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1. Pin
2000.24.20.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.24.20.2
Date:
1946 April
… Austria for Shanghai shortly after Kristallnacht in 1938 and was forced to live in the Hongkew Ghetto for three years as the war intensified. Eric was…
2. Pair of engraved gold wedding rings owned by Hedwig and Richard Neu
2018.519.8 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.519.8 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938
… authorities during Kristallnacht, November 9-10. Hedwig, Beatrice, and her grandmother hid in the garden, while Richard hid elsewhere. Many of the packed…
3. Pair of earrings entrusted to a young Austrian Jewish refugee after her emigration
Object | Accession Number: 2022.28.1 a-b
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
4. Engraved gold wedding band that belonged to a German Jewish refugee
2005.546.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.3
Date:
recovered: 
received: approximately 1895
… country. They were later sent by mail to Anna’s sister, who had emigrated to England earlier in the decade. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10…
5. Engraved gold wedding band that belonged to a German Jewish refugee
2005.546.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.4
Date:
recovered: 
received: 1895
… country. They were later sent by mail to Anna’s sister, who had emigrated to England earlier in the decade. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10…
6. Plastic amber bead bracelet worn by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.4
Date:
received: 1935
… from the Neue Synagogue. Ellen Ruth had to change schools. On the morning of November 10, during Kristallnacht, Ellen Ruth and her family saw the Neue…
7. Silver locket with an engraved monogram and an infant's photo saved by an Austrian refugee family
2008.333.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.333.2
Date:
emigration: 1940 September
creation: approximately 1928 October
…. Elisabeth and Georg were sent to live with their uncles in Frankfurt, Germany, due to the increasing anti-Semitism. The November 1938 Kristallnacht [Night of…
8. Decorative pin with engraved initials CB made in Kenya for a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 2014.307.2
Date:
creation: after 1939 June-1945
…. Max had to arrange to have a non-Jew run his business. The family was warned by neighbors of the impending Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938…
9. Silver charm bracelet saved by a young German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.7
Date:
emigration: 1940 August
… school twice a week. On November 10, 1938, during Kristallnacht, two Nazis entered the apartment and took Ruth’s brother-in-law, Friedrich. A few hours…
10. Enamelled gold cross pendant worn by a Jewish child or his mother in hiding as Catholics
2002.420.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.420.23
Date:
use: 1943-1944
… Jewish conspiracy and used it as a pretext for Kristallnacht, the violent anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany on November 9-10. Margarethe and Karl, who were…