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51. Travel clock within a brown leather case used by the Altarac family while imprisoned
2002.438.7 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.7 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1944
… by partisans. The Altarac family returned to Belgrade. They later learned that Mimi’s brother David and his family had survived. Shalom had served in…
52. Engraved silver cigarette case with box owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.18_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.18 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1947 December
…, Rebecca Adler, survived the war in Berlin; her husband, who was not Jewish, had been able to save her, but both their sons were killed by the Nazis. For two…
53. Wooden comb and handmade paper case given to a prisoner by a friend in Kaiserwald concentration camp
2012.310.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.310.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1944 December 27
… them survive. They looked out for each other, shared their hopes and fears, and killed the lice on each others backs. Esther and her group of friends…
54. Gold engraved pocket watch owned by a German Jewish refugee
2005.546.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.2
Date:
recovered: 
received: approximately 1895
… London in the summer of 1939. Willy eventually found refuge in Sweden and survived the war there.…
55. Mother of pearl opera glasses saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.13
Date:
emigration: 1939 July
… survive because he was not given food for many days. Some of Friedrich’s distant relatives in St. Louis, Missouri, sent the family affidavits to help them…
56. Wrist watch kept by a Hungarian Jewish concentration camp inmate
2004.593.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.593.2
Date:
received: approximately 1943 October
… mother was here. She and Helena had survived Auschwitz and Lippstadt slave labor camp. Karola had gone to Budapest looking for him, then to Prague. His…
57. Omega wristwatch worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train
2003.198.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.7
Date:
received: approximately 1940-1941
use: approximately 1940-approximately 1965
… Hungarian Labor Service and was presumed dead. His brother Zoltan, who had emigrated to the United States before the war, was his only surviving relative…
58. Black Bakelite circular eyeglasses worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train
2003.198.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.8
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1946
… Hungarian Labor Service and was presumed dead. His brother Zoltan, who had emigrated to the United States before the war, was his only surviving relative…
59. Black plastic dust comb owned by a German Jewish refugee
2007.101.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.101.12
Date:
emigration: 1941 February
… refugees when they reached Japan in March 1941, they were deported to Shanghai where they survived the war in the Hongkew ghetto. Hanni married a US soldier…
60. Cymbals used by kindergartners prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.24_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.24 a-b
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… were among only 29 who had survived. That fall, Moshe went to the priest and managed to retrieve his youngest son. A party was held on October 20 to…