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21. Embroidered white handkerchief with woven lines brought with a Polish Jewish emigre

2009.117.10 front

Date:: emigration: 1939

22. White handkerchief with a stitched border carried by a Kindertransport refugee

2006.492.9 front

Date:: use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June

23. Embroidered white handkerchief with woven lines brought with a Polish Jewish emigre

2009.117.11 front

Date:: emigration: 1939

24. Handkerchief

1989.198.7 front

Object | Accession Number: 1989.198.7

…Handkerchiefs (lcsh)…

25. Colorful chiffon handkerchief sent by Kindertransport refugee to her mother

Date:: received: 1939 January-1939 September

26. Light blue handkerchief with a pink monogram carried by a Kindertransport refugee

2003.454.6 front

Date:: emigration: 1939 July 13

27. Handkerchief embroidered with a landscape and a Star of David owned by a survivor of several concentration camps

2015.362.2 front

Object | Accession Number: 2015.362.2

…Handkerchiefs (lcsh)…

28. Offwhite handkerchief with floral whitework and a yellow monogram carried by a Kindertransport refugee

2003.454.14 front

Date:: emigration: 1939 July 13

29. Green handkerchief with pink KS monogram carried by a Kindertransport refugee

2003.454.2 front

Date:: emigration: 1939 July 13

30. Handkerchief with multi-colored embroidery brought with a Polish Jewish emigre

2009.117.12 front

Date:: emigration: 1939

31. Plaid handkerchief monogrammed HG given by Hermann Goering to an American guard at Nuremberg

Date:: received: 1945 August-1946 January

32. Brown and yellow striped silk handkerchief found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Birkenau

1988.99.2 front

Date:: use: 1943 April-1945 May

33. White silk handkerchief with a drawing of 2 women on horseback brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

2009.376.38 front

Date:: emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
creation: approximately 1925

34. Handkerchief

2011.428.18 front

Object | Accession Number: 2011.428.18

…Handkerchiefs (lcsh)…

35. Handkerchief

2015.311.2 front

Object | Accession Number: 2015.311.2

…Handkerchiefs (lcsh)…

36. White handkerchief with a blue monogram carried by a Kindertransport refugee

2003.454.8 front

Date:: emigration: 1939 July 13

37. Light blue handkerchief with a pink monogram carried by a Kindertransport refugee

2003.454.5 front

Date:: emigration: 1939 July 13

38. White cotton lace handkerchief with a floral motif lace border brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

2009.376.34 front

Date:: emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17

39. Handkerchief

1995.128.13 front

Date:: 1966 April 30

40. Embroidered white handkerchief with crochet border brought with a Polish Jewish emigre

2009.117.7 front

Date:: emigration: 1939

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