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1. Knife taken from a German soldier and acquired by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.10
Date:
received: approximately 1944
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
2. WWI anti-aircraft gun fuse fragment owned by a Jewish German soldier
2011.259.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.2
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1916
…Carl Werner Lenneberg (1899-1989) was born on November 5, 1899 in Remscheid, Germany and had an older brother Georg (b. 1898). Their father, and…
3. Brass knuckles used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.5
Date:
use: 1941-1945
… landowner, whose land they rented. On September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. Salek was mobilized into the 19th Infantry Battalion, Polish Army…
4. Brass knuckles acquired by a Jewish American soldier
1989.4.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.4.2
Date:
found: after 1945 April 26-before 1946 January 23
… school. He worked at an Austrian paper export company. On March 12, 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. Walter and his family had their citizenship…
5. Mauser P38 pistol found buried in the Kampinos Forest near Warsaw
1992.134.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.134.4
Date:
manufacture: after 1941-before 1944
found: after 1960-before 1965
…Oberndorf am Neckar (Germany)…
6. 6.35mm Mauser 1934 pocket pistol acquired by a Yugoslavian partisan
Object | Accession Number: 1993.167.2 a
Date:
acquired: 1945
…, descendants of Jews who had lived in Germany and France who were forced to migrate due to religious persecution. Lavoslav was named after his deceased…
7. Mauser HSc pistol, magazine, firing pin, and mainspring used by a Yugoslavian partisan
1992.230.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.230.1 a-d
Date:
manufacture: 1940 December-1945 May
acquired: 1941 April 06-1945 May
… activities, but he was released due to lack of evidence. On April 6, 1941, Germany and Italy, supported by Hungary and Bulgaria, invaded Yugoslavia…
8. V2 rocket gyroscope
Object | Accession Number: 1990.49.2
Date:
manufacture: 1944
…Germany…
9. Shanghai Volunteer Corps nightstick issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.274 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.274
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
…Ernst Günther Heppner (later, Ernest Guenter,1921-2004) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), to Isidor (1878-c.1942) and Hilda (nee…
10. Waffen SS knife bayonet
1989.31.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.31.1
Date:
use: 1943
…Germany--Armed Forces.…
11. Whip acquired by an American soldier
1990.107.85 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.107.85
Date:
1945
found: 1945-1946
… concentration camp in Germany by US troops in April 1945, Vendig was appointed military governor of Dachau Landkreis.…
12. Semi-automatic Walther PPK pistol, holster, and magazines found at a concentration camp by US military aid worker
1988.112.65_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.65 a-d
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
13. Rubber truncheon used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.3
Date:
use: approximately 1941 February-1945
… landowner, whose land they rented. On September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. Salek was mobilized into the 19th Infantry Battalion, Polish Army…
14. Metal tipped whip used at Auschwitz concentration camp
1988.124.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.124.1
Date:
use: approximately 1942
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.…
15. Looped metal whip that may have been used at Auschwitz given to a Ukrainian journalist covering the Nuremberg Trials
2012.375.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.375.2
Date:
use: approximately 1943
received: approximately 1947 January-approximately 1947 April
… September 1938, Germany occupied the Sudetenland, a border region of Czechoslovakia. In March 1939, Germany invaded the Czechoslovakian provinces of Bohemia…
16. German dagger and sheath acquired by an American soldier
1995.39.2_a-b open
Object | Accession Number: 1995.39.2 a-b
…Soldiers--United States--Germany.…
17. German dagger and sheath acquired by an American soldier
1995.39.3_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.39.3 a-d
…Soldiers--United States--Germany.…
18. German dagger and sheath acquired by an American soldier
1995.39.4_a-d open
Object | Accession Number: 1995.39.4 a-d
…Soldiers--United States--Germany.…
19. V2 rocket booster rocket
Object | Accession Number: 1990.49.1
Date:
manufacture: 1944
…Germany…