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1321. 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…
1322. Doll's white cotton sleeveless slip given to a young girl by a friend in Theresienstadt ghetto
1992.4.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.4.2
Date:
creation: 1942-before 1944 September
received: 1944 September
… and her parents were sent to Auschwitz and killed. Inge and her parents were liberated at the camp by Soviet troops on May 8, 1945. The camp was placed…
1323. 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…
1324. Japanese propaganda matchbox with Japanese planes flying over a sinking ship with a US flag acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.11
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…
1325. 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…
1326. Japanese propaganda matchbox with a bomb exploding in the center of the US acquired postwar by a German Jewish refugee
2010.240.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.12
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…
1327. 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…
1328. Dental company stamp made to forge papers for the resistance
1988.77.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.77.8
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…
1329. White drawstring hand coverings worn by a Jewish infant living in hiding
2011.424.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.424.2 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…
1330. 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…
1331. Geometric patterned leather wallet made by a Dutch Jewish couple in hiding
1990.23.203 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.203
Date:
creation: 1942 June-1945 May
…. Flora learned that many of her relatives perished in the Holocaust. Flora’s mother Alijda was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp or Sobibor…
1332. Brown burlap pouch used to carry money by a hidden Dutch Jewish woman
1990.23.191 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.191
Date:
use: 1942 June-1945 May
…. Flora learned that many of her relatives perished in the Holocaust. Flora’s mother Alijda was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp or Sobibor…
1333. Cross of Merit medal, ribbons, and pins awarded to a Dutch Jewish soldier, Prinses Irene Brigade
2002.22.3_a-e front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.22.3 a-e
Date:
commemoration: after 1940 May-1945
manufacture: 1941-1945
… Auschwitz concentration camp on February 5, 1943. Hedi’s sister Bertha Stern was killed in Minsk, Poland, in 1943. Erich and his wife Lissy tried to…
1334. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
… and kept them from four deportation transports. But the next month, they were sent to Rivesaltes camp where transports were loaded for Auschwitz. Ernst…
1335. Pencil sketch of animals following a child past a farm family created by a hidden child
2009.204.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.24
Date:
creation: approximately 1942-1944
… Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family…
1336. Mixed media painting of Jewish children behind a ghetto fence, painted by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.4
Date:
creation: 1996
depiction: 1941 September-1943 September
Title:
Behind the Wooden Fence
… family was killed at Auschwitz. Harry immigrated to the Unites States in 1948, and waited until Judith and her family’s immigration quotas were selected…
1337. Color drawing of animals following a child past a farm family created by a hidden child
2009.204.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.25
Date:
creation: approximately 1942-1944
… Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family…
1338. Kovary and Neuhaus families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2009.364.15
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2013
… family, visited Bratislava, and was able to locate one first cousin, Herta Fuchs, who survived Auschwitz. Ernest later became a notary public and…
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 … family, visited Bratislava, and was able to locate one first cousin, Herta Fuchs, who survived Auschwitz. Ernest later became a notary public and…
1339. Medal and a ribbon bar pin awarded to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.71_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.71 a-b
Date:
received: 1941-1945
… 1944, she was deported on transport Et to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, where she was killed. Heinz and his wife settled…
1340. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
… II ended in May 1945. Carl learned that his parents had been deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in 1942 and later to Auschwitz death camp…
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 … Gurs in October 1940. She was transferred to Rivesaltes on September 11, 1942 and three days later deported to Auschwitz and killed. Mina’s uncle, Julius…