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1. German signal whistle
2014.480.71 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.71
Date:
found: 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Tara Barenok…
2. US Army signal whistle
2014.480.73 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.73
Date:
found: 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Tara Barenok…
3. Pocket mirror with photographic image
2009.364.20 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2009.364.20
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Myra Kovary and Vally Kovary.…
4. Solali cigarette papers issued to a US soldier while held as a POW in a German Stalag
1997.112.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.112.4
Date:
found: 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rolland Pearce…
5. Solali cigarette papers issued to a US soldier while held as a POW in a German Stalag
1997.112.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.112.3
Date:
found: 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rolland Pearce…
6. Solali cigarette papers issued to a US soldier while held as a POW in a German Stalag
1997.112.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.112.5
Date:
found: 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rolland Pearce…
7. German signal whistle
2014.480.72 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.72 a-b
Date:
found: 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Tara Barenok…
8. Bar of soap issued to a US soldier while held as a POW in a German Stalag
1997.112.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.112.2
Date:
found: 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rolland Pearce…
9. Bar of soap issued to a US soldier while held as a POW in a German Stalag
1997.112.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.112.1
Date:
found: 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rolland Pearce…
10. "America First" license plate attachment
2015.514.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.514.24
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Acquisition Fund…
11. Accordion and case owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré
Object | Accession Number: 2019.605.2 a-c
…’s father Julius Weiss to England. Trude’s uncle, Samuel Theumann (or Thewman) previously immigrated to the United States and worked as the director of the…
12. Matchbook cover with a printed appeal to not buy Nazi goods
Object | Accession Number: 2013.148.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1933
…United States…
13. US Army pouch for a shoe shine kit issued to Milton Emont
2018.565.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.2
Date:
use: 1943 March 05-1946 April 16
…United States. Army…
14. Soap used by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate
1990.51.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.51.4
Date:
use: approximately 1943-1945
…, Sala, was born in the United States. They were taken by train to Krakow and then to Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany. They were to be…
15. Carved inscribed walking stick given to an American soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1996.A.0251.2
Date:
received: 1945 May 05
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joe Friedman…
16. Key fob commemorating the bicentennial of George Washington’s birth with a swastika on the back
2017.397.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.397.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1932
commemoration: 1732-1932
…United States…
17. Black ribbon watch fob from prewar Netherlands
2008.354.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.354.5
Date:
creation: 1893
emigration: 1938 December
… United States with the assistance of Eliazer’s maternal uncle, Leo Groen, who had lived in New York since the 1890s. He submitted affidavits of support for…
18. 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
…Hy Silverman was born in the United States. Soon after the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, the US entered World War II. During the war, Hy…
19. 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
…. Harold grew up in Mansfield, Ohio. He was a truck driver. In early December 1941, the United States entered World War II (1939-1945.) Harold entered the…
20. Razor blades issued to a US soldier while held as a POW in a German Stalag
1997.112.6_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.112.6 a-h
Date:
received: 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rolland Pearce…
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.…
41. 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
…, 1945. Shanghai was liberated by the United States Army on September 3, 1945. Peter worked as a dispatcher and driver for the US Army Air Force motor pool…
42. Tobacco pipe with a bowl carved into the shape of Hitler’s head
2017.541.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.7
Date:
acquired: 1950-1953
… Ernesta and Berthold remained in the United States and worked as physicians.…
43. Japanese propaganda matchbox with a Japanese plane bombing the US and British flags acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.10
Date:
emigration: 1939 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…
44. 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
…. His parents and older sister, Esther (later Fisher), were born in Russia and immigrated to the United States. Sam worked as a clothing dyer. In 1924…
45. Briar wood bent Dublin pipe used by Captain Ralph M. Kopansky
2012.427.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.427.4
Date:
use: approximately 1945
…. His parents and older sister, Esther (later Fisher), were born in Russia and immigrated to the United States. Sam worked as a clothing dyer. In 1924…
46. Mother of pearl opera glasses saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.13
Date:
emigration: 1939 July
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Audrey Eisenmann and Geoffrey Eisenmann…
47. Tremolo style Opera harmonica owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
2015.312.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.312.4
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1930
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marianne Berg…
48. Japanese propaganda matchbox with Japanese planes flying over a sinking ship with a US flag acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.11
Date:
emigration: 1939 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…
49. Japanese propaganda matchbox with a bomb exploding in the center of the US acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.12
Date:
emigration: 1939 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…
50. 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
… United States entered World War II on December 8, 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Milton was drafted into the US Army and enrolled in Officer…