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21. Box of razor blades issued to a US soldier while held as a POW in a German Stalag
1997.112.7_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.112.7 a-i
Date:
received: 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rolland Pearce…
22. 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
… restrictions became increasingly harsh. Hans’ brothers, Alfred and Erich, emigrated to the United States circa December 1938. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on…
23. Felmore Art Deco cigarette case owned by Rudolph Sichel
2003.149.85 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.85
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1930
… 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…
24. Novoris leather wrist watch worn by German Jewish emigre and US soldier
2003.149.65 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.65
Date:
received: after 1920-before 1939
… 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…
25. H. Moser & Cie silver pocket watch with chain owned by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.60_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.60
Date:
received: after 1920-before 1939
… 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…
26. Engraved cigarette case given to Rudolph Sichel
2003.149.86 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.86
Date:
received: 1936
manufacture: 1931 May-1932 April
… 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…
27. 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
… 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…
28. 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…
29. Replacement watch crystal in packaging owned by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.89_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.89 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1942
… 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…
30. Binoculars thrown at US soldier during concentration camp liberation
2016.471.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.471.5
Date:
found: 1945 April 11
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jeannette Tenenbaum…
31. 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
… 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…
32. Pince-nez with black cord given to a Jewish American soldier by survivors of the Łódź ghetto
2007.475.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.475.5
Date:
received: 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Bernard and Sylvia Kupferman…
33. Three hangers for a wardrobe trunk used by German Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis
1998.65.1_i front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.65.1 g-i
Date:
use: 1939 May-1940 April
…, so they could then get visas for the United States. On May 13, 1939, Egon, Erna, and Edith left Hamburg on the MS St. Louis. Egon's cousin Liesl Joseph…
34. Wooden hanger from prewar Vienna
2013.463.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.463.2
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1933
… Frieda Jankner, who had emigrated to the United States in 1913, visited the family in Vienna. Germany annexed Austria on March 13, 1938. Anti-Jewish…
35. Straight razor in a black plastic cover brought to Shanghai by an Austrian Jewish refugee
2010.240.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.5
Date:
emigration: 1938 November
use: 1938-1949
… authorities ordered all stateless refugees to move into the Hongkew ghetto. Shanghai was liberated by the United States Army on September 3, 1945. Viktor…
36. German ceramic pipe with a painted scene of two deer
2006.11.37 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.37
Date:
received: approximately 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ronne Mitnick Hess…
37. Circular silver 12 tone pocket watch style pitch pipe and case used by a cantor
1992.8.2_a-b open
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.2 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1910-1938
emigration: 1938
… Ossowski, with his wife and daughter, escaped Nazi Germany for the United States. They joined their sons, Joseph and Leo, who had settled in the United…
38. 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
… Ernesta and Berthold remained in the United States and worked as physicians.…
39. 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
… restrictions became increasingly harsh. Hans’ brothers, Alfred and Erich, emigrated to the United States circa December 1938. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on…
40. 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
… Ernesta and Berthold remained in the United States and worked as physicians.…