Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

You searched for: SS and the holocaust Remove constraint SS and the holocaust Objects Household Utensils Remove constraint Objects: Household Utensils
New Search

Search

Search Results

1. Waffen-SS ladle
2000.562.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.562.1
Date:
found: 1945
…Large metal ladle with "Waffen-SS" engraved on the back and "Neoveda-Rust Free."…
2. Metal dish inscribed for a matron of an SS Lebensborn
2001.204.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.204.6
Date:
commemoration: 1943 April
…The collection consists of artifacts, books, pamphlets, and photographs relating to the Lebensborn program in Nazi Germany which encouraged the birth…
3. 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
… Fine) during the Holocaust when he was a prisoner in Kaufering X concentration camp in Germany and after the Holocaust in Feldafing displaced persons…
4. Porcelain and metal bottle stopper recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.14 side a
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.14
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… killing center operated by the German SS and police authorities in German-occupied Poland.…
5. Pitcher made from an Eatonia Brand butter can and used by an American internee
2018.426.9 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.9
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… experiences of Leonie Roualet in the Vittel internment camp in France during the Holocaust, and in France and the United States after the Holocaust.…
6. SS Presentation plate
Object | Accession Number: 2020.263.1
… Dachau concentration camp after liberation, and served in the US Army from February 1944 – March 1946. The Allach porcelain factory was one of the SS…
7. Teacup and saucer with blue and pink flowers carried by Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.5_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.5 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…. Germany surrendered in May 1945, ending the war in Europe. On June 8, 1946, Ina boarded the S.S. Drottningholm in Liverpool, England and sailed to the…
8. Plate used by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.10
…. On April 20, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners marched under SS guard towards an undisclosed location. On the night of May 2, Wollheim fled to…
9. Kettle made from a can of Klim powdered milk and used by an American internee
2018.426.10 a-b side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.10 a-b
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… experiences of Leonie Roualet in the Vittel internment camp in France during the Holocaust, and in France and the United States after the Holocaust.…
10. Cup and saucer from a café run by Jewish Austrian family
2017.259.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.259.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1919-1938
manufacture: after 1918 September-1937
… Hamburg, Germany, and boarded the SS President Harding which left for New York on May 23. Once they arrived in New York the children were taken to the Brith…
11. Silver napkin ring with an engraved floral design and name brought with a German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.8
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…
12. Silver napkin ring with an embossed floral design and engraved name saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.10
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…
13. Silver souvenir spoon with the Bonn coat of arms with a fitted box owned by a young German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2012.438.3 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1936 December
… November 26, 1936, Erna, Rosa, and Herta left Germany aboard the SS New York, arriving on December 4. They lived with Helen and her family in Queens, New…
14. Dinner spoon used by an inmate in a slave labor camp
2008.228.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.17
Date:
use: 1943-1947
… 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. Metal bowl recovered from a concentration camp by a Polish Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 1990.115.1
Date:
found: after 1944 August 07-1944 December 31
… Janowska Street labor camp for the SS German Armament Works. His family was likely killed in 1943, when the ghetto and camp were liquidated. The couple…
16. Silver-plated table fork with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.4
Date:
found: 1945 April
… city of Magdeburg. When the prisoners awoke the following morning, the train engine and SS guards were gone. The transport was found that day by the 743…
17. Silver fiddle patterned tablespoon saved by German Jewish refugees
2012.485.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.9
Date:
emigration: 1939
… sailed from Rotterdam on the SS Veendam, arriving in New York on February 5. They settled in Boston and Americanized their names to Fred and Juliana Elsa…
18. Henckels table knife with a scalloped edge brought with German Jewish prewar refugee
2012.493.3 left
Object | Accession Number: 2012.493.3
Date:
emigration: 1939
manufacture: 1900-1939
… friend, Frau Kehrli, arrived at the children’s home to take 8-year-old Nellie to Paris, France, and then on to Cherbourg. Nellie boarded the SS Deutschland…
19. Salad plate with a floral design carried by Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.6
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…. Germany surrendered in May 1945, ending the war in Europe. On June 8, 1946, Ina boarded the S.S. Drottningholm in Liverpool, England and sailed to the…
20. Monogrammed silver napkin rings owned by a German Rabbi
2018.290.2 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.290.2 a-b
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…