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1. Three part badge with number 21968 worn by a German Jewish forced laborer
2017.193.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.193.3
Date:
use: 1944 March-1945 May 09
…Lotte Zagorska (later Charlotte Pogel, 1920 - 2016) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to Leopold Leib (b.1891) and Sarah Friedlich…
2. Triangular, tri-color badge with number 21968 worn by a German Jewish forced laborer
2017.193.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.193.5
Date:
use: 1944 March-1945 May 09
…Lotte Zagorska (later Charlotte Pogel, 1920 - 2016) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to Leopold Leib (b.1891) and Sarah Friedlich…
3. Circular badge with number 21968 worn by a German Jewish forced laborer
2017.193.4 side A
Object | Accession Number: 2017.193.4
Date:
use: 1944 March-1945 May 09
…Lotte Zagorska (later Charlotte Pogel, 1920 - 2016) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to Leopold Leib (b.1891) and Sarah Friedlich…
4. Hitler Youth armband with a swastika acquired by a US soldier
1988.99.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.4
Date:
found: approximately 1945
found: after 1944 June-before 1945 November
… Army. On April 6, 1945, Harry and his unit entered Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany, following its April 4 liberation by the US 4th Armored Division…
5. NSDAP membership badge found by Zaro Calabrese
1994.124.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.124.1
Date:
acquired: 1944-1945
manufacture: 1933-1945
… beachhead and the liberation of France in 1944, and then fought their way through Germany. On April 4, 1945, they liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp, a…
6. NSDAP membership badge found by Zaro Calabrese
1994.124.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.124.2
Date:
acquired: 1944-1945
… beachhead and the liberation of France in 1944, and then fought their way through Germany. On April 4, 1945, they liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp, a…
7. Nazi Party pin for Labor Day 1934 found by Zaro Calabrese
1994.124.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.124.3
Date:
issue: 1934
acquired: 1944-1945
commemoration: 1934 May 01
… beachhead and the liberation of France in 1944, and then fought their way through Germany. On April 4, 1945, they liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp, a…
8. Reich service flag with a swastika and Nazi eagle captured by an uknown soldier
2000.610.1 detail
Object | Accession Number: 2000.610.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1936-1945
…Königsberg (Germany)…
9. Crematorium tag, number 5893, acquired at Dachau postwar by a US soldier
2003.112.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.112.19
Date:
found: 1945 July 10
… later, the US declared war on Japan and Germany. After a year and a half, Charles returned from the Panama Canal Dept. to attend officer training school…
10. Forced laborer identification badge worn by a Polish Jewish woman using a false identity
2014.426.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.2
Date:
use: 1944 December 15-1945 April
… was not aware of the rise of Nazism and persecution of Jews in Germany until the German army invaded Poland on September 1. In response, Ludwik and…