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1. Rosary beads with cross given to Jewish child baptized as Catholic while in hiding
2001.223.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.223.1
Date:
received: 1942
… long afterwards, Dr. Kleinman escaped from a transport and joined his family in Pinsk. In order to avoid the deportations of Jews to the Soviet interior…
2. Medal with word Arosa and an image of St. Bernard owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.17
Date:
received: approximately 1925-1930
… 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…
3. Rosary with Virgin Mary medallion and leather pouch owned by a British woman in Shanghai
2006.19.60_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.60 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1940
… 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…
4. Rosary received by a Jewish child who was converted to Catholicism while in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 1992.82.1
Date:
received: 1945 January
… Selma Sophie her true identity as a Jew. The news shocked her; in the antisemitic environment of her Catholic school and neighborhood where she had grown…
5. Our Lady of Czestochowa holy card received by a young Jewish girl living in hiding as a Catholic in Poland
2002.441.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.441.3
Date:
received: 1943 May
… Selma Sophie her true identity as a Jew. The news shocked her; in the antisemitic environment of her Catholic school and neighborhood where she had grown…
6. Our Lady of Czestochowa holy card received by a young Jewish girl living in hiding as a Catholic in Poland
2002.441.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.441.4
Date:
received: 1943 May
… Selma Sophie her true identity as a Jew. The news shocked her; in the antisemitic environment of her Catholic school and neighborhood where she had grown…
7. Our Lady of Czestochowa holy card received by a young Jewish girl living in hiding as a Catholic in Poland
2002.441.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.441.2
Date:
received: 1943 May
… Selma Sophie her true identity as a Jew. The news shocked her; in the antisemitic environment of her Catholic school and neighborhood where she had grown…
8. St. Anthony statuette received by a Jewish child who was living in hiding as a Polish Catholic
Object | Accession Number: 1992.82.2 a-c
… Selma Sophie her true identity as a Jew. The news shocked her; in the antisemitic environment of her Catholic school and neighborhood where she had grown…
9. Silver medallion with Mary enthroned holding Jesus given to a Jewish girl living in hiding
2002.410.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.410.1
Date:
received: 1944
… to the ghetto. In 1942, the ghetto was made smaller and they had to relocate again. They were required to wear armbands identifying them as Jews and…
10. Our Lady of Czestochowa medal given to a Polish Jewish woman hiding as a Catholic laborer
1988.154.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.2
Date:
received: 1943 June
commemoration: 1932
… briefly worked with the Judenrat in food distribution. In April 1943, the Germans lined up the Jews for a selection. Moshe and Fela, emaciated and weak…
11. Pope Pius XI medal, ribbon and case worn to disguise the identity of a Jewish woman in hiding
2008.117.2_a closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.117.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1943-1945
… first week of September 1939. They immediately enacted practices aimed at abusing and persecuting Jews. The Baral family fled Krakow. They travelled as…
12. Embroidered priest's stole owned by a German Jewish refugee
1990.223.1.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.223.1.5
Date:
undated: 
… lived in Dresden. In January 1933, Hitler came to power in Germany and established an antisemitic Nazi dictatorship that persecuted Jews. Richard and his…
13. L'Enfant Jesus Miraculeux de Prague [Miraculous Infant Jesus of Prague] medallion given to an young Austrian Jewish woman
2009.359.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.359.2
Date:
received: 1946
… and musical performer. Both sisters had blond hair and blue eyes and were not often recognized as Jews, but were very aware of the strong antisemitism…
14. Pope's hammer
Object | Accession Number: 2022.252.4
… join the fight with the U.S. 5th Army. Alex was one of the first “Ritchie Boys” and was one of a very few Italian-born Jews to fight with the Allies…
15. Metal and plastic rosary used by an American internee
2018.426.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.5
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… : INRI [(Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum) Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews]…
16. Plastic rosary used by an American internee
2018.426.4 back
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.4
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
…crucifix, top of horizontal bar, embossed : INRI [(Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum) Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews]…
17. Metal and glass rosary used by an American internee
2018.426.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.6
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
…crucifix, front, top of horizontal bar, embossed : INRI [(Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum) Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews] crucifix, back…
18. Small, handmade, palm leaf cross carried by Anthony Acevedo as a medic and POW
Object | Accession Number: 2010.440.2
Date:
bulk: 1944 April-1945 June
… barracks without bunks and were given boiled grass to drink. In early February, there was a line up and Jews were told to step forward. There were not enough…