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1. Leather creaser used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.8 front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

2. Embossing tool with 3 wheel attachments used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.18_a-d front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

3. Wooden awl haft with chuck and ferrule used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.7 front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

4. Stitching awl with a 1.25 inch needle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.20 front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

5. Dark gray edge iron shoemaking tool used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.14 front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

6. Edge iron shoemaking tool used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.2 front

Date:: use: approximately 1925-1951

7. Leather creaser with a pointed triangular head used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.19 front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

8. 9/10 double edge iron shoemaking tool used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.1 front

Date:: use: approximately 1925-1951

9. Dark red shoe wax used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.24 front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

10. 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

Date:: use: 1925-1951

11. Curved needle stitching awl used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.4 front

Date:: use: 1923-1951

12. 12/14 double edge iron shoemaking tool used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.13 front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

13. Wooden awl haft with chuck used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.15 front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

14. Brown shoe wax used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.25 front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

15. 5/6 double edge iron shoemaking tool used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.3 front

Date:: use: approximately 1925-1951

16. Cutting nippers used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.22 closed

Date:: use: 1925-1951

17. Straight half inch stitching awl used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.10 front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

18. Stitching awl with a 1 inch curved needle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.9 front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

19. Leather creaser with an grooved head engraved 6 used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.12 front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

20. 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

Date:: use: 1925-1951

21. Cobbler's hammer used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.23 front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

22. Leather creaser with a curved needle point head used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.11 front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

23. Dark brown whetstone used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.6 front

Date:: use: 1928-1980

24. Steel pliers used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

2004.523.17 front

Date:: use: 1925-1951

25. Brown button with the US Navy seal

2005.416.17 front

Date:: use: approximately 1945

26. Plastic button with metal eagle owned by a US soldier

2005.416.14 front

Date:: received: approximately 1941-1946

27. Singer sewing scissors used by Jewish Romanian woman who was killed during a massacre

Date:: use: before 1941 July
manufacture: approximately 1930

28. Solingen hunting knife with sheath presented to US military aid worker by liberated inmates

1988.112.64_a front

Date:: received: 1945 April-1945 May

29. Speculum owned by a German emigre and US Army medic

Object | Accession Number: 2003.452.2 a-b

…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.…

30. German marching compass in a case taken from an SS officer by a US soldier

2000.598.2 closed

Date:: found: approximately 1945 May
manufacture: after 1930-before 1945

31. US Army soldier's gold button with an embossed eagle

2005.416.18 front

Date:: unavailable:

32. False tooth with a cavity for a poison capsule

Date:: acquired: approximately 1939-approximately 1945

33. Electric retinoscope used by a Jewish German US Army medic

2003.451.3 front

Date:: manufacture: 1893-1945
acquired: after 1932

34. Pelvic calipers used by a Jewish German US Army medic

2003.451.4 front

Date:: acquired: 1932-1945

35. US Army soldier's gold button with square cut center

Date:: unavailable:

36. Butter knife owned by a Romanian Jewish family

2014.490.5 side a

Date:: manufacture: 1900-1930

37. Monaural wooden stethoscope used by a Jewish German refugee and US Army medic

Date:: acquired: after 1932

38. Table knife owned by a Romanian Jewish family

2014.490.4 side a

Date:: manufacture: 1900-1930

39. Singer Model 15 sewing machine and table used by Jewish Romanian woman who was massacred

2017.218.1_a-d front

Date:: manufacture: 1927
use: before 1941

40. Gray wood and metal ladder used while in hiding by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate

Date:: use: 1945 January 20-1945 January 26

41. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic

Date:: acquired: 1932-1945

42. Brown button with the US Navy seal

2005.416.16 front

Date:: use: approximately 1945

43. Leitz Stativ VI compound brass microscope, case, and accessories used by a Jewish family

2003.120.2_a front

Date:: manufacture: 1914 September 22

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