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41. Four eyeglass lenses recovered from Chelmno killing center
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.29 a-d
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… killing center operated by the German SS and police authorities in German-occupied Poland.…
42. 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
…Edward Henryk Herzbaum (later Hartry) was born on October 6, 1920, in Vienna, Austria. He was the only son of a Jewish couple, Dr. Alexander and…
43. Japanese propaganda matchbox with a caricature of FDR acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.8
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
… Trieste, Italy, and boarded the SS Conte Verde. In March, they arrived in Shanghai and a Jewish organization transported the family to a refugee boarding…
44. 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
… Netherlands, and the Germans established a civilian administration run largely by the SS, which gradually tightened control on the residents. Albert’s work…
45. 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
…Edward Henryk Herzbaum (later Hartry) was born on October 6, 1920, in Vienna, Austria. He was the only son of a Jewish couple, Dr. Alexander and…
46. Moustache brush owned by a German Jewish refugee
1990.307.6 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.6
Date:
use: approximately 1907-approximately 1917
… Netherlands, and the Germans established a civilian administration run largely by the SS, which gradually tightened control on the residents. Albert’s work…
47. Set of four manicure tools in a red case brought by Gisela Marx Eden
2013.476.5 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.476.5 a-e
Date:
use: 1939 August
…. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. Gisela’s family perished in the Holocaust. Her parents, Leopold and Erna, were deported from…
48. Walking stick received as a gift by a French Jewish boy who survived in hiding
1999.170.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.170.2
Date:
creation: before 1942 June
received: approximately 1942 June
… Charles and Therese in France during and after the Holocaust, which Georges survived in hiding, while his parents were held in internment camps in France…
49. 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
… 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…
50. Silver hair brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.4
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
… 1943, two SS officers arrived at the house to check identity papers. Walter and Ruth provided identity papers that they had been given by Maria Nickel, a…
51. 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
…Edward Henryk Herzbaum (later Hartry) was born on October 6, 1920, in Vienna, Austria. He was the only son of a Jewish couple, Dr. Alexander and…
52. 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…
53. Large black plastic comb used by a Polish Jewish girl living with an assumed identity
2010.465.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.465.4
Date:
use: 1941 December-1948 September
… SS men on the train were not suspicious and just wanted to talk to her. They got off at Nienburg and found a convent where they were given food. While…
54. Silver clothes brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.3
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
… 1943, two SS officers arrived at the house to check identity papers. Walter and Ruth provided identity papers that they had been given by Maria Nickel, a…
55. Eyeglasses belonging to a Polish Jewish inmate in Ravensbrueck concentration camp
1996.149.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.149.1
… she and her parents were interned in Łódź ghetto in March 1940. Mina and her mother Zlata were deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in October…
56. Rusted, bent metal shoehorn recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.27 side a
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.27
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… killing center operated by the German SS and police authorities in German-occupied Poland.…
57. Mother of pearl opera glasses saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.13
Date:
emigration: 1939 July
… building which was Swiss owned, and the next day, SS guards were posted outside. On November 12, 1938, Irene's maternal aunt Sophie killed herself by jumping…
58. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
2008.226.3
Object | Accession Number: 2008.226.3
Date:
received: approximately 1944 June
… was a transfer for money negotiated between the German SS and Rezső Kasztner of the Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest. Yehudit's grandmother…
59. 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
…, Pister joined the Nazi party, member number 918391, and the SS, member number 29892. He was assigned to work part time in the SS Motor Echelon. In 1933, he…
60. Engraved lighter from a displaced persons camp
2005.417.2 open
Object | Accession Number: 2005.417.2
Date:
creation: 1948
… SS overseers were particularly harsh and did not provide the laborers with enough to eat. In May 1945, the group was marched west from Dresden. Along…