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1. Hand crafted wooden pull toy of a Jewish man praying
2016.184.566 c 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.566 a-c
Date:
creation: approximately 1800
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…
2. Cries of London Snap playing cards and box with images of street peddlers
2016.184.711 a-b top
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.711 a-ac
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1945-approximately 1950
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…
3. Jointed wooden rod puppet shaped as a Jewish man with a Star of David badge
2016.184.564 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.564
Date:
creation: approximately 1820
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…
4. Silver miniature tea set with 5 pieces owned by hidden child
2008.320.1_a-e front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.320.1 a-e
Date:
received: 1941
… ghetto. In June 1942, police rounding up Jews for deportation came to the apartment. Sophie told Elzbieta to hide under the bed, but Sophie was arrested…
5. Puppet of a Jewish man that squeaks when the stomach is pressed
2016.184.141 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.141
Date:
creation: approximately 1801-1900
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…
6. Schwarzer Peter playing card deck with German social roles
2016.184.132 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.132 a-w
Date:
creation: approximately 1890-1900
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. 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…
8. Disappearing ball and magic cup trick returned after 50 years to the cousin of a Jewish youth killed during the Holocaust
2013.319.1 a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.319.1 a-d
Date:
received: 1942 July
recovered: 1990
…. The occupation brought an increasing series of anti-Jewish repressions. Jews were not allowed to use public facilities, such as movies and parks, and in…
9. Carved wooden bison placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.41
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
… Szapiros, even though there were severe penalties, including death, for anyone caught hiding Jews. He had known Kazimierz Kaufman Szapiro (1888 – 1977) and…
10. Paper mache puppet of a Jewish man in a prison uniform
2016.184.139 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.139
Date:
creation: approximately 1941-1944
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…
11. Large doll with long blond hair given to a former hidden child by her father when reunited postwar
Object | Accession Number: 2013.459.1
Date:
received: 1945 September
… ghetto. In June 1942, police rounding up Jews for deportation came to the apartment. Sophie told Elzbieta to hide under the bed, but Sophie was arrested…
12. Shanghai Millionaire board game made by 2 German Jewish refugee children
Object | Accession Number: 2009.106.1
Date:
creation: 1946
… brother had to attend a Jewish school beginning in 1937 because Jews were no longer allowed in the public schools. He was told by his father to run away…
13. Stuffed toy monkey used to smuggle money by Austrian Jewish woman
2010.486.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.486.2
Date:
use: after 1938 March
… store. In March 1938, the Anschluss, or the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany, occurred. Jews were disenfranchised and no longer permitted to take…
14. Painted plastic doll given to a young Jewish girl in hiding in France
2015.489.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.489.2
Date:
received: approximately 1944
manufacture: after 1926-before 1940
… policies were enacted and deportations of Jews to camps in the east began by 1942. Renee and her father Abraham did not look Jewish and, with false papers as…
15. 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…
16. Large plastic doll named Marlene brought by a young Jewish girl to the Theresienstadt ghetto
1992.4.1 a-f front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.4.1 a-f
Date:
received: 1936
use: 1942-1945
manufacture: approximately 1935
… Orthodox Jews. Berthold was a successful textile merchant, from a family of cattle dealers who had lived in the town for over 200 years. His parents were…
17. Marionette of a Jewish man in a choir robe singing
2016.184.608 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.608
Date:
creation: 1801-1900
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…
18. Doll's offwhite hand knit wool sweater and pants with red flowers made by a young girl after her release from Theresienstadt
1992.4.1 a-f front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.4.4 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1945 May
… Orthodox Jews. Berthold was a successful textile merchant, from a family of cattle dealers who had lived in the town for over 200 years. His parents were…
19. Plastic doll named Zsuzsi carried by a young Hungarian Jewish girl on the Kasztner train
2003.198.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.9
Date:
received: 1942 December
use: 1942-1946
… go of their help and experienced food shortages. There were constant air raids and Judit and Anna had to go to a Jews only, less secure bomb shelter in…
20. Steiff teddy bear used to smuggle valuables out of Vienna
2014.350.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.350.2 a-c
Date:
manufacture: 1925-1935
use: 1940
… policies that stripped Austrian Jews of their rights were enacted. Hans’ parents, Julius and Netty, decided to leave the country. They began the extensive…