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61. Leather wallet with a painted geometric design used by a Polish Jewish refugee

2013.178.6 front

Date:: emigration: 1950 January
unavailable:

62. Maccabi sports club patch with a blue Star of David and Aachen worn by a Jewish youth

Date:: use: approximately 1935

63. Underwood typewriter with Cyrillic keys used by an emigre Jewish lawyer and politician

2013.506.2 front

Date:: manufacture: 1925
emigration: 1940 May-1940 December

64. Monogrammed dinner knife brought with a German Jewish prewar refugee

2012.493.4 left

Date:: emigration: 1939

65. 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

66. Embossed aluminum flat top steamer trunk used by a German Jewish refugee

2005.140.4 front

Date:: emigration: 1938 December 15

67. Light brown leather billfold used by a Polish Jewish refugee

2012.358.2 closed

Date:: unavailable:

68. Candelabrum fragments from a synagogue destroyed during Kristallnacht

2000.507.1 a front

Date:: found: after 1938 November 09

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

Date:: received: before 1940

70. Pocket mirror with photographic image

2009.364.20 side a

Object | Accession Number: 2009.364.20

…World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--United States.…

71. Carry-on suitcase used by a young German Jewish woman

2005.415.2 front

Date:: use: 1938 September

72. Wooden trunk used by a Jewish Austrian refugee

Date:: use: 1940 March

73. Electric Ner tamid [Eternal light] with a table mount issued by Yad Vashem

1992.8.34_a front

Date:: emigration: 1939
use: approximately 1961

74. School book received by a Polish Jewish refugee boy in school in Japan

Date:: received: 1941 January-1941 March
Title:: Textbook

75. Bar Kochba Jewish Sports Club metal plaque with a Star of David owned by a Czech Jewish refugee

2009.364.6, metal plaque with Star of David, Tom T. Kovary Collection

Date:: commemoration: 1938 January 09
emigration: 1940 February

76. Weimar Germany Reichsbanknote, 1 billion marks, owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee

Date:: issue: 1923

77. Blue and silver HIAS pin worn by a Jewish Latvian youth postwar

2013.474.2 front

Date:: use: 1947 October-1947 November

78. Brown leather wallet with a strap brought to the US by a Jewish Hungarian refugee

2013.117.5 front

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

79. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate

1988.132.1 front

Date:: use: 1944 May 03-1945 May

80. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier

2004.388.2 front

Date:: commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944

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