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21. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.34
…. 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…
22. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.28
…. 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…
23. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.29
…. 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…
24. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.32
…. 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…
25. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.30
…. 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…
26. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.31
…. 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…
27. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.33
…. 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…
28. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.37
…. 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…
29. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.36
…. 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…
30. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.35
…. 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…
31. Gold ring taken by a Jewish youth when he escaped Treblinka death camp
1995.72.1 side
Object | Accession Number: 1995.72.1
Date:
found: 1942 September
… shot in the chest by an SS guard. He collapsed and Israel dragged him inside a clothing warehouse and dressed the wound. Israel went to find water, but…
32. 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
… Verwertung chemischer Erzeugnisse. The laborers lived in barracks on the edge of the local town, and marched under SS supervision, an hour and a half each way…
33. 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
… aboard the SS Usambara and arrived in Mombasa, Kenya, in late summer 1939. Karl and Josef Berg arrived from Germany in August. In September 1939, Germany…
34. Pair of hinged hoop earrings owned by Cila Knaster
2018.206.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.206.3 a-b
Date:
emigration: approximately 1949
… and likely shot by Nazis. Cila Knaster survived the Holocaust. After the war, Cila met Baruch Knaster in a displaced persons camp and they married on…
35. Plastic amber bead bracelet worn by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.4
Date:
received: 1935
… relating to the experiences of Ellen Ruth Fass before the Holocaust in Germany, during the Holocaust in England, and after the Holocaust in the United States…
36. Bar Kochba Jewish Sports Club (BKB) stickpin with blue enamel decoration owned by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.364.7, stickpin with blue enamel decoration and the initials BKB, Tom T. Kovary Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2009.364.7
Date:
emigration: 1940 February
received: approximately 1935
…, and family papers documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Kovary family from Bratislava and the Neuhaus family from Hamburg.…
37. Hitler Jugend Leistungsabzeichen [Hitler Youth] proficiency badge
2008.103.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.103.1
Date:
issue: approximately 1940
… a pathway for service in the armed forces or, later, in the SS. In 1936, membership in Nazi youth groups became mandatory for all boys and girls…
38. Pair of earrings entrusted to a young Austrian Jewish refugee after her emigration
Object | Accession Number: 2022.28.1 a-b
… SS Excambion for the United States. Herta and the rest of the children arrived in Jersey City, New Jersey, on December 23. Upon arrival, they stayed in…
39. 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
… ghetto. In the fall of 1944, he was sent to Kaufering concentration camp in Germany. He worked in the SS Lager and carried in food supplies from transports…
40. Tiara worn by a Jewish woman at her wedding in prewar Budapest
2007.468.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.468.3
Date:
use: 1931 June 18
…, before and during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.…