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

Date:: received: 1939 June

2. Purse made while Johanna Zwang Neumann was interned in a camp

1990.34.1 side A

Object | Accession Number: 1990.34.1

…Handbags (lcsh)…

3. Beaded purse owned by Halina Peabody's aunt

Object | Accession Number: 2022.19.1

…Handbags (lcsh)…

4. Handmade raffia bags made by a Jewish refugee woman

1989.273.1 front

Object | Accession Number: 1989.273.1

…Handbags (lcsh)…

5. Blue leather clutch with a floral design used by a German Jewish refugee

2004.524.3 front

Date:: received: before 1939

6. Handbag belonging to the Bendheim family

Object | Accession Number: 2021.218.1

…Handbags (lcsh)…

7. Purse

2002.53.2 front

Object | Accession Number: 2002.53.2

…Handbags (lcsh)…

8. Leather purse

2018.458.2 side a

Object | Accession Number: 2018.458.2

…Handbags (lcsh)…

9. Tapestry cloth purse brought with a young Austrian Jewish refugee

2016.243.2 front

Object | Accession Number: 2016.243.2

…Handbags (lcsh)…

10. Handbag

Object | Accession Number: 2020.38.3

…Handbags (lcsh)…

11. Lizard skin clutch, change purse, mirror, and key brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

2009.376.31_a front

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

12. Gray and white faux snakeskin leather handbag

1995.36.1.1 front

Date:: use: approximately 1930-1939

13. Silver purse with an engraved butterfly and a chain strap used by a hidden child

2007.42.1 front

Date:: received: 1941
creation: approximately 1920

14. Purse

2014.415.2 front

Object | Accession Number: 2014.415.2

…Handbags (lcsh)…

15. Burlap purse with yarn flowers and monogram carried by a 10 year old Jewish Austrian refugee

2010.194.2 front

Date:: received: 1945 June-1946 June
emigration: 1946 July

16. Brown leather bag

2012.505.2 front

Object | Accession Number: 2012.505.2

…Handbags (lcsh)…

17. Purse

2002.436.2 front

Object | Accession Number: 2002.436.2

…Handbags (lcsh)…

18. Tapestry purse

2016.559.6 side a

Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.6

…Handbags (lcsh)…

19. Beige leather purse with decorative piping used by a Kindertransport refugee

2003.454.18 front

Date:: emigration: 1939 July 13
use: 1945-1950

20. Bag

1998.62.34 front

Object | Accession Number: 1998.62.34

…Handbags (lcsh)…

21. Yellow damask purse made by a liberated slave labor camp inmate, saved by another inmate

Date:: creation: 1945 February

22. Black purse

2016.308.2 front

Object | Accession Number: 2016.308.2

…Handbags (lcsh)…

23. Leather clutch purse owned by Runia Korman Maizels

2018.63.2 closed

Date:: use: approximately 1950

24. Handmade raffia bags made by a Jewish refugee woman

1989.273.2 front

Object | Accession Number: 1989.273.2

…Handbags (lcsh)…

25. Purse carried by Mimi Altarac who fled German-occupied Belgrade with her family

2002.438.9 closed

Date:: use: 1939-1945

26. Ivory colored leather purse saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant

2002.140.16 front

Date:: use: 1942-1945

27. Red monogrammed knit purse made by Fanni Reznicki in a forced labor camp

2007.151.2 front

Date:: use: 1942-1945

28. Beige purse with cross stitched initials used by a Jewish woman in hiding

2003.318.4 front

Date:: use: 1942-1944

29. Red leather purse with decorative lacing carried by a Jewish refugee during her escape from Vienna

2004.628.8 front

Date:: emigration: 1939 January 20-1939 December 18
received: 1938

30. Purse used by a German Sinti woman

1989.311.7 front

Date:: use: approximately 1930-1939

31. Floral tapestry purse saved by a hidden child

2013.459.3 front

Date:: received: 1942
creation: approximately 1920

32. Handbag

1992.160.9 front

Object | Accession Number: 1992.160.9

…Handbags (lcsh)…

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