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1. Framed combat and service medals awarded to Alex Sabbadini
Object | Accession Number: 2022.252.6 a-e
… one of a very few Italian-born Jews to fight with the Allies initially in North Africa, Sicily and Italy.…
2. Medal and a ribbon bar pin awarded to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.71_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.71 a-b
Date:
received: 1941-1945
… separation of Jews and non-Jews. Ernst was expelled from school, and his parents were forced to sell their hotel to non-Jews. Ernst began attending trade…
3. Komjadi commemorative medal owned by a Hungarian Jewish family
1990.245.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.3
Date:
issue: 1934
… radio broadcasts. When Eva graduated high school in 1942, most Jews were prohibited from attending university. After much difficulty, a connection of the…
4. Orszagos Leventeverseny medal owned by a Hungarian Jewish family
1990.245.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.4
Date:
issue: 1942
… radio broadcasts. When Eva graduated high school in 1942, most Jews were prohibited from attending university. After much difficulty, a connection of the…
5. Diving medal owned by a Hungarian Jewish family
1990.245.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.5
Date:
undated: 
… radio broadcasts. When Eva graduated high school in 1942, most Jews were prohibited from attending university. After much difficulty, a connection of the…
6. Righteous Among the Nations medal awarded to a French children’s home director
1992.72.1 a-b open
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.1 a
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
…, between ages 14 and 18. The group was comprised of adolescents from various European countries, and a mix of Jews, Catholics, and Protestants. Juliette was…
7. Slonim Jews' Association memorial bronze medal
2000.592.1.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.592.1
Date:
issue: 1992
…Slonim Jews' Association memorial bronze medal…
8. Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands 1898-1948 miniature medal owned by a former hidden child
2003.419.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.419.2
Date:
received: 1898-1948
…. Walter was an electrical engineer and they owned two stores that repaired and sold electrical appliances. They were observant Jews. In January 1933…
9. Bronze Krzyz Zaslugi [Cross of Merit] awarded to a Polish midwife for postwar service
2005.260.4_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.260.4 a-e
Date:
issue: 1956 July 22
… the ghetto with the other Jews of the town. She worked as a nurse/midwife in the ghetto hospital. She decided to escape to Soviet territory in the east…
10. Gold Krzyz Zaslugi [Cross of Merit] with ribbon, certificate, and box awarded to a Polish midwife for postwar service
2005.260.5_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.260.5 a-d
Date:
issue: 1964 July 22
… the ghetto with the other Jews of the town. She worked as a nurse/midwife in the ghetto hospital. She decided to escape to Soviet territory in the east…
11. French Deaf-Mute National Cup soccer medal awarded to a German Jewish athlete
2005.602.5.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.602.5.1
Date:
commemoration: 1937-1938
…, 1940, anti-Jewish regulations were enacted and foreign Jews were targeted for arrest. Her father was deported to Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp in May…
12. French Deaf-Mute National Cup basketball medal awarded to a German Jewish athlete
2005.602.5.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.602.5.2
Date:
commemoration: 1938
…, 1940, anti-Jewish regulations were enacted and foreign Jews were targeted for arrest. Her father was deported to Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp in May…
13. Deaf-mute sports team medal awarded to a German Jewish athlete
2005.602.5.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.602.5.3
Date:
commemoration: 1938
…, 1940, anti-Jewish regulations were enacted and foreign Jews were targeted for arrest. Her father was deported to Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp in May…
14. Celerina ski school medal owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.14
Date:
issue: approximately 1930
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
15. Celerina ski school medal owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.15
Date:
issue: approximately 1930
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
16. Engraved medallion presented to Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, head of the Jewish Council, by bakers in the Łódź ghetto
2010.74.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.74.1
Date:
issue: 1943
…-old Mordechai the Älteste der Juden [Elder of the Jews], a position which gave him a wide range of powers over the Jewish community. He was ordered to…
17. Gold and blue enamel Masonic medal with the compass and square emblem owned by a Jewish Hungarian emigre
2010.81.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.9
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April 01
emigration: 1949 March 29
commemoration: 1871
… and anti-Jewish decrees were put in place; Jews had to wear Star of David armbands, move into ghettos, and deportations to concentration camps began. On…
18. Ku Klux Klan medal given to a South Carolina man
Object | Accession Number: 2018.296.2
Date:
received: 1920-1928
… Nuremberg Laws which excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having relations with persons of “German or related…
19. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader
1990.23.240.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.240.5
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May-1945 May
received: 1978
… South America on May 11. On May 10, Germany invaded the Netherlands. After the SS arrived, they began implementing anti-Semitic restrictions. All Jews…
20. Polish Order of Virtuti Militari 5th Class Silver medal awarded posthumously to a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising hero
1994.109.1_b closed
Object | Accession Number: 1994.109.1 a-b
Date:
issue: 1944 February 18
received: 1946
…-colored hair allowed him to pass easily as a non-Jew, and he managed to purchase the birth certificate and identity card of a man named Tadeusz Metzner, who…