Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Search

Search Results

81. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, belonging to a German Jewish woman
2016.552.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.552.3
Date:
use: after 1941 September 01-approximately 1942 September 17
…Selma Ansbacher (nee Schlossberger, 1897-1956) was born in Wachbach, Germany to Bertha Schlossberger (nee Strauss, 1864-1936) and Sigmund…
82. 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…
83. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, worn by a Polish Jewish woman in hiding as a Catholic
1989.285.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.285.2
Date:
use: 1943 June-1945 April
… then Palestine. Fela did not want to start over, so Moshe decided they would stay. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was heavily…
84. Unused Star of David badge with Jude issued to a German Jewish youth
1991.141.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.141.4
Date:
issue: after 1941 September-before 1945 April
…Fritz Gluckstein was born on January 24, 1927, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and a Christian mother, Georg and Hedwig Gluckstein. His father…
85. Star of David badge with Jude worn by a German Jewish youth
1991.141.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.141.5
Date:
use: after 1941 September-1945 May
…Fritz Gluckstein was born on January 24, 1927, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and a Christian mother, Georg and Hedwig Gluckstein. His father…
86. Star of David badge with word Jude issued to an inmate of Łódź ghetto
1990.31.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.31.9
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… to Gräben a subcamp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Germany. In 1944, she was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She was liberated in…
87. Pin from a Nazi Party local council meeting
2005.367.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.367.4
Date:
commemoration: 1936 August 22-1936 August 23
…Gera (Germany)…
88. ORT stickpin presented to Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
1988.72.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.6
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
89. Yellow, rectangular patch on cloth backing worn by a German Jewish woman in a concentration camp
2016.496.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.2
Date:
use: 1944 December 10-1945 May 08
…Irene Frank (nee Silberstein, b. 1927) was born in Berlin, Germany to Dr. Friedrich (Fritz) Silberstein (1890-1944) and Lotte Frank Silberstein (1903…
90. NSDAP pin from a local Nazi Party meeting
2005.367.31 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.367.31
Date:
commemoration: 1937 June 19
…Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)…
91. Star of David yellow cloth badge printed with Jude, the German word for Jew
2004.721.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.721.4
Date:
use: after 1941 September-before 1945 May
…Luneburg (Germany)…
92. Badge
1990.197.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.197.3
Date:
undated: 
… announced the Nuremberg Laws, racial based antisemitic legislation for the systematic persecution of Jews in Germany. In 1943, the Allies decided to hold an…
93. ID patch stenciled 139905 worn by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.18.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.18.1
Date:
use: 1945 January-1945 April
…, Germany invaded Poland. Łódź was occupied and everything changed: food was rationed and there were long lines to get bread. Shmuel had to wear a Star of…
94. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center
2002.204.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.204.2
Date:
use: approximately 1939
… concentration camps in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland during the Holocaust and after liberation.…
95. UNRRA embroidered patch worn by a survivor and DP camp relief worker
2005.579.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.6
Date:
use: 1946 March-1947 June
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Hans Finke was born on August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany. His father, Julius Finke (1882-1943), was a merchant from Petrzkowitz, Poland…
96. Prisoner patch with red triangle and number owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
1999.100.39 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.39
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
97. Handmade prisoner badge worn by a Latvian Jewish concentration camp inmate
2005.567.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.4
Date:
use: 1944 August-1945 April
…, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia and made Riga the capital of the Latvian SSR. In the spring of 1941, Germany launched a surprise attack on the Soviet…
98. 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
… Harbor and Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, pulling the U.S. into World War II. In August 1943, Donald was drafted by the Army…
99. Unused forced labor badge, blue field with OST in white letters, to identify a forced laborer from the Soviet Union
2005.506.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.7
Date:
issue: 1942-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
100. Handmade prisoner badge worn by a Latvian Jewish concentration camp inmate
2005.567.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.3
Date:
use: 1944 August-1945 April
…, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia and made Riga the capital of the Latvian SSR. In the spring of 1941, Germany launched a surprise attack on the Soviet…