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61. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
2004.388.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.388.3
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… to Germany to serve in World War I (1914-1918.) While stationed in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, he was invited to the home of Max Lichtenstein, a…
62. Armband with a royal coat of arms worn by Danish resistance fighter
2011.68.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.68.1
Date:
use: 1945 May
… Limfjorden. Mogens became a history teacher. He and his wife Karen had two daughters. On April 9, 1940, Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany. The German…
63. Framed set of military medals, ribbons, and insignia awarded to US Army Captain J.G. Mitnick
2006.11.43, Framed set of military medals, ribbons, and insignia, J. George Mitnick Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.43
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
… captured the city of Regensburg. On April 13, George arrived at the recently liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany. There he saw the abysmal living…
64. XXX Corps patch worn by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee
2016.203.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.203.4
Date:
use: 1944-1945
…Norbert Müller (later Norman A. Miller) was born on June 2, 1924, in Tann in der Rhön, Germany, to Sebald and Laura Jüngster Müller. Sebald was born…
65. US Army technician shoulder patch that belonged to a German Jewish refugee
2009.365.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.365.4
Date:
issue: approximately 1943
emigration: 1938 May 14
…Hans Joseph Wachtel was born in Erfurt, Germany, on December 27, 1922. He was the youngest child of Max Wachtel and Erna Bielschowsky Wachtel. Both…
66. World War I Iron Cross medal with striped ribbon awarded to a German Jewish refugee
2009.365.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.365.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
emigration: 1938 May 14
…Max Wachtel was born on June 17, 1884, in Erfurt, Germany, and owned a factory which manufactured heels for shoes. His family had lived in Germany…
67. German Marksmanship aiguillette
2016.471.7 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2016.471.7
Date:
found: 1945
…Germany…
68. WW I 61st Artillery gold shoulder board with cannons owned by German Jewish soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.15
Date:
issue: approximately 1914-approximately 1918
…Carl Werner Lenneberg (1899-1989) was born on November 5, 1899 in Remscheid, Germany and had an older brother Georg (b. 1898). Their father, and…
69. WW I 61st Artillery gold shoulder boards with cannons owned by German Jewish soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.12 a-b
Date:
issue: 1914-1918
…Carl Werner Lenneberg (1899-1989) was born on November 5, 1899 in Remscheid, Germany and had an older brother Georg (b. 1898). Their father, and…
70. Second Lieutenant's bullion patch worn by a Jewish German US soldier
2003.149.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.19
Date:
use: 1945 May 09-approximately 1946 June
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
71. World War I medal awarded to a Jewish veteran for bravery
1990.283.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.283.1
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
…Ernst Rothschild, who was Jewish, was born in Michelstadt (Hessen), Germany. He served in the German Army during World War I (1914-1918) and was…
72. Pair of blue and silver collar tabs for a Luftwaffe Hauptmann [Captain] acquired by a US soldier
2011.75.5_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.75.5 a- b
Date:
received: 1945-1946
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
73. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier
2004.388.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.388.2
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… to Germany to serve in World War I (1914-1918.) While stationed in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, he was invited to the home of Max Lichtenstein, a…
74. Hitlerjugend [Hitler Youth] enamel membership pin acquired by a US soldier
2011.75.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.75.9
Date:
found: 1945-1946
manufacture: after 1939 January-before 1945 May
…, he enlisted in the US Army and was assigned to the 102nd Combat Infantry Division, nicknamed the Ozarks Division. He was deployed to Germany in…
75. Prisoner id tag issued to a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.2
Date:
issue: 1939 September-1940 April
use: 1939 September-1945 May
… landowner, whose land they rented. On September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. Salek was mobilized into the 19th Infantry Battalion, Polish Army…
76. Infantry service lapel pin worn by a German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.25
Date:
use: 1945 May 09-approximately 1946 June
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
77. Copper colored U.S. lapel pin received by a German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.29.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.29.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1945 May 09-approximately 1946 June
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
78. WW I Baden Cross for Volunteer War Aid awarded to a German Jewish veteran
2013.477.2 Front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.477.2
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1916
…Oskar Salomon Ehrmann was born on July 4, 1893, in Nussloch, Germany, to Jewish parents, Helene Richheimer (1856-1942, US) and August Ehrmann (1853…
79. US Army 102nd Infantry Division enameled lapel pin with OZ worn by a soldier
2011.75.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.75.6
Date:
use: 1945-1946
…, he enlisted in the US Army and was assigned to the 102nd Combat Infantry Division, nicknamed the Ozarks Division. He was deployed to Germany in…
80. U.S. lapel pin from a pair owned by a German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.29 back
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.29.2 a-c
Date:
received: 1945 May 09-approximately 1946 June
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…