The suitcase belonged to Otto Julius Pinkus, a German Jewish refugee. The initials of the owner’s name, O. J. P, were inscribed on the suitcase. Otto's daughter, Ivy Green, donated the suitcase in 2019. The suitcase followed Otto all the way from Germany to Shanghai, where he took refuge. After World War II, Otto settled down in Australia and took the suitcase with him.

Otto met Susanne Hesky, a Jewish refugee from Austria, in Shanghai. they were wedded in the August of 1944 in the auditorium of the Shanghai Jewish Youth Association School. They had three daughters, two of whom, Ivy and her sister Helen, were born in Shanghai. They hired a Shanghai nanny to look after the two daughters. Before the end of the war, Hongkou was bombed, and the nanny carried the two young sisters with her and escaped from the bombing.

After the war, Otto’s family settled down in Australia. They had always been grateful to the Chinese people in Shanghai who were very kind to them. They not only kept correspondence with the nanny’s family, but also returned to Hongkou several times to find remnants of their past. Their youngest daughter, Monica, who was born in Australia, also paid several visits to the museum. In 2019, when Ivy came to the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, she was very excited to have found the address of her parents and relatives in Shanghai in the database and visited the place in person. After returning home, she and Monica found photos, documents, baby baskets, cribs, strollers and the suitcase left by their parents and donated them to the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum.