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1. Souvenir coin with a swastika and Star of David owned by a young German Jewish girl
2005.464.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.464.1
Date:
commemoration: 1934
… traveled across Eastern and Central Europe until 1938. On November 10, 1938, when Mara was 12 years old, she witnessed the events of Kristallnacht. Two…
2. Buchenwald concentration camp scrip, -.50 Reichsmark note, inscribed by an inmate
2003.413.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.34
Date:
issue: 1937 July 19-1945 April 11
… officers began sending large numbers of Jewish men following the Kristallnacht program. Women were not sent to the camp until late 1943 or early 1944, and…
3. Weimar Germany, 2 Rentenmark note saved by an Austrian Jewish refugee
2005.517.41 back
Object | Accession Number: 2005.517.41
Date:
issue: 1923 October 15
manufacture: 1937 January
… enacted to exclude Jews from Austrian society. The November 1938 Kristallnacht [Night of Broken Glass] pogrom was particularly brutal in Austria. Thousands…
4. canceled British postage stamp acquired by a German Jewish refugee
1990.114.73 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.114.73
Date:
received: approximately 1941 August 27
issue: 1937-1941
… increasingly harsh. Carl’s business was not restricted and it converted to produce war rations for the Army. After the Kristallnacht destruction of November 9-10…