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1. Painted leather wallet used prewar by a Polish Jewish refugee

2013.285.2 front

Object | Accession Number: 2013.285.2

…Emigration and immigration--Poland--Biography.…

2. Yellow damask purse made by a liberated slave labor camp inmate, saved by another inmate

Date:: creation: 1945 February

3. Brown leather trifold wallet used by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

2003.160.2 front

Date:: use: 1941-1946

4. Leather wallet with embossed images of Egyptian pharaohs acquired by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

2002.105.2 front

Date:: received: approximately 1943

5. Floral tapestry purse saved by a hidden child

2013.459.3 front

Date:: received: 1942
creation: approximately 1920

6. Leather wallet with gold leaf monogram kept by a Jewish girl while living in hiding

2006.44.2 front

Date:: use: 1942-1945

7. Black leather mid-calf boots worn by a female Jewish concentration camp prisoner

2002.366.1 a front

Date:: use: 1944 December-1945
acquired: 1944 December-1945 January

8. Leather belt with metal buckle worn by a concentration camp inmate

2006.451.1 front

Date:: use: 1944-1945

9. Brown plastic wallet with a memorial emblem owned by Natan Caron

Date:: received: approximately 1950

10. Brown leather and cork men’s dress shoes crafted in Sedan Kaserne Ulm DP camp by a Jewish Polish soldier

2012.432.1 a front

Date:: creation: after 1946 July-before 1949 June

11. Brown leather belt worn by a Jewish Polish inmate at Buchenwald concentration camp

Date:: use: 1945 January-1945 April

12. Black beret owned postwar by Natan Caron who was interned in multiple concentration camps

Date:: received: after 1945 April

13. Silk scarf with a handpainted clown and an inscription created by a Jewish Polish refugee in Bergen-Belsen DP camp

2012.443.3 front

Date:: creation: 1946 November 14

14. Dark red leather wallet used by a Polish Army officer to hold military ID

2004.40.2 front

Date:: use: before 1943 September 04

15. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum

2018.498.2 front

Date:: acquired: 1939-1945

16. Bootjack used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag

2004.525.4 front

Date:: use: 1939-1945

17. Wedding veil worn by Lili Lax Friedman and many additional Jewish brides in a DP camp

1999.7.12 b front

Date:: creation: approximately 1946 January
use: 1946 January 27-before 1948 February

18. Brown leather belt secretly made by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate

1993.156.2_a-b front

Date:: creation: approximately 1944 January-1944 March
use: approximately 1944 January-1945 May

19. Pair of gloves worn by Lili Lax Friedman and many additional Jewish brides in a DP camp

1999.7.12 c-d front

Date:: creation: approximately 1946 January
use: 1946 January 27-before 1948 February

20. Pair of Japanese geta owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

2017.513.3_a 3/4 view

Date:: acquired: 1941 February-1941 October

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