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1. Manhole housing from the Miła Street neighborhood in the former Warsaw ghetto
1990.293.1 a-b
Object | Accession Number: 1990.293.1 a
Date:
use: 1940 October 12-1943 May 16
… another 35,000 Jews were killed inside the ghetto. In January 1943, Schutzstaffel (SS) and police units returned to take the Jews to forced labor camps…
2. Manhole cover from the Miła Street neighborhood in the former Warsaw ghetto
1990.293.1 a-b
Object | Accession Number: 1990.293.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1940 October 12-1943 May 16
…,000 Jews were killed inside the ghetto. In January 1943, Schutzstaffel (SS) and police units returned to take the Jews to forced labor camps. However the…
3. Hand crank, table top telephone from Sobibor railroad station
Object | Accession Number: 1990.291.1
Date:
use: after 1900-before 1946
… preparations for Operation Reinhard, the systematic extermination of all Jews living in German occupied Poland. In March 1942, SS and police authorities began…
4. Railroad spike from Treblinka concentration camp
2004.705.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.705.2
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1943
… there in November 1941 by the SS and the German police authorities of the Generalgouvernement in German controlled Poland. In July 1942, Treblinka II, a…
5. False tooth with a cavity for a poison capsule
Object | Accession Number: 2016.561.1
Date:
acquired: approximately 1939-approximately 1945
… the local police station to prove her Polish identity. After an interrogation, the German police concluded she was not Jewish, but decided to send her…
6. Loom shuttle used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.22
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…
7. Cleaver used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.17
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…
8. Kitchen pestle used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.18
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…
9. Railroad switch stand with a signal lantern from Sobibor railroad station
Object | Accession Number: 1990.291.3 a-d
Date:
use: after 1900-before 1946
… extermination of all Jews living in German occupied Poland. In March 1942, SS and police authorities began construction of Sobibor killing center, the second of…
10. Double slotted flower making tool used by a refugee
2003.446.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.446.4
Date:
use: 1941 June-1942 November
… Secret Police. They were tortured, mainly bitten, and after a few days transferred to Rumbach Street synagogue where they were held for several weeks and…
11. Tweezers used by a refugee to make artificial flowers
2003.446.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.446.12
Date:
use: 1941 June-1942 November
… Secret Police. They were tortured, mainly bitten, and after a few days transferred to Rumbach Street synagogue where they were held for several weeks and…
12. Short large ball tipped flower making tool used by a refugee
2003.446.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.446.9
Date:
use: 1941 June-1942 November
… Secret Police. They were tortured, mainly bitten, and after a few days transferred to Rumbach Street synagogue where they were held for several weeks and…
13. Slotted flower making tool used by a refugee
2003.446.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.446.3
Date:
use: 1941 June-1942 November
… Secret Police. They were tortured, mainly bitten, and after a few days transferred to Rumbach Street synagogue where they were held for several weeks and…
14. Double end flower making tool used by a refugee
2003.446.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.446.11
Date:
use: 1941 June-1942 November
… Secret Police. They were tortured, mainly bitten, and after a few days transferred to Rumbach Street synagogue where they were held for several weeks and…
15. Small ball tipped flower making tool used by a refugee
2003.446.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.446.8
Date:
use: 1941 June-1942 November
… Secret Police. They were tortured, mainly bitten, and after a few days transferred to Rumbach Street synagogue where they were held for several weeks and…
16. Short medium ball tipped flower making tool used by a refugee
2003.446.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.446.10
Date:
use: 1941 June-1942 November
… Secret Police. They were tortured, mainly bitten, and after a few days transferred to Rumbach Street synagogue where they were held for several weeks and…
17. Large ball tipped flower making tool used by a refugee
2003.446.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.446.7
Date:
use: 1941 June-1942 November
… Secret Police. They were tortured, mainly bitten, and after a few days transferred to Rumbach Street synagogue where they were held for several weeks and…
18. Spatula flower making tool used by a refugee
2003.446.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.446.2
Date:
use: 1941 June-1942 November
… Secret Police. They were tortured, mainly bitten, and after a few days transferred to Rumbach Street synagogue where they were held for several weeks and…
19. Medium ball tipped flower making tool used by a refugee
2003.446.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.446.6
Date:
use: 1941 June-1942 November
… Secret Police. They were tortured, mainly bitten, and after a few days transferred to Rumbach Street synagogue where they were held for several weeks and…
20. Triple slotted flower making tool used by a refugee
2003.446.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.446.5
Date:
use: 1941 June-1942 November
… Secret Police. They were tortured, mainly bitten, and after a few days transferred to Rumbach Street synagogue where they were held for several weeks and…