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81. Small black painted scissors from the family capmaking business brought to the US by a Jewish refugee
2004.704.7 open
Object | Accession Number: 2004.704.7
Date:
creation: before 1938
… capmaking business declined and they could often not earn enough to buy enough food for the family. Regina got her family members in the United States to sign…
82. Pin box and 57 straight pins carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.14
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
… United States, arriving eight days later in New York City. She went to live with her aunt in New Jersey, where she finished high school, found work, and…
83. Partial gold dental bridge with crown owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.4
Date:
emigration: 1939 February
… visa to the United States. On March 27, Herta married Leopold. Herta’s family members also applied for visas, but their quota numbers were very high…
84. Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… visa to the United States. On March 27, Herta married Leopold. Herta’s family members also applied for visas, but their quota numbers were very high…
85. Partial card with 16 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.7
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… visa to the United States. On March 27, Herta married Leopold. Herta’s family members also applied for visas, but their quota numbers were very high…
86. Card with 24 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.6
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… visa to the United States. On March 27, Herta married Leopold. Herta’s family members also applied for visas, but their quota numbers were very high…
87. Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.5
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… visa to the United States. On March 27, Herta married Leopold. Herta’s family members also applied for visas, but their quota numbers were very high…
88. Schulder and Sons furrier’s knife brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.3
Date:
use: approximately 1924-1996
… piano. These incidents increased Isidor’s desire to get his family to the United States, but there were many obstacles barring their escape. These…
89. 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
… by plane to the United States, arriving in Chicago on September 1, 1949; their daughter was born soon after. It was not until this time that she found…
90. Red metal butcher scale with marble weight
1990.80.1 a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.80.1 a-d
Date:
approximately 1900-approximately 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection…
91. Used Collonil leather oil brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.46 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.46
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Judy Gartner and Susan Oberfeld…
92. Hunting knife with leather sheath used by Lithuanian labor camp inmate
1999.155.3_a-b open
Object | Accession Number: 1999.155.3 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1944 July 09
… ahead. In February 1952, the Jewish Institution in Vienna ran out of eligible people to send to the United States. They pressured Hirsch and Abel to…
93. 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
… by plane to the United States, arriving in Chicago on September 1, 1949; their daughter was born soon after. It was not until this time that she found…
94. 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
… by plane to the United States, arriving in Chicago on September 1, 1949; their daughter was born soon after. It was not until this time that she found…
95. Set of scale weights brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.7 a-i front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.7 a-i
Date:
use: approximately 1924-1996
… piano. These incidents increased Isidor’s desire to get his family to the United States, but there were many obstacles barring their escape. These…
96. Wooden box, insert, and welding torch tips from the Dora Mittelbau V2 factory
2007.486.28_a-o open
Object | Accession Number: 2007.486.28 a-p
Date:
acquired: 1945 April-1945 July 05
… joined the Merchant Marines. In 1944, Chester entered the United States Army and served in the Army Transport System (ATS), where skills he learned in his…
97. Rittershausen fur sewing machine brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.1_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.1 a-d
Date:
manufacture: 1911-1938
use: approximately 1924-1996
… piano. These incidents increased Isidor’s desire to get his family to the United States, but there were many obstacles barring their escape. These…
98. Pliers used by Lithuanian labor camp inmate to escape
2010.107.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.107.3
Date:
use: 1944 July 09
…. In 1958, she went to the United States as an exchange student in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She moved to New York City and worked in various hospitals…
99. Leitz Stativ VI compound brass microscope, case, and accessories used by a Jewish family
2003.120.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.120.2 a-j
Date:
manufacture: 1914 September 22
…’s brother Gerhard had reached the United States in November 1940, and settled in Chicago. He Americanized his name to Gerard Bloomfield. Gerard was also an…
100. Wound ball of thread used by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.31.2.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.31.2.3
Date:
use: after 1944 July-before 1945 April
… asked her to come to the United States. Masha’s intent was to go to Israel, but her uncle convinced her to come to the US first. It took several years…