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1. Tin spoon made by a concentration camp inmate
1990.65.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.65.2
Date:
use: approximately 1943 November-1945 May
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
2. Brown enamel mug used by a Polish Jewish concentration camp prisoner
1996.5.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.1
Date:
issue: after 1943 January-before 1945 February
… them. After three days and nights with no food or water, the train arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. When he got off the train, Erich saw his…
3. Tablespoon with scratched initials used by a German Jewish concentration camp inmate
1994.75.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.75.1
Date:
use: after 1943 March-1945 April
… were arrested during a mass round up on February 29 and transported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The family’s apartment was…
4. Metal tablespoon used by a Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate
1989.303.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.22
Date:
use: approximately 1944 September-1945 May
…, Marta, and Karel were deported to Auschwitz. On October 1, 1944, Bruno was deported and Hana volunteered to go with him. They were put on a dirty…
5. Metal fork with ridged handle used in Theresienstadt
2000.489.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.489.1
Date:
use: after 1945 April 25
…Eva Moskovits (later Deutsch) was deported from Targu Mures to Auschwitz concentration camp on May 28, 1944. She was assigned prisoner number 54993…
6. Luftwaffe teaspoon acquired by a Romanian Jewish woman at Salzwedel
2002.467.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.467.3
Date:
manufacture: 1937
acquired: approximately 1945 April
… Ghetto was liquidated. Six transports deported the Jewish prisoners, including Elisabet, her parents, and brothers, from the ghetto to Auschwitz…
7. Aluminum cooking pot used by a Greek Jewish family
2009.354.1 top
Object | Accession Number: 2009.354.1
Date:
use: approximately 1943-1951
emigration: 1951
… members of Jacob’s family in Heraklion were killed by the Germans during the war. Claire’s father and her sister Renee had been deported to Auschwitz…
8. Inscribed wooden spoon and patch saved by a former Jewish Latvian slave labor camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.3 a-b
Date:
received: 1965
commemoration: 1945 January 23-1965 January 23
… was deported to Stutthof concentration camp; Muta, age 35, her young son, and her family were sent to Auschwitz, where they were killed on arrival. In…
9. 6 pressed pattern drinking glasses recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish woman
2013.355.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.355.2 a-f
Date:
received: approximately 1928 March 25
recovered: 1945 May
… deported to Auschwitz. Her mother Käthe was forced to work in a Glimmer factory, splitting the mineral mica which was used by the German military as an…
10. 8 porcelain bowls and 3 matching plates received as wedding gifts and recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish woman
2013.355.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.355.1 a-k
Date:
received: 1928 March 25
recovered: 1945 May
… deported to Auschwitz. Her mother Käthe was forced to work in a Glimmer factory, splitting the mineral mica which was used by the German military as an…
11. Stainless steel fork with SS runes acquired by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1998.130.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.130.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
… Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, a Hasag slave labor camp, as well as a death march. Josef passed away, age 81, in 1974.…
12. Table knife with a swastika given to a Polish Jewish girl during forced labor farm service
1988.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.1
Date:
manufacture: 1938
received: 1945 April
… in Auschwitz. She also met a man whose mother had worked in her father's factory and he gave her buttons she had saved from there. In 1993, Rose, 73…
13. Silver-plated table fork with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.4
Date:
found: 1945 April
…. They were taken by cattle car to the provincial capital of Debrecen, and deported three days later. Their train was initially bound for Auschwitz…
14. Silver-plated table fork with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.1
Date:
found: 1945 April
…. They were taken by cattle car to the provincial capital of Debrecen, and deported three days later. Their train was initially bound for Auschwitz…
15. Silver-plated table fork with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.2
Date:
found: 1945 April
…. They were taken by cattle car to the provincial capital of Debrecen, and deported three days later. Their train was initially bound for Auschwitz…
16. Silver-plated table fork with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.3
Date:
found: 1945 April
…. They were taken by cattle car to the provincial capital of Debrecen, and deported three days later. Their train was initially bound for Auschwitz…
17. Silver-plated table knife with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.6
Date:
found: 1945 April
…. They were taken by cattle car to the provincial capital of Debrecen, and deported three days later. Their train was initially bound for Auschwitz…
18. Silver-plated table knife with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.5
Date:
found: 1945 April
…. They were taken by cattle car to the provincial capital of Debrecen, and deported three days later. Their train was initially bound for Auschwitz…