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1. Binoculars thrown at US soldier during concentration camp liberation
2016.471.5 3/4 view top
Object | Accession Number: 2016.471.5
Date:
found: 1945 April 11
… American officer to enter Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation, a participant in the liberation of Ohrdruf, and author of the Buchenwald Report. His…
2. 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
…Gem micromatic safety razor and case given to a concentration camp inmate after liberation…
3. 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
…Cigarette holder made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp…
4. Soap found in a liberated concentration camp by a US soldier
1992.122.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.2
Date:
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 August
… assisted in the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, which was discovered by the 6th Army on April 11. The war ended on May 7, 1945…
5. 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
… 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…
6. 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…
7. 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
…). On September 3, Grunia was transported to Dondangen II (Poperwahlen) forced labor camp, a sub-camp of Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp. In early July…
8. Bar of soap stamped RIF issued to an inmate of Auschwitz-Birkenau
2007.469.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.469.2
Date:
issue: 1945 January-1945 April 23
… the Germans and sent to Dachau concentration camp where he died just before liberation. They learned that their sister Irene, their mother, aunts, and…
9. German ceramic pipe with a painted scene of two deer
2006.11.37 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.37
Date:
received: approximately 1945
… liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria and after the war in the United States.…
10. Bar of soap owned by an American internee
2018.426.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.7
Date:
received: 1942 September-1944 September
… published propaganda photos and press stories about Vittel to showcase it as representative of conditions in German camps. Despite these improved living…
11. Violin, bows, case and accessories recovered from Łódź ghetto and played in DP camps by a Polish Jewish musician
2010.472.1_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.1 a-t
Date:
use: before 1944 August-after 1945 May
recovered: after 1945 February
… deportation to various concentration camps during the Holocaust and to Henry's recovery of the instruments and their use in his band, The Happy Boys, that…
12. Saxophone, case and accessories used by a Polish Jewish musician in a band that toured DP camps
2010.472.3_ad front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.3 a-ah
Date:
use: after 1945 May
… deportation to various concentration camps during the Holocaust and to Henry's recovery of the instruments and their use in his band, The Happy Boys, that…
13. Violin, bows, case and accessories recovered from Łódź ghetto and played in DP camps by a Polish Jewish musician
2010.472.2_g front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.2 a-u
Date:
use: before 1944 August-after 1945 May
recovered: after 1945 February
… deportation to various concentration camps during the Holocaust and to Henry's recovery of the instruments and their use in his band, The Happy Boys, that…
14. 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
…liberation of concentration camp…
15. WWI Hungarian War Supporter copper watch fob acquired by a Jewish army veteran
2010.81.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.7
Date:
commemoration: 1915-1916
emigration: 1949 September 21
received: approximately 1944 May
… anti-Jewish decrees were put in place; Jews had to wear Star of David armbands, move into ghettos, and deportations to concentration camps began. Bela…
16. Cigarette lighter
1992.160.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.160.7
… after his liberation from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp at the end of World War II. Many of the reproductions in the collection are a result of…
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
…, before the Holocaust, in the United States Army in Europe during the war, including the liberation of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, and in New York…
18. Barling’s briar wood straight billiard pipe used by Captain Ralph M. Kopansky
2012.427.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.427.3
Date:
manufacture: 1930-1945
use: approximately 1945
… of Ralph Kopansky in the United States Army before, during, and after World War II, including the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp, where he…
19. Carved inscribed walking stick given to an American soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1996.A.0251.2
Date:
received: 1945 May 05
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Personal narratives, American.…
20. Replacement watch crystal in packaging owned by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.89_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.89 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1942
…, before the Holocaust, in the United States Army in Europe during the war, including the liberation of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, and in New York…