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1. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center
1988.64.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.64.1.3
Date:
1939-1945
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.…
2. Blue-gray striped uniform square with a red triangle and yellow Star of David badge
1988.68.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.68.1.4
… a Polish forced labor group that was later drafted into the Soviet Army. The war ended in early May 1945 when Germany surrendered. All of Beno…
3. ORT stickpin presented to Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
1988.72.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.6
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
4. ORT shoulder badge owned by the Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
1988.72.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.7
Date:
use: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
5. ID bracelet of an inmate cremated at Ebensee slave labor camp
1988.78.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.78.3
Date:
found: 1945 May 06
…Concentration camp inmates--Germany.…
6. Yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with the word Jude
1988.82.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.82.1
Date:
approximately 1941
…Anny Neumann (later Ann West) was born in 1920 in Leipzig, Germany, to Leo and Johanna Neumann. She and her boyfriend Heinz Rosenhain joined the…
7. Yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with the word Jude
1988.82.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.82.2
Date:
approximately 1941
…Anny Neumann (later Ann West) was born in 1920 in Leipzig, Germany, to Leo and Johanna Neumann. She and her boyfriend Heinz Rosenhain joined the…
8. Hitler Youth armband with a swastika acquired by a US soldier
1988.99.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.4
Date:
found: approximately 1945
found: after 1944 June-before 1945 November
… Army. On April 6, 1945, Harry and his unit entered Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany, following its April 4 liberation by the US 4th Armored Division…
9. German State criminal police warrant disc acquired by a Jewish American soldier
1989.4.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.4.1
Date:
found: after 1945 April 26-before 1946 January 23
… school. He worked at an Austrian paper export company. On March 12, 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. Walter and his family had their citizenship…
10. Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht armband
1989.113.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.113.3
…Germany--Armed Forces--History--World War, 1939-1945.…
11. Prisoner identification tag with attached charms issued to Bronia Eiger-Sitner
1989.173.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.173.1 a-b
Date:
Issued: after 1944 November 23-before 1945 March
… camp in Germany. This group of women was taken to Lippstadt, and assigned to work as forced laborers in a munitions factory. Each woman was assigned a…
12. Yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with the word Jude
1989.208.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.208.3
Date:
use: 1939-1945
…David Mielzynski (later David Mills) was born in 1910 in Schwersenz, Posen (Swarzędz, Poland). He lived in Berlin, Germany, with his wife Liesbeth…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, worn by a Polish Jewish woman in hiding as a Catholic
1989.285.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.285.2
Date:
use: 1943 June-1945 April
… then Palestine. Fela did not want to start over, so Moshe decided they would stay. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was heavily…
16. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an A found by US military aid worker
1989.295.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.1
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
17. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an E found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.2
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
18. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an F found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.3
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
19. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an I found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.4
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
20. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an L found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.5
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
21. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.6
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
22. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.7
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
23. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.8
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
1945 April
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
24. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.9
Date:
found: 1945 April-1946 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
25. Unused green triangle concentration camp patch with an S found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.10
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 June
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
26. Unused black triangle concentration camp patch found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.11
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 June
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
27. Green metal Werk Kratzau labor camp badge worn by an inmate
1989.296.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.296.1
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945 May
…Helen H. Waterford is a native of Offenbach, Germany, and a survivor of Auschwitz. Waterford and her first husband were hidden by non-Jews in…
28. Armband to identify a worker
1989.298.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.298.1
…Organisation Todt (Germany)…
29. Patch with the Bohemian lion made by a Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate
1989.303.26 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.26
Date:
creation: approximately 1945 February-1945 March
