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1. Metal doorstop with a bas relief of 3 Jews on a red bench
2016.184.107 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.107
Date:
creation: 1800-1899
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Metal doorstop with a bas relief of 3 Jews on a red bench…
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2. Manhole housing from the Miła Street neighborhood in the former Warsaw ghetto
1990.293.1 a-b
Object | Accession Number: 1990.293.1 a
Date:
use: 1940 October 12-1943 May 16
…. The population of the 1.3 square mile ghetto swelled to 400,000 as Jews from surrounding areas were forced to move in. The food allotments issued in the…
3. Manhole cover from the Miła Street neighborhood in the former Warsaw ghetto
1990.293.1 a-b
Object | Accession Number: 1990.293.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1940 October 12-1943 May 16
… the 1.3 square mile ghetto swelled to 400,000 as Jews from surrounding areas were forced to move in. The food allotments issued in the ghetto were not…
4. Porcelain thimble in the shape of Fagin's head
2016.184.75 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.75
Date:
manufacture: 1989
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
5. Singer sewing scissors used by Jewish Romanian woman who was killed during a massacre
2017.218.2 top
Object | Accession Number: 2017.218.2
Date:
use: before 1941 July
manufacture: approximately 1930
… the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in summer 1941, Romania, a German ally, recaptured the region and many of the Jews in Bălți took refuge in…
6. Colorful Fagin fireplace tool holder with poker and tongs
2016.184.72_b 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.72 a-c
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1934-approximately 1936
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
7. Shovel head with a partial wooden handle recovered postwar at a mass execution and grave site in Ukraine
2010.443.42 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.42
Date:
found: 2005 August 17-2005 October 16
use: 1941-1942
… Hebrew. He asked to do outreach work with groups such as Roma, ex-prisoners, and Jews, and was appointed a liaison with the Jewish community in France. His…
8. Shield shaped shovel head recovered postwar at a mass execution site
2010.443.43 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.43
Date:
found: 2005 August 17-2005 October 16
use: 1941-1942
… Hebrew. He asked to do outreach work with groups such as Roma, ex-prisoners, and Jews, and was appointed a liaison with the Jewish community in France. His…
9. Wide rectangular shovel head recovered postwar at a mass execution site
2010.443.41 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.41
Date:
found: 2005 August 17-2005 October 16
use: 1941-1942
… Hebrew. He asked to do outreach work with groups such as Roma, ex-prisoners, and Jews, and was appointed a liaison with the Jewish community in France. His…
10. Kitchen pestle used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.18
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
11. Loom shuttle used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.22
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
12. Cleaver used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
1992.169.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.17
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… Germans announced that Jews had permission to hold High Holiday services. Moshe was suspicious and wanted the family to flee, but his mother-in-law, Alte…
13. Pfaff industrial sewing machine with treadle of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.3
Date:
manufacture: 1920
use: approximately 1930-approximately 1945
…-old Mordechai the Älteste der Juden [Elder of the Jews], a position which gave him a wide range of powers over the Jewish community. He was ordered to…
14. Green painted arched bracket recovered during the excavations of mass execution sites
2010.443.24-.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.26
Date:
found: 2005
use: approximately 1941
… Hebrew. He asked to do outreach work with groups such as Roma, ex-prisoners, and Jews, and was appointed a liaison with the Jewish community in France. His…
15. Singer Model 15 sewing machine and table used by Jewish Romanian woman who was massacred
2017.218.1_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.218.1 a-d
Date:
manufacture: 1927
use: before 1941
… the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in summer 1941, Romania, a German ally, recaptured the region and many of the Jews in Bălți took refuge in…
16. 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
… belongings were confiscated, and many Jews were sent to Siberia to work in labor camps. On June 24, 1941, Soviet forces fled as Germany occupied Kovno…
17. Tan spool and black loose thread used by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.31.2.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.31.2.4
Date:
use: after 1944 July-before 1945 April
… belongings were confiscated, and many Jews were sent to Siberia to work in labor camps. On June 24, 1941, Soviet forces fled as Germany occupied Kovno…
18. Spool of black thread used by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.31.2.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.31.2.5
Date:
use: after 1944 July-before 1945 April
… belongings were confiscated, and many Jews were sent to Siberia to work in labor camps. On June 24, 1941, Soviet forces fled as Germany occupied Kovno…
19. Pocket knife with leather case carried by a Jewish refugee
1992.8.29_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.29 a-b
Date:
use: 1910-1938
emigration: 1938
… noticed a change within society as people’s attitudes towards Jews began to change in response to the anti-Semitic policies of the Nazi government. The…
20. Bent metal shard saved by a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, British Army
2007.492.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.492.3
Date:
found: 1944 September-1946 July
… Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly severe restrictions on Jews. The government sanctioned anti-Jewish boycotts and enacted anti-Jewish legislation. In 1935…