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1. 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
… by the Germans. When Italy surrendered to the Allies in September 1943, Jacob went to the Greek police station and explained that he was Jewish and…
2. 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
… Kolozsvár ghetto by local authorities and police working in cooperation with the Germans. The conditions in the makeshift ghetto were appalling. It was on the…
3. 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
… caught without it on a trip to Esslingen and was severely beaten by a police officer. In September 1944, she forgot to wear it a second time and was taken…
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
… the camp. Fischer arranged for Karel to get a job in the ghetto order police. Karel stood on a street corner and directed the flow of people moving…