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1. Sanitary napkin

1998.185.2 front

Date:: 1940-1945

2. Stern and Pächter family papers

1994.A.0016.2 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 39

Date:: inclusive: circa 1939-1989
undated:
Special Collection:: Save Their Stories

3. Maria Ryder papers

Date:: creation: 1939-1944

4. Lilly Isaacs diaries and photographs

1995.88.5 Book Enclosure Box 1 Folder 25

Date:: inclusive: 1940-1946
Special Collection:: Save Their Stories

5. Blue envelope with German censorship marks mailed to the US by a Jewish woman

Date:: postmark: 1940 October 24

6. Brown cloth and leather trimmed suitcase used by an American internee

2018.426.2 3/4 view

Date:: use: 1939-1945 December

7. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand memorializing the destruction of Jewish culture during the Holocaust

2009.400.11 front

Date:: creation: 2003
depiction: 1939-1945
Artwork Title:: Temple Ruins

8. 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

Date:: creation: 1997
depiction: 1939-1945
Artwork Title:: Broken Promise

9. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor

1997.30.1 front

Date:: issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September

10. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor

1997.30.2 front

Date:: issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September

11. Epitaph and drawing of tombstones of friends buried at Gurs internment camp made by an inmate

2004.233.3 front

Date:: creation: 1940 October-1941 September
Artwork Title:: Those Left Behind

12. Colored pencil drawing of barracks at Gurs internment camp made by an inmate

2004.233.5 front

Date:: creation: 1940 October-1941 September
Artwork Title:: Barracks at Camp de Gurs

13. Watercolor scene of barracks and snowy mountains at Gurs internment camp made by an inmate

2004.233.4 front

Date:: creation: 1940 October-1941 September
Artwork Title:: HP II Camp of Gurs

14. Book of musical compositions transcribed by a female Jewish musician

Date:: creation: 1937-1941
recovered: approximately 1945 June

15. Small straw purse made in Gurs internment camp for a German Jewish prisoner

2004.233.2 front

Date:: received: 1940 October-1941 September

16. Star of David badge with word Jude issued to an inmate of Łódź ghetto

1990.31.9 front

Date:: use: 1939-1945

17. Envelope postmarked Warsaw and New York 1940 saved by a Jewish Lithuanian concentration camp survivor

Date:: postmark: 1940 December 20
postmark: 1940 December 25
postmark: 1940 December 26

18. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark note acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor

1990.31.6 front

Date:: issue: 1940 May 15

19. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note issued to a Polish Jewish woman

2018.31.2 front

Date:: issue: 1940 July-1944 August 21

20. Masha Rolnikaite papers

Date:: inclusive: circa 1930-2015

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