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Handwritten inventory/checklist of shipped crates and suitcases

04.1940 [New York or Rotterdam] Julius Oppenheimer , Elsa Oppenheimer , Frida Oppenheimer
6963 ✓  Couch / blankets, bedding etc.
6964 ✓  Household goods
6965 ✓       "
0066    Kitchen items etc.

Suitcase 1  ✓  Clothes and shoes
         10 ✓      "          Linens
         12 ✓      "              "
         14 }   Family pictures, dishes etc.
         15 }
6963 ✓  Couch / Decken, Betten etc.
6964 ✓  Haushaltsgegenstände
6965 ✓        "
0066    Küche etc.

Koffer 1  ✓  Kleider u. Schuhe
      10  ✓      "          Wäsche
      12  ✓      "              "
      14  }   Fam. Bilder, Geschirr etc.
      15  }

This inventory checklist tracks the Oppenheimers' shipped possessions, matching the items described in Arthur Baer's letter (0012) and the Holland America Line receipt (0014). The checkmarks (✓) appear to indicate items that were received or verified upon arrival in New York. Three of four crates (6963, 6964, 6965) and three of five suitcases (1, 10, 12) are checked off, while crate 0066 (kitchen items) and suitcases 14 and 15 (family pictures and dishes, grouped together with a bracket) are not yet checked. This suggests either that not all items had arrived at the time of checking, or that some items were still in transit or storage. The contents paint a picture of an entire household being uprooted: furniture (a couch), bedding, kitchen equipment, clothing, linens, and most poignantly, family photographs — irreplaceable memories being shipped across an ocean ahead of their owners, who were still stranded in Europe.