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1. Embroidered tea cozy used by Austrian Jewish refugees to store family correspondence
2006.417.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.417.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… family survived the war and emigrated to the United States in 1949. Regina’s sister, Fanny, survived in hiding, but Heinrich’s family perished after…
2. Embroidered tablecloth made in a forced labor camp
2016.458.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2016.458.2
Date:
creation: 1944
… families, as well as the family of Eva Timar Adler before, during, and after the Holocaust, when Denes emigrated before the war and Eva and Janos survived…
3. Baby blanket with an embroidered duck used by a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.5
Date:
use: 1942 March-1945
…, but the Van Pelts called her Meiske, the Dutch word for girly. They said she was their niece who had survived the bombings. They lived near a large…
4. Brown striped wool blanket used by a Jewish family in an internment camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.110.2
Date:
use: 1939-1944
…. Marie’s husband, Isidore Odenheimer, died in Gurs. Marie and Isidore had 2 children, who survived the camp and emigrated to the United States with their…
5. Embroidered white pillowcase used in hiding in Poland
2008.222.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.222.2
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… to hell; he told her yes and to get out. They returned to Krakow and Helena placed Elzbieta in a convent for a week while she looked for surviving…
6. Orange tablecloth with green flowers used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.7
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1947
…Table cloth used by Irena Ehrlich vel Sluzny's aunt, Margula Ehrlich Kacenhelenbogen, in Warsaw, Poland, in the 1930’s. Margula survived the…
7. Duvet cover made from a US Army parachute by a Jewish family in a displaced persons camp
2009.372.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.372.2
Date:
manufacture: 1944 October
creation: 1945-1948
emigration: 1948 October 21
… Sara’s surviving relatives in the home of Nachman Rapoport, her maternal grandfather. These were relatives that had initially fled with her and returned…
8. Embroidered tablecloth with a floral design owned by a Romanian Jewish woman
2014.490.12 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.12
Date:
creation: 1938-1948
… their parents all survived the Holocaust. Following the ousting of the antisemitic Romanian government and the German military, Izi returned to high…
9. Philips dynamo hand generator flashlight used by a Dutch Jewish family in prison camps
2008.200.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.200.2
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1940
use: 1942-1944
… to survive. His brother, Maurits, and his wife, Stella, had been deported to Bergen Belsen concentration camp where they died in 1945. The family was…
10. Embroidered yellow tablecloth with a floral design owned by a Romanian Jewish woman
2014.490.9 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.9
Date:
creation: 1938-1948
… their parents all survived the Holocaust. Following the ousting of the antisemitic Romanian government and the German military, Izi returned to high…
11. Embroidered pink tablecloth with a nautical design owned by a Romanian Jewish woman
2014.490.11 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.11
Date:
creation: 1938-1948
… their parents all survived the Holocaust. Following the ousting of the antisemitic Romanian government and the German military, Izi returned to high…
12. Brown tablecloth with a floral design saved during a pogrom in Ukraine and recovered after the war
Object | Accession Number: 2009.115.1
Date:
recovered: approximately 1944
use: 1944-1948
… Ukrainians attacked Jewish citizens and invaded and looted all the Jewish homes. The Werba family survived the pogrom because they had hidden food with a…
13. Embroidered pink tablecloth with a floral design owned by a Romanian Jewish woman
2014.490.10 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.10
Date:
creation: 1938-1948
… their parents all survived the Holocaust. Following the ousting of the antisemitic Romanian government and the German military, Izi returned to high…
14. Striped bath towel embroidered with the inmate’s prisoner number and used in Buchenwald concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.3
Date:
use: 1944 August 16-1945 April 11
… lost his wife and two children during the war and survived Riga-Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps by playing his violin to appease…
15. Curtain that was used as a towel found by a Polish Jewish forced laborer
Object | Accession Number: 2018.208.1
Date:
found: 1944 August-1945 April
Title:
Dash family collection
… off the ground and ate grass to survive. In early April, she contracted typhus from the unsanitary conditions at the camp. On April 14, Paula was…
16. Monogrammed bath towel used in the Krakow ghetto
2008.227.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.227.3
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… where they were killed. Kay and Edward had escaped earlier and they would survive the war by assuming false identities as Polish Catholics.…