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21. 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…
22. 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…
23. Baby blanket with an embroidered duck used by a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.5
Date:
use: 1942 March-1945
…. Sophie’s mother Keetje died on December 1, 1937. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. In 1941, Jews were required to register with the…
24. Blanket owned by a German Jewish woman fleeing Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.4
Date:
use: 1933 June
… of non-Jewish friends. In early 1941, all Jews were required to register themselves with the authorities and a Jewish council was established. On…
25. 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…
26. Pillowcase with cutwork flowers and the embroidered initials FL used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.3
Date:
creation: approximately 1933
… appointed Chancellor and began to put into practice the Nazi pledge to persecute Jews. Soon Jews were barred from certain professions and people were…
27. 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
… neighbor, Kowalski. The Germans set up a Jewish Council led by Mr. Frucht and Jews were ordered to wear Star of David badges. On August 26, 1941, the Germans…
28. 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…
29. 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…
30. 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.…
31. Black checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees
2012.485.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.6
Date:
received: 1933
… died in 1927. In January 1933, Hitler came to power and soon established a Nazi dictatorship that was hostile to Jews. On November 8, Fritz moved to…
32. Crocheted tablecloth and replacement thread saved by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.13_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.13 a-b
Date:
use: after 1938
… Germany on May 15, 1939, and arrived in Shanghai on June 14. Carl sold the family’s furniture and his factory. Jews could take almost no money out of…
33. Green wool blanket acquired by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.14
Date:
received: approximately 1945 August
… Germany on May 15, 1939, and arrived in Shanghai on June 14. Carl sold the family’s furniture and his factory. Jews could take almost no money out of…
34. Casting of a concrete and metal dissecting table from the crematorium building at Majdanek concentration camp
Object
Date:
manufacture: after 1989 August 15-before 1991 March 18
… Operation Reinhard (Aktion Reinhard). Operation Reinhard was a code name for the plan to kill the two million Jews who resided in specific areas of German…
35. Red checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees
2012.485.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.4
Date:
received: 1933
… died in 1927. In January 1933, Hitler came to power and soon established a Nazi dictatorship that was hostile to Jews. On November 8, Fritz moved to…
36. Black checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees
2012.485.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.7
Date:
received: 1933
… died in 1927. In January 1933, Hitler came to power and soon established a Nazi dictatorship that was hostile to Jews. On November 8, Fritz moved to…
37. Red checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees
2012.485.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.5
Date:
received: 1933
… died in 1927. In January 1933, Hitler came to power and soon established a Nazi dictatorship that was hostile to Jews. On November 8, Fritz moved to…
38. Blanket issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.271
Date:
received: 1945 August
… separation of Jews and non-Jews. Ernst was expelled from school, and his parents were forced to sell their hotel to non-Jews. Ernst began attending trade…
39. Carved upright wooden bench owned by Jakob Krämer and the Heppner family
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.11 a-d
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1911
use: before 1942 August
received: approximately 1958
… the SS. The occupying administration gradually tightened control on the residents, and on April 29, 1942, all Jews were required to wear yellow Star of…
40. 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…