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1. Handmade American flag created by former concentration camp inmates and given to a U.S. liberator
2015.450.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.450.1
Date:
received: 1945 April 11
… Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division, and drove a truck carrying ammunition and supplies. In the weeks following the D-Day invasion in June 1944, the 83rd landed…
2. Red pennant with swastika found at a liberated concentration camp by a US soldier
1992.122.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.3
Date:
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 August
…. Harold grew up in Mansfield, Ohio. He was a truck driver. In early December 1941, the United States entered World War II (1939-1945.) Harold entered the…
3. White armband with a red cross worn by a concentration camp inmate
1993.90.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.90.5
Date:
use: approximately 1943-1945 January
… SS came to take all the patients to the gas chambers and Dr. Klein forced Henryk and the other nurses to load them onto the trucks. Dr. Klein put any…
4. Star of David membership pin owned by a former concentration camp inmate
1993.90.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.90.4
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… SS came to take all the patients to the gas chambers and Dr. Klein forced Henryk and the other nurses to load them onto the trucks. Dr. Klein put any…
5. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.7
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
6. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an I found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.4
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
7. Unused green triangle concentration camp patch with an S found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.10
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 June
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
8. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an L found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.5
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
9. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an F found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.3
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
10. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.6
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
11. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an E found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.2
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
12. Unused black triangle concentration camp patch found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.11
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 June
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
13. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.9
Date:
found: 1945 April-1946 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
14. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an A found by US military aid worker
1989.295.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.1
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
15. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.8
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
1945 April
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
16. Prisoner badge with red triangle and number
2000.188.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.188.2
… weeks later, Felicja and her fellow prison inmates were deported by truck to Auschwitz concentration camp. The group was about to be shot in the main camp…
17. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2008.319.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.2
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-before 1947 December
… loaded in the cattle truck when the camp commander felt pity for her two small children and let them get off the truck. They returned to Limoges to hide in…
18. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2008.319.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.1
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-before 1947 December
… relocated them to the Nexon internment camp, from which they were to be deported to Poland. Tonia, Vera, and Marcel were already loaded in the cattle truck…
19. Star of David badge with Jude for Jew worn by a young woman assigned to forced labor
Object | Accession Number: 2006.473.3
Date:
issue: approximately 1941 September 19
… transported by truck and forced into a small, crowded space with other Jews. The SS members randomly whipped people and shot into the crowd. Ruth had no access…
20. Identification tag 68122 worn by a Jewish slave laborer at Ebensee/Mauthausen concentration camp
2007.445.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.445.2
Date:
use: 1944-1945 May 06
… population. Jews were brought in boxcars from other areas and taken out on trucks into the country side and gunned down. One morning, Lou and his family were…