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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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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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleNazi Motherhood Medals
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The Holocaust and the Moving Image
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustOSE footage from Quincy-sous-Sénart
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Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePaint Roller and Stencil Used by a Jehovah's Witness in a Labor Camp
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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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Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePrisoner Badges Worn by Jehovah's Witnesses in a Concentration Camp
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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