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901. Cobbler's hammer used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.23
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… became mentally handicapped. To survive, the starving family ate dead fish Simon found in the river. On June 22, 1941, Germany invaded Russia. The family…
902. Wooden awl haft with chuck and ferrule used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.7
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… became mentally handicapped. To survive, the starving family ate dead fish Simon found in the river. On June 22, 1941, Germany invaded Russia. The family…
903. Dark brown whetstone used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.6
Date:
use: 1928-1980
… became mentally handicapped. To survive, the starving family ate dead fish Simon found in the river. On June 22, 1941, Germany invaded Russia. The family…
904. 12/14 double edge iron shoemaking tool used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.13
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… became mentally handicapped. To survive, the starving family ate dead fish Simon found in the river. On June 22, 1941, Germany invaded Russia. The family…
905. Embossing tool with 3 wheel attachments used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.18_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.18 a-d
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… became mentally handicapped. To survive, the starving family ate dead fish Simon found in the river. On June 22, 1941, Germany invaded Russia. The family…
906. Max Amichai Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.307.13
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1989
… Irene’s father, Jakob, would not survive the perilous journey, and were forced to leave him in an elder care facility in Amsterdam. For the next month…
907. William and Bela Citron and Miriam Citron Burhans papers
2009.157.5 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2009.157.5
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2016
bulk: 1945-1983
… 1942. He would later learn that he, his sister, and his first cousin, David Zwirek, were the only members of their family to survive. After the war…
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 … only members of their family to survive. Lucia married Sam Berneman, a fellow survivor who had lost his family. They moved to a displaced persons camp…
908. Tefillin and green velvet pouch used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2006.285.4_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.285.4 a-c
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… 1959, also from Poland, who had survived the war in Siberia. They had a son in 1961. Isak died, age 77, in December 1980.…
909. Kenyan wood sculpture of two gazelles owned by a German Jewish refugee family
1989.306.14 right
Object | Accession Number: 1989.306.14
Date:
received: after 1938 July-before 1947 March
…, always, every single time I enter the building, in memory of all who did not survive."…
910. Death certificate for a Jehovah's Witness preacher executed by the Germans
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.3
Date:
issue: 1939 December 07
… was sentenced to death and beheaded on March 14, 1942. Few members of their Jehovah’s Witness congregation survived the war; over a dozen were executed…
911. Apron embroidered with a multicolored, floral garland recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.14
Date:
creation: 1939
recovered: 1945 July
…. She met Gyorgy Frankfurter, who had survived multiple forced labor battalions, in Vilmany in 1945 and they married in August 1947 in Miskolc, Hungary…
912. Peach nightgown decorated with embroidery owned by a Hungarian Jewish woman
2018.409.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.4
Date:
use: approximately 1933-2001
… survived Auschwitz. In 1955, Eva married Elihu Turgell (1930-?), and had a daughter. Elek, died in 1957. Lilly married William Bela Gach (born Bela Gacs…
913. Bootjack used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.4
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… helped many to survive with false identification papers. On May 9, 1945, the Red Army liberated the area and Tomasz (Timofiej) Marko yelled to them: my…
914. Refugee girls at the de Monbrison chateau in France
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Film | Accession Number: 2011.350.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1339 | Film ID: 2935
Film Title:
Quincy 39 -- Hubert Conquere de Monbrison -- amateur
Date:
Event: 1939
Duration:
00:24:12
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…. The boys were then relocated to other OSE homes and many survived the Holocaust. This film was discovered because one of the boys, Norbert Bikales, who…
915. Kenyan wood bust of an African youth owned by a German Jewish refugee family
1989.306.13 right
Object | Accession Number: 1989.306.13
Date:
received: after 1939 June-before 1947 March
…, always, every single time I enter the building, in memory of all who did not survive."…
916. Pink chemise with corded, floral lace appliques owned by a Hungarian Jewish woman
2018.409.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.3
Date:
use: approximately 1933-2001
… survived Auschwitz. In 1955, Eva married Elihu Turgell (1930-?), and had a daughter. Elek, died in 1957. Lilly married William Bela Gach (born Bela Gacs…
917. Prisoner id tag issued to a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.2
Date:
issue: 1939 September-1940 April
use: 1939 September-1945 May
… helped many to survive with false identification papers. On May 9, 1945, the Red Army liberated the area and Tomasz (Timofiej) Marko yelled to them: my…
918. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection
1988.132.4 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.132.4
Date:
interview: circa 1918-circa 1949
… would survive and he would marry her. On January 19, 1945, the camp was evacuated. The first night, they stopped at a barn and Welek found Hinde. They…
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 … the fence and wrote each other letters. Welek promised to marry her if they both survived the war. On January 19, 1945 the camp was evacuated and the…
919. Mobilization of Dutch troops; eviction of a Dutch Jewish family; Leeuwarden
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Film | Accession Number: 1998.187.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2253 | Film ID: 2271
Film Title:
Netherlands during occupation -- Ruurd Rodenburg -- amateur
Date:
Event: 1939-1945
Duration:
00:28:08
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…The De Jongh family did not survive Auschwitz. The film can be viewed at https://www.archieven.nl/nl/zoeken?mivast=0&mizig=317&miadt=158&miaet=14…
920. White kittel used by Rabbi Ferenc Hevesi on High Holidays
1990.245.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.14 a-b
Date:
use: 1922-1952
… Rottenstein, who had survived in a Jewish hospital. Erna was very ill, and died a short time later. Ferenc’s mother had been in the same sanatorium where he had…