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1. Silver ring
2014.498.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.498.5
…, books and a ring was donated in 2015. An accretion of photos, selective service registration card and a Yiddish-Hebrew dictionary was donated in 2017.…
2. Hitler Jugend Leistungsabzeichen [Hitler Youth] proficiency badge
2008.103.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.103.1
Date:
issue: approximately 1940
…'s selection as Chancellor in 1933, this became the national ideology, and loyalty to the Nazi Party and its leaders was a central teaching. The Hitler Youth was…
3. Friendship ring engraved GG made from silver spoons in the Riga ghetto
2003.407.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.407.1
Date:
creation: 1943 March 13
use: 1943 March-1945 March
… made her stand at the ghetto entrance wearing a sign that said “I bartered.” On April 3, 1942, there was a selection. Hanka’s grandmother and great aunt…
4. Pair of earrings entrusted to a young Austrian Jewish refugee after her emigration
Object | Accession Number: 2022.28.1 a-b
…. Biela was able to get Herta on the list of thirty five children who were selected for possible resettlement and sent to a doctor for a preliminary exam…
5. 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
…’s elder brothers, David and Elek, were selected for forced labor. Flora spent 2 months in Auschwitz. On July 29, 1944, she and a thousand other girls had to…
6. Ring hidden by a Polish Jewish girl while in a concentration camp
2015.465.1 top
Object | Accession Number: 2015.465.1
Date:
received: before 1942 September
…. In June 1944, the three sisters were transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival, they survived the selection process. The guards only allowed them…
7. Single pinwheel shaped cuff link with ribbon covering owned by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.8
Date:
use: after 1945
… males were selected for forced labor. That year, Menachem made arrangements to pay Aurelia Parent to hide his young daughters, as well as his nieces…
8. Pair of pinwheel shaped cuff links with ribbon covering owned by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.7 a-c
Date:
use: after 1945
… males were selected for forced labor. That year, Menachem made arrangements to pay Aurelia Parent to hide his young daughters, as well as his nieces…
9. 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
… World War II. On April 29, 1943, Rudolph enlisted in the US Army and was selected for the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie, Maryland…
10. 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
… were selected; the rest were dismissed. None of these men returned to Riga. The Germans conducted major purges of the ghetto on December 1st, 8th, and 9…
11. 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
… aware of it at the time, Dr. Josef Mengele was in charge of selections. Only 300 men and 200 women were selected to survive. Sol’s aunt Sura was among…
12. Metal flower pin made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.3
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… transport. Once all the selected people were loaded, more were still needed to meet the 1,000 person quota, so guards began pulling individuals that had been…
13. Horse-shaped metal pin made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.2
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… transport. Once all the selected people were loaded, more were still needed to meet the 1,000 person quota, so guards began pulling individuals that had been…
14. Round Star of David pendant made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.7
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… transport. Once all the selected people were loaded, more were still needed to meet the 1,000 person quota, so guards began pulling individuals that had been…
15. Golem pendant made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.6
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… transport. Once all the selected people were loaded, more were still needed to meet the 1,000 person quota, so guards began pulling individuals that had been…
16. Miniature picture frame pendant made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.4
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… transport. Once all the selected people were loaded, more were still needed to meet the 1,000 person quota, so guards began pulling individuals that had been…
17. 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
… brother Ernst to be smuggled out of the ghetto to the Soviet Union in exchange for her trousseau silver. Irma was eventually selected for deportation. Her…