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1. Ivory bracelet carved with gold painted swastikas and SS lightning bolts
2001.204.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.204.4
Date:
commemoration: 1933
…), commanded by Heinrich Himmler from 1929, considered itself an elite corps of the Nazi Party based on race-nationalist visions of racial purity. In 1936, the…
2. Oval locket with 2 photos of a young woman owned by emigres in Shanghai
2006.19.23 front closed
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.23
Date:
use: approximately 1935
… Japanese, the military commanders of Shanghai, were, due to the influence of German Gestapo agents, planning to liquidate the Jews living in Shanghai. Fritz…
3. Commemorative Star of David stickpin owned by a Dutch Jewish survivor
2002.140.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.2
Date:
commemoration: 1945-1955
…Flat, gold washed copper disc with a stickpin soldered to the back. It has an enameled blue and white Star of David, with the 10 commandment tablets…
4. Gold ring with engraved initials and date owned by German Jewish refugee
2003.149.67 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.67
Date:
commemoration: 1936 July 11
… Rudolph as Chief Interrogator and second in command of Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13. In July 1944, Rudolph landed on Utah Beach in France. In…
5. Silver pin with floral engraving found by a German Jewish survivor while imprisoned by the Soviet Army
2004.658.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.658.2
Date:
found: 1945 February
… them. This was in March or April 1945. The soldiers offered the children some chicken, but Herta did not allow Evy to eat any. The commander did not…
6. Friendship ring engraved GG made from silver spoons in the Riga ghetto
2003.407.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.407.1
Date:
creation: 1943 March 13
use: 1943 March-1945 March
… roof, but had bunks to sleep on. On February 10, the camp was evacuated. The camp commandant said that women who could not walk were allowed to stay in…
7. Engraved ring made from a spoon for a Jewish Latvian boy in Riga ghetto
2013.474.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.474.3
Date:
commemoration: 1941 December 08
use: 1942-1945
creation: 1942
… commander about taking extra food, but another inmate saved him. One night they were forced to get up and their heads were shaved. They were afraid they would…
8. Masonic tie pin with a gold compass and square emblem owned by a Hungarian Jewish emigre
2010.81.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.10
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April 01
emigration: 1949 March 29
use: 2000
…, 1944, German forces occupied Hungary and George was stationed at a former orphanage in Budapest. The camp commandant, Dr. Attila Juhasz, was a family…
9. Cutout pendant of the Terezin coat of arms sewn to an envelope made by a former Jewish Czech inmate
1989.342.16.1-.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.342.16.1-.2
Date:
undated: 
… were waiting for the train to arrive, an SS commander came to get workers to repair a roof recently damaged in a windstorm. Jiri and a few others…
10. Pin with a cutout image of the Small Fortress gate at Terezin pinned to paper made by a camp inmate
1989.342.15.1-.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.342.15.1-.2
Date:
creation: 1943
… were waiting for the train to arrive, an SS commander came to get workers to repair a roof recently damaged in a windstorm. Jiri and a few others…