambermaid
2018.409.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.5
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1944
… nearly 440,000 Jews, likely including Elek’s parents and extended family members, were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland…
49. 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…
50. 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
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…
51. Straw purse with crocheted trim acquired in Gurs internment camp by a German Jewish prisoner
1990.57.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.57.1
Date:
received: 1941 January-1941 September
… had been deported and murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Max’s mother and father met a similar fate. Hanne’s brother, who had emigrated…
52. 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…
53. Belt for a kittel [ceremonial robe] saved by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.147.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.6
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… his family had not returned after the war and that after a year in Theresienstadt they had been sent to Auschwitz where they perished. In 1946, he was…
54. Yellow damask purse made by a liberated slave labor camp inmate, saved by another inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.2
Date:
creation: 1945 February
… was deported to Stutthof concentration camp; Muta, age 35, her young son, and her family were sent to Auschwitz, where they were killed on arrival. In…
55. 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…
56. Handkerchief carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport
Object | Accession Number: 2002.89.2
Date:
emigration: 1939 June
… to go to the US in 1941 but refused to leave Nanny. Bertha died in Theresienstadt on November 23, 1942. Nanny was deported to Auschwitz concentration…
57. 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
… II ended in May 1945. Carl learned that his parents had been deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in 1942 and later to Auschwitz death camp…
58. Blue crocheted change purse made in Gurs internment camp for a German Jewish prisoner
1990.57.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.57.2
Date:
received: 1941 January-1941 September
… had been deported and murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Max’s mother and father met a similar fate. Hanne’s brother, who had emigrated…
59. 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
… had been deported and murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Max’s mother and father met a similar fate. Hanne’s brother, who had emigrated…
60. 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
… II ended in May 1945. Carl learned that his parents had been deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in 1942 and later to Auschwitz death camp…