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1. Wrist watch kept by a Hungarian Jewish concentration camp inmate
2004.593.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.593.2
Date:
received: approximately 1943 October
… transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. After few days, they were separated by gender. The males were shaved and tattooed with consecutive numbers…
2. Rotbart Mond-Extra safety razor with blade used by a Romanian Jewish prisoner
Object | Accession Number: 2012.453.1 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
manufacture: approximately 1930
… Elza’s husband and daughters Fulop and Marica Klein to Auschwitz, where they were killed. Kato, Pista, and Margo survived the war. Duzsi met Borbala…
3. 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
… Siegbert telling him his parents were sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942. In August 1943, Karl was deported to Auschwitz death camp. During…
4. Yellow and brown plastic hair clip owned by a young girl in German occupied Budapest
2008.337.4 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.337.4 a-b
Date:
received: 1944
use: 1940-1944
… were murdered in the same way. Charlotte learned from a former neighbor that her husband, Louis, had been deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration…
5. Pocket watch with chain traded for food by a concentration camp inmate and recovered postwar
2006.450.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 2006.450.1
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… a family friend that Karpeck and Beneck, had been deported from Krakow to Auschwitz concentration camp where they were considered too young to work…
6. Junghans single-bell alarm clock
Object | Accession Number: 1990.80.3
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… residents were murdered. In summer 1944, Łódź, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed, and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau…
7. Sleeve ironing board of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.1
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
…, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
8. Cast metal charcoal iron with a wooden handle
Object | Accession Number: 1990.81.2
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… ghetto in Poland, was destroyed, and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
9. 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
… Auschwitz concentration camp in early January 1943. Ruth and Walter were forced laborers and feared deportation. On January 22, 1943, three days after Reha…
10. Cast metal charcoal iron with hinged top and wooden handle
Object | Accession Number: 1990.81.4
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… ghetto in Poland, was destroyed, and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
11. Cast metal chimney iron with a wooden handle
Object | Accession Number: 1990.81.3
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… ghetto in Poland, was destroyed, and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
12. Box iron of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.2
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
13. 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
… Auschwitz concentration camp in early January 1943. Ruth and Walter were forced laborers and feared deportation. On January 22, 1943, three days after Reha…
14. Brown plastic eyeglasses worn by a Jewish resident of the Lvov ghetto
2009.204.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.7
Date:
use: 1941-1949
…Gusta Gruber was born in Oswiecim, Poland, in 1904 to Shlomo and Rivka Gruber. Shlomo was the seventh child and only son of Isser and Perl Gruber. He…
15. 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
… to go to the US in 1941 but refused to leave Nanny. Bertha died in Theresienstadt on November 23, 1942. Nanny was deported to Auschwitz concentration…
16. 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
… concentration camp in 1945. Ralf's paternal grandmother and cousin, Gertrude and Peter, died in Auschwitz death camp. Gerda’s brother, Werner, emigrated to…
17. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.11
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
… pharmaceutical company, but was not subjected to sterilization. They were not deported, though a number of other relatives were deported to Dachau and Auschwitz…
18. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.12
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
… pharmaceutical company, but was not subjected to sterilization. They were not deported, though a number of other relatives were deported to Dachau and Auschwitz…
19. Violin used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.9
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
… pharmaceutical company, but was not subjected to sterilization. They were not deported, though a number of other relatives were deported to Dachau and Auschwitz…
20. Violin used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.8
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
… pharmaceutical company, but was not subjected to sterilization. They were not deported, though a number of other relatives were deported to Dachau and Auschwitz…