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1. Pin commemorating a Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor’s receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor
2018.327.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.327.2
Date:
commemoration: 2005 September 23
… Hungarian government began aligning its policies with those of Nazi-controlled Germany. On September 1, 1939, Germany started World War II by invading Poland…
2. Luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.4
Date:
use: 1946 May 10-1946 May 20
… Poles and were put on a crowded cattle train with no food or water. On October 2, Regina and Halina arrived at a labor camp near Leipzig, Germany. They…
3. Commemorative red triangle Auschwitz badge 140239 owned by former camp inmate
2012.459.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.459.5
Date:
unavailable: 
…Adolf Lustgard (or Lustgarten] (later Arthur Robert List) was born on April 23, 1923, to Herman and Ida Wulkan Lustgarten, in Goerlitz, Germany, on…
4. Luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.5
Date:
use: 1946 May 10-1946 May 20
… was not aware of the rise of Nazism and persecution of Jews in Germany until the German army invaded Poland on September 1. In response, Ludwik and…
5. Commemorative red triangle Dachau badge 85173 owned by former inmate
2012.459.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.459.3
Date:
unavailable: 
…Adolf Lustgard (or Lustgarten] (later Arthur Robert List) was born on April 23, 1923, to Herman and Ida Wulkan Lustgarten, in Goerlitz, Germany, on…
6. Commemorative red triangle Dachau badge 158831 owned by former inmate
2012.459.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.459.2
Date:
unavailable: 
…Adolf Lustgard (or Lustgarten] (later Arthur Robert List) was born on April 23, 1923, to Herman and Ida Wulkan Lustgarten, in Goerlitz, Germany, on…
7. Red UNRRA patch worn by a former concentration camp inmate and DP aid worker
2005.579.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.8
Date:
use: 1946 March-1947 June
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Hans Finke was born on August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany. His father, Julius Finke (1882-1943), was a merchant from Petrzkowitz, Poland…
8. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.272 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.272
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
…Ernst Günther Heppner (later, Ernest Guenter,1921-2004) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), to Isidor (1878-c.1942) and Hilda (nee…
9. Handmade Nazi swastika flag with the inscription NUTS acquired by a US family in prewar Vienna
Object | Accession Number: 2006.265.12
Date:
received: 1938
… was annexed into Germany, in what became known as the "Anschluss." Helen kept a detailed diary describing what she saw as Austria was absorbed into Nazi…
10. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.273 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.273
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
…Ernst Günther Heppner (later, Ernest Guenter,1921-2004) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), to Isidor (1878-c.1942) and Hilda (nee…
11. Circular red cloth UNRRA badge worn by a former US soldier as Area Administrator for Germany
1993.59.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.13
Date:
use: 1945-1948
…Circular red cloth UNRRA badge worn by a former US soldier as Area Administrator for Germany…
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12. Blue AJDC patch worn by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.12
Date:
use: 1947 July-1949 August
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
13. Commemorative red triangle Dachau badge 15611 owned by former German Jewish inmate
2012.459.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.459.7
Date:
unavailable: 
…Adolf Lustgard (or Lustgarten] (later Arthur Robert List) was born on April 23, 1923, to Herman and Ida Wulkan Lustgarten, in Goerlitz, Germany, on…
14. Commemorative red triangle Dachau badge 158831 owned by former inmate
2012.459.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.459.6
Date:
unavailable: 
…Adolf Lustgard (or Lustgarten] (later Arthur Robert List) was born on April 23, 1923, to Herman and Ida Wulkan Lustgarten, in Goerlitz, Germany, on…
15. AJDC bar patch worn by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.9
Date:
use: approximately 1946-1949 August
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
16. Large red Nazi garrison swastika banner signed by soldiers of the 80th Infantry
Object | Accession Number: 2012.436.1
Date:
found: 1945 April 03
commemoration: 1945 May 10
… April 1945, the 80th advanced through southern Germany. On April 4, after a fierce four day battle, Paul’s unit captured the city of Kassel, location of a…
17. Commemorative red triangle Dachau badge 83918 owned by former camp inmate
2012.459.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.459.4
Date:
unavailable: 
…Adolf Lustgard (or Lustgarten] (later Arthur Robert List) was born on April 23, 1923, to Herman and Ida Wulkan Lustgarten, in Goerlitz, Germany, on…
18. Clip-on name tag worn postwar by a former concentration camp inmate
2005.579.7 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.7 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
19. Public School Athletic League Winged Victory achievement badge received by a German Jewish teenage refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.454.6
Date:
received: approximately 1945-approximately 1950
…Franziska (Ruth) Danzig was born on July 12, 1932, in Munich, Germany, the only child of Emanuel and Gerda Winter Danzig. Emanuel was born on July 29…
20. Blue and silver HIAS pin worn by a Jewish Latvian youth postwar
2013.474.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.474.2
Date:
use: 1947 October-1947 November
… into the Soviet army. On July 1, 1941, Germany invaded Latvia. On July 4, the Germans grabbed Jewish men off the street and forced them to light the…