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921. Castle-shaped Havdalah spice box (besamim) owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.5
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1850-approximately 1935
emigration: 1939-1949
… August 14, Japan surrendered to the US. The Kupinski family learned that Slawa’s brothers had survived in France, but that her parents were killed in the…
922. Striped tallit worn by two Hungarian rabbis
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.6 b
Date:
received: 1923 December 06
use: 1923 December 06-1952 March 29
… to death in a sanitarium after the nurse who was caring for her began stealing her food. Ferenc, his wife, and daughter survived the war in hiding and…
923. Air Raid Service warden armband used prewar by Dutch Jewish resistance member
Object | Accession Number: 2013.437.3
Date:
use: approximately 1936-1940 May
… the Red Cross office to view the lists of those had survived the war. Some of Leo’s paternal aunts and uncles had survived, but most of their family had…
924. Porges family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.580.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1947
… met Lucie Eisenstab. Lucie and her family were also from Vienna and survived the war in hiding in Belgium and France, and finally, Switzerland. While in…
925. Coat design, Iris, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.4
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Iris
… both survived the war, and in 1949, they immigrated to the United States. Gertrud, 77, died in July 1978, in Philadelphia. Dorit, 75, died on December 5…
926. Markheim, Feldman, Orzech, and Silberspitz families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.319.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-2000
… family immigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles, California where they were reunited with Michael’s surviving siblings. Most of…
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 … United States and settled in Los Angeles, California where they were reunited with Michael’s surviving siblings. Most of Michael’s immediate family…
927. Child’s diamond patterned collar set brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.17_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.17 a-b
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…
928. Child's pith helmet acquired in India during the journey to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.27 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.27
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
received: 1941 January
…, and her father died there of starvation on January 20, 1942. Her brother Zachar and family survived in Palestine. Upon acquiring United States…
929. Moritz and Hildegard Henschel papers
2003.361.1 Box 2 Folder 8 Image 116
Document | Accession Number: 2003.361.1 | RG Number: RG-24.021
Date:
inclusive: 1879-2001
…, and disease and starvation were widespread. Moritz and Hildegard survived by receiving food parcels from Sweden and keeping a low profile. They were…
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 … were produced. Moritz and Hildegard survived Theresienstadt, in part because of food parcels sent to them from Sweden and by keeping a low profile…
930. Single hand tefillin
Object | Accession Number: 2012.244.5
Date:
emigration: 1940
… surname to Werner. Egon’s parents had survived the war in hiding in Berlin. In 1947, they arrived in the US and settled in Baltimore, Maryland. Egon…