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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate

    1. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    Postage stamp commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto Memorial, acquired by Irene Silberstein Frank and Henry Frank, former inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Originally called the National Suffering Memorial, it was established in 1947 by the newly reinstated Czechoslovakian government and was renovated in 1975. The stamp depicts the large, granite, 7-branched menorah in the Jewish cemetery outside the crematorium building, along with flames, the red flowers planted in the 1945 National Cemetery, and barbed wire ...

  2. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate

    1. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    Postage stamp commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto Memorial, acquired by Irene Silberstein Frank and Henry Frank, former inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Originally called the National Suffering Memorial, it was established in 1947 by the newly reinstated Czechoslovakian government and was renovated in 1975. The stamp depicts the large, granite, 7-branched menorah in the Jewish cemetery outside the crematorium building,along with flames, the red flowers planted in the 1945 National Cemetery, and barbed wire u...

  3. White square cotton pillowcase with a cutwork border brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    White pillowcase with a monogram and cutwork border from her 1926 bridal trousseau that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits ...

  4. Doily with floral lace border brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Large floral lace doily that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece to Turkey. Up to this point, ...

  5. Iridescent plaid silk taffeta handkerchief brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Iridescent plaid silk taffeta handkerchief that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece to Turkey....

  6. Peach silk handkerchief hand embroidered with ribbons and flowers brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Peach silk handkerchief with embroidered ribbons and flowers that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and...

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

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    White silk handkerchief with a small drawing of horseback riders that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia...

  8. White silk handkerchief bordered with lace and pink flowers brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    White silk handkerchief with an embroidered pink flowered border that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia...

  9. White silk handkerchief with handmade floral lace design brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    White silk handkerchief with floral lace that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece to Turkey. U...

  10. Silk circus print handkerchief brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    White silk handkerchief with a colorful circus design that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece...

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

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    White cotton floral lace bordered handkerchief that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece to Tur...

  12. White handkerchief with an embroidered triangle patterned border brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    White handkerchief with a border of triangle patterned whitework that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia...

  13. Lace bordered white handkerchief brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Lace bordered white handkerchief that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece to Turkey. Up to thi...

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

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41405
    • English
    • a: Height: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.747 cm) | Depth: 0.700 inches (1.778 cm) b: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) c: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) d: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)

    Lizard skin clutch with a change purse, mirror, and key that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Gree...

  15. Woman’s brown suede belt brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Brown suede belt that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece to Turkey. Up to this point, they ha...

  16. Pair of woman's fawn and tan suede gloves brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41406
    • English
    • a: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) b: Height: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm)

    Two fawn and tan suede gloves that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece to Turkey. Up to this p...

  17. Four white filet embroidered net inserts brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41419
    • English
    • a: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) b: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 5.625 inches (14.288 cm) c: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) d: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm)

    Four decorative filet embroidered net cloth inserts that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece t...

  18. Two white silk sleeve cuffs with semicircular stitched accents with blue dots brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41418
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) b: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)

    Pair of detached white silk sleeve cuffs with embroidered semicircular accents that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits thro...

  19. Two white silk sleeve cuffs with stitched whitework borders brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41417
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) b: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)

    Pair of detached embroidered white silk sleeve cuffs that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece ...

  20. Two white silk sleeve cuffs with scalloped cording brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41416
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) b: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm)

    Pair of detached white silk sleeve cuffs that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece to Turkey. U...