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1. Soap issued to a concentration camp prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau
1995.15.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.15.1
Date:
1944
…Soap issued to a concentration camp prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau…
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2. Brown plastic lice comb used by a Romanian Jewish woman concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2012.453.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 May-1945 May
… Hungary to concentration camps. Babi, Herman, and Elizabet were deported to Auschwitz in May 1944. Herman and Elizabet were killed. Babi was selected for…
3. Comb made from airplane parts by a Polish Jewish female slave laborer
1990.220.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.220.1
Date:
creation: 1944 November
… times. In August 1944, they were found and taken to Auschwitz concentration camp, along with their aunt Hela. Her sister was sent to the gas chambers and…
4. Soap acquired by a prisoner in Buna concentration camp
1991.123.2 back
Object | Accession Number: 1991.123.2
Date:
found: 1944
…Oświęcim (Poland)…
5. Cigarette lighter crafted from a bullet shell casing by a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp
2007.47.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.47.1
Date:
creation: 1944-1945
…, had been deported and killed at Auschwitz death camp. From that moment on, he swore never to allow himself the pleasure of smoking another cigarette…
6. Shaving brush received in a concentration camp
2005.256.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.256.1
Date:
received: 1944
… ghetto. Their daughter, Miriam, was born there in December, 1941. In November 1942, the family was included in a transport to Auschwitz. When they arrived…
7. 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…
8. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
2008.226.3
Object | Accession Number: 2008.226.3
Date:
received: approximately 1944 June
… men and sent to the Topoya holding center. From there, they were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. In 1944, Yehudit, her mother, and her…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. 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.…
14. 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.…
15. 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…
16. 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.…
17. 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.…
18. 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.…
19. 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…
20. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
2005.301.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.301.1
Date:
received: 1944 June
… in New York. Erwin married Helen Kallus, a Czech Jew who had survived the Munkac ghetto and Auschwitz, and emigrated to the US in 1949.…