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1. Three-headed elephant sterling silver matchbox
2001.283.3 open
Object | Accession Number: 2001.283.3
… Dymant’s wartime work for Walther C. Többens in Warsaw under her Christian alias; and the Christian aliases of some of Zofia’s relatives. Jakob Dymant…
2. Sterling silver cigarette case with an etched Japanese landscape
2001.283.4 interior
Object | Accession Number: 2001.283.4
… Dymant’s wartime work for Walther C. Többens in Warsaw under her Christian alias; and the Christian aliases of some of Zofia’s relatives. Jakob Dymant…
3. Cigarette case with filigreed design of an airplane and a British flag bought as a souvenir in India by a Jewish refugee
2001.283.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.283.5
… Dymant’s wartime work for Walther C. Többens in Warsaw under her Christian alias; and the Christian aliases of some of Zofia’s relatives. Jakob Dymant…
4. Slug pressing iron placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
1992.240.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.25
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: approximately 1900
… in Wawer, now a suburb of Warsaw, with his wife Janina nee Niewiarowska (1898 - ?), their son Marian (1929-?), and some of Janina’s family members…
5. Swiss watch taken from the body of an SS guard by a concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2013.465.1
Date:
found: before 1945 May
…Abraham Lewent was born on July 27, 1924, to Raphael Nachman and Hena Lea Rozbruch Lewent in Warsaw, Poland, where both families had lived for…
6. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor
1997.30.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.30.2
Date:
issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September
…) Rosenblum Kacenelenbogen. Pinkus was born in 1882 in Dyvin, Poland (now Belarus). Hannah was born on January 5, 1902, in Warsaw, Poland. Pinkus had an older…
7. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor
1997.30.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.30.1
Date:
issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September
…) Rosenblum Kacenelenbogen. Pinkus was born in 1882 in Dyvin, Poland (now Belarus). Hannah was born on January 5, 1902, in Warsaw, Poland. Pinkus had an older…
8. Cigarette lighter with Polish coins given to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
1988.72.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.5
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… for survival. ORT was most active in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania. In Warsaw, the German authorities only allowed…
9. Plastic eyeglass frames, temple and lenses worn by a Jewish concentration camp inmate
2010.494.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.494.2 a-d
Date:
use: 1939 May-1945 April
… processing, he hid a photograph of his family in his mouth. He was tattooed on his left hand with the number 160304. In November, he was sent to Warsaw to…
10. 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
… in 1894 and Fruma in 1898 in Vilna. Mojzesz had brothers who lived in Warsaw. Fruma had two brothers and four sisters. Sonia, Etia, and Chava. Sonia…
11. 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
…. Ilona met Dawid Kronunberg, a survivor from Warsaw, Poland, and they married around the same time. Their brother, Tibor, also survived and, in 1946…
12. 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
… in a kitchen in Ribben. She disliked it there and moved to Warsaw, where she had a cousin. Soon she met her future husband, surname de Ratafia. Tema…
13. 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
…Isaac Ossowski was born in 1877 in Lubraniez, near Warsaw, Poland, to an extremely devout family and Hasidim, with a long tradition of religious…
14. Terry's Hedgehog pipe reamer used by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.5
Date:
received: approximately 1945
… Warsaw Polytechnic, Faculty of Architecture. He had completed two semesters when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Edward joined the Polish…
15. Brown strap wrist watch worn postwar by a former labor camp inmate and aid worker
1999.155.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.155.2
Date:
received: approximately 1945 July
… 8, 1945, Hirsch was at a train station in Warsaw, watching celebratory fireworks. He and Abel arrived in Vienna, Austria, via Czechoslovakia, in…
16. Bent pipe with a briar bison shaped bowl used by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.4
Date:
use: after 1944
… Warsaw Polytechnic, Faculty of Architecture. He had completed two semesters when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Edward joined the Polish…
17. 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
… Warsaw Polytechnic, Faculty of Architecture. He had completed two semesters when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Edward joined the Polish…
18. Briar billiard pipe used by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.2
Date:
received: approximately 1943
… Warsaw Polytechnic, Faculty of Architecture. He had completed two semesters when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Edward joined the Polish…
19. Straight razor with an offwhite plastic handle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.5
Date:
use: 1928-1980
… retrieved the items and returned to the camp. The family was deported to Warsaw and told they must move into the ghetto. Simon refused and the family took a…
20. Cigarette holder made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp
2003.64.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.64.1
Date:
creation: after 1945 May 02-before 1945 June
… killed in a concentration camp. Her brother Kurt and maternal aunt Sally starved to death in the Warsaw ghetto. Her aunt Flora was shot by the Nazis in…