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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
… made to stand at attention in the yard for hours; if you moved, you might be shot. Every Sunday, the SS guards would come by and make them walk naked…
2. 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
… Jewish community, and spoke publicly about her experiences during the Holocaust throughout her life at schools, colleges, churches, prisons, and clubs…
3. 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
… Jewish community, and spoke publicly about her experiences during the Holocaust throughout her life at schools, colleges, churches, prisons, and clubs…
4. 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
… their luggage for valuables and dumped their belongings, so carefully packed by their mother, on the ground. They sailed on the SS Europa and arrived in…
5. Barling’s briar wood straight billiard pipe used by Captain Ralph M. Kopansky
2012.427.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.427.3
Date:
manufacture: 1930-1945
use: approximately 1945
…Ralph Morris Kopansky was born on May 23, 1912, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was the second of three children born to Sam and Ida Goseman Kopansky…
6. Omega wristwatch worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train
2003.198.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.7
Date:
received: approximately 1940-1941
use: approximately 1940-approximately 1965
… Rezso Kasztner to get the German SS to allow a train of Jews to leave the country in exchange for money. Bela and his family reported to assembly camp in…
7. Black Bakelite circular eyeglasses worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train
2003.198.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.8
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1946
… Rezso Kasztner to get the German SS to allow a train of Jews to leave the country in exchange for money. Bela and his family reported to assembly camp in…
8. 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
…. Grunia’s great uncle, Harry Marcus, agreed to sponsor the couple, and in February 1949, they immigrated to the United States aboard the SS Marine Jumper…
9. 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
… United States. Prior to leaving, David learned English from a tutor. They left Bremerhaven on the SS General CH Muir and arrived in New York in March 1951…
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
… Trieste, Italy, and boarded the SS Conte Verde. In March, they arrived in Shanghai and a Jewish organization transported the family to a refugee boarding…
11. Silver hair brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.4
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
… 1943, two SS officers arrived at the house to check identity papers. Walter and Ruth provided identity papers that they had been given by Maria Nickel, a…
12. Reusable embossed cigarette lighter used by German Jewish German US soldier
2003.149.69 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.69
Date:
received: approximately 1926-before 1946
manufacture: after 1926-before 1946
… for the United States aboard the SS Berengaria. He arrived In New York City on May 26, and moved in with his aunt and uncle, Ida and Moe Blum. Later…
13. Large black plastic comb used by a Polish Jewish girl living with an assumed identity
2010.465.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.465.4
Date:
use: 1941 December-1948 September
… SS men on the train were not suspicious and just wanted to talk to her. They got off at Nienburg and found a convent where they were given food. While…
14. Silver clothes brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.3
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
… 1943, two SS officers arrived at the house to check identity papers. Walter and Ruth provided identity papers that they had been given by Maria Nickel, a…