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1. Black plastic Star of David badge worn by a German Jewish forced laborer
2017.193.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.193.2
Date:
use: 1942 May-1944 March
…Lotte Zagorska (later Charlotte Pogel, 1920 - 2016) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to Leopold Leib (b.1891) and Sarah Friedlich…
2. 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…
3. 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…
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. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. 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)…
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…
11. Large Nazi National War Flag acquired by a US Army concentration camp liberator
2018.230.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.230.2
Date:
found: 1945 May 09-1945 July
use: 1943 November 18-1945 May 06
manufacture: after 1938 February
…Germany. Wehrmacht…
12. Unused forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, to identify a Polish forced laborer
2005.506.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.5
Date:
issue: approximately 1940-1945
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.…
13. Numbered prisoner patch worn by a female Hungarian Jewish slave laborer
2017.645.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.645.2
Date:
use: 1944 September 19-1945 April 25
issue: 1944 September 19
… Czechoslovakia, and became a part of Hungary in approximately 1938. During the 1930s, Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany, and in 1938, Hungary’s fascist regime…
14. Star of David yellow cloth badge printed with Jude, the German word for Jew
2004.721.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.721.2
Date:
use: after 1941 September-before 1945 May
…Luneburg (Germany)…
15. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center
1988.64.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.64.1.3
Date:
1939-1945
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.…
16. Used forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, sewn to gray felt backing for use by a Polish forced laborer
2005.506.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.8
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
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.…
17. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, belonging to a German Jewish prisoner
2018.427.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.427.4
Date:
use: after 1941 September 01-before 1945 February 14
…Hans Benjamin Marx (b. 1927) was born in Mannheim, Germany, to Elise (née Rihm, 1898-1976) and Ernest Marx (1895-1965). Ernest was born in Mannheim…
18. Star of David yellow cloth badge printed with Jude, the German word for Jew
2004.721.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.721.3
Date:
use: after 1941 September-before 1945 May
…Luneburg (Germany)…
19. 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)…
20. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, worn by a Polish Jewish woman in hiding as a Catholic
2008.227.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.227.2
Date:
use: 1943-1944
… from Germany. Kay was very close to her maternal grandmother, Leontyna Lewinger. The family spent summers with her in Alwernia, 20 miles outside Krakow…