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1. Silver brooch of a 3 masted ship given to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
1988.72.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.23
Date:
creation: 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…
2. Pin embroidered with a Star of David given to an inmate at Bergen Belsen for her birthday
1988.126.27 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.126.27
Date:
received: 1940-1945
…Belsen (Bergen, Celle, Germany)…
3. Bouquet of leather flowers made by an inmate at Bergen Belsen
1988.126.29 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.126.29
Date:
creation: 1944
…Belsen (Bergen, Celle, Germany)…
4. Pin made by a concentration camp inmate bought by 2 child inmates for their mother
1990.51.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.51.2
Date:
creation: 1943 May
received: 1943 May 19
…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…
5. Handmade Star of David pendant given to an American liberator by a Polish Jewish slave laborer
1992.164.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.164.1 b
Date:
received: 1945 April
… Mildred (later Borgerson, 1921-?), as well as a younger sister, Estelle (later Rosenberg, 1928-2006). While Britain and France declared war on Germany in…
6. Metal pin made for a former concentration camp inmate with her prisoner number and the camps where she was held
1993.27.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.34
Date:
creation: approximately 1945 April-1945 May
commemoration: 1943-1945
… daughter next went to live with the Sojka's, an uncle's family in Zawiercie. When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the Sojka's fled east to Russian…
7. Gold ring taken by a Jewish youth when he escaped Treblinka death camp
1995.72.1 side
Object | Accession Number: 1995.72.1
Date:
found: 1942 September
…. Losice was bombed during the September 1939 invasion of Poland by Germany. In August 1940, the Germans began conscripting Jews for forced labor. Yidl built…
8. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.28
…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…
9. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.29
…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…
10. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.30
…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…
11. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.31
…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…
12. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.32
…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…
13. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.33
…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…
14. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.34
…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…
15. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.35
…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…
16. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.36
…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. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.37
…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. Ivory bracelet carved with gold painted swastikas and SS lightning bolts
2001.204.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.204.4
Date:
commemoration: 1933
…Munich (Germany)…
19. Forget--Me-Not pin issued postwar to honor German Freemasons
2001.329.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.329.1
Date:
issue: after 1948
…Germany…
20. Ring
2002.325.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.325.1
Date:
1944
…Created by Agnes Frankl while doing forced labor in a factory in Lippstadt, Germany. The donor had engraved on this ring, "Dum Spiro, spero" I hope…
21. Mezuzah and tombstone pendants on a necklace made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp
2003.64.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.64.2
Date:
creation: after 1945 May 02-before 1945 June
…, 1899, in Łódź, to Aron and Frieda Pytowski. The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I (1914-1918) separated Danzig and West Prussia from Germany…
22. Gold ring with engraved initials and date owned by German Jewish refugee
2003.149.67 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.67
Date:
commemoration: 1936 July 11
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
23. Star of David pendant with a prisoner number made by a former concentration camp inmate
2003.436.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.436.1
Date:
creation: after 1945 April-before 1947
received: 1947
…Paul Rosenberg was born in Krakow, Poland, to a Jewish couple. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and occupied Krakow. At an unknown date…
24. Silver pin with floral engraving found by a German Jewish survivor while imprisoned by the Soviet Army
2004.658.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.658.2
Date:
found: 1945 February
…Evelyn (Evy) Goldstein was born on June 26, 1938, in Berlin, Germany, to an assimilated Jewish couple, Ernst and Herta Loschinski Goldstein. Herta…
25. Opaque glass bead necklace found at Lüneburg
2004.721.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.721.6
Date:
use: approximately 1945
…Luneburg (Germany)…
26. Engraved gold wedding band that belonged to a German Jewish refugee
2005.546.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.3
Date:
recovered: 
received: approximately 1895
…Anna Cahn was born to a wealthy, assimilated Jewish family that had been established in in Frankfurt, Germany, for many generations. She married…
27. Engraved gold wedding band that belonged to a German Jewish refugee
2005.546.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.4
Date:
recovered: 
received: 1895
…Anna Cahn was born to a wealthy, assimilated Jewish family that had been established in in Frankfurt, Germany, for many generations. She married…
28. Pin issued to a camp survivor with Buchenwald memorial Bell Tower and flags
2005.567.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.5
Date:
commemoration: 1945 April 11
received: 1969
…, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia and made Riga the capital of the Latvian SSR. In the spring of 1941, Germany launched a surprise attack on the Soviet…
