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1. 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
…Red wooden tie rack made by a Dutch Jew while living in hiding…
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2. Dark bronze candlestick in the shape of a happy Jewish speculator
2016.184.626 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.626
Date:
creation: approximately 1880
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
3. Bronze candlestick in the shape of a happy Jewish speculator
2016.184.627 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.627
Date:
creation: approximately 1880
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
4. Blanket made using salvaged thread
Object | Accession Number: 2004.381.2
Date:
use: approximately 1943
… family gatherings. In July 1940, the Bulgarian government established anti-Jewish restrictions that limited where Jews that prohibited Jews from certain…
5. 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
…Rada Pomocy Zydom (Council to Aid Jews), code name Zegota, or Konrad Zegota Committee, was an underground organization that operated in German…
6. Pair of painted candlesticks of a happy and a sad Jewish speculator
2016.184.154_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.154 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1880
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
7. Cast iron Fagin lamp holding a toasting fork / trident
2016.184.73_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.73 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1934-approximately 1936
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
8. White tablecloth with blue and yellow needlepoint flowers saved from the Eisiskes shtetl
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.14
Date:
recovered: approximately 1945
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
9. Bedcover used by a Jewish girl in a displaced persons camp
2003.193.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.193.5
Date:
use: 1948 January-1949 May
… June 30, German troops entered Zdzieciol. On July 14, the local military commandant ordered Jews to wear a yellow Star of David badge on the front and…
10. White, monogrammed tablecloth belonging to the family of a German Rabbi
2018.290.1 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.290.1
Date:
use: before 1959
…. The German authorities passed anti-Jewish decrees that restricted every aspect of Jewish life. Growing antisemitism and violence led many Jews to leave…
11. 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…
12. Wooden flashlight box lantern placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.21
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
13. 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…
14. Lightbulb shield placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.32
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
15. Pair of William Adams & Sons stoneware candlesticks with a scene of Oliver Twist meeting Fagin
2016.184.77a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.77 a-b
Date:
manufacture: 1895-1920
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
16. 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…
17. Child's wicker chair received by Louise Lawrence-Israels for her birthday while in hiding
2005.316.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.316.1
Date:
received: 1944 July 30
… administration. The Nazi's also confiscated the family business. By the time Louise was born, anti-Semetic laws were enacted and Jews were forced to wear a yellow…
18. Wool blanket found by a Jewish Latvian concentration camp prisoner after escaping a death march
2003.174.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
… (or Faivušs, 1918-1945). Jews made up about a quarter of Rēzekne’s population, and Ber attended a Jewish day school and acquired Zionist beliefs. He did…
19. 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…
20. 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…