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1. Buttons
Object | Accession Number: 2002.67.2
Date:
approximately 1944
… Estera that she had to do so for safety reasons because "all Jewish children have buttons like these."…
2. Miniature mother of pearl compass carried by an Austrian refugee family
2008.333.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.333.3
Date:
emigration: 1940 September
… 1933-34, Hildegard converted to Catholicism and the children were baptized. They were cared for by their nanny, a Catholic peasant, Emmy Burgmann, and…
3. Miniature ivory penknife carried by an Austrian refugee family
2008.333.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 2008.333.1
Date:
emigration: 1940 September
… 1933-34, Hildegard converted to Catholicism and the children were baptized. They were cared for by their nanny, a Catholic peasant, Emmy Burgmann, and…
4. Cast iron cleaver from cafe used as rendezvous point by French resistance
2005.174.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.174.7
Date:
use: approximately 1945
… near two orphanages operated by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants [OSE: Children’s Aid Society], Chateaus Chabannes and Montintin. Both homes sheltered…
5. Button from a World War I British military uniform found by a young Jewish refugee in Belgium
2005.379.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.11
Date:
found: 1938 August
emigration: 1941 February 21
…, Manja obtained temporary tourist visas and she and the children joined him in Belgium on January 1, 1936. Michel was able to re-establish his business…
6. Button from his military uniform given by a British soldier to a young Jewish refugee
2005.379.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.14
Date:
received: 1940 May 16
emigration: 1941 February 21
…, Manja obtained temporary tourist visas and she and the children joined him in Belgium on January 1, 1936. Michel was able to re-establish his business…
7. Button from his military uniform given by a British soldier to a young Jewish refugee
2005.379.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.13
Date:
received: 1940 May 16
emigration: 1941 February 21
…, Manja obtained temporary tourist visas and she and the children joined him in Belgium on January 1, 1936. Michel was able to re-establish his business…
8. Button from a World War I British military uniform found in the sand by a young Jewish refugee in Belgium
2005.379.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.12
Date:
found: 1938 August
emigration: 1941 February 21
…, Manja obtained temporary tourist visas and she and the children joined him in Belgium on January 1, 1936. Michel was able to re-establish his business…
9. 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
… Kindertransport [Children’s Transport], a rescue mission to save Jewish children. The registration was managed by Bloomsbury House, a group of Jewish aid societies…
10. Glass thermometer with cardboard case taken with Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.4 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938 December
manufacture: 1935
… Shanghai with her first husband and two children in 1939. Viktor met Gerda in Shanghai in 1941, when she asked Viktor to repair a candlestick. Years after…
11. Identification card template used by Gerry van Heel to forge identity documents
2010.441.105 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.441.105
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1944
…. In summer 1941, Jewish children were no longer allowed to attend public schools; the youngest children attended a Jewish school and Otto went to high…
12. Drawing compass and accessories in a case used by a young girl living in hiding
2005.428.2_a-c closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.428.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1942
…. Lea was hidden in a room through the rest of the war. Afterward, she lived in a Jewish home for children. Her parents and brother did not survive.…
13. Metric wooden ruler owned by a young Austrian Jewish refugee girl
2017.517.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.517.2
Date:
use: approximately 1938
… continued his button business. In 1926, he married Irma Dukes. Irma, the youngest of five children, was born in the Floridsdorf district of Vienna to Gabriel…
14. Drafting tool piece used by Mayer Altarac who fled German-occupied Belgrade with his family
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.11
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… other children in the group: Marki Azriel, 14, Gavra Mandil, six, and his sister Beba, five. In Kavaje, the head of each family had to register with the…
15. 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
… Kindertransport [Children’s Transport], a rescue mission to save Jewish children. The registration was managed by Bloomsbury House, a group of Jewish aid societies…
16. Slide rule used by Mayer Altarac whose family fled from German occupying forces
2002.438.4 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.4 a-b
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… other children in the group: Marki Azriel, 14, Gavra Mandil, six, and his sister Beba, five. In Kavaje, the head of each family had to register with the…
17. Tarp used to make a tent around a Sinti wagon
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.6
Date:
use: 1945-1950
…s. After several years, Rita divorced her husband (and ultimately left her children, as well) in order to move back to Germany to help her mother run a Sinti…
18. Travel sewing box with 16 floss spools carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2003.454.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.454.21
Date:
emigration: 1939 July 13
… children, Ludwig, Richard, Malwine (d. 1927), and Erna. Lilli’s mother Johanna was born in 1885 and had two sisters Berta Ohme and Fanny Bauer. Lilli was…
19. Travel sewing box with 16 floss spools carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2003.454.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.454.20
Date:
emigration: 1939 July 13
… children, Ludwig, Richard, Malwine (d. 1927), and Erna. Lilli’s mother Johanna was born in 1885 and had two sisters Berta Ohme and Fanny Bauer. Lilli was…
20. Drafting kit used by Mayer Altarac whose family fled from German occupying forces
2002.438.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.6 a-z
Date:
received: 1935
… other children in the group: Marki Azriel, 14, Gavra Mandil, six, and his sister Beba, five. In Kavaje, the head of each family had to register with the…