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541. Container used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.29
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
542. Lola and Walter Kaufman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.54.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1978
… of her. She stayed with Sergei and his family and attended school. Lola’s maternal uncle Gedale had survived and was searching for Lola. He had been…
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 …’s maternal uncle Gedale had survived and was searching for Lola. He had been imprisoned in Lwow ghetto and Janowska concentration camp and escaped in October…
543. Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers
2018.463.1 Box 2 Folder 17 Image 53
Document | Accession Number: 2018.463.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1906-1993
bulk: 1920-1944
… perished. Their son, Franta Porges, was deported to an unknown concentration camp late in the war but survived. His son, Paul Porges, eventually emigrated to…
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 …. Rudolf also perished. Their son, Franta Porges, was deported to an unknown concentration camp late in the war but survived. His son, Paul Porges…
544. Chambré and Elsoffer families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.286.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1994
bulk: 1920-1950
…’s mother-in-law who survived the war in hiding in Belgium, and who moved to Portugal following the war; Otto Heymann, a friend in Brussels who was interned…
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 … de Ebro, and provided affidavits for his immigration to the United States; Regine Hahn, his sister Henriette’s mother‐in‐law who survived the war in…
545. Aluminum food container lid used by a Hungarian Jewish family on the Kasztner train
2003.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.3
Date:
use: approximately 1937-1946
… Hungarian Labor Service and was presumed dead. His brother Zoltan, who had emigrated to the United States before the war, was his only surviving relative…
546. Zarembski-Ferst-Kostanski-Wierzbicki families photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2002.232.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-circa 1957
… five survived. Her father, Menasze Zarembska owned a fur coats store on 20 Miodowa Street in Warsaw. Her mother, Nechama Chuma, helped in the store…
547. Defence Medal 1939-1945 and ribbon awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
1999.180.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.180.2
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1948
… in Landsberg displaced persons camp near Munich, Germany. They had survived the war by living under false identities as Polish Catholics in Milanowek…
548. Silver clothes brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.3
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
…, Ludwig and Clara, perished in Gurs. His mother, Elsa, survived the war in France, aided by her knowledge of French. She left France for the U.S. in 1948…
549. Joan Kent Finkelstein family papers
2009.376.1 front
Document | Accession Number: 2009.376.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2013
…, and her father died there of starvation on January 20, 1942. Her brother Zachar and family survived in Palestine. Upon acquiring United States…
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 … January 20, 1942. Her brother Zachar and family survived in Palestine. Upon acquiring United States citizenship in 1946, the family changed their surname…
550. Mixed media wall sculpture in three sections by Daisy Brand memorializing the betrayal and destruction of Jewish culture and religious faith during the Holocaust
2009.400.8_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.400.8 a-c
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1939-1945
Artwork Title:
Broken Promise
… Cross, they found an aunt and uncle, who had survived the camps, and they took in the sisters. They learned that except for one other aunt, their family…
551. SA brown uniform shirt with Rottenfuhrer insignia acquired by a US soldier
1988.99.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.5
Date:
found: approximately 1945-before 1945 November
manufacture: after 1934-before 1945
… survived imprisonment in Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Malchow concentration camps. Harry disliked his desk job and he and Ruth began a furrier business in…
552. Kelhoffer and Pomeranz families papers
2004.706.9 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2004.706.9
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1960
bulk: 1940-1950
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… liberated Boryslaw. Zbyszek, Sydzia, her mother, and sisters were among only 200 Jews from a population of 12,000 to survive. The war ended in Europe on May 8…
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 … survive. Zbyszek’s parents had been killed. After the war, Zbyszek and Sydzia settled in Gliwice, Poland and in 1947, had a daughter, Barbara. The family…
553. Silver hair brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.4
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
…, Ludwig and Clara, perished in Gurs. His mother, Elsa, survived the war in France, aided by her knowledge of French. She left France for the U.S. in 1948…
554. Peach floral printed chemise saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.6
Date:
received: approximately 1935-1940
use: 1935-1946
…, Pircsi, survived Auschwitz but died of tuberculosis in Sweden in 1945. Bela’s entire family perished in Auschwitz, except for his brother Zoltan, who…
555. Peach chemise with black and white floral appliques saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.5
Date:
received: 1934
use: 1934-1946
…, Pircsi, survived Auschwitz but died of tuberculosis in Sweden in 1945. Bela’s entire family perished in Auschwitz, except for his brother Zoltan, who…
556. Peach chemise with floral embroidery saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.4
Date:
received: 1934
use: 1934-1946
…, Pircsi, survived Auschwitz but died of tuberculosis in Sweden in 1945. Bela’s entire family perished in Auschwitz, except for his brother Zoltan, who…
557. War Medal 1939-1945 with ribbon awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
1999.180.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.180.3
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1948
… in Landsberg displaced persons camp near Munich, Germany. They had survived the war by living under false identities as Polish Catholics in Milanowek…
558. Masha Rolnikaite papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.436.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-2015
… his work as an attorney defending Communists, fled ahead of the German forces, and survived the Holocaust, as did her older sister, Mira. Her mother…
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 …, endangered both due to his Jewish background but also because of his work as an attorney defending Communists, fled ahead of the German forces, and survived…
559. C. Seelbach Co. gripper pliers brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2011.110.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.110.1
Date:
emigration: 1939 February 02
…, only Berthold’s mother in law Clara survived the Holocaust. On July 26, 1941, Julius was deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia…
560. Bag and supplies used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.28 a-f
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…