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1. Large wooden crate used by Zegota, a Polish underground group, to hide false documents
1990.296.1 3/4 view back
Object | Accession Number: 1990.296.1
Date:
use: approximately 1942 October-1945 January
…Large wooden crate used by Zegota, a Polish underground group, to hide false documents…
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2. Beige and orange embroidered linen napkin used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.3
Date:
creation: 1937
use: 1937-1947
… Berlin, along with her aunt. She was assigned to work in the Schwartzkopf ammunition factory. In September 1944, Irena joined the underground resistance…
3. Orange tablecloth with green flowers used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.7
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1947
… Berlin, along with her aunt. She was assigned to work in the Schwartzkopf ammunition factory. In September 1944, Irena joined the underground resistance…
4. Embroidered white pillowcase used in hiding in Poland
2008.222.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.222.2
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… a safehouse for the Polish underground. Elzbieta was told that she was Jewish; she went to the church and asked the priest if that meant she would go…
5. 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
… underground dugouts. For over a year, Vova did not bathe or change his clothes and the lice were a plague to everyone. He was part of a 45 member unit led by…
6. Baby blanket with an embroidered duck used by a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.5
Date:
use: 1942 March-1945
… active in the Dutch resistance and was the editor of the underground newspaper Het Parool. Vera’s paternal uncle Harry and paternal aunt Elizabeth also…
7. 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
… prisoner number 92894 and was likely put to work as a forced laborer at an underground airplane factory code-named Weingut I. Grunia’s husband, Elias, Leo…
8. Monogrammed bath towel used in the Krakow ghetto
2008.227.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.227.3
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… they contacted a friend of Edward’s, Alfred Zbik, whose parents were involved in the Polish underground. They gave them refuge in their home for two…
9. Red wooden tie rack made by a Dutch Jew while living in hiding
2010.488.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.488.5
Date:
creation: 1942 October-1945 April 18
…World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands.…