Personal belongings played a variety of important roles in people’s lives during and immediately after the years of Nazi rule. Valuables could be sold or bartered for food or protection, and items with sentimental value could provide a source of psychological comfort and strength in difficult times.
belongings
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Nazi Ideals and American Society
Americans and the Holocaust"America First" License Plate Attachment
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Jewish Community Documents
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"Report for the period from July 22 to September 30, 1942"
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Wartime Jewish Press
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"Warsaw's Jews are being murdered in Treblinki"
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustCamp Prisoner Uniform Jacket Worn by William Luksenburg
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Đura Rajs
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Elisabeth Ornstein
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Peter Feigl
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the HolocaustDress Made by Margret Hantman in Deggendorf DP Camp
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Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleElectrical Insulator from Auschwitz
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustFilm of Forced Laborers in Transit
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustFriendship Ring from the Riga Ghetto
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Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustGad Beck: "Do You Remember, When"
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleGerman Motherhood Medals
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Sexuality, Gender, and Nazi Persecution
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleIdentification Card for Gerd Katter
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLeather Bouquet of Flowers Made in Bergen-Belsen
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Ester Ruben Menahem to the Commissariat for Jewish Questions
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Zbigniew Kelhoffer to Sydonia Kelhoffer
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Jewish Community Documents
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter of the President of Jewish Community of Split to Colonel Vincenzo Cuiuli
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The Holocaust and the Moving Image
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustOSE footage from Quincy-sous-Sénart
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Jewish Religious Life and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustPassover Haggadah from the Gurs Camp
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Nazi Propaganda and National Unity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhotograph of a "Strength through Joy" Car
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustPortrait of a German Girl in a Handmade Frame
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Nazi Propaganda and National Unity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePropaganda Film on Community Welfare
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustSilver Cup Made in a Labor Camp
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustTefillin Owned by Alexander Kuechel
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Concentration Camp Prisoners
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleTin Pail Made by a Prisoner in a Forced Labor Camp
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The Holocaust and the Moving Image
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustWerner Breslauer, Westerbork Deportation Footage
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustWooden Pen Made in a French Internment Camp