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1. Tobacco pipe with a bowl carved into the shape of Churchill’s head
2017.541.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.8
Date:
acquired: 1950-1953
… 13, 1938 Austria was annexed into Germany, in what became known as the Anschluss. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted…
2. Tobacco pipe with a bowl carved into the shape of Hitler’s head
2017.541.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.7
Date:
acquired: 1950-1953
… 13, 1938 Austria was annexed into Germany, in what became known as the Anschluss. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted…
3. Pipe with bowl carved in the shape of a bull’s head
2017.541.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.6
Date:
acquired: 1950-1953
… 13, 1938 Austria was annexed into Germany, in what became known as the Anschluss. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted…
4. Porcelain tobacco bowl with an image of three Jewish hareskin dealers painted on the front
2016.184.114 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.114
Date:
creation: 1829-1940
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
5. Opera glasses and case owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.2 a-c
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
6. US Army pouch for a shoe shine kit issued to Milton Emont
2018.565.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.2
Date:
use: 1943 March 05-1946 April 16
… both France and Germany. In 1945, he was able to complete eight weeks of graduate coursework in French and French literature at the Sorbonne and…
7. Rectangular, cloth-covered compact with mirror owned by Alice Fischl Gerstmann
Object | Accession Number: 2020.319.3
… Gerstmann, Gerd Gerstmann, and their families in Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Palestine before, during, and after the Holocaust.…
8. German Gesteckpfeife style tobacco pipe and porcelain bowl with an antisemitic image
2016.184.115a front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.115 a-b
Date:
manufacture: 1850-1940
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
9. Shaving brush received in a concentration camp
2005.256.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.256.1
Date:
received: 1944
… taken west into Germany on a series of trains and death marches that included brief stays at the Oranienburg and Flossenbürg concentration camps, and then…
10. Shaving brush used by a German Jewish refugee in hiding
1990.307.7_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 a
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
11. 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
…Hilde Lotte Anker was born on May 29, 1926, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg Jakob Willie Anker and Gertrud Gottschalk Anker. She had two older sisters…
12. Cigarette holder made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp
2003.64.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.64.1
Date:
creation: after 1945 May 02-before 1945 June
…, 1899, in Łódź, to Aron and Frieda Pytowski. The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I (1914-1918) separated Danzig and West Prussia from Germany…
13. Leather runaway ski strap brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.31 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.31
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
14. Razor used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.7_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 b
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
15. Set of goatskin cross country ski straps brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.32 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.32 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
16. Commemorative ashtray used during the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg
2004.705.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.705.4
Date:
commemoration: 1945
…Nuremberg (Germany)…
17. Metal ski foot attachment brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.39 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.39
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
18. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.11
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
19. 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
…, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and, by July 1941, the country was occupied by German forces. On July 1, 1942, Grunia was forced into the newly formed…
20. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.12
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…