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1. Engraved medallion presented to Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, head of the Jewish Council, by bakers in the Łódź ghetto
2010.74.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.74.1
Date:
issue: 1943
…-old Mordechai the Älteste der Juden [Elder of the Jews], a position which gave him a wide range of powers over the Jewish community. He was ordered to…
2. Belgian Red Cross medal, ribbon, and box awarded to a Jewish Russian nurse
2007.212.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.212.3 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
… Germany in May 1940, she worked primarily for L’Ouevre Nationale L’Enfance, as Jews were segregated from the general population and could not use the same…
3. Medallion, box, pamphlet, and bar pin awarded to a Macedonian Jewish partisan woman
2011.108.23 a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.108.23 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
received: 1965 May 09
… Monastir (now Bitola), to Kalef and Djamila Kasorla Kolonomos. Isak’s family was Romaniote, Greek Jews that had lived in Ioannina (Yannina) Greece, since…
4. Military service medallion awarded to a Macedonian Jewish partisan woman
2011.108.21 a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.108.21 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
received: 1998 November 11
… Monastir (now Bitola), to Kalef and Djamila Kasorla Kolonomos. Isak’s family was Romaniote, Greek Jews that had lived in Ioannina (Yannina) Greece, since…
5. Commemorative medallion with box awarded to a Macedonian Jewish partisan woman
2011.108.24 a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.108.24 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1942-1982
received: 1982 September 12
… Monastir (now Bitola), to Kalef and Djamila Kasorla Kolonomos. Isak’s family was Romaniote, Greek Jews that had lived in Ioannina (Yannina) Greece, since…
6. Macedonian-Kosovo Brigade plaque with stand awarded to a Macedonian Jewish partisan woman
2011.108.8 b front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.108.8 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1943-1968
received: 1998 November 11
… Monastir (now Bitola), to Kalef and Djamila Kasorla Kolonomos. Isak’s family was Romaniote, Greek Jews that had lived in Ioannina (Yannina) Greece, since…
7. Commemorative medallion awarded to a Macedonian Jewish partisan woman
2011.108.18 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.108.18 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1942-1977
… Monastir (now Bitola), to Kalef and Djamila Kasorla Kolonomos. Isak’s family was Romaniote, Greek Jews that had lived in Ioannina (Yannina) Greece, since…
8. Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands 1898-1948 miniature medal owned by a former hidden child
2003.419.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.419.2
Date:
received: 1898-1948
…. Walter was an electrical engineer and they owned two stores that repaired and sold electrical appliances. They were observant Jews. In January 1933…
9. Honorary certificate issued to Juliette Usach by Yad Vashem
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.2 a
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
…, between ages 14 and 18. The group was comprised of adolescents from various European countries, and a mix of Jews, Catholics, and Protestants. Juliette was…
10. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader
1990.23.240.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.240.6
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May-1945 May
… South America on May 11. On May 10, Germany invaded the Netherlands. After the SS arrived, they began implementing anti-Semitic restrictions. All Jews…
11. Medal honoring soldiers killed during the invasion issued to a Dutch resistance leader
1990.23.240.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.240.3
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May
commemoration: 1940-1945
… South America on May 11. On May 10, Germany invaded the Netherlands. After the SS arrived, they began implementing anti-Semitic restrictions. All Jews…
12. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader
1990.23.240.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.240.7
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May-1945 May
… South America on May 11. On May 10, Germany invaded the Netherlands. After the SS arrived, they began implementing anti-Semitic restrictions. All Jews…
13. Commemorative plaque presented postwar to a Belgian Catholic rescuer
2007.14.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.14.10
Date:
commemoration: 1942-1945
received: 1963 March 17
… proximity to the six German soldiers billeted there. In late November 1941, German authorities decreed that all Jews must be registered, and began banning…
14. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader
1990.23.240.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.240.4
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May-1945 May
… South America on May 11. On May 10, Germany invaded the Netherlands. After the SS arrived, they began implementing anti-Semitic restrictions. All Jews…
15. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader
1990.23.240.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.240.5
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May-1945 May
received: 1978
… South America on May 11. On May 10, Germany invaded the Netherlands. After the SS arrived, they began implementing anti-Semitic restrictions. All Jews…
16. Righteous Among the Nations medal awarded to a French children’s home director
1992.72.1 a-b open
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.1 a
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
…, between ages 14 and 18. The group was comprised of adolescents from various European countries, and a mix of Jews, Catholics, and Protestants. Juliette was…
17. Life Saving Cross with a striped ribbon and presentation box awarded to a Lithuanian rescuer
2013.503.1.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.503.1.2 a-b
Date:
issue: 2009
commemoration: 1942-1944
…, often assisting German mobile killing squads, in which thousands of Jews were murdered. Kaunas was occupied on July 24. Rosian's paternal grandfather…
18. Medal and a ribbon bar pin awarded to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.71_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.71 a-b
Date:
received: 1941-1945
… separation of Jews and non-Jews. Ernst was expelled from school, and his parents were forced to sell their hotel to non-Jews. Ernst began attending trade…
19. Commemorative silver plaque presented to a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.12
Date:
received: 1927-1943
… the war effort. When Simon’s granddaughter, Eva, graduated high school in 1942, most Jews were prohibited from attending university. While a connection…
20. Bronze Marshal Petain medal given to a Jewish girl living as a refugee in France
2013.478.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.478.4
Date:
received: approximately 1942
issue: after 1940-before 1946
… Renee was placed in a boarding house for girls. In late September, Renee’s parents felt the situation for Jews in Vichy France was getting worse, and…