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1. Necklace of found materials made in a camp by an Austrian Jewish woman
2006.355.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.355.2
Date:
creation: 1945 May-1946
… tailor, and he would sneak her bread, telling her that he got extra. They remained there until May 1944, when they were transferred to Auschwitz, where…
2. Star of David pendant with a prisoner number made by a former concentration camp inmate
2003.436.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.436.1
Date:
creation: after 1945 April-before 1947
received: 1947
…, Paul was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp and assigned prisoner number 194446. He was eventually transferred to Gross-Rosen concentration camp…
3. Decorative leather charm owned by a female Hungarian Jewish slave laborer
2017.645.3 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2017.645.3
Date:
creation: 1944 June 13-1944 July
use: 1944 June 13-1945 April 25
…. In mid-June, the family, was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied Poland. Their parents were taken to the gas chambers in the…
4. Star of David pendant and chain worn by a German Jewish woman
2018.70.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.70.6
Date:
received: 1926-before 1944 October
use: 1944 October-1945 May
… and her mother did sewing. In September 1944, her father was deported on a male only transport from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz concentration camp in…
5. Commemorative FNDIRP button cover engraved 178284 acquired by a Jewish Polish refugee
2005.257.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.257.1
Date:
received: approximately 1945 June
… forced labor in the steel mill, and became involved in the resistance. On August 26, 1943, Franka was deported by the German authorities to Auschwitz…
6. Engraved gold wedding ring acquired by an inmate while in Kaufering concentration camp
2006.444.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.444.2
Date:
received: before 1945 April
…. Flora and her family were confined to a ghetto and then sent to Auschwitz death camp. Jeno, Elva, Lilly, and Moishe were killed upon arrival. Flora…
7. Metal pin made for a former concentration camp inmate with her prisoner number and the camps where she was held
1993.27.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.34
Date:
creation: approximately 1945 April-1945 May
commemoration: 1943-1945
… forced labor in the steel mill, and became involved in the resistance. On August 26, 1943, Franka was deported by the German authorities to Auschwitz…
8. Ring with a red heart and inmate numbers made from a spoon in a concentration camp
2006.467.1, ring with heart made from spoon, Solomon Goldstein Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2006.467.1
Date:
received: after 1943 October-before 1945 January
creation: after 1943 October-before 1945 January
… taken to forced labor camps Stablatt, Ostrodenka, Sniadova, and Zembrowa. In November 1942, the Germans forcibly transported him to Auschwitz-Birkenau…
9. Commemorative pin worn postwar by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.17
Date:
commemoration: 1943 March-1945 April
emigration: 1949 August 26
…, mother, and brother were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. At the DP camp, Alice met Hans Finke, born in Berlin on August 12, 1920. He was a former…
10. Handmade pin embroidered with her prisoner number made for a concentration camp inmate on her 16th birthday
2009.359.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.359.1
Date:
received: 1945 April 11
… arrived at Auschwitz concentration camp, Sala noticed that nearly all of the 2500 passengers were being sent to one side; she told her sister to join the…
11. Commemorative concentration camp pendant owned by a German Jewish woman
2018.70.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.70.7
Date:
creation: after 1945 May
… and her mother did sewing. In September 1944, her father was deported on a male only transport from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz concentration camp in…
12. Commemorative Star of David stickpin owned by a Dutch Jewish survivor
2002.140.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.2
Date:
commemoration: 1945-1955
… Sophie returned to Amsterdam. Vera’s father Sal had been deported on December 8, 1942, to Auschwitz and died on February 28, 1943, in Auschwitz-Monowitz…
13. Mezuzah and tombstone pendants on a necklace made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp
2003.64.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.64.2
Date:
creation: after 1945 May 02-before 1945 June
… Tauba, Irma, and her sister Ruth were loaded on a cattle car. After several days with no water, they arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The…
14. Gold necklace, bracelet, and pendant received in a displaced persons camp
2008.228.11_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.11 a-c
Date:
received: 1945
…Julius Balbin, a survivor of Auschwitz, was relocated to the Bindermichl displaced persons camp in Linz, Austria, after the war. He met Irena Urdang…
15. Round Star of David pendant made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.7
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… her sister-in-law, who had been deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The text on the card was written with a downward…
16. Horse-shaped metal pin made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.2
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… her sister-in-law, who had been deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The text on the card was written with a downward…
17. Miniature picture frame pendant made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.4
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… her sister-in-law, who had been deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The text on the card was written with a downward…
18. Metal flower pin made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.3
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… her sister-in-law, who had been deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The text on the card was written with a downward…
19. Golem pendant made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.6
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… her sister-in-law, who had been deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The text on the card was written with a downward…
20. Gold 4-leaf clover charm buried and recovered postwar by a Hungarian Jewish girl
2003.158 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.158.2
Date:
received: 1937
recovered: 1945
… Kovacs, and her two children Laszlo (b. 1939) and Joseph (b. 1942), were deported to Auschwitz and killed. Erika’s maternal uncle Eugene and his wife…