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781. Treadle sewing machine with painted star of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.78.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.4
Date:
use: approximately 1930-approximately 1945
use: 
…, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
782. Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of a large group of Jews living in an attic in the Łódź Ghetto
1987.114.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.114.2
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
A Garrett to Live in was a Luxurious Apartment
Alternate Title:
A garret in the Lodzer Ghetto
… train on August 29, to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where his wife and daughter were murdered. Upon his arrival, on September 2, Friedmann’s arm…
783. Unfinished jacket design created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.15
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
… the Gestapo. On October 29, 1943, Julius was placed on Transport 45 and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, where…
784. Silver hair brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.4
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
… Auschwitz concentration camp in early January 1943. Ruth and Walter were forced laborers and feared deportation. On January 22, 1943, three days after Reha…
785. Child's white blouse with red, yellow, and pink floral embroidery worn by 2 sisters prior to living in hiding
2008.349.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.349.3
Date:
use: 1940-1944
… Auschwitz. Most of the roundups took place in areas of Paris with a high concentration of foreign Jews, but the Mendels lived in a primarily Catholic, French…
786. Dreier and Tarnowski families papers
1998.A.0205 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0205
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
… Netty Dreier were both deported to the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1942 and to Theresienstadt that August. In October 1944 Netty was deported to Auschwitz…
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 …. In October 1944 Netty Dreier was deported to Auschwitz, where she died. Martin’s sister, Edith Dreier Marcus, moved to Sweden with her husband and…
787. Orbach family papers
2018.601.2 Box 1 Image 1 Folder 7
Document | Accession Number: 2018.601.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1952
… subcamp Kaufering until she was liberated in April 1945. She married Pinkus Penner (later Peter, b. 1904), a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau, after the war…
788. Ruth Loeb Forrest papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.333
Date:
creation: 1918-1945
… Brussels for ten months, and in April 1940 Ruth, her mother, and her brother sailed for the United States. Isidore and Karolina Lob perished in Auschwitz…
789. Laying of the cornerstone at the De Rijp condensed milk factory owned by Dutch Jews
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Film | Accession Number: 2016.79 | RG Number: RG-60.1781 | Film ID: 4141
Film Title:
The factory De Rijp laying of cornerstone -- home movies
Date:
Event: 1941 May 29
Duration:
00:23:17
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…. The children's parents, Louis de Kadt, 29 (born May 13, 1913), and Sonja Rita de Kadt-Swaap, 22 (born October 8, 1919), were murdered in Auschwitz on…
790. Gumpert family correspondence
Document | Accession Number: 2013.461.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1941
… to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed in 1943. Most of Walter’s extended family perished in the Holocaust.…
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 … on through December 23, 1942. The family believed that Isidor was deported to the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps and killed in 1943…
791. Stekler family papers
2011.156.2 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2011.156.2
Date:
inclusive: 1893-1970
bulk: 1911-1941
… was killed in a hospital, and her father David was deported from Vienna to Riga on 3 December 1941. He was later deported to Auschwitz where he perished.…
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 … Auschwitz where he perished. Scope and content of collection The collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, and photographs documenting the…
792. Sendzischew and Mottes family papers
2015.594.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2015.594.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1995
… neighbors in 1943. Israel, Esther, and Abram were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp where they were killed. Sala and her sister, Cesia, were sent to the…
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 …, but were turned in by their neighbors in 1943. Israel, Esther, and Abram were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp where they were killed. Sala and her…
793. Partially embroidered tablecloth made by a Belgian Jewish woman recovered postwar
2005.606.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.606.1
Date:
creation: 1940-1941
recovered: 
… was caught. She was arrested and sent to Mechelen (Malines) transit camp. On September 26, 1942, Salomea was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau…
794. Card made by two young internees to thank a US aid worker
2014.500.2 back
Object | Accession Number: 2014.500.2
Date:
creation: 1941 August-1942 May
received: after 1941 August
… Marjorie continued to run the AFSC offices in Geneva. As part of his work with the WRB, Roswell translated the Auschwitz Protocol, from German to English…
795. 621-1/84 Ernst Kaufmann
Document | Accession Number: 2019.87.1 | RG Number: RG-14.123
Date:
inclusive: 1928-1943
Alternate Title:
Ernst Kaufmann law office
…. Kaufmann was subsequently deported and murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp around 1943/1944.…
796. Preparatory sketch of figures working in a field by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.16
Date:
creation: 1957
depiction: 1941
Series Title:
Living Testimony
Artwork Title:
Preparatory sketch for Raiding a Potato Field, Kovno Ghetto, 1941
… was deported to Stutthof concentration camp; Muta, age 35, her young son, and her family were sent to Auschwitz, where they were killed on arrival. In…
797. Brick from a factory in Kőszeg, Hungary
2017.359.4 3/4 view front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.359.4
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1850-2015
… deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German occupied Poland. In March 1945, the Germans liquidated the labor camp. As part of the liquidation, 95…
798. Straw purse with crocheted trim acquired in Gurs internment camp by a German Jewish prisoner
1990.57.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.57.1
Date:
received: 1941 January-1941 September
… had been deported and murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Max’s mother and father met a similar fate. Hanne’s brother, who had emigrated…
799. Ilse Rothschild papers
1995.A.0004.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0004.2
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
…’s brother Ludwig Cohn (1907-1942) was interned at the Saint- Cyprien and Les Milles concentration camps, transferred from Drancy to Auschwitz on convoy 19 in…
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 …- Cyprien and Les Milles concentration camps, transferred from Drancy to Auschwitz on convoy 19 in August 1942, and perished. Ilse’s father died before the…
800. Coat design, Turin, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.6
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Turin
… the Gestapo. On October 29, 1943, Julius was placed on Transport 45 and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, where…