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1261. Japanese propaganda matchbox with a Japanese sword piercing the US flag acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.9
Date:
emigration: 1947 March
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
… concentration camp in 1945. Ralf's paternal grandmother and cousin, Gertrude and Peter, died in Auschwitz death camp. Gerda’s brother, Werner, emigrated to…
1262. Zehngut and Weiss families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.504.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2005
… whom was disabled. Julius Zehngut died of natural causes in 1942. Ernestina and Olga were deported to Theresienstadt, transferred to Auschwitz, and…
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 … to Auschwitz, and killed. Annie Tager’s husband deserted her, and she had no children. She survived the Holocaust, possibly spending time in an…
1263. Schatz and Bonder families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.429.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1991
bulk: 1940-1957
… residency. In 1944 Jacob was deported to Auschwitz from Lonigo via Tonezza in Northern Italy, after the Germany returned to the region. He perished during the…
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 … family established their residency. In 1944 Jacob was deported to Auschwitz from Lonigo via Tonezza in Northern Italy, after the Germany returned to the…
1264. Masha Rolnikaite papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.436.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-2015
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
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 …: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Majdanek (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp…
1265. Japanese propaganda matchbox with a Japanese plane bombing the US and British flags acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.10
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
… concentration camp in 1945. Ralf's paternal grandmother and cousin, Gertrude and Peter, died in Auschwitz death camp. Gerda’s brother, Werner, emigrated to…
1266. Belgian Nationalist Movement armband stencilled M.N.B. issued to a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.6
Date:
received: approximately 1942-1944
… 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…
1267. Star of David badge with letter J owned by Jewish Belgian couple
2003.318.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.318.3
Date:
use: after 1942 May-1942 September
… married and had two daughters. Mendel’s brother Henri was murdered in Auschwitz and his sister Lena and her children also perished. In June 1946, Lea and…
1268. Kurt and Hennie Reiner papers
2018.299.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2018.299.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1996
undated: 
… Lemberg, Poland. Numerous cousins, aunts and uncles were also murdered at Auschwitz.…
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 …, aunts and uncles were also murdered at Auschwitz. Biography by Judy Cohen and Adam Fielding. Source: Reiner Kurt and Reiner, Gary. Counting on America: A…
1269. Lyon hand stamp made to forge papers for the resistance
1988.77.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.77.11
Date:
use: 1942-1944
…. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. The family learned that Robert and Nelly were deported from Drancy to Auschwitz-Birkenau…
1270. Brust family papers
1992.13.11 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1992.13.11
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1955
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… and Eva returned to school. Most of Lilly’s extended family perished, many killed in Auschwitz concentration camp. As Soviet control over Hungary…
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 … and Eva returned to school. Most of Lilly’s extended family perished, many killed in Auschwitz concentration camp. As Soviet control over Hungary…
1271. Lyon town hall stamp made to forge papers for the resistance
1988.77.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.77.9
Date:
use: 1942-1944
…. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. The family learned that Robert and Nelly were deported from Drancy to Auschwitz-Birkenau…
1272. White plush hand coverings worn by a Jewish infant while living in hiding
2011.424.3_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.424.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1942 November-1944 September
… Auschwitz. Most of those in her father’s family who had stayed in Poland perished. After the war, Cypra, Wolf, Betti, and Laja settled in Andrelecht. Betti…
1273. Stolz and White families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.447.2
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2003
bulk: 1940-1960
…. Ernestine and her husband were killed at Auschwitz in 1943.…
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 … Auschwitz in 1943. Dorian White (born Isidor Weizenbaum, 1908-1986) was born on October 4, 1908 in Vienna, Austria to Heinrich (1877-1921) and Zlata…
1274. Faux alligator photo wallet used by a young German Jewish refugee
2013.486.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.18
Date:
use: approximately 1939-approximately 1946
… and kept them from four deportation transports. But the next month, they were sent to Rivesaltes camp where transports were loaded for Auschwitz. Ernst…
1275. Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
1990.300.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 b
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…
1276. Japanese propaganda matchbox with a caricature of FDR acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.8
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
… concentration camp in 1945. Ralf's paternal grandmother and cousin, Gertrude and Peter, died in Auschwitz death camp. Gerda’s brother, Werner, emigrated to…
1277. Radzinowicz family papers
2014.213.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2014.213.1
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1984
… that failed to come, they were deported to the Drancy transit camp in April 1944, and then on to Auschwitz on 29 April 1944, where they were murdered on…
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 … then on to Auschwitz on 29 April 1944, where they were murdered on their arrival. Anatol and Zofia settled in Łódź, where he became a film art…
1278. Garbor cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.15
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…
1279. Bois 1942 hand stamp made to forge papers for the resistance
1988.77.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.77.4
Date:
use: 1942-1944
…. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. The family learned that Robert and Nelly were deported from Drancy to Auschwitz-Birkenau…
1280. Konkowski and Blinbaum families papers
2012.473.1 Oversize Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1960
… her husband were killed in Auschwitz. During the war, Menachem and his unit had secretly removed all the materials and some equipment from the Blinbaums…
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 … 130 members through deportation and execution by the Germans. Menachem’s sister Sonja Linderman and her husband were killed in Auschwitz. During the war…