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1. Wall fragment from a gas chamber at Auschwitz concentration camp

Date:: creation: 1942

2. Brick from a Polish ghetto manufactured by the Heiss brick factory

Date:: use: 1941 November-1943 June

3. Coil of lead wire placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

Date:: use: 1943-1944 September 11

4. Inert Zyklon B, spent Gypsum pellets, from Majdanek concentration camp

Date:: recovered: after 1944 July
manufacture: 1941 October-1944 July

5. Piece of scrap linoleum placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

Date:: use: 1943-1944 September 11

6. Piece of scrap linoleum placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

Date:: use: 1943-1944 September 11

7. Shellac disc placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

Date:: use: 1943-1944 September 11

8. Two mother-of-pearl shards saved from a Jewish owned factory and given to a survivor 50 years later

Date:: use: 1937
received: 1987 July

9. Cream-colored textile with crocheted lace accents owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee

Date:: acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February

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1. Wall fragment from a gas chamber at Auschwitz concentration camp

2. Brick from a Polish ghetto manufactured by the Heiss brick factory

3. Coil of lead wire placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

4. Inert Zyklon B, spent Gypsum pellets, from Majdanek concentration camp

5. Piece of scrap linoleum placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

6. Piece of scrap linoleum placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

7. Shellac disc placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

8. Two mother-of-pearl shards saved from a Jewish owned factory and given to a survivor 50 years later

9. Cream-colored textile with crocheted lace accents owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee

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