… transportation expert, whom he thought of as an uncle. Karel was a draftsman at a design company. On September 29, 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border…
30. Inverted red triangle patch with T made by a Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate
1989.303.27 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.27
Date:
creation: approximately 1945 February-1945 March
… transportation expert, whom he thought of as an uncle. Karel was a draftsman at a design company. On September 29, 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border…
31. Star of David badge with Jude owned by Czech Jewish concentration camp prisoners
1989.303.54 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.54
Date:
use: after 1941 September
… transportation expert, whom he thought of as an uncle. Karel was a draftsman at a design company. On September 29, 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border…
32. Star of David badge with Jude owned by Czech Jewish concentration camp prisoners
1989.303.55 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.55
Date:
use: after 1941 September
… transportation expert, whom he thought of as an uncle. Karel was a draftsman at a design company. On September 29, 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border…
33. Metal bathroom pass issued to a Jewish Czech slave laborer
1989.303.56 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.56
Date:
use: approximately 1944 October-1945 May
… regime came to power in Germany, Prague saw a large influx of Jews fleeing persecution. In September 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border region…
34. SA sport club patch with a WM monogram and stylized arrow symbol
1989.312.35 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.312.35
…Germany--Armed Forces.…
35. Death certificate for a Jehovah's Witness preacher executed by the Germans
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.3
Date:
issue: 1939 December 07
… attended a Catholic school but in 1934, he began to assist his father with his missionary work. Nazi Germany banned the Watchtower Society, the Jehovah…
36. Star of David badge with word Jude issued to an inmate of Łódź ghetto
1990.31.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.31.9
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… to Gräben a subcamp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Germany. In 1944, she was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She was liberated in…
37. White armband with a blue embroidered Star of David worn by a Polish Jewish youth
1990.51.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.51.3
Date:
use: 1941
…Monius (later Martin) Spett was born on December 2, 1928, in Tarnow, Poland. In September 1939, the city was occupied by Nazi Germany. In 1940, the…
38. Unused Star of David badge with Juif acquired by a Jewish chaplain, US Army
1990.54.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.54.2
Date:
received: approximately 1944 August-1944 September
…’Elysee night club. In Paris, and later in Germany, Nadich provided help to the Bricha organization in its efforts to assist Jewish refugees to emigrate, often…
39. Badge
1990.197.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.197.2
Date:
undated: 
… announced the Nuremberg Laws, racial based antisemitic legislation for the systematic persecution of Jews in Germany. In 1943, the Allies decided to hold an…
40. Badge
1990.197.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.197.3
Date:
undated: 
… announced the Nuremberg Laws, racial based antisemitic legislation for the systematic persecution of Jews in Germany. In 1943, the Allies decided to hold an…
41. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, worn by a Polish Catholic kidnapped into forced labor service
1990.259.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.259.2
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
…Joseph Wardzala was born on October 11, 1923, in Smigno, Poland. He was the youngest of five sons in a Roman Catholic family. After Germany invaded…
42. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jood, belonging to a German Jewish refugee
1990.307.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.12
Date:
use: 1942 April 28-1942 August 09
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
43. Unused Star of David badge with Jude issued to a German Jewish youth
1991.141.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.141.4
Date:
issue: after 1941 September-before 1945 April
…Fritz Gluckstein was born on January 24, 1927, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and a Christian mother, Georg and Hedwig Gluckstein. His father…
44. Star of David badge with Jude worn by a German Jewish youth
1991.141.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.141.5
Date:
use: after 1941 September-1945 May
…Fritz Gluckstein was born on January 24, 1927, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and a Christian mother, Georg and Hedwig Gluckstein. His father…
45. Unused white concentration camp prisoner patch found by US forces
1991.198.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.198.1
Date:
found: 1945 April 22
use: 1947 April-1947 August
…Langenstein (Halberstadt, Germany)…
46. Unused white concentration camp prisoner patch found by US forces
1991.198.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.198.2
Date:
found: 1945 April 22
use: 1947 April-1947 August
…Langenstein (Halberstadt, Germany)…
47. Unused yellow stripe concentration camp prisoner patch found by US forces
1991.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.198.3
Date:
found: 1945 April 22
use: 1947 April-1947 August
…Langenstein (Halberstadt, Germany)…
48. Unused yellow stripe concentration camp prisoner patch found by US forces
1991.198.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.198.4
Date:
found: 1945 April 22
use: 1947 April-1947 August
…Langenstein (Halberstadt, Germany)…
49. Unused green triangle concentration camp prisoner patch with a black letter S found by US forces
1991.198.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.198.5
Date:
found: 1945 April 22
use: 1947 April-1947 August
…Langenstein (Halberstadt, Germany)…
50. Unused green triangle concentration camp prisoner patch with a black letter S found by US forces
1991.198.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.198.6
Date:
found: 1945 April 22
use: 1947 April-1947 August
…Langenstein (Halberstadt, Germany)…