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1. Hairbrush with a metal swastika
2004.705.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.705.9
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1903
… brush may have belonged to Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Chief of the Security Police known as the Gestapo in Nazi Germany. He was the most senior member of the SS…
2. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
2008.226.3
Object | Accession Number: 2008.226.3
Date:
received: approximately 1944 June
… Hungary. Hungarian police units deported many Jews into the custody of German police, who transported them to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where the majority was…
3. 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
… restricted Jewish persons, especially foreign born residents. On May 14, 1941, Charles was ordered to report to the police station in Paris. Because he was not…
4. Handmade tennis racket
2002.241.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.241.2
Date:
creation: 1939
… big because someone could have considered them deserters and denounced them. After some time the police inquired after Serenella and she had to go to…
5. Unused brown soap bar with scratches imprinted RIF 0367
1989.264.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.264.1
Date:
received: approximately 1944-before 1945 May
… was annexed, Frank and his family were arrested. They were later released, but had to report to the police twice a day for the next two years and were…
6. Partial pocket watch casing recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.9
Date:
recovered: 1986-1987
use: before 1942 September
… killing center operated by the German SS and police authorities in German-occupied Poland.…
7. Unused brown soap bar with jagged top imprinted RIF 0367
1988.150.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.150.1
Date:
received: approximately 1944-before 1945 May
… was annexed, Frank and his family were arrested. They were later released, but had to report to the police twice a day for the next two years and were…
8. 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.…
9. Cigarette case created in the Łódź ghetto
1996.107.1 exterior
Object | Accession Number: 1996.107.1
Date:
received: 1941 September 17
… Bernard Fleming. Translation of the inscription on the case reads: "To our dear leader, Bernard Fuchs, on his birthday from his O.D. [Jewish Order Police…
10. Unused brown soap bar imprinted RIF 0667
1991.215.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.215.2
Date:
received: approximately 1944-before 1945 May
… was annexed, Frank and his family were arrested. They were later released, but had to report to the police twice a day for the next two years and were…
11. Unused brown soap bar with broken corner imprinted RIF 0667
1991.215.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.215.1
Date:
received: approximately 1944-before 1945 May
… was annexed, Frank and his family were arrested. They were later released, but had to report to the police twice a day for the next two years and were…
12. 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
… of Police in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and in the late 1950’s, becoming a Branch Manager in Clarksville, Tennessee. Ralph was an active member of several…
13. 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
… of Police in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and in the late 1950’s, becoming a Branch Manager in Clarksville, Tennessee. Ralph was an active member of several…
14. Tremolo style Opera harmonica owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
2015.312.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.312.4
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1930
…. During Kristallnacht, Alfred’s father was arrested and taken to the police precinct where his head was shaved, he was only released because he was the…
15. 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
… occupied Lithuania. The police chief told Moishe about the murders of Jews that accompanied the German advance and the family moved out to the farm. Shortly…
16. Tambourine used by kindergartners prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.23
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… Yaffa, Moshe, and her brother Yitzhak. The police arrested the assailants, but freed them almost immediately. After the funeral, Moshe left with the…
17. 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
… Yaffa, Moshe, and her brother Yitzhak. The police arrested the assailants, but freed them almost immediately. After the funeral, Moshe left with the…
18. 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
…. In June 1940, Edward was arrested by the NKVD (Soviet Security Police), tortured, and exiled to a gulag near Rybinsk on the Volga River. The prisoners…
19. 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
… left to get the police, Charlotte decided to report to the hospital where a doctor told her to leave. She hid in a building overnight, and then contacted…
20. Circular silver 12 tone pocket watch style pitch pipe and case used by a cantor
1992.8.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.2 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1910-1938
emigration: 1938-1938
… interrogated several times by the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) who gathered intelligence on opponents of the Nazi state and policed racial purity. In…