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1. Handmade Star of David pendant given to an American liberator by a Polish Jewish slave laborer
1992.164.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.164.1 b
Date:
received: 1945 April
… Mildred (later Borgerson, 1921-?), as well as a younger sister, Estelle (later Rosenberg, 1928-2006). While Britain and France declared war on Germany in…
2. Circular, geometric-patterned earring owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.3
Date:
emigration: 1939 February
… inside to collect her passport. In February 1939, she said goodbye to her sisters, and travelled to Cherbourg, France, before sailing to the US. In April…
3. Silver metal cable link chain used to hold sports medals awarded to a German Jewish deaf-mute athlete
2005.602.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.602.5
Date:
commemoration: 1938
…Esther Feld was born on December 22, 1940, in Paris, France, to Max and Raisa (Rose) Steinberg Feld. Max, born on January 6, 1915, in Berlin, Germany…
4. France Forever laminated pin with a V and US & French flags owned by a Jewish French resistance member
2004.248.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.248.7
…France Forever laminated pin with a V and US & French flags owned by a Jewish French resistance member…
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5. Enamelled gold cross pendant worn by a Jewish child or his mother in hiding as Catholics
2002.420.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.420.23
Date:
use: 1943-1944
…Charles Albert Weingarten was born on January 13, 1941, in Nice, France, to Margarethe Weingarten, an actress, and Rudolf Gelb. Margarethe was born…
6. Gold cross pendant worn by a Jewish child or his mother in hiding as Catholics
2002.420.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.420.24
Date:
use: 1943-1944
…Charles Albert Weingarten was born on January 13, 1941, in Nice, France, to Margarethe Weingarten, an actress, and Rudolf Gelb. Margarethe was born…
7. Maccabi Sports Club lapel pin from prewar Berlin owned by a Jewish refugee boy
2005.379.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.8
Date:
received: 1934
emigration: 1941 February 21
… from Nazi Germany to Belgium, then to France, Spain, Portugal, and finally the United States during the Holocaust.…
8. Commemorative FNDIRP button cover engraved 178284 acquired by a Jewish Polish refugee
2005.257.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.257.1
Date:
received: approximately 1945 June
… grandparents had perished. Franka was relocated to France where she met Julian Hirshfeld, a textile engineer and survivor of Auschwitz and many other…
9. Metal pin made for a former concentration camp inmate with her prisoner number and the camps where she was held
1993.27.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.34
Date:
creation: approximately 1945 April-1945 May
commemoration: 1943-1945
… grandparents had perished. Franka was relocated to France where she met Julian Hirshfeld, a textile engineer and survivor of Auschwitz and many other…