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Belongings

The personal belongings of both Holocaust survivors and victims give insight into their owners’ lives. Today, those belongings bear witness to what happened during the Holocaust. Explore more content related to belongings and the people that owned them during the Holocaust. 

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A Jewish women carries her radio into a police station after a German order (August 8, 1941) demanded the confiscation of all radios ... [LCID: 81037]
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A Jewish woman turns in her radio
A handwritten recipe on lined paper within a tabbed notebook.
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A page from the Fenyves family cookbook
A vandalized synagogue serves as a warehouse for articles plundered from Jewish homes. [LCID: 78479]
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A vandalized synagogue serves as a warehouse for articles plundered from Jewish homes
A handwritten recipe on lined paper within a tabbed notebook.
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Additional page from the Fenyves family cookbook
An Armenian woman and her child sit on a sidewalk next to a bundle of their possessions. [LCID: 34283]
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An Armenian woman and her child
Color photograph of a uniformed soldier with light skin tone kneeling near a pile of multi-colored clothing. They appear to be sorting through the pile closest to them. In the background, there are dozens of piles of clothes and personal belongings forming a long line around the field.
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An SS guard examines clothing of victims of the Babyn Yar mass shootings
A handwritten recipe on lined paper within a tabbed notebook.
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Another page from the Fenyves family cookbook
Bella Jakubowicz Tovey [LCID: bts0034f]
Oral History
Bella Jakubowicz Tovey describes the confiscation of her family's property
Belongings of a Jewish family murdered at Babyn Yar
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Belongings of a Jewish family murdered at Babyn Yar
Belongings of Jewish victims murdered at Babyn Yar
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Belongings of Jewish victims murdered at Babyn Yar
Belongings of Jews murdered at Babyn Yar
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Belongings of Jews murdered at Babyn Yar
Belongings of Jews who were deported from Vienna. [LCID: 12356b]
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Belongings of Jews who were deported from Vienna
Postwar photograph of a building in Dabie where the possessions of Jews killed at the nearby Chelmno camp were stored. [LCID: 51702]
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Building used to store belongings taken from Jews
Tarnished metal candlesticks with large square bases on four decorative feet.
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Candlesticks taken to Vilna by Polish Jewish refugees
Green knit child’s sweater with short slightly puffed sleeves. There are two around the scalloped collar used to make a bow.
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Child's Sweater Worn in Hiding
Simple metal comb with scratches and other blemishes
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Comb made by Yona Wygocka Dickmann

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