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1. 6 cards with 24 mother-of-pearl buttons saved from a Jewish owned factory and given to a survivor 50 years later
1989.204.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.204.1
Date:
manufacture: 1937
received: 1987 July
… then Palestine. Fela did not want to start over, so Moshe decided they would stay. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was heavily…
2. Pin used to attach a Holocaust commemorative ribbon worn by a Latvian Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.5 a
… in the area. In 1940, the Soviet Army invaded and occupied Lithuania and the persecution of Jews became widespread. In June-July 1941, Germany invaded…
3. Charred electrical insulator from Auschwitz found by a Sinti inmate
1987.75.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.75.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-approximately 1945 January
…Hans Braun was born on March 6, 1923, in Hannover, Germany, to Oswald and Rosa Ernst Braun, a Sinti couple. Oswald was born on March 1, 1898, in…
4. 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
… transportation expert, whom he thought of as an uncle. Karel was a draftsman at a design company. On September 29, 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border…
5. Gavel used to close postwar Nordhausen war crimes trial
Object | Accession Number: 2014.165.1
Date:
use: 1947
…Dachau (Germany)…
6. Vernier calipers used by a Jewish Polish worker in Oskar Schindler's armament factory
2004.702.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.702.3
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945 May
… drafted into the Polish Army. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland which soon surrendered to the Germans. Sam was sent to a prisoner of war…
7. 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
…Henry Dressler (born Heniz, 1919-2005) was born on October 22, 1919, in Dresden, Germany, to Joachim (1888-1971) and Martha Miriam (1896-1956) and…
8. 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
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
9. 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
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
10. 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
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
11. Bag and supplies used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.28
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
12. 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
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
13. 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
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
14. Barbed wire
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.8
…The collection consists of artifacts and posters related to the history of Jewish culture in Germany and artifacts and antisemitic propaganda posters…
15. 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
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
16. 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
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
17. Pocket knife used by a Polish Jewish female slave laborer
1990.220.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.220.2
Date:
creation: 1944 November
… system where he traded his merchandise for food. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the Jewish section of Pabianice, where Yona's family lived…
18. Partial gold dental bridge with crown owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.4
Date:
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
19. Folding pocket knife owned by a Jewish family who fled Germany
2013.508.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.508.2
…Folding pocket knife owned by a Jewish family who fled Germany…
20. Offset lithographic printing plate depicting Percy Brand holding his violin
2009.297.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.297.2
Date:
use: after 1949-1985 August 15
… Orchestra. In August 1940, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia. In spring 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and, by July 1941, Riga was occupied by German…