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1. Brown leather belt worn by a rescued German Jewish boy
2002.52.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.52.2
Date:
received: 1941
… Switzerland. After the war Heinz learned that his parents, Max and Mina, were sent to Camp de Noé in 1941 and later deported to Auschwitz concentration camp…
2. 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
… girl and the underground arranged to help her get to Switzerland where she had a maternal aunt. With an escort from the underground, Hanne journeyed by…
3. 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
… girl and the underground arranged to help her get to Switzerland where she had a maternal aunt. With an escort from the underground, Hanne journeyed by…
4. 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
… girl and the underground arranged to help her get to Switzerland where she had a maternal aunt. With an escort from the underground, Hanne journeyed by…
5. 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 a sister Anne, who married Jules Heim and moved to Zurich, Switzerland. Charlotte and Ernst Vendig married on August 17, 1930. Soon after this…
6. 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 a sister Anne, who married Jules Heim and moved to Zurich, Switzerland. Charlotte and Ernst Vendig married on August 17, 1930. Soon after this…
7. Leather belt taken from an SS storeroom at a concentration camp and worn by a Hungarian Jewish inmate after liberation
2002.175.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.175.2
Date:
use: 1945 May 05-1945 May 07
… Switzerland. Steven hid on a Red Cross Caravan, and then boarded a transport train for French troops heading there. Once in Switzerland, he met up with one of…