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1. Bent metal shard saved by a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, British Army
2007.492.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.492.3
Date:
found: 1944 September-1946 July
… November 1943, the few surviving members of the 4th transport were transferred to Kaiserwald concentration camp near Riga. Fanny deported again on August 9…
2. Caliper used by a prisoner in a forced labor camp
2005.135.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.135.3
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 February
…, survived the war. In September 1948, she sailed on board the SS Samaria to Quebec, Canada. She met and married George Fine (Getzel Fingerhut), in Montreal…
3. Container used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.29
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
4. Bag and supplies used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.28 a-f
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
5. Pouch and medical instruments used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.22 a-j
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
6. 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
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
7. Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.27
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
8. Monaural stethoscope used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
2005.579.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.20
Date:
use: 1943-1949 August
emigration: 1949 August 26
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
9. Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.26
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
10. ORT Shanghai Course in Cutting Men's Clothing by M. Wacs
Object | Accession Number: 2005.229.8
Date:
creation: 1943-1945
… controlled Shanghai, forced most Jewish refugees into ghettos. Conditions were very harsh, but the family survived the war.…
11. Small heating device made from a cigarette tin for a Jewish British Army medic by fellow inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2013.482.2
Date:
received: after 1942 July-1945
… held in Dachau. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. Walter believed that he survived because he had more value alive than dead. In…
12. Medical field sterilizer kit used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
2005.579.21_a closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.21 a-g
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
13. Handmade metal knife used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
2013.379.7 right side
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.7
Date:
creation: 1944 October-1945
… that he knew many of the people and places from his own experience and that he and his family had survived due to the kindness of Schindler and others…
14. Wooden drafting triangle used by a Czech Jewish camp inmate
1989.303.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.16
Date:
use: 1941 December-1945 May
… that she would not survive. In April 1945, the factory ran out of raw material and work was halted. On May 5, 1945, the guards opened the camp gates…
15. French curve drafting tool used by a Czech Jewish camp inmate
1989.303.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.17
Date:
use: 1941 December-1945 May
… that she would not survive. In April 1945, the factory ran out of raw material and work was halted. On May 5, 1945, the guards opened the camp gates…
16. Pelvic calipers used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.4
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…. In September, Bruno and Margaret returned to New York, where he opened a private practice. After the war, Bruno learned that his siblings had survived…
17. Electric retinoscope used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.3
Date:
manufacture: 1893-1945
acquired: after 1932
…. In September, Bruno and Margaret returned to New York, where he opened a private practice. After the war, Bruno learned that his siblings had survived…
18. Set of 10 patterns for menswear
Object | Accession Number: 2005.229.7 a-j
Date:
creation: 1943-1945
… controlled Shanghai, forced most Jewish refugees into ghettos. Conditions were very harsh, but Ilie’s family survived the war.…
19. Quartz whetstone used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.7_c front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 c
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
… wife, Elli, and their sixteen-year-old son, Michael. The Heppners feared that Irene’s father, Jakob, would not survive the perilous journey, and were…
20. Hunting knife with leather sheath used by Lithuanian labor camp inmate
1999.155.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.155.3 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1944 July 09
…Survival knife with a leather sheath worn by Hirsch Birman, who called it a Boy Scout knife, following his escape from Kedhanen concentration/labor…