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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
… was later killed. On August 26, 1942, Fritz was deported on transport 24, train 901-19 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland…
2. Shellac disc placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.55
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
…Stefan Petri (1899-1986) was born in Poland, which was part of the Russian Empire until the 1917 Russian Revolution. Stefan was an engineer and lived…
3. Coil of lead wire placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.14
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
…Stefan Petri (1899-1986) was born in Poland, which was part of the Russian Empire until the 1917 Russian Revolution. Stefan was an engineer and lived…
4. Brick rubble recovered from the Warsaw Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.294.1
Date:
recovered: after 1945 May-circa 1990
commemoration: 1940 October-1943 May
…Warsaw (Poland)…
5. Piece of scrap linoleum placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.48
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
…Stefan Petri (1899-1986) was born in Poland, which was part of the Russian Empire until the 1917 Russian Revolution. Stefan was an engineer and lived…
6. Cobblestones from Chłodna Street, which separated the two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.295.1
Date:
use: before 1990
…Warsaw (Poland)…
7. Piece of scrap linoleum placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.47
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
…Stefan Petri (1899-1986) was born in Poland, which was part of the Russian Empire until the 1917 Russian Revolution. Stefan was an engineer and lived…
8. Wall fragment from a gas chamber at Auschwitz concentration camp
1991.103.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.103.2
Date:
creation: 1942
…Oświęcim (Poland)…
9. Concrete remnants excavated from the crematorium at Chelmno killing center
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.31 a-c
Date:
use: after 1942 September-approximately 1943 March
recovered: 1986-1987
…Chełmno (Koło, Poland)…
10. 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
…Lublin (Poland)…
11. 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
…Raszka Galek was born on November 24, 1920, in Sochocin, Poland, to Moshe and Fela (Zipora) Perznianko Galek. She had three sisters: Hinda, Deana…
12. Brick from a Polish ghetto manufactured by the Heiss brick factory
2017.357.1 3/4 view front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.357.1
Date:
use: 1941 November-1943 June
…Brick from the Lwów ghetto in L’viv Ukraine (formerly Lvov, Poland). The brick is from the area that the Lvov Judenrat building was located and is…