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1. Cream-colored textile with crocheted lace accents owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.13
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
2. Box containing dried flowers and a tin owned by Gerd and Alice Fischl Gerstmann
Object | Accession Number: 2020.319.8 a-d
… Gerstmann, Gerd Gerstmann, and their families in Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Palestine before, during, and after the Holocaust.…
3. Partial cement post with embedded bar from the 1866 Neue Synagoge, Berlin
Object | Accession Number: 1990.46.1
Date:
creation: 1866
commemoration: 1990 December 06
…Oranienburger Strasse (Berlin, Germany)…
4. Cloth remnants found at Dachau concentration camp after the war by a US soldier
1990.150.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.150.2
Date:
found: approximately 1950
…Dachau (Germany)…
5. Inert Zyklon B, spent Gypsum pellets, from Majdanek concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 1990.192.1 a-b
Date:
recovered: after 1944 July
manufacture: 1941 October-1944 July
…Dessau (Dessau, Germany)…
6. Granite stone from a concentration camp owned by a former Polish Catholic inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1991.160.1
… apprentice baker. By 1939, all of Julian’s brothers had returned to the US. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Tarnow was occupied a week…
7. Two mother-of-pearl shards saved from a Jewish owned factory and given to a survivor 50 years later
1989.204.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.204.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1937
received: 1987 July
… then Palestine. Fela did not want to start over, so Moshe decided they would stay. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was heavily…
8. Building stone from a concentration camp owned by a former Polish Catholic inmate
1991.160.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.160.2
… apprentice baker. By 1939, all of Julian’s brothers had returned to the US. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Tarnow was occupied a week…
9. Mica flakes cut by a German Jewish female slave laborer
Object | Accession Number: 2004.230.11
Date:
received: after 1944 November-1945 May
…Emma Pariser was born on December 14, 1889, in Inowraclaw, Germany (now Poland) to Albert and Rosalie David Pariser. Albert was born on March 10…