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item1947Markowitz-Benjamin, Sylvia
Copy of original drawing, men moving furniture into truck under Jewish banners. Crate in foreground reads 'Bergen-Belsen / Tel Aviv.' Sketched by Sylvia Benjamin-Markowitz. Narrative: Sylvia Benjamin (then Markowitz) started working as overseas staff for the A…
item1947Markowitz-Benjamin, Sylvia
Copy of a drawing, depicts a woman in military dress at a desk as various forms of transportation speed towards their destinations. Eiffel tower and New York in the distance. Narrative: Sylvia Benjamin (then Markowitz) started working as overseas staff for the…
item1947Markowitz-Benjamin, Sylvia
Print of drawing by Sylvia Malkowitz, depicts a store room of the American Joint Distribution Company. Racks of coats, piles of boxes marked 'AJDC,' a saw horse, and 2 opened boxes. Narrative: Sylvia Benjamin (then Markowitz) started working as overseas staff …
item1947Markowitz-Benjamin, Sylvia
Print of a drawing by Sylvia Malkowitz, depicts a storage room in the Joint Distribution Committee. Racks of shoes, a ladder, and an opened box. Narrative: Sylvia Benjamin (then Markowitz) started working as overseas staff for the American Joint Distribution C…
item1935
Cover is embossed, front and back, with a leaf border and flowers. The front has an additional metal piece attached, with a rounded decorative border of filigree and flowers, with a building in the centre. Hinged, on the front only, near the top edge, to open …
item1939
The top of the bookmark has crest with a single maple leaf in the middle. Underneath, is a circular piece with raised effigies of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. The bottom is a rounded triangle, with a recessed area in the middle, which holds a page. T…
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Rectangular box with hinged lid which can be locked. Yellow-Orange seashell pattern in a green oval is veneered in the middle of the box lid. Green felt covers the bottom of the box. Diamond-shaped key hole on the front of the box; a small metal skeleton key i…
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Wooden box with high-relief floral designs on each side and a filligree leaf design on the lid. Lid is attached to the base with 2 hinges. Narrative: The box was made by donor, David Kropveld, in woodworking class pre-war Amsterdam. David Kropveld was born in…
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Box with a textured outside. The inside, top and bottom, is lined with padded fabric: it is divided diagonally into 2 sections, one side is blue and the other side is white. In the centre is a yellow Star of David. The inner sides are lined with red fabric.
item1933-1945
Brown-stained box with a raised diagonal section and swastika inlay on the lid. Metal hinges attached along the back edge with an embossed metal push-button catch at front. The interior is lined with burgundy velvet.
item1936-1939
Rectangular case with an indented circle at the top, centre. At the top right corner is an engraved eagle's head, with the 'SS' symbol in the middle of its neck. Below the eagle is an iron cross with a swastika in the middle. Inlaid to the indented circle (see…
item1920
B&W, indoors. 29 children pose with 6 young adults in roughly 4 rows. Placard in centre of bottom row with Yiddish or Hebrew text and the year 1920. Likely an educational or Zionist organization. Document is a postcard. Narrative: The donors parents were Meila…
item1861
Rectangular with a floral designs, has a vertical concave indentation on each side, oval bulge in center of lid, box has lock which is broken, key is missing. Lid is hinged, and opens upwards. Narrative: To protect the etrog during the Sukkot holiday
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Circular-shaped. Obverse has a mirrored image of a person with wings and animal legs, with a coat of arms in between. A Freemason symbol is found just below, with a G in its centre; below this is a 3-part scroll (see inscription). Reverse side has a high-relie…
item1935
White border. On front, a photograph is printed inside a circle showing railways on pier above the ocean ready to receive cargo from ships. Several large trunks are on the rails. There are a few people on the docks. Below the image but within the circle there …
item[ca. 1954-1956]Mrozewski. Stefan
Black ink on white paper. Night scene. Five men are taking part in the slaughter of a horse. One man in the foreground is holding a lantern up to illuminate the scene, and holding a rope tied to a harness around the horse's nech. A second man stands on a woode…
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One page folded in two. Double-sided. Narrative: In the 1920’s Serge and Sophie Philipson (nee Orbach) left Berlin for Paris due to rising antisemitism. On July 15, 1930 their daughter Rachel was born. Serge, Sophie and Rachel were Polish citizen, they never g…
item1920-1930
Oval lunch box; leather hinged, wood lid, with leather strap and metal buckle. Narrative: Used by Ariye (Leibele) Smolnik in kindergarten or grade 1, was buried to save it, Ariye was killed in Holocaust, sister Sonia recovered it afterwards
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Kit includes a hollow glass barrel with metal caps on the top and bottom. The bottom cap has an open space for the plunger; the top cap has a thin, tapered catheter tip extending from the centre, where the needle attaches. A series of numbers and lines are eng…
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No border. Outdoor scene of two prisonners. The one on the left is sitting down on the ground eating a piece of bread. He is wearing shorts and and a striped dirty vest. The one on the right is sitting on a box (?) holding a mug. From head to toe he is wearing…