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1. Piston head ashtray made for concentration camp commander found by US military aid worker
1988.112.59 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.59
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…Piston head ashtray made for concentration camp commander found by US military aid worker…
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2. Violin, bow, and case used by a prisoner while interned in a camp run by Oskar Schindler
1995.86.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.86.1 a-j
… brothers, were sent to the Płaszów forced labor camp. There, Henry and his brother Poldek, an accordianist, were required to play for the camp's commandant…
3. Heart shaped carved stone ashtray acquired by a British officer
2003.465.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.465.4
Date:
received: after 1947 March-approximately 1948
… mandate. He served as a commanding officer at H.Q. 1, overseeing internees at the British detention camp at Caraolos. The majority of the internees held at…
4. Silver pea whistle taken from an SS officer by a US soldier
2000.598.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.598.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945 May
… commandant. As Hy jumped back onto the truck, he told them, in Yiddish, “kill him.” The other soldiers did not understand what was happening until they saw the…
5. 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
… command decided to transfer the Jewish prisoners to Albania. They were divided into groups and each group had to find trucks to take them to different…
6. Travel clock within a brown leather case used by the Altarac family while imprisoned
2002.438.7 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.7 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1944
… command decided to transfer the Jewish prisoners to Albania. They were divided into groups and each group had to find trucks to take them to different…
7. Wrist watch kept by a Hungarian Jewish concentration camp inmate
2004.593.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.593.2
Date:
received: approximately 1943 October
… German Army, who got the Polish commander of a prisoner of war camp to take them. When the Germans left, the commandant fed and released them and they…
8. Zeiss Z body binoculars found in a concentration camp by US military aid worker
1988.112.62 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.62
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
… the day after Patton's 3rd Army liberated Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945. Buchenwald was then transferred to the command of the 1…
9. Cherry churchwarden pipe used by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.3
Date:
received: approximately 1943
… government to form a Polish Army in the East, commanded by General Wladyslaw Anders. After his release, Edward traveled south to Tatischewo (now Turkmenbasy…
10. Briar billiard pipe used by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.2
Date:
received: approximately 1943
… government to form a Polish Army in the East, commanded by General Wladyslaw Anders. After his release, Edward traveled south to Tatischewo (now Turkmenbasy…
11. Bent pipe with a briar bison shaped bowl used by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.4
Date:
use: after 1944
… government to form a Polish Army in the East, commanded by General Wladyslaw Anders. After his release, Edward traveled south to Tatischewo (now Turkmenbasy…
12. Terry's Hedgehog pipe reamer used by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.5
Date:
received: approximately 1945
… government to form a Polish Army in the East, commanded by General Wladyslaw Anders. After his release, Edward traveled south to Tatischewo (now Turkmenbasy…
13. 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
…, as an able-bodied soldier, now in officer training school in France, was permitted to emigrate. Simon went to France and told David’s commanding…
14. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
2008.226.3
Object | Accession Number: 2008.226.3
Date:
received: approximately 1944 June
… they would take care of the apartment and the contents. While they were in the Bacsalmas ghetto, the German commandant received a letter from Budapest…
15. Tremolo style Opera harmonica owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
2015.312.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.312.4
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1930
… commanding officer’s tailor. After Kristallnacht the Bergs began looking for ways to escape Austria. In preparation for immigration to Palestine, Alfred began…
16. Pocket mirror used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
2013.379.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.9
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945
… after 3 days. The Wasserbergers fled east, eventually reaching New York. The house was occupied by the German Army commandant, but Henry and his family…
17. Stainless steel wrist watch owned by German Jewish emigre and US soldier
2003.149.66 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.66
Date:
received: after 1920-before 1939
… Rudolph as Chief Interrogator and second in command of Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13. In July 1944, Rudolph landed on Utah Beach in France. In…
18. Art Deco silver pocket watch owned by German Jewish US emigre and soldier
2003.149.61 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.61
Date:
received: after 1920-before 1939
… Rudolph as Chief Interrogator and second in command of Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13. In July 1944, Rudolph landed on Utah Beach in France. In…
19. 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
… after 3 days. The Wasserbergers fled east, eventually reaching New York. The house was occupied by the German Army commandant, but Henry and his family…
20. Felmore Art Deco cigarette case owned by German Jewish emigre and US soldier
2003.149.85 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.85
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1930
… Rudolph as Chief Interrogator and second in command of Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13. In July 1944, Rudolph landed on Utah Beach in France. In…