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1101. Five dragon cigarette package cover collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.16
Date:
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
… concentration camp in 1945. Ralf's paternal grandmother and cousin, Gertrude and Peter, died in Auschwitz death camp. Gerda’s brother, Werner, emigrated to…
1102. Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families papers
2016.500.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.500.1
Date:
inclusive: 1886-2016
bulk: 1938-1945
… Marseilles. Julius was transferred to Gurs shortly after. Many of the family’s relatives were also sent to Gurs and were eventually deported to Auschwitz and…
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 … eventually deported to Auschwitz and killed. After Rudi was no longer permitted to attend school in September 1940, his mother offered his volunteer services…
1103. Medal of Remembrance of the War 1940- 1945, ribbon, and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.10 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
… Sonja and her husband were killed in Auschwitz. His wife Ita’s parents were hidden by an employee, Jeanne de Bruyn, and her family. During the war…
1104. Golden Circles cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.18
Date:
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
… concentration camp in 1945. Ralf's paternal grandmother and cousin, Gertrude and Peter, died in Auschwitz death camp. Gerda’s brother, Werner, emigrated to…
1105. Million cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.17
Date:
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
… concentration camp in 1945. Ralf's paternal grandmother and cousin, Gertrude and Peter, died in Auschwitz death camp. Gerda’s brother, Werner, emigrated to…
1106. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 2 mark note, found postwar
1986.33.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1986.33.2
Date:
issue: 1940 June-1944 August
found: after 1945 May
… ghetto, primarily to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. During this time, Ignacy built a bunker where he and his family hid to avoid the deportations. He…
1107. Rose Galek Brunswic papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.285.1 | RG Number: RG-10.061.01
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1989
… in Auschwitz. She also met a man whose mother had worked in her father's factory and he gave her buttons she had saved from there. In 1993, Rose, 73…
1108. Bela Gondos family papers
1989.202. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1989.202.3
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1995
… children: Andor, Peter, Tamas, and his maternal aunt Sarolta Feuerlicht had all been killed in Auschwitz in 1944. Bela’s brother Sandor was taken by the…
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 … one brother-in-law were deported to Auschwitz and perished. Scope and content of collection The Bela Gondos family papers consist of biographical…
1109. White badge with an inverted red triangle and number 1896 worn by a gay concentration camp inmate
2012.482.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.482.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940 May-approximately 1945 April
… Sachsenhausen as "the 'Auschwitz' for homosexuals." Gay prisoners were assigned to their own block and had to obey special constraints, such as always sleeping…
1110. Freud family papers
2010.401.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2010.401.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2004
bulk: 1919-1954
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… from Vienna to Theresienstadt concentration camp. From there she was deported to Auschwitz where she perished. Esti continued her work as a speech…
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 … there she was deported to Auschwitz where she perished. Esti continued her work as a speech therapist in New York, and in 1952, at the age of 56, she…
1111. Tool used to classify hair color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 a
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…. Mengele was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, in order to perform experiments on Jewish and Roma twins and dwarves…
1112. Small metal coffeepot used by a Yugoslavian family
2017.609.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.609.5
Date:
acquired: before 1941 April 06
… and killed in the spring of 1942, likely in Auschwitz. Esther was able to avoid deportation and stayed in Osijek until May, when she travelled to Hvar…
1113. Identification case used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
2015.533.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2015.533.2
Date:
use: 1939-1941
… Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach while on an outing with friends. Sigrid had been deported to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland, and Bergen-Belsen…
1114. Wooden perfume bottle holder with recessed designs owned by a Yugoslavian family
2017.609.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.609.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: before 1941 April 06
… and killed in the spring of 1942, likely in Auschwitz. Esther was able to avoid deportation and stayed in Osijek until May, when she travelled to Hvar…
1115. Ghetto in Dabrowa Gornicza and Bedzin
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Film | Accession Number: 2003.473.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3837 | Film ID: 2661
Film Title:
Zydzi Polscy
Date:
Event: 1941-1942?
Duration:
00:10:56
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… Gornicza. Dabrowa Gornicza is in the vicinity of Auschwitz (Dabrowa is pronounced "Dombrova"). USHMM Photo Archive image #29876, obtained from Bildarchiv…
1116. Four child's playthings: a handkerchief, glass bear, and two seashells, and a box used by a young Jewish Polish refugee
2012.249.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.249.2 a-f
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-1944 August 01
… sister, were transported to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered. Her brother, Avraham, did survive. Emil’s sisters and their families had also gone…
1117. Two miniature child's playthings, a pillow and a wooden shoe, and a box used by a young Jewish Polish refugee
2012.249.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.249.3 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-1944 August 01
… sister, were transported to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered. Her brother, Avraham, did survive. Emil’s sisters and their families had also gone…
1118. Star of David yellow cloth badge printed with Jude, worn by an Austrian Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2018.102.2
Date:
use: approximately 1941-approximately 1942
… camp near Berlin, the Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp in Poland, and the Gleiwitz III concentration camp in Germany). Although they did not know each…
1119. Small handsewn stuffed brown and yellow dog brought by a German Jewish girl to Theresienstadt
1996.76.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.76.2
Date:
received: approximately 1935-1943
… killed upon arrival in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her uncle Manfred was killed in 1943. In late 1945, Jutta was sent to a British rest home for Jewish children in…
1120. Fred Strauss papers
2015.533.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2015.533.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1947
… Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach while on an outing with friends. Sigrid had been deported to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland, and Bergen-Belsen…