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921. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.5
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…. In September, Bruno and Margaret returned to New York, where he opened a private practice. After the war, Bruno learned that his siblings had survived…
922. Knit cardigan with decorative buttons and lining owned by a Hungarian Jewish woman
2018.409.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.2
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…
923. Defence Medal 1939-1945, ribbon and box awarded to Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.20_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.20 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1990
… War II Journey of Survival.…
924. Lenneberg and Brünell families papers
2004.566.4 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.566.4
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… barracks. She told the newcomers details of how those too weak to work were sent to the gas chambers. Ursula survived by living inward, so that what happened…
925. 1939-1945 Star medal, ribbon and box awarded to a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.19_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.19 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1990
… War II Journey of Survival.…
926. Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1990.222.1.1
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… 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…
927. Kessler family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.586.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1869-2015
bulk: 1914-1998
… Auschwitz where he perished. Ivan survived the Holocaust in Ecuador. Before the war, he was an electrical engineer who worked on the electrification of the…
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 … later deported back to Austria by the Vichy government. Hans was then deported to Auschwitz where he perished. Ivan survived the Holocaust in Ecuador…
928. Concentration camp uniform trousers worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate
1990.222.1.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.222.1.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… 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…
929. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
… starvation. Her son, Karoly, survived in a safe house protected by the Swedish embassy and her husband, Joszi, returned to Budapest after serving with the…
930. Zbigniew Antonii Piotrowski papers
2014.469.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2014.469.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1983
…. When the Polish army invaded in cooperation with Allied forces, Stanislaw joined them and eventually went to England, where he survived the war. He then…
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 … stayed with her until May 1945. His brother Staszek survived, joined the Anders Army in Italy, and eventually migrated to Australia. Zbigniew worked on the…
931. Schwarz and Rosenwald families papers
2017.167.1 Image 5 Box 1 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2017.167.1
Date:
inclusive: 1834-2006
bulk: 1920-1960
… them on an as-needed basis. The WRFA also helped all of Bertha’s surviving siblings and their families escape Germany and immigrate to the United States…
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 … them on an as-needed basis. The WRFA also helped all of Bertha’s surviving siblings and their families escape Germany and immigrate to the United States…
932. Plastic eyeglass frames, temple and lenses worn by a Jewish concentration camp inmate
2010.494.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.494.2 a-d
Date:
use: 1939 May-1945 April
… in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Weisswasser, Horneburg, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. Her family was killed in Auschwitz; one sister survived. During…
933. Sobibor perpetrator collection
Document | Accession Number: 2020.8.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1970
…, approximately 300 prisoners managed to escape and about 50 or 60 survived through the end of the war. Those who were unable to escape or whom were recaptured were…
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 … 50 or 60 survived through the end of the war. Those who were unable to escape or whom were recaptured were all killed. Following the uprising, the SS…
934. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport
2003.352.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.352.1 a-b
Date:
use: after 1938-approximately 1997
manufacture: 1938-1939
emigration: 1939 June
… Protestantism. Her son Guenther, who served in the German Army, was put in a labor camp, but both survived the war. Hilda’s father George, age 69, died on April 6…
935. Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.661.2 Cover
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.2
Date:
emigration: 1939-1947
… and brother-in-law, and their children. His sister, Elli, was living in Palestine. Another of Hugo’s sisters was married to a non-Jew and survived in…
936. Concentration camp uniform coat with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate
1990.222.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.222.1.3
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… 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…
937. Enameled cooking pot with lid used by a German Jewish family forced to emigrate
1989.306.12 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.306.12 a-b
Date:
emigration: approximately 1939 June
…, always, every single time I enter the building, in memory of all who did not survive."…
938. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
…. Eva met Aladar’s brother, Erno, who had been in a forced labor camp for over three years, then survived a death march to Gunskirchen. Elly and Erno…
939. War Medal 1939-1945, ribbon and box awarded to a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.17_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.17 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1990
… War II Journey of Survival.…
940. Cutting nippers used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.22 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.22
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…