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281. Yom Kippur prayer book given to a German Kindertransport refugee by her father
Object | Accession Number: 2015.559.2.2
Date:
publication: 1928-1941
commemoration: 1941 October 16
Title:
Yom Kippur
Series Title:
Festgebete der Israeliten
Alternate Title:
Prayers of the Israelites
… their belongings, and arrested Hellmuth. Lore’s mother visited the police station daily in an effort to find him, and after several weeks learned that he…
282. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… families to live in a single room; food quickly became scarce. When German SS and police began mass killings of the Jews in Dokszyce in 1942, Rachel and…
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 … town by walls and barbed wire. German authorities forced several families to live in a single room; food quickly became scarce. When German SS and police…
283. Folding Fan owned by a Japanese aid coordinator for Jewish refugees in Shanghai
2003.464.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.464.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… restrictive Jewish polices. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the United States declared war and withdrew support for the Shanghai Jews. In 1943…
284. Tefillin pair and embroidered pouch brought with a German Jewish refugee
1990.223.1.2._a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.223.1.2 a-c
Date:
received: approximately 1927
… and her family. Several hours later, the Gestapo came and arrested Samuel and Max. After pleas at the police station, Max was allowed to return home…
285. Tefillin worn by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.2 cover on
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.2
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
…. Nachman once tried to smuggle in sacks of potatoes, but was caught and arrested by the police. They decided to execute him but an SS officer, for whom…
286. Embroidered blue tefillin bag carried by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.1
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
…. Nachman once tried to smuggle in sacks of potatoes, but was caught and arrested by the police. They decided to execute him but an SS officer, for whom…
287. Ritual slaughter instrument set: 3 knives, 3 cases, 2 whetstones, a bag, a band, and 4 cloths used by a shochet
1992.8.39_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.39 a-n
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
… interrogated several times by the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) who gathered intelligence on opponents of the Nazi state and policed racial purity. In…
288. Tefillin worn by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.3 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.3
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
…. Nachman once tried to smuggle in sacks of potatoes, but was caught and arrested by the police. They decided to execute him but an SS officer, for whom…
289. Henry Dressler papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.379.11
Date:
inclusive: 1915-2009
undated: 
… the bank was Aryanized. Henry then got a job with a luxury department store, Hirsch & Co. In October 1938, the family was taken to police headquarters…
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 … police headquarters and their passports were invalidated. They were taken to the railway station in open trucks to shame them publicly and deported to…
290. Rosenzweig and Ringelheim families papers
2000.226.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2000.226.1
Date:
inclusive: 1903-1995
…. It was only the threat of the NKVD (the Soviet secret police) to halt the evacuation if the Jewish soldiers were not taken, that prevented the Polish…
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 …. It was only the threat of the NKVD (the Soviet secret police) to halt the evacuation if the Jewish soldiers were not taken, that prevented the Polish…
291. Zvi and Eva Schloss papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.391.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1945
… wall behind the toilet for an extra hiding space. Two hours after it was finished, German police raided the apartment, but did not find Eva and her…
292. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers
2004.331.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.331.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1969
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… roommate, Mr. Crestaw, was active in the Narodowe Sily Zbrojne (National Armed Forces). The unit attacked police guardhouses, raided Nazi council meetings…
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 …. He lived in a one room apartment; his roommate, Mr. Crestaw, was active in the Narodowe Sily Zbrojne (National Armed Forces). The unit attacked police…
293. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. In June 1940, Edward was arrested by the NKVD (Soviet Security Police), tortured, and exiled to a gulag near Rybinsk on the Volga River. The prisoners…
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 … Lvov. In June 1940, Edward was arrested by the NKVD (Soviet Security Police), tortured, and exiled to a gulag near Rybinsk on the Volga River. The…
294. William Begell papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.40.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1947
bulk: 1930-1947
… the Jewish police and chief of the ghetto prison, and Liza worked as a waitress. Wilhelm attended a Jewish technical school and worked as a machine shop…
295. Salomon Slowes papers
2002.477.10 Oversize Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2002.477.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2003
… interrogated by the NKVD, the secret police. Salomon and another POW, Boleslaw Szarecki, worked in the camp clinic under the supervision of a female Soviet…
296. Magda Lapedus papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.250 | RG Number: RG-10.396
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1946
…, House 35, and said he would notify her when to go. A few days later, Hungarian police came to their building to move everyone to the ghetto. As they were…
297. Lindenbaum and Landau families collection
2006.226.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2006.226.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1945
… he took the couple to an open field and abandoned them. They were discovered and denounced by an unnamed Polish couple. The Polish police turned them…
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 … denounced by an unnamed Polish couple. The Polish police turned them over to the Gestapo who executed the couple near the Brudno cemetery. Their daughter…
298. Neuman family papers
1988.102.1 Oversize 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.102.1 | RG Number: RG-10.372
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1960
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  • Series 1: Neuman family papers 1923-1960
    • File 1: Chernivtsi ghetto identification cards for Beatrice and Erika Neuman 1942
      • Pages: 3
299. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection
1990.23.241 Box 1 Folder 25 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.23.241
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1990
… from anywhere, at any time, even from operating tables. Felix’s mother Jette was undergoing an operation. The hospital was warned by that German police…
300. Hana and Charles Bruml papers
1989.303.57 Box 2 Folder 34 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.303.57
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2001
… the camp. Fischer arranged for Karel to get a job in the ghetto order police. Karel stood on a street corner and directed the flow of people moving…