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21. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service buttonhole ribbon bar awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.4
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… sent to Irene was dated just 11 days before his death. On May 16, 1944, Jenny Pelz, Kurt’s ex-mother-in-law, had been deported to Auschwitz killing…
22. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.3
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… sent to Irene was dated just 11 days before his death. On May 16, 1944, Jenny Pelz, Kurt’s ex-mother-in-law, had been deported to Auschwitz killing…
23. World War I Honor & Iron Crosses buttonhole ribbon bar with Combatant’s swords awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.1
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: after 1934 July 13-1944
… sent to Irene was dated just 11 days before his death. On May 16, 1944, Jenny Pelz, Kurt’s ex-mother-in-law, had been deported to Auschwitz killing…
24. War Medal 1939-1945 and ribbon awarded to an Austrian Jewish woman, British Auxiliary Territorial Division
2009.294.2_a back
Object | Accession Number: 2009.294.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… to the Łódź ghetto, then to Auschwitz death camp where she was murdered. On December 30, 1963, the Austrian government issued Lilly a check for $348…
25. Africa Star Medal and ribbon awarded to an Austrian Jewish woman for service in the British Auxiliary Territorial Division
2009.294.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.294.3 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1943
… to the Łódź ghetto, then to Auschwitz death camp where she was murdered. On December 30, 1963, the Austrian government issued Lilly a check for $348…
26. Auxiliary Territorial Service cap badge worn by an Austrian Jewish woman in the British Auxiliary
2009.294.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.294.5
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… to the Łódź ghetto, then to Auschwitz death camp where she was murdered. On December 30, 1963, the Austrian government issued Lilly a check for $348…
27. WWI Iron Cross medal awarded to a German Jewish veteran
2010.458.3 back
Object | Accession Number: 2010.458.3
Date:
issue: 1934
commemoration: 1914-1918
… Hansje were deported to Westerbork transit camp on August 26, 1942, and then to Auschwitz concentration camp, where they were killed on September 3, 1942…
28. WWI Military Merit Cross 3rd Class with Swords and fitted box awarded to a German Jewish veteran
2010.458.2_b-c closed
Object | Accession Number: 2010.458.2 a-c
Date:
issue: 1916 November
… Hansje were deported to Westerbork transit camp on August 26, 1942, and then to Auschwitz concentration camp, where they were killed on September 3, 1942…
29. Pametni Medaile Ceskoslovenska Armada V Zahranici (Czechoslovak Army Abroad) awarded to a Czech Jewish soldier
2007.228.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.228.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 October
… his family had not returned after the war and that after a year in Theresienstadt they had been sent to Auschwitz where they perished. In 1946, he was…
30. Czech lion coat of arms cap badge owned by a Jewish veteran of the Czech Air Force in exile
2004.692.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.692.3
Date:
commemoration: 1944-1945
… his family had not returned after the war and that after a year in Theresienstadt they had been sent to Auschwitz where they perished. In 1946, he was…
31. Czech Air Force pilot badge issued to a Jewish veteran
2004.692.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.692.4
Date:
commemoration: 1944-1945
… his family had not returned after the war and that after a year in Theresienstadt they had been sent to Auschwitz where they perished. In 1946, he was…
32. Wreath shaped badge owned by a Jewish veteran of the Air Force for the Czech government in exile
2004.692.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.692.5
Date:
commemoration: approximately 1944-1945
… his family had not returned after the war and that after a year in Theresienstadt they had been sent to Auschwitz where they perished. In 1946, he was…
33. Medal of the Belgian Nationalist Movement 1940-1945, ribbon and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.12 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
… Sonja and her husband were killed in Auschwitz. His wife Ita’s parents were hidden by an employee, Jeanne de Bruyn, and her family. During the war…
34. Polish Organization for the Struggle for Independence medal, ribbon and box awarded to a Jewish member of the Belgian resistance
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.11 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… Sonja and her husband were killed in Auschwitz. His wife Ita’s parents were hidden by an employee, Jeanne de Bruyn, and her family. During the war…
35. Set of two cuff links worn by a medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2008.208.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.208.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… Auschwitz in November 1944. Madzia’s siblings, Brandla, Mosze, and Szmulek, also perished. Her sister, Helena, survived the war in the Soviet Union. Anna…
36. Medal of Remembrance of the War 1940- 1945, ribbon, and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.10 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
… Sonja and her husband were killed in Auschwitz. His wife Ita’s parents were hidden by an employee, Jeanne de Bruyn, and her family. During the war…
37. Belgian Medal of the Armed Resistance 1940-1945, ribbon and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.13 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
… Sonja and her husband were killed in Auschwitz. His wife Ita’s parents were hidden by an employee, Jeanne de Bruyn, and her family. During the war…
38. Dutch Commemorative War Cross awarded to a Dutch Jewish soldier, Prinses Irene Brigade
Object | Accession Number: 2002.22.2
Date:
commemoration: after 1940 May-1945
manufacture: after 1948
… Auschwitz concentration camp on February 5, 1943. Hedi’s sister Bertha Stern was killed in Minsk, Poland, in 1943. Erich and his wife Lissy tried to…
39. Cross of Merit medal, ribbons, and pins awarded to a Dutch Jewish soldier, Prinses Irene Brigade
2002.22.3_a-e front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.22.3 a-e
Date:
commemoration: after 1940 May-1945
manufacture: 1941-1945
… Auschwitz concentration camp on February 5, 1943. Hedi’s sister Bertha Stern was killed in Minsk, Poland, in 1943. Erich and his wife Lissy tried to…
40. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader
1990.23.240.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.240.8
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May-1945 May
…. Flora learned that many of her relatives perished in the Holocaust. Flora’s mother Alijda was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp or Sobibor…