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581. Esther Lurie papers
1995.A.0989.1 Box 3 Folder 13 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.1 | RG Number: RG-24.022
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1995
… systematic massacres of Jews throughout the country. By November 1941, the surviving Jews of Kovno were imprisoned in a sealed ghetto surrounded by barbed wire…
582. Bella and Benjamin Herson papers
1999.106.27 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1999.106.27
Date:
inclusive: circa 1907-2006
… liberated by the Red Army. Benjamin returned to Łódź, where he found no surviving family members. He met Bella Sztajnhorn, who was from Zdunska Wola. They…
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 … Łódź ghetto in March 1940. Bella and her sister Róza survived the Łódź ghetto where Bella worked in the Marysin orphanage and then the Schwachstrom…
583. Ratafia family papers
2005.198.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.198.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-2011
bulk: circa 1930-1964
…’s experiences during the war are unknown. Gaston fled Poland wearing a swastika armband and carrying a copy of Deutschland Erwacht for cover. Zosia survived the…
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 …’s experiences during the war are unknown. Gaston fled Poland wearing a swastika armband and carrying a copy of Deutschland Erwacht for cover. Zosia survived the…
584. French Médaille de la Résistance with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish resistance fighter
2011.160.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.160.4
Date:
commemoration: 1940 June 18-1945
issue: 1960 May
…, Lucie, survived in hiding and later immigrated to the United States. Margot married, and later she and her husband immigrated to the US. In 1960, the…
585. Sara Ginaitė-Rubinsonienė papers
1996.2.6 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.2.6
Date:
inclusive: 1917-2018
…’s mother, and were killed during the Holocaust. Sara became a political economics professor, and later moved to Canada. Her book Resistance and Survival…
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 … Survival : The Jewish Community in Kaunas 1941-1944 was published in 1999. Sara's father Josif had cancer, and died in Kovno Ghetto in 1941. Her mother…
586. French Croix de Guerre with bronze palm awarded to a German Jewish resistance fighter
2011.160.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.160.3
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
issue: 1960 May
…, Lucie, survived in hiding and later immigrated to the United States. Margot married, and later she and her husband immigrated to the US. In 1960, the…
587. Miriam Klein photographs
2011.286.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2011.286.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1960
… to immigrate to Israel instead aboard the ship Kedma. She met Berek Dov Klein from Chrzanow who had survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald. The couple…
588. 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…
589. 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…
590. 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…
591. 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…
592. 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…
593. White silk handkerchief with handmade floral lace design brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.36 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.36
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…, and her father died there of starvation on January 20, 1942. Her brother Zachar and family survived in Palestine. Upon acquiring United States…
594. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1993.159.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.159.3
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945 May
… under a false identity. Mieczyslaw promised to find Marysia and care for her if he survived the war. Through the correspondence, Mieczyslaw learned that…
595. 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…
596. Silk circus print handkerchief brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.35 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.35
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
manufacture: approximately 1935
…, and her father died there of starvation on January 20, 1942. Her brother Zachar and family survived in Palestine. Upon acquiring United States…
597. White cotton lace handkerchief with a floral motif lace border brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.34
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…, and her father died there of starvation on January 20, 1942. Her brother Zachar and family survived in Palestine. Upon acquiring United States…
598. 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…
599. Concentration camp uniform pants with red triangle patch worn by Polish Jewish inmate
1993.159.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.159.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945 May
… under a false identity. Mieczyslaw promised to find Marysia and care for her if he survived the war. Through the correspondence, Mieczyslaw learned that…
600. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
1999.296.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.296.4
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
… sought their support against anti-Polish, Ukrainian resistance forces in the area. For 23 months, Shmuel lived as a partisan in the forests, surviving by…