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1. 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
… Jews. This legislation prevented Ernesta from receiving her degree. Berthold was able to graduate from University, but the law prevented him from…
2. Tambourine used by kindergartners prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.23
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
3. 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
… orthodox Jewish family of poor tenant farmers in Bohemia. He studied law in Vienna and worked as a bank director. Her mother came from an assimilated Jewish…
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
… Marta. But after waiting in line for several hours, she changed her mind. It was now after the curfew set for Jews and Charlotte was confronted by a…
5. Wooden hanger from prewar Vienna
2013.463.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.463.2
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1933
… policies were enacted that stripped Austrian Jews of their rights. Hermann and Klara lost their business and home. On November 10, 1938, during the…
6. Engraved lighter from a displaced persons camp
2005.417.2 open
Object | Accession Number: 2005.417.2
Date:
creation: 1948
… uncle, and Tibor was placed in a Jewish orphanage. He stayed there until 1942, when he was 17. By then, there were restrictive laws in Nazi-allied…
7. 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
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
8. 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
… Jews. This legislation prevented Ernesta from receiving her degree. Berthold was able to graduate from University, but the law prevented him from…
9. Pipe owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.18
… active in the German Jewish Youth Alliance. Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. In April, Norbert was expelled from law school at the…
10. Silver hair brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.4
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
… in Berlin sometime after 1936. After the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, life for Jews in Germany became very difficult, and in 1941, deportations…
11. Metal ski foot attachment brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.39 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.39
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… in March 1933 when the new Nazi government purged the civil service of Jews and passed a law to that effect April 7 with the first Aryan only…
12. Red container of used ski wax brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.45 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.45
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… 1933 when the new Nazi government purged the civil service of Jews and passed a law to that effect April 7 with the first Aryan only qualification clause…
13. Dartmouth Red ski wax owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.44 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.44
Date:
received: after 1938
… assistant judge in March 1933 when the new Nazi government purged the civil service of Jews and passed a law to that effect April 7 with the first Aryan only…
14. Child's hairbrush and plaid handkerchief used by a young Jewish Polish refugee
2012.249.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.249.1 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-1944 August 01
… boat. From there, Elze and Edik continued to Lvov, where they met her brother in law, Hugo Goldberg, his wife, Wanda, and their young son. A few days…
15. Woman's gold wrist watch kept with a Jewish concentration camp inmate
2009.360.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.360.1
Date:
use: 1943-1944
… him again. By this time, Hitler had become Chancellor of Germany, Kristallnacht had occurred, and the persecution of Jews was becoming increasingly…
16. Engraved lighter made by a Jewish forced laborer
2019.428.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2019.428.2
Date:
creation: 1941-1944
… immigration of Jews to Palestine in defiance of British laws to restrict entry to Palestine. In 1948, the family immigrated to Israel, and in 1961, Friedrich…
17. 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
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
18. 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
…, the fascist Romanian government enacted anti-Jewish laws similar to those in Germany. In August 1940, the German and Italian foreign ministers…
19. Blue and white tube of sunscreen brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.47 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.47
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… judge in March 1933 when the new Nazi government purged the civil service of Jews and passed a law to that effect April 7 with the first Aryan only…
20. 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
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…