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1. Sketchbook of drawings created by a former concentration camp prisoner
CM_1995.59.1_001 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.59.1
Date:
depiction: 1944 September 20-approximately 1950
… he became so weak that he passed out and remained unconscious for three days. Soviet forces liberated the camp on January 27, 1945. After liberation…
2. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 10 cent note, acquired by a former inmate
2018.229.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.229.4
Date:
issue: 1944 February 15-1945 April 12
acquired: 1944 February 15-1944 September 04
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
3. Ring with a red heart and inmate numbers made from a spoon in a concentration camp
2006.467.1, ring with heart made from spoon, Solomon Goldstein Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2006.467.1
Date:
received: after 1943 October-before 1945 January
creation: after 1943 October-before 1945 January
… and went to Föhrenwald, a displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany. There, he worked as an auto mechanic and furrier. After Maria’s death in 1955, Lieb…
4. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 25 cent note, acquired by a former inmate
2018.229.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.229.5
Date:
issue: 1944 February 15-1945 April 12
acquired: 1944 February 15-1944 September 04
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
5. Drawing of a large white rabbit done by a Dutch Jewish man in hiding
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.5
Date:
creation: 1944 January 12
… forced labor camps. Abraham’s brother and sister-in-law, Natan and Marianne, were arrested in 1942, and sent to Westerbork transit camp. On October 26…
6. Brown leather belt worn by a Dutch Jewish political prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau
2017.608.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.608.3
Date:
use: approximately 1941 October-approximately 1945 May 08
… prisoners on a forced march to Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Germany. Soviet troops liberated Gross-Rosen on May 8. After liberation, Arie spent two years…
7. Drawing of a man at a spinning wheel done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.2
Date:
creation: 1944 January 10
… forced labor camps. Abraham’s brother and sister-in-law, Natan and Marianne, were arrested in 1942, and sent to Westerbork transit camp. On October 26…
8. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note issued to a Polish Jewish woman
2018.31.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.31.2
Date:
issue: 1940 July-1944 August 21
… killing center. Leon was transported to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He was later shot and killed on a death march. On…
9. Drawing of farmhouse and trees done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.4
Date:
creation: 1944 January 06
… forced labor camps. Abraham’s brother and sister-in-law, Natan and Marianne, were arrested in 1942, and sent to Westerbork transit camp. On October 26…
10. Curtain that was used as a towel found by a Polish Jewish forced laborer
Object | Accession Number: 2018.208.1
Date:
found: 1944 August-1945 April
Title:
Dash family collection
… killing center. Leon was transported to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He was later shot and killed on a death march. On…
11. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Juif, belonging to a Jewish family.
Object | Accession Number: 2014.230.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942 June-1944 August 25
… sent on a 13-day death march to Gross-Rosen concentration camp. After five days there, he was put on a train and transported to Buchenwald concentration…
12. Drawing of black and white cows in a barn done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.3
Date:
creation: 1944 January 20
… forced labor camps. Abraham’s brother and sister-in-law, Natan and Marianne, were arrested in 1942, and sent to Westerbork transit camp. On October 26…
13. Drawing of a yellow field done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.1
Date:
creation: 1944 January 10
… forced labor camps. Abraham’s brother and sister-in-law, Natan and Marianne, were arrested in 1942, and sent to Westerbork transit camp. On October 26…
14. Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus who await their death at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 77288
Date:
May 1944
… Nordhausen concentration camp. After the liberation American soldiers moved her to a nearby former SS barrack, where she came across the album of Auschwitz…
15. Jewish women and children who have been selected for death, walk in a line towards the gas chambers.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 77298
Date:
May 1944
… Nordhausen concentration camp. After the liberation American soldiers moved her to a nearby former SS barrack, where she came across the album of Auschwitz…
16. Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 77343
Date:
May 1944
… Nordhausen concentration camp. After the liberation American soldiers moved her to a nearby former SS barrack, where she came across the album of Auschwitz…
17. Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 77303
Date:
May 1944
… Nordhausen concentration camp. After the liberation American soldiers moved her to a nearby former SS barrack, where she came across the album of Auschwitz…
18. Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, wait to be taken to the gas chambers.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 77344
Date:
May 1944
… Nordhausen concentration camp. After the liberation American soldiers moved her to a nearby former SS barrack, where she came across the album of Auschwitz…
19. Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 77305
Date:
May 1944
… Nordhausen concentration camp. After the liberation American soldiers moved her to a nearby former SS barrack, where she came across the album of Auschwitz…
20. Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 77310
Date:
May 1944
… Nordhausen concentration camp. After the liberation American soldiers moved her to a nearby former SS barrack, where she came across the album of Auschwitz…