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1. Identification tag that exempted a Jewish child from deportation
2006.446.2 back
Object | Accession Number: 2006.446.2
Date:
use: 1942 September 05-1942 September 12
…. Germany invaded and occupied Poland in early September 1939. In February, the families were forced into a Jewish ghetto. Bella and Marek lived with their…
2. Holocaust commemorative ribbon worn by a Latvian Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.5 b
Date:
use: 1963
… in the area. In 1940, the Soviet Army invaded and occupied Lithuania and the persecution of Jews became widespread. In June-July 1941, Germany invaded…
3. Holocaust Commemoration Day Remember pin worn by a Latvian Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.4 a
Date:
received: approximately 1965
… in the area. In 1940, the Soviet Army invaded and occupied Lithuania and the persecution of Jews became widespread. In June-July 1941, Germany invaded…
4. Red metal badge with the letter P and the prisoner number of a Polish inmate of Dachau
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.9
Date:
use: 1943 April 09-1945 April 29
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Dachau (Germany)…
5. Blue AJDC pin worn by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.13
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…
6. German prisoner of war identification tag worn by a Jewish soldier in the Polish Army
2007.34.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.34.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… imprisoned in the Oflag XI, a prison camp in Altengrabow, Germany. In 1941, the Germans established a ghetto in Krakow and all Jewish inhabitants were forced…
7. Prisoner of war identification tag issued to a Jewish American soldier in Stalag IIIC
2007.475.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.475.2
Date:
use: 1944-1945
… Regiment on Governor’s Island, New York. A few months later he was shipped to Germany as a sergeant in the 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division. He…
8. German prisoner ID tag issued to a Jewish US soldier and POW
Object | Accession Number: 2011.398.2
Date:
use: 1945 January-1945 April
…, Germany. American prisoners registered the new arrivals and identified everyone as Protestant, although many, including Norman, were not. After about 12…
9. Girl Guide enrollment promise trefoil badge received by a young German Jewish girl rescued on the Kindertransport
Object | Accession Number: 2012.454.5
Date:
received: after 1939 June-before 1944
…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…
10. SSB blue enamelled badge with a snowflake acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2013.453.35
Date:
found: 1945
creation: 1907-1945
… following day the United States declared war on Japan, and on December 11, Germany declared war on the United States. On October 31, 1942 Harold was drafted…
11. 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…
12. Forced laborer identification badge worn by a Polish Jewish woman using a false identity
2014.426.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.2
Date:
use: 1944 December 15-1945 April
… 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…
13. Prisoner ID tag issued to a Belgian soldier and former POW
2014.427.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.427.5
…Prisoners of war--Germany--Nienburg/Weser--Biography.…
14. Chain link bracelet with prisoner ID tag issued to a Belgian POW
2014.427.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.427.6
…Nienburg (Lower Saxony, Germany)…
15. Shanghai International Settlement pin acquired by a German refugee
2014.502.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.502.2
… experiences of Max Schmeidler who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust.…
16. Insignia with Imperial flag
Object | Accession Number: 2022.98.3
…Germany…
17. Circular metal pin owned by a female Hungarian Jewish slave laborer
2017.645.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.645.4
Date:
acquired: 1944 August 02-1945 March
… Czechoslovakia, and became a part of Hungary in approximately 1938. During the 1930s, Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany, and in 1938, Hungary’s fascist regime…
18. Metal identification pendant belonging to a Czech Jewish ghetto-labor camp inmate
2018.228.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.228.1
Date:
acquired: before 1944 September 28
… Pact, Germany annexed the Sudetenland, a border region of Czechoslovakia. By May of 1939, Germany, Hungary, and Poland had partitioned Czechoslovakia and…
19. Blue and silver HIAS badge acquired by a Polish Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.467.2
Date:
received: after 1947-before 1950 December
… and had two children, Jentle and Basha. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. German troops occupied Hrubieszow, located just west of the Bug…
20. Crematorium tag, number 5893, acquired at Dachau postwar by a US soldier
2003.112.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.112.19
Date:
found: 1945 July 10
… later, the US declared war on Japan and Germany. After a year and a half, Charles returned from the Panama Canal Dept. to attend officer training school…