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11. Sterling silver cigarette case with an etched Japanese landscape
2001.283.4 interior
Object | Accession Number: 2001.283.4
…The Jakob and Zofia Dymant papers document Jakob Dymant’s escape from Poland during the Holocaust and survival in Japan, China, and India; Zofia…
12. Bar of soap preserved by Czech Jewish concentration camp survivors
1988.73.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.73.1
Date:
received: after 1954 May
… his family had fled from Kosice to Hungary, after the 1938-39 collapse of Czechoslovakia. The family survived in hiding in Budapest using falsified…
13. 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
…. He was the husband of Leosia, who had not survived the war. The two men traveled in Czechoslovakia and Austria searching for relatives. Moniek ended up…
14. Harmonica
2016.506.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.506.2
…] and father, Lona and Jochanan Taussig, younger brother Thomas [the latter two whom did not survive] as well as his first spouse Stella [also survivor of…
15. Cigarette case with filigreed design of an airplane and a British flag bought as a souvenir in India by a Jewish refugee
2001.283.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.283.5
…The Jakob and Zofia Dymant papers document Jakob Dymant’s escape from Poland during the Holocaust and survival in Japan, China, and India; Zofia…
16. Brown plastic lice comb used by a Romanian Jewish woman concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2012.453.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 May-1945 May
… siblings Margaret and Alexander had survived, but her husband Josef perished in Ukraine. Babi met Duzsi Herskovits and they married in 1947. They settled in…
17. Engraved lighter from a displaced persons camp
2005.417.2 open
Object | Accession Number: 2005.417.2
Date:
creation: 1948
… the way, they were locked in a barn. After two days, they were liberated by Russian troops. Of the original 200, 46 had survived the three-year ordeal…
18. Wrist watch with a brown band and engraved initials saved from Vilna ghetto
2005.198.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.198.2
Date:
use: 1941 September-1943 September
… shot in the Ponary forest. The surviving men were sent to labor camps in Estonia, while the women were sent to labor camps in Latvia. During the…
19. Cigarette lighter crafted from a bullet shell casing by a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp
2007.47.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.47.1
Date:
creation: 1944-1945
… was a master watch and clock maker. He used these skills to survive the war, by bartering his services to repair personal time-pieces for soldiers…
20. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
2005.301.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.301.1
Date:
received: 1944 June
… in New York. Erwin married Helen Kallus, a Czech Jew who had survived the Munkac ghetto and Auschwitz, and emigrated to the US in 1949.…