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1. 4711 glass perfume bottle carried by a Jewish refugee searching for her family
2008.228.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.21
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
2. Abraham Lewent papers
1989.242.32 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1989.242.32
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
… Eibeshitz, moved in with them. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was bombed and they had no water, heat, or food. For weeks, they ate only…
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 …, an identification card from the Feldafing displaced persons camp, a membership card for the Council of Warsaw Jews in the American Zone of Germany, a…
3. Antoni Stefan Koper and Sophie Koper papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.268.6
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1999
… with the Polish Army after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. After Warsaw was occupied he joined the Polish Resistance where he helped publish…
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 … fought with the Polish Army after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. After Warsaw was occupied he joined the Polish Resistance where he helped…
4. Art Deco style lipstick case carried by a Jewish refugee while searching for her family
2008.228.24 open
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.24
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
5. Beige and orange embroidered linen napkin used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.3
Date:
creation: 1937
use: 1937-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
6. Black fountain pen from the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.23
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
7. Bronka Hercberg Zybert papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.518.1
Date:
inclusive: 1902-1948
…Prisoners of war--Polish--Germany--Gebersdorf--1940-1950.…
8. Child’s coat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.1
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
9. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.2
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
10. Cream colored handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.4
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, born in 1924, and Danuta, born in 1929. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 and, by November 1940, the family was confined to the ghetto. Nineteen…
11. Darning needle and case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.10 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.10 a- b
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, born in 1924, and Danuta, born in 1929. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 and, by November 1940, the family was confined to the ghetto. Nineteen…
12. Detachable knife used by an inmate in a slave labor camp
2008.228.18_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.18 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
13. Dinner spoon used by an inmate in a slave labor camp
2008.228.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.17
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
14. Edith Brandon papers
1996.A.0070.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0070.1 | RG Number: RG-10.250
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
bulk: 
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations. Forced labor--Latvia--Rīga. Jews--Germany--Minden (North Rhine-Westphalia). Minden…
15. Edith Jacoby letter regarding the Warsaw ghetto
Document | Accession Number: 1988.152 | RG Number: RG-05.003.01
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1946
…Edith Jacoby was born in Worms, Germany, ca. 1899. She married Kurt Jacoby in the 1920s. Instead of attempting to emigrate to the US, the Jacobys…
16. Engraved silver perfume bottle carried postwar by a refugee searching for her family
2008.228.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.9
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
17. Eve Przemyski papers
2010.459.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2010.459.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1964
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… prisoner of war camps in Germany during the Holocaust, and in Italy and England after the Holocaust, of Richard Przemyski in Poland and a prisoner of war…
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 ….ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection https://collections.ushmm.org Prisoners of war--Germany. Holocaust survivors…
18. E. Wedel candy tin received in a displaced persons camp
2008.228.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.14
Date:
manufacture: 1945
use: 1945-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
19. False tooth with a cavity for a poison capsule
Object | Accession Number: 2016.561.1
Date:
acquired: approximately 1939-approximately 1945
… to forced labor in Germany along with other Polish men and women. On July 20, 1943 Ita was sent to Göttingen, Germany, and from there to a small farm…
20. Fanny Auerbach papers
1995.A.0365 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0365
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-circa 1985
…Fanny Auerbach and her husband John, were German Jews living in Cologne, Germany. As John attended dental school, Fanny worked at the Abram Frank…
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 … German Jew who escaped Germany in 1935, and Malchen Banner, a young woman who Fanny helped raise while Fanny worked at an orphanage in Cologne, Germany…