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1. Childsize violin and case of a young Jewish Lithuanian boy killed in the Ponary massacre
2006.88.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.88.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1936-1943
use: before 1943 September
… mother told her to ”go back, and stay alive…” The rest of the family was deported to the Jewish ghetto in Vilna. Niusia, at first, stayed with a Polish…
2. Set of seal skin ski straps used by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.30_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.30 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1940
…Set of seal skin ski straps used by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai…
3. Straight razor in a black plastic cover brought to Shanghai by an Austrian Jewish refugee
2010.240.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.5
Date:
emigration: 1938 November
use: 1938-1949
…Straight razor in a black plastic cover brought to Shanghai by an Austrian Jewish refugee…
4. Plastic eyeglass frames, temple and lenses worn by a Jewish concentration camp inmate
2010.494.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.494.2 a-d
Date:
use: 1939 May-1945 April
…Plastic eyeglass frames, temple and lenses worn by a Jewish concentration camp inmate…
5. Child's hairbrush and plaid handkerchief used by a young Jewish Polish refugee
2012.249.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.249.1 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-1944 August 01
…Child's hairbrush and plaid handkerchief used by a young Jewish Polish refugee…
6. Violin, case and spare parts used by a Jewish Latvian musician while imprisoned in several concentration camps
2006.133.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.2 a-j
Date:
received: approximately 1921
use: 1940-1949
…Violin, case and spare parts used by a Jewish Latvian musician while imprisoned in several concentration camps…
7. Straight razor with an offwhite plastic handle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.5
Date:
use: 1928-1980
…Straight razor with an offwhite plastic handle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army…
8. Box iron of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.2
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
…Box iron, similar to those used by Jewish forced laborers in the Łódź Ghetto in German-occupied Poland from May 1940 to summer 1944. The iron would…
9. Sleeve ironing board of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.1
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
…Sleeve ironing board or pressing ham, of the type used by Jewish forced laborers in the Łódź Ghetto in German-occupied Poland from May 1940 to summer…
10. Japanese propaganda matchbox cover with a bayonet with a Japanese flag dominating the world acquired by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.21
Date:
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
… ordered that all Jewish refugees move into a ghetto in the Hongkew district. Their landlord, who was a Jewish refugee, with the help of Japanese authorities…
11. Cast metal chimney iron with a wooden handle
Object | Accession Number: 1990.81.3
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… Jewish population were confined to a small, closed ghetto. All residents had to work, and many became forced laborers in ghetto factories. Eventually…
12. Junghans single-bell alarm clock
Object | Accession Number: 1990.80.3
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… common. The Judenrat (Jewish Council) were forced to administer the ghetto for the Germans. Judenrat chairman, Mordechai Rumkowski, thought hard work and…
13. Cast metal charcoal iron with a wooden handle
Object | Accession Number: 1990.81.2
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… Jewish population were confined to a small, closed ghetto. All residents had to work, and many became forced laborers in ghetto factories. Eventually…
14. Cast metal charcoal iron with hinged top and wooden handle
Object | Accession Number: 1990.81.4
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… Jewish population were confined to a small, closed ghetto. All residents had to work, and many became forced laborers in ghetto factories. Eventually…
15. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor
1997.30.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.30.2
Date:
issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September
…Hinda Kacenelenbogen (later Helen Sperling) was born on May 6, 1920, in Otwock, Poland to a Jewish couple, Pinkhas (Pinkus) and Chana (Hannah…
16. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor
1997.30.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.30.1
Date:
issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September
…Hinda Kacenelenbogen (later Helen Sperling) was born on May 6, 1920, in Otwock, Poland to a Jewish couple, Pinkhas (Pinkus) and Chana (Hannah…
17. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport
2003.352.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.352.1 a-b
Date:
use: after 1938-approximately 1997
manufacture: 1938-1939
emigration: 1939 June
…. Simon founded a successful grain import-export business in 1877 and was prominent in the Jewish community. Georg had eleven siblings, including Arthur…