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1. Soap issued in Landsberg labor camp
1994.60.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.60.3
… family began a horse and wagon journey towards Latvia because they feared the Germans' arrival in Lithuania. The bridge that the family wanted to cross was…
2. Wooden comb and handmade paper case given to a prisoner by a friend in Kaiserwald concentration camp
2012.310.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.310.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1944 December 27
… separated from Liza and Cela. She and Raya were put into cattle cars and transported to Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga, Latvia. Upon arrival, the…
3. Violin, case and spare parts used by a Jewish Latvian musician while imprisoned in several concentration camps
2006.133.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.2 a-j
Date:
received: approximately 1921
use: 1940-1949
…Grunia Lewin (later Gertrude Levine Brand) was born on October 1, 1919, in Liepāja, Latvia, to a Jewish couple, Aron David and Lisa Chrapkowska Lewin…
4. 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
… the war, Viktor learned that Berl and Gisela were transported to Riga, Latvia, in January 1942, and were killed. Alfred escaped to Odessa, Russia…
5. 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
…Riga (Latvia)…
6. 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
… shot in the Ponary forest. The surviving men were sent to labor camps in Estonia, while the women were sent to labor camps in Latvia. During the…
7. 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
… fled Vienna on December 16, 1938. Fritz died due to illness on April 21, 1939. Sofia was deported on November 27, 1941, to Riga, Latvia, and then to Maly…
8. Gillette razor blade, cover and wrapper featuring King C. Gillette brought to Shanghai by an Austrian Jewish refugee
2010.240.20_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.20 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1938 December
… the war, Viktor learned that Berl and Gisela were transported to Riga, Latvia, in January 1942, and were killed. Alfred escaped to Odessa, Russia…