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1. Large wooden workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.1
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
creation: 1939-1940
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
2. Treadle sewing machine table of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1930-1945
…-old Mordechai the Älteste der Juden [Elder of the Jews], a position which gave him a wide range of powers over the Jewish community. He was ordered to…
3. Black and gray checked blanket given to Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2003.398.1
Date:
use: 1939
received: 1939 May
…, the Marienbader Zeitung ran the headline that the town was free of Jews. Mimi’s family moved to a small room in a Christian home in Kolin nad Labem in…
4. Orange tablecloth with green flowers used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.7
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1947
… ghetto uprising and its violent suppression by the Germans, with mass deportations of all Jews in Warsaw and the annihilation of the ghetto. Her father…
5. Beige and orange embroidered linen napkin used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.3
Date:
creation: 1937
use: 1937-1947
…. April 1943 brought the Warsaw ghetto uprising and its violent suppression by the Germans, with mass deportations of all Jews in Warsaw and the…
6. Singer treadle sewing machine table of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.8
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1945
… by the end of the year. In summer 1944, Łódź, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz…
7. Drawn threadwork pillowcase with the embroidered initials KR used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.2
Date:
use: approximately 1939 March-1947 November
… appointed Chancellor and began to put into practice the Nazi pledge to persecute Jews. Soon Jews were barred from certain professions and people were…
8. Silver engraved candelabrum commemorating the Stolp synagogue saved by refugees from Nazi Germany
2007.516.3 a-f front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.516.3 a-f
Date:
commemoration: 1895
emigration: 1939 March
… 1933 and the increasingly harsh persecutions of Jews made life in Germany extremely precarious. In August 1935, Olga was removed from her position in the…
9. Silver engraved candelabrum commemorating the Stolp synagogue saved by Jewish refugees
2007.516.2 a-f front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.516.2 a-f
Date:
commemoration: 1895
emigration: 1939 March
… 1933 and the increasingly harsh persecutions of Jews made life in Germany extremely precarious. In August 1935, Olga was removed from her position in the…
10. Brown striped wool blanket used by a Jewish family in an internment camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.110.2
Date:
use: 1939-1944
…Jews--Persecutions--France--Biography.…
11. White blanket with purple border used by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.8
Date:
emigration: 1939 July 25
… as an execution site for Jews. Ellen’s maternal grandparents Eduard and Dorothea were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia on…
12. White tea towel with green stripes used by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.11
Date:
emigration: 1939 July 25
… as an execution site for Jews. Ellen’s maternal grandparents Eduard and Dorothea were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia on…
13. White tea towel with yellow stripes used by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.10
Date:
emigration: 1939 July 25
… as an execution site for Jews. Ellen’s maternal grandparents Eduard and Dorothea were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia on…
14. White bed sheet with embroidered flowers brought with a Polish Jewish emigre
2009.117.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.117.19
Date:
emigration: 1939
…Jews--Poland--History--20th century.…
15. Embroidered white pillow sham brought with a Polish Jewish emigre
2009.117.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.117.18
Date:
emigration: 1939
…Jews--Poland--History--20th century.…
16. Monogrammed bath towel used in the Krakow ghetto
2008.227.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.227.3
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… Lvov and encouraged the local Ukrainian population in repeated violent pogroms that massacred thousands of Jews and destroyed Jewish occupied areas of…