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1. Engraved silver trophy cup won by a Polish Jewish refugee in a sports tourney at Bergen-Belsen DP camp
2000.291.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.291.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1946 April
… September, there were mass arrests and attacks on Jews, as well as looting and the requisitioning of Jewish property. Jews were ordered to destroy the old…
2. Chinese Hunt Club silver trophy cup awarded to a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.32 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.32
Date:
received: 1946 January 03
… 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. 30th anniversary hospital medallion and box awarded to a Macedonian Jewish man
2011.108.13 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.108.13 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1949-1979
received: 1979 April 24
… Mosche and Mirjam Sadikario, a Sephardic Jewish couple. The Sephardi were Jews who were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula in the late 15th century. Avram…
4. Gold and blue enamel Masonic medal with the compass and square emblem owned by a Jewish Hungarian emigre
2010.81.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.9
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April 01
emigration: 1949 March 29
commemoration: 1871
… and anti-Jewish decrees were put in place; Jews had to wear Star of David armbands, move into ghettos, and deportations to concentration camps began. On…
5. 30th Anniversary medallion from the Institute for National History in Skopje
2011.108.16 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.108.16 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1948-1978
… 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. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. Handcrafted commemorative coin medallion created for a US crew member on an illegal immigrant ship
2001.25.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.25.1
Date:
commemoration: 1947 May 18
creation: 1947 May 18-1947 July 22
… on the reverse. Paul was a 21 year old American recruited as a crew member for the Mossad L’Aliyah Bet which organized the illegal immigration of Jews…
11. National Society of Colonial Daughters essay award with case won by a Polish Jewish refugee
1989.277.18_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.277.18 a-b
Date:
issue: 1949
… their Ukrainian neighbors. A few days later, a Ukrainian delegation arrived from that village to ask the Jews in Glinne to take the corpses away and bury…
12. Polish Order of Virtuti Militari 5th Class Silver medal awarded posthumously to a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising hero
1994.109.1_b closed
Object | Accession Number: 1994.109.1 a-b
Date:
issue: 1944 February 18
received: 1946
…-colored hair allowed him to pass easily as a non-Jew, and he managed to purchase the birth certificate and identity card of a man named Tadeusz Metzner, who…
13. Orden Zasluge Za Narod 3rd class awarded to a Yugoslavian partisan
1993.167.8_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.167.8 a-c
Date:
received: 1949 April 01
… administered by the Germans. The regime enacted anti-Jewish laws, confiscated property and money, forced males to work hard labor and then began deporting Jews…
14. 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…