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1. Engraved lighter from a displaced persons camp
2005.417.2 open
Object | Accession Number: 2005.417.2
Date:
creation: 1948
… against Germany. He made it as far as Romania but was arrested. The police beat him, trying to get him to confess that he was a saboteur. He was jailed for…
2. 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
… they were eating, the police arrived and they were put in prison. They were interrogated for a week, all saying that they had gone to relieve themselves…
3. Eyeglasses and case used Mayer Altarac whose family fled from German occupying forces
2002.438.5 b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.5 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1948
… register with the police. Jewish men, including Mayer, were taken for forced labor. The Germans took hostages to prevent any resistance, and Jewish hostages…
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
… sisters were reunited with their parents. On July 12, Georg was warned by a friend in the police station that he and Gertrud were going to be arrested and…
5. 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
… ghetto in Liepāja. In August, the ghetto was closed off from the rest of the city. On May 5, 1943, Grunia was arrested by the German Security Police (Sipo…