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1. Straight needle awl with an .875 inch needle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.21
Date:
use: 1925-1951
2. Anthropometer used to measure length of body parts in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.255.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: approximately 1920-1945
3. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.5
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
4. Electric motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.8
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1908-before 1943
5. Drafting kit with 18 drawing implements used by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.4 l-q front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.4 a-s
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
6. Shoemaker's finishing iron of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.4.7
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
7. Singer 13 sewing machine with a fiddle base used by a tailor in a sealed ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2005.50.1 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1880
use: 1939-1945
8. Siemens-Schuckert generator placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.20
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1902-before 1943
9. Spreading calipers from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
10. Cobbler's hammer used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.23
Date:
use: 1925-1951
11. Pelvic calipers used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.4
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
12. Shoemaker's round file of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.4.6
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
13. Hand crank, table top telephone from Sobibor railroad station
Object | Accession Number: 1990.291.1
Date:
use: after 1900-before 1946
14. Singer treadle sewing machine of the type used by a cobbler in Łódź Ghetto
1990.285.7_a-b back
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.7 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1900-approximately 1935
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
15. Treadle sewing machine with painted star of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.78.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.4
Date:
use: approximately 1930-approximately 1945
use: 
16. Needle packet used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.25
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
17. Red metal butcher scale with marble weight
1990.80.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.80.1 a-d
Date:
approximately 1900-approximately 1945
18. 7/8 double edge iron shoemaking tool used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.16
Date:
use: 1925-1951
19. Chain stitch sewing machine of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.78.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.5 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1900-approximately 1939
use: approximately 1900-1945
20. Shoemaker's finishing iron of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.4.8
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945