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1. Red and tan plaid handkerchief owned by a Polish Jewish refugee

Date:: emigration: 1950 February
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2. Blue plaid handkerchief owned by a Polish Jewish refugee

Date:: emigration: 1950 January
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3. Leather wallet with a painted geometric design used by a Polish Jewish refugee

2013.178.6 front

Date:: emigration: 1950 January
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4. Patterned black leather wallet used by a Polish Jewish refugee

2013.178.5 front

Date:: emigration: 1950 January
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5. Dark brown leather satchel used by a Polish Jewish refugee

2005.427.2 front

Date:: use: 1938-1948

6. Federal Republic of Germany bank note, 5 pfennig, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor

1990.31.8 front

Date:: issue: 1948-1960

7. Brown cloth pouch with leather belt used by a Polish Jewish refugee

Date:: emigration: 1950 January

8. Looped metal whip that may have been used at Auschwitz given to a Ukrainian journalist covering the Nuremberg Trials

2012.375.2 front

Date:: use: approximately 1943
received: approximately 1947 January-approximately 1947 April

9. Wooden canvas covered trunk used by Jewish refugees

2004.322.1 front

Date:: use: approximately 1950

10. Beige patch embroidered with Czechoslovakia owned by a Jewish refugee

Date:: received: approximately 1948-approximately 1950

11. Small square black painted wooden trunk used by Jewish refugees

2004.322.2 front

Date:: use: approximately 1950

12. German State criminal police warrant disc acquired by a Jewish American soldier

Date:: found: after 1945 April 26-before 1946 January 23

13. Necklace of found materials made in a camp by an Austrian Jewish woman

2006.355.2 front

Date:: creation: 1945 May-1946

14. Brass knuckles acquired by a Jewish American soldier

Date:: found: after 1945 April 26-before 1946 January 23

15. Imitation leather hatbox used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee

2003.242.4 closed

Date:: use: 1949 November

16. Square, brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee

2003.242.3 front

Date:: emigration: 1949 November

17. Japanese invasion banknote, 5 centavos, acquired postwar by an Austrian Jewish refugee

Date:: issue: approximately 1942
received: approximately 1945-1946

18. Mexico, paper currency, 1 peso owned by a Hungarian Jewish youth and former concentration camp inmate

2012.409.14 front

Date:: issue: 1945 January 17
received: approximately 1946 June

19. Tablecloth with a handpainted maple leaf design created by a Jewish Polish refugee in Bergen-Belsen DP camp

2012.443.5 front

Date:: creation: approximately 1948

20. Soap bar acquired postwar by an Austrian Jewish refugee working for the WJC

2004.709.2 front

Date:: found: after 1945 May-1946

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