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1301. 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…
1302. 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…
1303. 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…
1304. Black leather bi-fold wallet used by a Jewish family in hiding
2003.318.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.318.2
Date:
use: 1942-1944
… 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…
1305. 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…
1306. 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…
1307. Stamp with Juif, French for Jew, made to forge papers for the resistance
1988.77.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.77.10
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…
1308. 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…
1309. 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…
1310. Antisemitic flyer acquired by a French Jewish child in hiding
1991.209.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.209.6
Date:
acquired: approximately 1942-approximately 1945
Artwork Title:
TUBERCULOSE SYPHILIS CANCER SONT GUÉRISSABLES…
Alternate Title:
TUBERCULOSIS SYPHILIS CANCER ARE CURABLE...
… was supposed to have been in was sent to Drancy transit camp, and eventually went to Auschwitz killing center in German-occupied Poland. Instead, Rudi…
1311. 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…
1312. Yellow Star of David badge worn by a Belgian Jew
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.2
Date:
use: 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…
1313. Police commissioner stamp made to forge papers for the resistance
1988.77.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.77.3
Date:
use: approximately 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…
1314. 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…
1315. 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…
1316. 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…
1317. Belgian Nationalist Movement enamel buttonhole pin with the golden lion emblem worn by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.9
Date:
use: 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…
1318. VT hand stamp made to forge papers for the resistance
1988.77.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.77.7
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…
1319. 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…
1320. Belgian Nationalist Movement patch with an embroidered lion emblem worn by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.3
Date:
use: 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…