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1. Soap used by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate
1990.51.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.51.4
Date:
use: approximately 1943-1945
… German authorities removed Monius and his family from their apartment. During the first massacre of Jews, Monius hid in an attic. The family was able to…
2. WWI Hungarian War Supporter copper watch fob acquired by a Jewish army veteran
2010.81.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.7
Date:
commemoration: 1915-1916
emigration: 1949 September 21
received: approximately 1944 May
… born in 1857. He had 2 brothers and a sister; Dezso, born in 1880, Etel, born in 1883, and Aladar, born in 1890. The family kept a kosher house and…
3. Toiletry kit
2000.567.1 b front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.567.1
Date:
use: 1949
…The toiletry kit was given to and/or used by the Strochlitz family in a displaced persons camp in Berlin, Germany. The kit was hand-carried by family…
4. Stamped black plastic dust comb owned by a German Jewish refugee
2007.101.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.101.11
Date:
emigration: 1941 February
1941 February
…, 1926. They were an observant Jewish family. Moritz owned a leather goods store. After Hitler came to power in 1933, the Nazi government sanctioned anti…
5. Black plastic dust comb owned by a German Jewish refugee
2007.101.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.101.12
Date:
emigration: 1941 February
…, 1926. They were an observant Jewish family. Moritz owned a leather goods store. After Hitler came to power in 1933, the Nazi government sanctioned anti…
6. Red and black plastic cigarette holder used by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.147.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.5
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… at her brother’s machine factory to support the family. His father was the president of their synagogue and they went to synagogue every morning. The…
7. 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
…Heinrich Schwabacher was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to a prominent, wealthy Jewish family that had lived in Frankfurt for many generations. Heinrich…
8. Black ribbon watch fob from prewar Netherlands
2008.354.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.354.5
Date:
creation: 1893
emigration: 1938 December
…Eliazer (Elie) Davids was born on March 27, 1904, in Amsterdam, Netherlands to an observant Jewish family, which had lived in Amsterdam for over…
9. Moustache brush owned by a German Jewish refugee
1990.307.6 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.6
Date:
use: approximately 1907-approximately 1917
… into the home of a family Albert knew as a student, and he was able to establish a new art business. Irene often worked with him, serving as hostess to a…
10. Soap bar acquired postwar by an Austrian Jewish refugee working for the WJC
2004.709.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.709.2
Date:
found: after 1945 May-1946
…Erich Maier was born on August 25, 1889, to Max and Julia Kohn Maier in Neunkirchen, Austria, where his father (d. 1929) was born. The family was…
11. 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
… into the home of a family Albert knew as a student, and he was able to establish a new art business. Irene often worked with him, serving as hostess to a…
12. Clear and white plastic eyeglasses worn by a Jewish emigrant
2009.204.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.6
Date:
use: after 1949
… the family escaped east to Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine) which was under Soviet control. Salomon worked as an accountant in a slaughterhouse and tanning factory…
13. Shaving brush used by a German Jewish refugee in hiding
1990.307.7_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 a
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
… into the home of a family Albert knew as a student, and he was able to establish a new art business. Irene often worked with him, serving as hostess to a…
14. Childsize violin and case of a young Jewish Lithuanian boy killed in the Ponary massacre
2006.88.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.88.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1936-1943
use: before 1943 September
… 50 miles north of Vilnius (Vilna.) The families had been there for five generations. Her parents were married in 1924. Moishe’s training as a lawyer…
15. Wooden hanger from prewar Vienna
2013.463.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.463.2
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1933
…, Kurt, on November 14, 1921. The family lived in Vienna and owned a clothing store, Moderne Bekleidung (Modern Clothing). In 1933, Klara’s maternal cousin…
16. Brown plastic eyeglasses worn by a Jewish resident of the Lvov ghetto
2009.204.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.7
Date:
use: 1941-1949
… the family escaped east to Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine) which was under Soviet control. Salomon worked as an accountant in a slaughterhouse and tanning factory…
17. Engraved silver cigarette case used by a Polish Jewish refugee in Russia
2009.352.2 open
Object | Accession Number: 2009.352.2
Date:
use: 1942-1944
… Białystok, Poland, on January 25, 1940; in March 1941, he was in Archangelsk, Russia. The family was later deported, with the other Jews in the region, to…
18. Yellow and brown plastic hair clip owned by a young girl in German occupied Budapest
2008.337.4 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.337.4 a-b
Date:
received: 1944
use: 1940-1944
… would be sent as well. She gave the soldier escorting the transport jewelry to allow her an hour to go see her family. He released Charlotte and told her…
19. 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
… coal and lumber merchant and Rachel, born in Russia, was a teacher. Tema had an older brother, Benjamin, and a twin sister, Eta. Although the family was…
20. Gold metal eyeglasses worn by a former resident of the Lvov ghetto
2009.204.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.8
Date:
use: approximately 1945
… the family escaped east to Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine) which was under Soviet control. Salomon worked as an accountant in a slaughterhouse and tanning factory…