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1. 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
… their luggage for valuables and dumped their belongings, so carefully packed by their mother, on the ground. They sailed on the SS Europa and arrived in…
2. Omega wristwatch worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train
2003.198.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.7
Date:
received: approximately 1940-1941
use: approximately 1940-approximately 1965
… Rezso Kasztner to get the German SS to allow a train of Jews to leave the country in exchange for money. Bela and his family reported to assembly camp in…
3. Soap bar acquired postwar by an Austrian Jewish refugee working for the WJC
2004.709.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.709.2
Date:
found: after 1945 May-1946
… value. When the train was searched by German authorities, Ella hid her jewelry in her soup. The family fled on the SS Normandie and arrived on November 24…
4. Black Bakelite circular eyeglasses worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train
2003.198.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.8
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1946
… Rezso Kasztner to get the German SS to allow a train of Jews to leave the country in exchange for money. Bela and his family reported to assembly camp in…
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
…. Grunia’s great uncle, Harry Marcus, agreed to sponsor the couple, and in February 1949, they immigrated to the United States aboard the SS Marine Jumper…
6. Japanese propaganda matchbox with a Japanese sword piercing the US flag acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.9
Date:
emigration: 1947 March
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
… Trieste, Italy, and boarded the SS Conte Verde. In March, they arrived in Shanghai and a Jewish organization transported the family to a refugee boarding…
7. Straight razor with an offwhite plastic handle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.5
Date:
use: 1928-1980
… United States. Prior to leaving, David learned English from a tutor. They left Bremerhaven on the SS General CH Muir and arrived in New York in March 1951…
8. 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
… Trieste, Italy, and boarded the SS Conte Verde. In March, they arrived in Shanghai and a Jewish organization transported the family to a refugee boarding…
9. Silver plated ashtray with an engraving of Skansen Kronan acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
2013.496.2 top
Object | Accession Number: 2013.496.2
Date:
received: 1945 December-1946 October
… on the SS Drottningholm, arriving in New York on October 14. She settled in New York and worked as a seamstress. After Sali became a naturalized…
10. 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
… for the United States aboard the SS Berengaria. He arrived In New York City on May 26, and moved in with his aunt and uncle, Ida and Moe Blum. Later…
11. 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
… SS men on the train were not suspicious and just wanted to talk to her. They got off at Nienburg and found a convent where they were given food. While…
12. Engraved lighter from a displaced persons camp
2005.417.2 open
Object | Accession Number: 2005.417.2
Date:
creation: 1948
… SS overseers were particularly harsh and did not provide the laborers with enough to eat. In May 1945, the group was marched west from Dresden. Along…