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21. Prayer book

Date:: emigration: 1939
Title:: עיר הציון [Gates of Zion]

22. Workbook of clothing patterns drawn by a Jewish refugee for an ORT class

2003.174.8 front

Date:: use: 1946-1947

23. Weimar Germany Reichsbanknote, 500 million marks, owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee

Date:: issue: 1923 September 01

24. Engraved ring made from a spoon for a Jewish Latvian boy in Riga ghetto

2013.474.3 front

Date:: commemoration: 1941 December 08
use: 1942-1945
creation: 1942

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

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

26. Girl Guide enrollment promise trefoil badge received by a young German Jewish girl rescued on the Kindertransport

Date:: received: after 1939 June-before 1944

27. Patterned black leather wallet used by a Polish Jewish refugee

2013.178.5 front

Date:: emigration: 1950 January
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28. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

Date:: received: before 1940

29. Blue plaid handkerchief owned by a Polish Jewish refugee

Date:: emigration: 1950 January
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30. Weimar Germany Reichsbanknote, 1 billion marks, owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee

Date:: issue: 1923

31. Toddler's red and blue striped rompers worn by Alain Markon in Vichy France

1998.41.2 front

Date:: use: after 1941 June-1942
emigration: 1942 October

32. Red leather purse used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport

Date:: received: 1939 June

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

Date:: emigration: 1950 January

34. Wooden canvas covered trunk used by Jewish refugees

2004.322.1 front

Date:: use: approximately 1950

35. Handmade illustrated children's book created by an Austrian refugee

Date:: emigration: 1940 March
Artwork Title:: Fur Unsere Kleinen!
Alternate Title:: For Our Small Ones!

36. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

Date:: received: before 1940

37. Dark brown leather briefcase brought to the US by a Jewish Hungarian refugee

2013.117.2 front

Date:: emigration: 1939 May 17-1939 May 24

38. Leitz Stativ VI compound brass microscope, case, and accessories used by a Jewish family

2003.120.2_a front

Date:: manufacture: 1914 September 22

39. Toddler's white knit undershirt worn by Alain Markon in Vichy France

1998.41.3 front

Date:: use: after 1941 June-1942
emigration: 1942 October

40. Brown leather belt worn by a Jewish Polish inmate at Buchenwald concentration camp

Date:: use: 1945 January-1945 April

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