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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. Plate used by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.10
… to Auschwitz concentration camp. His pregnant wife, Rosa, and their 3-year old son, Uriel perished there. Norbert’s arm was tattooed with the number…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. Dinner knife used by sisters who were interned in a series of concentration camps
2014.471.2 right side
Object | Accession Number: 2014.471.2
…, the sisters were deported in April 1944 to Munkacs Ghetto in German occupied Hungary. In June, they were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. Pewter mustard pot owned by Otto Frank
2018.613.4 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.4
Date:
manufacture: after 1800-before 1900
… labor, while Edith, Margot, and Anne were forced to take old batteries apart for reuse. On September 3, they were all deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau…
11. 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…
12. Silver oak patterned tablespoon saved by German Jewish refugees
2012.485.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.8
Date:
emigration: 1939
…. They subsequently learned that Fred’s brother Rudolph was murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp on September 30, 1942. He had been sent to Westerbork…
13. Silver fiddle patterned tablespoon saved by German Jewish refugees
2012.485.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.9
Date:
emigration: 1939
…. They subsequently learned that Fred’s brother Rudolph was murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp on September 30, 1942. He had been sent to Westerbork…
14. Silver fiddle patterned tablespoon saved by German Jewish refugees
2012.485.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.10
Date:
emigration: 1939
…. They subsequently learned that Fred’s brother Rudolph was murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp on September 30, 1942. He had been sent to Westerbork…
15. 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…
16. Shallow pewter bowl with etched Hebrew owned by a German Jewish prewar emigre
2012.456.2 top
Object | Accession Number: 2012.456.2
Date:
emigration: 1938 October
… Theresienstadt ghetto, then sent, on October, 16, 1944, to Auschwitz Birkenau, where he was killed. Morris’s sisters, Lina and Paula, perished in the Holocaust…
17. 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.…
18. 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…
19. Silver teaspoon engraved Hilde given to a Jewish girl in prewar Germany
2004.31.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.31.1
Date:
received: approximately 1930
… August 11, 1942, Julius, 51, was deported to Drancy transit camp and three days later to Auschwitz death camp, where he was killed. Grete’s sisters, Erna…
20. Small metal coffeepot used by a Yugoslavian family
2017.609.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.609.5
Date:
acquired: before 1941 April 06
… and killed in the spring of 1942, likely in Auschwitz. Esther was able to avoid deportation and stayed in Osijek until May, when she travelled to Hvar…