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1. Bar of soap issued in a concentration camp
1997.89.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.89.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
…Bar of soap issued in a German concentration camp. Irving Klapper survived Bergen Belsen and acquired the soap after the war.…
2. Woman's engraved gold wrist watch given to one inmate by another in Auschwitz
2009.119.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.119.2
Date:
received: approximately 1945 January
… and the inmates were sent on a death march.They ate snow to survive. Esther had wooden clogs and is sure that without them, she would not have survived…
3. 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
… and were killed. In late 1945, they were notified by the International Red Cross that Chaim had survived and was in a hospital with tuberculosis in East…
4. Gem micromatic safety razor and case given to a concentration camp inmate after liberation
1999.150.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.150.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1945 May
…. He was the husband of Leosia, who had not survived the war. The two men traveled in Czechoslovakia and Austria searching for relatives. Moniek ended up…
5. 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
… siblings Margaret and Alexander had survived, but her husband Josef perished in Ukraine. Babi met Duzsi Herskovits and they married in 1947. They settled in…
6. 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
… was a master watch and clock maker. He used these skills to survive the war, by bartering his services to repair personal time-pieces for soldiers…
7. Cigarette holder made from found materials for a Jewish British Army medic by fellow inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2013.482.1
Date:
received: after 1942 July-approximately 1945 May
… held in Dachau. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. Walter believed that he survived because he had more value alive than dead. In…
8. 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
…, Ludwig and Clara, perished in Gurs. His mother, Elsa, survived the war in France, aided by her knowledge of French. She left France for the U.S. in 1948…
9. 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
…, Ludwig and Clara, perished in Gurs. His mother, Elsa, survived the war in France, aided by her knowledge of French. She left France for the U.S. in 1948…
10. Handmade metal comb used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
2013.379.8 right side
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.8
Date:
creation: 1944 October-1945
… that he knew many of the people and places from his own experience and that he and his family had survived due to the kindness of Schindler and others…