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21. Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee

2018.258.5 front

Date:: creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February

22. Motorboat used to take Jewish people in Denmark to safety in Sweden

Danish Rescue Boat Collection Image, 1989.222.1

Date:: manufacture: approximately 1930
use: 1943 October-1944 May

23. Partial card with 16 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee

2018.258.7 front

Date:: creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February

24. Partial gold dental bridge with crown owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee

Date:: emigration: 1939 February

25. Red leather sewing box recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish woman

2012.342.2 closed

Date:: recovered: 1945 May

26. Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee

2018.258.4 front

Date:: creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February

27. Pliers used by Lithuanian labor camp inmate to escape

2010.107.3 front

Date:: use: 1944 July 09

28. Medical field sterilizer kit used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker

2005.579.21_a closed

Date:: use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26

29. Handmade metal knife used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list

2013.379.7 right side

Date:: creation: 1944 October-1945

30. Card with 24 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee

2018.258.6 front

Date:: creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February

31. Workbook of clothing patterns drawn by a Jewish refugee for an ORT class

2003.174.8 front

Date:: use: 1946-1947

32. Workbook of clothing patterns drawn by a Jewish refugee for an ORT class

2003.174.7 front

Date:: use: 1946-1947

33. Card with 46 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee

2018.258.8 a front

Date:: creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February

34. French curve drafting tool used by a Czech Jewish camp inmate

1989.303.17 front

Date:: use: 1941 December-1945 May

35. Wooden drafting triangle used by a Czech Jewish camp inmate

1989.303.16 front

Date:: use: 1941 December-1945 May

36. Kitchen pestle used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl

1992.169.18 front

Date:: use: before 1941 September

37. Printing plate

1994.97.7 front

Object | Accession Number: 1994.97.7

…, Ferencz fought for compensation for victims and survivors and continued to dedicate his life to ending war and promoting Justice. He authored numerous…

38. Vernier calipers used by a Jewish Polish worker in Oskar Schindler's armament factory

2004.702.3 front

Date:: use: 1944 October-1945 May

39. Loom shuttle used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl

1992.169.22 front

Date:: use: before 1941 September

40. Detached handmade linen pocket

1992.169.13_b front

Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.13 b

… children for the neighboring town of Aran. Two months later, in December 1944, Moshe was denounced by other Jewish survivors, arrested by the NKVD (Soviet…

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Holocaust Encyclopedia

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