29. Globe-shaped UNRRA pin worn by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.14
Date:
use: 1946 March-1947 June
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…
30. Silver UNRRA pin worn by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.16
Date:
use: 1946 March-1947 June
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…
31. Commemorative pin worn postwar by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.17
Date:
commemoration: 1943 March-1945 April
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…
32. Star of David stickpin worn postwar by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.18
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…
33. Silver metal cable link chain used to hold sports medals awarded to a German Jewish deaf-mute athlete
2005.602.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.602.5
Date:
commemoration: 1938
…Esther Feld was born on December 22, 1940, in Paris, France, to Max and Raisa (Rose) Steinberg Feld. Max, born on January 6, 1915, in Berlin, Germany…
34. Hitler Jugend Leistungsabzeichen [Hitler Youth] proficiency badge
2008.103.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.103.1
Date:
issue: approximately 1940
…Germany…
35. Nazi Party Women's Order of the Red Swastika lapel pin
2006.103.2, National socialist frauenschaft (women’s organization) pin, Cayla DuChene Houston Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2006.103.2
Date:
issue: approximately 1940
…Germany…
36. Nazi Party Women's Order of the Red Swastika lapel pin
2006.103.3, National socialist frauenschaft (women’s organization) pin, Cayla DuChene Houston Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2006.103.3
Date:
issue: approximately 1940
…Germany…
37. Necklace of found materials made in a camp by an Austrian Jewish woman
2006.355.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.355.2
Date:
creation: 1945 May-1946
…Child concentration camp inmates--Germany.…
38. Engraved gold wedding ring acquired by an inmate while in Kaufering concentration camp
2006.444.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.444.2
Date:
received: before 1945 April
… owning businesses, Jeno and Elva signed over their property to a tenant, in exchange for promissory notes. In March 1944, Germany seized control of Hungary…
39. Ring with a red heart and inmate numbers made from a spoon in a concentration camp
2006.467.1, ring with heart made from spoon, Solomon Goldstein Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2006.467.1
Date:
received: after 1943 October-before 1945 January
creation: after 1943 October-before 1945 January
…, had active Jewish organizations, including a Zionist group. On September 1, 1939, western Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany and a few weeks later…
40. Kronenkreuz oval stickpin of the Inner Mission charity
2006.483.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.483.1
Date:
issue: 1934-1937
…[Social Welfare Organisation of the Protestant Church in Germany] The Diaconia is the social welfare organisation of the Protestant Church in…
41. Kronenkreuz crucifix stickpin of the Inner Mission charity
2006.483.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.483.2
Date:
issue: 1935
…[Social Welfare Organisation of the Protestant Church in Germany] The Diaconia is the social welfare organisation of the Protestant Church in…
42. SS insignia ring taken from a concentration camp guard by inmates to give to a US soldier
2007.126.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.126.2
Date:
received: 1945 April-1945 May
…, 1944, joined Patton's 3rd Army and fought across Northern France to Germany and Central Europe. He was at Dachau concentration camp near the time of its…
43. Swastika shaped pin commemorating the reintegration of the Saarland with Nazi Germany
2007.155.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.155.1
Date:
commemoration: 1935 March 01
…Swastika shaped pin commemorating the reintegration of the Saarland with Nazi Germany…
44. Pin with a profile of Adolf Hitler found during postwar reconstruction
2007.477.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.477.1
Date:
found: 1949-1953
…Diane Keeley was the daughter of James E. Keeley Sr., one of the first American civilian employees stationed in Germany, in January 1946, as part of…
45. Gold ring with pink stones received by a refugee in a displaced persons camp upon the birth of her daughter
2008.198.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.198.2
Date:
received: 1946
…Bronia Bergman was born in Poland in 1917 or 1918. In 1945, following the end of World War II, she was a displaced person in Feldafing, Germany…
46. Gold link chain necklace received by a refugee in a displaced persons camp upon the birth of her daughter
2008.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.198.3
Date:
received: 1946
…Bronia Bergman was born in Poland in 1917 or 1918. In 1945, following the end of World War II, she was a displaced person in Feldafing, Germany…
47. Gold necklace, bracelet, and pendant received in a displaced persons camp
2008.228.11_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.11 a-c
Date:
received: 1945
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
48. Handmade pin embroidered with her prisoner number made for a concentration camp inmate on her 16th birthday
2009.359.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.359.1
Date:
received: 1945 April 11
… schools. She and her sister also received music, dance, and drama lessons. In September 1939, after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the eastern…
49. Adjustable cuff bracelet made from gold marks with pouch owned by German Jewish refugee
2006.498.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2010.484.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938 September
…Sophia Jungheim was born on July 24, 1893, in Kassel, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Jacob and Emma Lorge Jungheim. Jacob was born on November 22, 1856…
50. Aluminum ring with a letter and prisoner number owned by John Bolé
2011.174.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.174.4
Date:
use: approximately 1945 April
…, French, and Serbo-Croatian. On April 6, 1941, the Axis powers, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria, invaded and divided Yugoslavia. Laibach was in the…