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1. Israeli Police Civil Guard pin owned by Israel Haimovich
2015.162.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.162.2
Date:
creation: 1970-1979
…Israeli Police Civil Guard pin owned by Israel Haimovich…
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2. Ring
2000.606.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.606.2
… Vinke Verloop (donor) in the summer of 1944, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Envelope that bears note regarding a Dutch police officer captured in a German raid…
3. Locket
2001.62.5 front opened
Object | Accession Number: 2001.62.5 | RG Number: RG-71.001.08
Date:
1945
… Berlin, Breslau and Freiburg. He became the senior legal adviser to the police in Prussia, and he opposed Nazism. After Hitler came to power, Hermann…
4. Gold ring taken by a Jewish youth when he escaped Treblinka death camp
1995.72.1 side
Object | Accession Number: 1995.72.1
Date:
found: 1942 September
…, and Yidl became seriously ill. On April 9, 1942, Yidl and Michael Rak escaped. Once in Losice, Jewish police came to arrest Yidl, but he was hiding so…
5. Gold cross pendant worn by a Jewish child or his mother in hiding as Catholics
2002.420.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.420.24
Date:
use: 1943-1944
… active in left-wing politics, were arrested by the French police and deported to Germany. Karl was shot in Buchenwald on January 20, 1939. Margaret was…
6. Enamelled gold cross pendant worn by a Jewish child or his mother in hiding as Catholics
2002.420.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.420.23
Date:
use: 1943-1944
… active in left-wing politics, were arrested by the French police and deported to Germany. Karl was shot in Buchenwald on January 20, 1939. Margaret was…
7. 1st Anniversary commemorative pin for the victims of Theresienstadt acquired by a Czech Jewish survivor
2004.692.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.692.6
Date:
commemoration: 1945 September 16-1946 May 12
… deported to a detention camp in Gurs in southern France. Margit was ordered to report in to the Paris police on a regular basis. In May1940, Germany invaded…
8. Enameled stickpin for the Studiosorum World Congress owned by a former Czech Jewish soldier
2004.692.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.692.2
Date:
commemoration: 1946
… deported to a detention camp in Gurs in southern France. Margit was ordered to report in to the Paris police on a regular basis. In May1940, Germany invaded…
9. SS Totenkopf (Death’s head) ring taken from an SS officer by a liberator and later given to a Holocaust survivor
1992.206.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.206.1
Date:
issue: 1939 June 21
found: approximately 1945 April
received: 1992 October 24
… SS (Schutztaffel; Protection Squadron) controlled the police forces and the concentration camp system for the Nazi Reich. In 1939, they created the…
10. Mezuzah and tombstone pendants on a necklace made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp
2003.64.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.64.2
Date:
creation: after 1945 May 02-before 1945 June
… who allowed Irma to stay in her basement. Irma worked the kitchen of the Jewish ghetto police, and got one meal a day for washing dishes and serving…
11. 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
…, who was a tailor for the police department. On November 28, the Germans ordered that all able bodied men older than 16 report to the assembly area…
12. Fake diamond ring bartered to save the life of a Jewish family
2013.312.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.312.1
Date:
creation: 1942
use: 1943-1944
… nearby wheat field. They huddled there, covered with Laura’s raincoat, getting colder and wetter. German SS and Ukrainian police entered the field and…