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1. Reich Labor Service Arbeit adelt [Work ennobles] plaque and booklet acquired by a US soldier
2006.258.10_a-b open
Object | Accession Number: 2006.258.10 a-b
Date:
issue: approximately 1940
… advance through to Germany of the Third Army under General George S. Patton. The division was deployed in France on July 13, 1944. On December 26, it…
2. Bronze Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal, 3rd Class Order
Object | Accession Number: 2017.254.1
Date:
issue: 1939 May-1945 May
…Germany…
3. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.101.2 a-b
Date:
issue: 1914 August 05-1918
received: after 1914 August 05-before 1918 November 11
…Germany…
4. Medal for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
1994.70.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.70.1
Date:
issue: 1936
…Germany…
5. Cross of Honor of the German Mother [Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter] medal, 3rd Class Order, Bronze Cross
2012.248.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.248.1
Date:
commemoration: 1938 December 16
…Germany…
6. Civilian German War Merit Cross medal and ribbon retrieved by US soldier Harry S. Kent
Object | Accession Number: 2017.690.4
Date:
issue: 1939
acquired: after 1944
…Germany…
7. Sudetenland medal, ribbon, and Prague Castle Bar retrieved by US soldier Harry S. Kent
Object | Accession Number: 2017.690.3
Date:
issue: after 1938 October 01-before 1945 May
acquired: after 1944
…Germany…
8. US Army Good Conduct medal awarded to Arthur Schmitt
Object | Accession Number: 2019.627.3
… Arthur (Abraham) Schmitt and Meta (Miriam) Grunebaum Schmitt and their families in Germany and the United States before, during, and after World War II.…
9. Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal
2001.1.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.1.2
Date:
commemoration: 1938 December 16
…Germany…
10. Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter [Cross of Honor of the German Mother] bronze medal acquired by a US soldier
2012.194.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.194.2
Date:
commemoration: approximately 1938 December 16
found: 1945 May
… June 23, 1932, joining his father and grandmother, Agnes Barrie, in New York. On December 11, 1941, the US declared war on Germany. Norman enlisted in…
11. Cross of Honor of the German Mother, 3rd Class Order, Bronze Cross
2013.42.2 a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.42.2 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1938 December 16
…Munich (Germany)…
12. Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter [Cross of Honor of the German Mother] medal, 3rd Class Order, Bronze Cross
2007.243.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.243.1
Date:
commemoration: 1938 December 16
…Germany…
13. From Holocaust to Rebirth commemorative bronze medal acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor of several concentration camps
2012.313.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.313.3
Date:
commemoration: 1981 June 14-1981 June 18
received: 1981 June
…Herbert Lichtenstein was born on July 8, 1920, in Oberwesel, Germany, to Wilhelm and Clementine Wolff Lichtenstein. Both of his parents were born in…
14. Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal, with ribbon, 1st Class Order, Gold Cross
2000.263.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.263.1 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1938 December 16
…Germany…
15. Commemorative plate to honor a lawyer for his work on behalf of Holocaust survivors
1994.97.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.97.3
Date:
commemoration: 1962
… Hague reparations negotiations, Germany-Israel, 1952; Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, 1953-1956; Counsel, International Council of B…
16. Award issued to a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.15.1
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
17. Award issued to a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.21
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
18. Engraved silver trophy cup won by a Polish Jewish refugee in a sports tourney at Bergen-Belsen DP camp
2000.291.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.291.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1946 April
… Zychlin to apprentice as a barber. He participated in Poaley Zion, a Zionist youth organization. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded and occupied Poland…
19. Medal and a ribbon bar pin awarded to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.71_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.71 a-b
Date:
received: 1941-1945
…Ernst Günther Heppner (later, Ernest Guenter,1921-2004) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), to Isidor (1878-c.1942) and Hilda (nee…
20. Mother's Day medallion issued by NS-Frauenschaft, Nazi Party
2005.367.22 back
Object | Accession Number: 2005.367.22
Date:
commemoration: 1935 March 19
…Ilmenau (Germany)…