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1. 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
…Bela Krausz was born on August 9, 1878, in Eger, Hungary. His father, Lajos Krausz, was a wine exporter, born in 1852, and his mother, Linka, was…
2. Bar of soap stamped RIF issued to an inmate of Auschwitz-Birkenau
2007.469.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.469.2
Date:
issue: 1945 January-1945 April 23
…Magda Roth (b. 1929) was born in Debrecen, Hungary, to Erno (b. 1898) and Hermina Roth (b. 1903). Erno worked as a mechanic for the Hungarian transit…
3. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
2005.301.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.301.1
Date:
received: 1944 June
…Erwin Dankner was born December 1, 1928, in Budapest, Hungary. His parents were Catherina (nee Braun, 6/1/1897-10/24/1976) and Henry (10/7/1897-12-1…
4. 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
…Charlotte (Sari) Landesmann was born on May 30, 1910, in Budapest, Hungary, to Abraham and Margot Landesmann. Charlotte had four brothers, Imre…
5. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
2008.226.3
Object | Accession Number: 2008.226.3
Date:
received: approximately 1944 June
… to the war, Alex owned a modern windmill. In April 1941, the Germans invaded Yugoslavia and partitioned it; Hungary was given the northern region that…
6. Engraved lighter from a displaced persons camp
2005.417.2 open
Object | Accession Number: 2005.417.2
Date:
creation: 1948
… father died when Tibor was very young. Their mother took them to Hungary, but had difficulty providing for them. Tibor’s older brother was adopted by an…
7. 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
…Bela Gondos was born on November 25, 1903, in Erdobenye, Hungary, to an Orthodox Jewish couple, Mor and Roza Feuerlicht Goldman. Bela had four…
8. 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
… pressured Romanian diplomats into giving northern Romania, including Cehu Silvaniei, to Hungary. The Hungarians began conscripting Romanian Jews to work in…
9. 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
… Cileoghedz. In March 1944, Germany occupied Hungary. The family decided to go back to Slovakia, but was captured by border police who turned them over to the…
10. 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
…Bela Gondos was born on November 25, 1903, in Erdobenye, Hungary, to an Orthodox Jewish couple, Mor and Roza Feuerlicht Goldman. Bela had four…
11. Rotbart Mond-Extra safety razor with blade used by a Romanian Jewish prisoner
Object | Accession Number: 2012.453.1 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
manufacture: approximately 1930
… 1940, the German and Italian foreign ministers pressured Romanian diplomats into giving northern Romania, including Nagybanya, to Hungary. The Hungarians…
12. Woman's engraved gold wrist watch given to one inmate by another in Auschwitz
2009.119.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.119.2
Date:
received: approximately 1945 January
… with flour and food. In March 1944, when Hungary was invaded by the Germans, Esther joined her older sister, Zipporah (b. 1920), in Budapest and enlisted…
13. 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
…Laszlo Weisz was born on January 20, 1913. His wife, Edit Neubart, was born on October 9, 1917, in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. They had a son, Peter…