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1. Yellow warning skull and crossbones pennant found by a concentration camp inmate after liberation
2014.461.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.461.4
Date:
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 September
use: 1941 July-1945
… 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Czestochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the ghetto after it was…
2. Tool used to classify skin color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
2017.355.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.355.2 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1905-1914
use: approximately 1905-1945
…Tool used to classify skin color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
3. Adolf Hitler-Strasse street sign acquired by a US soldier
1986.17.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1986.17.1
Date:
found: 1945 May
…Germany…
4. Pennant found by a US soldier
2015.558.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.558.11
Date:
use: 1941 July-1945
…Germany…
5. Tool used to classify eye color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 2017.355.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1930-1945
use: approximately 1930-1945
…Tool used to classify eye color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
6. Small, yellow warning pennant with a skull and crossbones acquired by a US soldier
2013.453.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.453.7
Date:
found: 1945-1946
use: 1941 July-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…
7. Pennant found by a US soldier
2015.558.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.558.10
Date:
use: 1941 July-1945
…Germany…
8. Tool used to classify hair color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 a
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…Tool used to classify hair color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
9. Reichsluftschutzbund house marker
2005.367.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.367.1
Date:
manufacture: 1933-1945
…Germany…
10. Blank diplomatic ausweis document retrieved by US soldier Harry S. Kent
Object | Accession Number: 2017.690.6
Date:
issue: 1933-1945
acquired: after 1944
…Germany…
11. Map
Object | Accession Number: 2013.418.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1945
Title:
Town plan of Berlin, Germany, Sheet 3, S.W., 3rd. ed. / compiled and drawn by A.C.I.U. and War Office
Series Title:
G.S.G.S. No. 4480
…Town plan of Berlin, Germany, Sheet 3, S.W., 3rd. ed. / compiled and drawn by A.C.I.U. and War Office…
12. Rhine Army Ranges (Hohne) map with overprinting, acquired by an American soldier stationed in Germany during the 1980s
2018.389.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.389.2
Date:
publication: 1942-1953
Title:
RHINE ARMY RANGES (HOHNE)
…Rhine Army Ranges (Hohne) map with overprinting, acquired by an American soldier stationed in Germany during the 1980s…
13. Sign excluding Jews from a property
Object | Accession Number: 1990.256.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-approximately 1945
… the 1930s increased restrictions for Jews in every aspect of their lives. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by…
14. Unused trilingual paid reply postcards for use by forced laborers from eastern Europe
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.16
Date:
use: 1943-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Germany…
15. Copy of hand drawn map, Rainbow Division advance into Germany by division member
2010.130.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.130.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1948
depiction: 1945 March 31-1945 April 20
Artwork Title:
The Rainbow Trail, Part 2: Advance of 42d Infantry Division from Miltenberg to Capture of Furth
…Copy of hand drawn map, Rainbow Division advance into Germany by division member…
16. Unused trilingual paid reply postcards for use by forced laborers from eastern Europe
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.17
Date:
use: 1943-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Germany…
17. Postcard depicting World War II German aerial attack acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2005.39.1
Date:
received: 1943-1945
…Bombing, Aerial--Germany.…
18. Copy of hand drawn map, Rainbow Division advance into southern Germany by division member
2010.130.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.130.3
Date:
creation: approximately 1948
depiction: 1945 April 20-1945 April 26
Artwork Title:
The Rainbow Trail, Part III: Advance of 42nd Infantry Division from Furth to crossing of Danube
…Copy of hand drawn map, Rainbow Division advance into southern Germany by division member…
19. Two-sided silk escape map of Western Europe acquired by German Jewish US soldier
2003.449.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.2
Date:
received: after 1944 June-before 1946 June
Title:
Belgium and Germany (New Frontier), Sheet C/43C- Sheet D/43D
…Belgium and Germany (New Frontier), Sheet C/43C- Sheet D/43D…
20. Book of musical compositions transcribed by a female Jewish musician
Object | Accession Number: 2013.311.5
Date:
creation: 1937-1941
recovered: approximately 1945 June
… orphan, six year old Shmuel. Hungary had anti-Jewish laws similar to those of its ally, Nazi Germany. In 1940, Miriam went to Budapest to stay with her…