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1. 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
…). On September 3, Grunia was transported to Dondangen II (Poperwahlen) forced labor camp, a sub-camp of Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp. In early July…
2. Bar of soap owned by an American internee
2018.426.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.7
Date:
received: 1942 September-1944 September
… published propaganda photos and press stories about Vittel to showcase it as representative of conditions in German camps. Despite these improved living…
3. Violin, bows, case and accessories recovered from Łódź ghetto and played in DP camps by a Polish Jewish musician
2010.472.2_g front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.2 a-u
Date:
use: before 1944 August-after 1945 May
recovered: after 1945 February
… deportation to various concentration camps during the Holocaust and to Henry's recovery of the instruments and their use in his band, The Happy Boys, that…
4. Violin, bows, case and accessories recovered from Łódź ghetto and played in DP camps by a Polish Jewish musician
2010.472.1_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.1 a-t
Date:
use: before 1944 August-after 1945 May
recovered: after 1945 February
… deportation to various concentration camps during the Holocaust and to Henry's recovery of the instruments and their use in his band, The Happy Boys, that…
5. 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
…, before the Holocaust, in the United States Army in Europe during the war, including the liberation of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, and in New York…
6. 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
… of Ralph Kopansky in the United States Army before, during, and after World War II, including the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp, where he…
7. WWI Hungarian War Supporter copper watch fob acquired by a Jewish army veteran
2010.81.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.7
Date:
commemoration: 1915-1916
emigration: 1949 September 21
received: approximately 1944 May
… anti-Jewish decrees were put in place; Jews had to wear Star of David armbands, move into ghettos, and deportations to concentration camps began. Bela…