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1. Monogrammed napkin owned by Otto and Edith Frank
2018.613.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.6
Date:
received: 1925 May 08
… Holocaust, but her husband and son had not. Otto stayed with the Gies’ until 1952, when he immigrated to Basel, Switzerland. The following year, he and Fritzi…
2. Monogrammed tablecloth owned by Otto and Edith Frank
2018.613.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.5
Date:
received: 1925 May 08
… Holocaust, but her husband and son had not. Otto stayed with the Gies’ until 1952, when he immigrated to Basel, Switzerland. The following year, he and Fritzi…
3. Crocheted lace tablecloth with a rose and scrollwork design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.19
Date:
recovered: 1945 July
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…
4. Oval-shaped, embroidered whitework and cutwork table runner owned by Cila Knaster
2018.206.4 top
Object | Accession Number: 2018.206.4
Date:
emigration: approximately 1949
… and likely shot by Nazis. Cila Knaster survived the Holocaust. After the war, Cila met Baruch Knaster in a displaced persons camp and they married on…
5. Hand-embroidered whitework and needle lace tablecloth owned by Cila Knaster
2018.206.10 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.206.10
Date:
emigration: approximately 1949
… and likely shot by Nazis. Cila Knaster survived the Holocaust. After the war, Cila met Baruch Knaster in a displaced persons camp and they married on…
6. Tablecloth embroidered with a blue bird and flower design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.15
Date:
creation: approximately 1930
recovered: 1945 July
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…
7. Table runner with a tatted and red embroidered design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.17
Date:
recovered: 1945 July
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…
8. 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
…, one of which made it back to her. Upon arriving at the camp, the train passengers were forced to run into the main square and were beaten by SS guards…
9. Dish towel with red radish applique brought to the US by a young Austrian Jewish refugee
2010.194.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.5
Date:
emigration: 1946 July
received: 1945 June-1946 June
… quotas, the children sailed in July 1946 from Goteborg, Sweden, to New York aboard the SS Gripsholm. They were adopted by their paternal uncle Benjamin and…
10. Table covering with elaborate whitework embroidery and a crocheted border recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.6
Date:
recovered: 1945 July
creation: 1910
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…
11. 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…
12. 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
…, a gas chamber door, and a crematorium oven, stretcher, and poker, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum relating to the…
13. 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
…. Grunia’s great uncle, Harry Marcus, agreed to sponsor the couple, and in February 1949, they immigrated to the United States aboard the SS Marine Jumper…
14. Beige and orange embroidered linen napkin used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.3
Date:
creation: 1937
use: 1937-1947
… to the United States on the SS Marine Perch and settled in New York City. Irena graduated from Hunter College in 1956. She has two children and runs an…
15. Black and gray checked blanket given to Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2003.398.1
Date:
use: 1939
received: 1939 May
…, Mimi visited her parents and brother in Palestine. She then sailed from Alexandria, Egypt on board the SS Thomas Barry to meet Ed in the US. Ed got a job…
16. Damask pillow sham with a pink monogram and eyelet whitework recovered postwar by Hungarian Jewish sisters
Object | Accession Number: 2013.311.3
Date:
recovered: approximately 1945 June
… 13, 1948, they boarded the SS Marine Marlin, arriving in New York on December 24. They settled in New York and Americanized their names to Theresa and…
17. Blue and white checkered dish towel embroidered JK saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.6
Date:
emigration: 1940 August
… Swiss owned and the next day, SS guards were posted outside. On November 12, 1938, Jella’s sister Sophie killed herself by jumping off a roof, fearful of…
18. Napkin embroidered with Hedwig Rosenthal's initials and given to Henry Rosenthal
Object | Accession Number: 2020.347.5
Date:
received: 1941 August
… obtain an American visa and leave Germany. He took a train from Germany to Spain, through France, and left from Barcelona aboard the SS Ciudad de Sevilla…
19. Napkin embroidered with Hedwig Rosenthal's initials and given to Henry Rosenthal
Object | Accession Number: 2020.347.4
Date:
received: 1941 August
… obtain an American visa and leave Germany. He took a train from Germany to Spain, through France, and left from Barcelona aboard the SS Ciudad de Sevilla…
20. Napkin embroidered with Hedwig Rosenthal's initials and given to Henry Rosenthal
Object | Accession Number: 2020.347.6
Date:
received: 1941 August
… obtain an American visa and leave Germany. He took a train from Germany to Spain, through France, and left from Barcelona aboard the SS Ciudad de Sevilla…