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1. 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…
2. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, to identify a Polish forced laborer
2005.83.12.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.83.12.2
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
…Germany…
3. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, to identify a Polish forced laborer
1997.67.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.67.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
…Germany…
4. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, to identify a Polish forced laborer
2001.204.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.204.2
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
…Germany…
5. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, worn by a Catholic Polish soldier interned by the Germans
2013.397.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.397.2
Date:
use: after 1940 October 18-before 1945 April 04
…'s tailor shop. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland from the west and, three weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded from the east. Poland was…
6. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, worn by a Polish Catholic kidnapped into forced labor service
1990.259.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.259.2
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
…Joseph Wardzala was born on October 11, 1923, in Smigno, Poland. He was the youngest of five sons in a Roman Catholic family. After Germany invaded…
7. German prisoner of war identification tag worn by a Jewish soldier in the Polish Army
2007.34.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.34.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… imprisoned in the Oflag XI, a prison camp in Altengrabow, Germany. In 1941, the Germans established a ghetto in Krakow and all Jewish inhabitants were forced…
8. 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…
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. Star of David badge imprinted Jude worn by a German Jew
2003.361.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.13
Date:
use: approximately 1941 September-approximately 1945 May
…Moritz Henschel was born on February 17, 1879, in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), to Karl and Emma Deutsch Henschel. In January 1910, he…
11. 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.…
12. Star of David badge with Jude worn by a German Jewish man
1995.78.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.78.10
Date:
use: 1941 September-1943 May
…Alfred Fabian was born on May 24, 1910, in Neumark, Germany (now Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, Poland), to a Jewish couple. Alfred’s mother was Erna Leyser…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. Star of David patch worn by a German Jewish concentration camp inmate
2005.579.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.5
Date:
use: after 1941 September-1945 April 15
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
16. 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)…
17. 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)…
18. 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)…
19. 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.…
20. 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…
21. 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.…
22. White badge with an inverted red triangle and number 1896 worn by a gay concentration camp inmate
2012.482.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.482.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940 May-approximately 1945 April
… to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany near Berlin. He was assigned to forced labor in the Klinker brickworks. Josef later referred to…
23. White cloth armband worn by a Roman Catholic Polish firefighter in Warsaw
2014.450.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.3
Date:
use: 1939 September 27-1944 August 07
… countryside villa with his mother and brother when Germany invaded western Poland on September 1, 1939. They could hear bombs being dropped, and decided to…
24. Yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with the word Jude
1989.208.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.208.3
Date:
use: 1939-1945
…David Mielzynski (later David Mills) was born in 1910 in Schwersenz, Posen (Swarzędz, Poland). He lived in Berlin, Germany, with his wife Liesbeth…
25. Yellow Star of David badge with Jude worn by a young German Jewish boy
2010.200.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.200.2
Date:
use: 1941-1945
…Klaus Werner Max Zwilsky was born on August 16, 1932, in Berlin, Germany, to Erich and Ruth Herzberg Zwilsky. Erich was born on August 23, 1896, in…