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1. Red leather portfolio used by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.364.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.364.14
Date:
emigration: 1940 February
… Department of Justice. He searched for surviving relatives, but found only one cousin, Herta Fuchs, who survived Auschwitz death camp. After the war, Tom…
2. Soapstone writing set
Object | Accession Number: 2017.668.1 a-j
…Soapstone writing set made by Arie Berznik, the donor's maternal uncle, which he made in Cyprus transit camp after surviving the Holocaust.…
3. Holocaust Commemoration Day Remember card received by a Latvian Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.4 b
… systematic massacres of Jews throughout the country. By November 1941, the surviving Jews of Kovno were imprisoned in a sealed ghetto surrounded by barbed wire…
4. Ink stamp impression of Dr. Samuel Gringauz's signature from an administrative department of the Kovno ghetto
1995.89.342 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.89.342
Date:
issue: 1941 August-1944 July
… possible proof he wasn’t Jewish, and that if neither parent survived, he would remain Christian. Samuel knew that not asking for money was a good sign…
5. British Army bomb report cover acquired by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
Object | Accession Number: 1999.180.4
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1946
… in Landsberg displaced persons camp near Munich, Germany. They had survived the war by living under false identities as Polish Catholics in Milanowek…
6. Plastic document case used by a former Hungarian Jewish forced laborer
2005.303.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.303.2
Date:
use: 1943-1946
… large family, only one niece, Rachel Rosenfeld, survived. In 1946, the family emigrated to the US where Louis continued his studies and became a…
7. Pelikan fountain pen used by Mayer Altarac who fled German-occupied Belgrade with his family
2002.438.10
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.10 a-b
Date:
use: 1935-1941
… by partisans. The Altarac family returned to Belgrade. They later learned that Mimi’s brother David and his family had survived. Shalom had served in…
8. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.6.1
Date:
received: before 1940
…, Irene learned that only a few distant relatives and her cousins from Hamburg had survived. Her mother and brother had been forced from their home. She…
9. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.6.5
Date:
received: before 1940
…, Irene learned that only a few distant relatives and her cousins from Hamburg had survived. Her mother and brother had been forced from their home. She…
10. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.6.4
Date:
received: before 1940
…, Irene learned that only a few distant relatives and her cousins from Hamburg had survived. Her mother and brother had been forced from their home. She…
11. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.6.3
Date:
received: before 1940
…, Irene learned that only a few distant relatives and her cousins from Hamburg had survived. Her mother and brother had been forced from their home. She…
12. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.6.7
Date:
received: before 1940
…, Irene learned that only a few distant relatives and her cousins from Hamburg had survived. Her mother and brother had been forced from their home. She…
13. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.6.2
Date:
received: before 1940
…, Irene learned that only a few distant relatives and her cousins from Hamburg had survived. Her mother and brother had been forced from their home. She…
14. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.6.6
Date:
received: before 1940
…, Irene learned that only a few distant relatives and her cousins from Hamburg had survived. Her mother and brother had been forced from their home. She…
15. Handmade stationery folder brought with a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2004.19.6
Date:
received: 1938 October-1937
creation: approximately 1935 July
… was soon joined by several of her siblings, all of whom survived the war.…
16. Rubber stamp from a Jewish refugee's postwar business
2004.593.3 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2004.593.3
Date:
use: 1947
… mother was here. She and Helena had survived Auschwitz and Lippstadt slave labor camp. Karola had gone to Budapest looking for him, then to Prague. His…
17. Wooden pen made for the son of a transit camp inmate by another inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1999.170.1 a-b
Date:
creation: before 1942 June
received: approximately 1942 June
… Charles and Therese in France during and after the Holocaust, which Georges survived in hiding, while his parents were held in internment camps in France…
18. Mechanical pencil used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.8
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
… wife, Elli, and their sixteen-year-old son, Michael. The Heppners feared that Irene’s father, Jakob, would not survive the perilous journey, and were…
19. Envelope with a Waffen SS return address found by a Jewish chaplain postwar at Buchenwald
Object | Accession Number: 1990.301.1
Date:
found: 1945
… jeep with his Jewish chaplain's insignia, and a crowd soon gathered. Most had survived the war in hiding and he was the survivors' first contact with the…
20. Handmade canvas folder used by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2009.260.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2009.260.2
Date:
received: after 1948 June
…, had been deported to a concentration camp and did not survive. Her brother Bondi was killed in Dachau concnetration camp. Judith made her way to Romania…