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1. Handmade wooden checkers set presented to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
1988.72.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.1
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
…. From 1944 to 1945, he was the executive secretary of the Combined Pulp and Paper Commission of the Combined Raw Materials Board. The war in Europe ended…
2. Miniature ceramic doll with a crocheted dress previously owned by Roszi Landesmann
2008.337.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.337.5
Date:
received: 1944
…Tiny doll sent to Charlotte Landesmann Hirsch by her 16 year old sister, Roszi, shortly before Roszi and other family members were executed by German…
3. Kiki the monkey puppet used by a young US soldier to entertain children in a liberated internment camp
2009.203.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.203.2
Date:
use: 1944 September 09
… could be continued. In the superb execution of its tactical mission, the Company acted in the best military tradition of the Armed Forces of the United…
4. A stuffed koala bear, named Bear, carried by Gisela Marx Eden
2013.476.8 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.476.8 a-b
Date:
use: 1939 August
… in New York. She worked as a nurse, file clerk, and executive secretary. Gisela met John Peter Eden (1923-2013) at a British social club event. John…
5. Miniature doll's suitcase given postwar to Jewish child who had lived in hiding as a Polish Catholic
Object | Accession Number: 1992.82.4
Date:
received: approximately 1948
…, but Emanuel was arrested at the Lvov train station and later executed. Laura and Selma were living under the aliases of Bronislawa and Zofia Tymejko…
6. Refugee, a honey brown teddy bear with a pink robe, owned by a young Jewish girl who had lived in hiding as a Catholic
2002.441.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.441.5
Date:
received: approximately 1946
…, but Emanuel was arrested at the Lvov train station and later executed. Laura and Selma were living under the aliases of Bronislawa and Zofia Tymejko…
7. Deutsches Land boxed card deck carried by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.3 a-ax
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1935
… as an execution site for Jews. Ellen’s maternal grandparents Eduard and Dorothea were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia on…
8. Plastic doll with handmade clothes received by girl in DP camp
2007.520.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.520.2
Date:
received: approximately 1947
…, 3000 Jews were murdered. On November 7-8, 1941, approximately 21,000 Jews were executed by shooting squads in the nearby woods. The remaining Jews, about…
9. Zebra push puppet made by a former Jewish Czech camp inmate
1989.303.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.20
Date:
creation: after 1945 May
…. After one report, Karel witnessed 7 men get executed for crimes including writing to a family member and possessing cigarettes. It was a large department…