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1. 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 Totenkopf (Death’s head) ring taken from an SS officer by a liberator and later given to a Holocaust survivor…
2. SS totenkopf pin
1995.142.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.142.2
…The pin was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by John F. Bolton.…
3. Ivory bracelet carved with gold painted swastikas and SS lightning bolts
2001.204.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.204.4
Date:
commemoration: 1933
…Ivory cuff bracelet presented to an SS member, engraved with swastikas and Munich, Germany, 1933. The SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons…
4. SS insignia ring taken from a concentration camp guard by inmates to give to a US soldier
2007.126.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.126.2
Date:
received: 1945 April-1945 May
…, 1944, joined Patton's 3rd Army and fought across Northern France to Germany and Central Europe. He was at Dachau concentration camp near the time of its…
5. Globe-shaped UNRRA pin worn by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.14
Date:
use: 1946 March-1947 June
emigration: 1949 August 26
…). Many prisoners were killed and SS guards deserted their posts. The transport group stayed in Gleiwitz for a few days before being marched to the train…
6. 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
… for the United States aboard the SS Berengaria. He arrived In New York City on May 26, and moved in with his aunt and uncle, Ida and Moe Blum. Later…
7. Gold necklace, bracelet, and pendant received in a displaced persons camp
2008.228.11_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.11 a-c
Date:
received: 1945
… to the United States on the SS Marine Perch and settled in New York City. Irena graduated from Hunter College in 1956. She has two children and runs an…
8. Star of David stickpin worn postwar by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.18
Date:
emigration: 1949 August 26
…). Many prisoners were killed and SS guards deserted their posts. The transport group stayed in Gleiwitz for a few days before being marched to the train…
9. Commemorative pin worn postwar by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.17
Date:
commemoration: 1943 March-1945 April
emigration: 1949 August 26
…). Many prisoners were killed and SS guards deserted their posts. The transport group stayed in Gleiwitz for a few days before being marched to the train…
10. Aluminum ring with a letter and prisoner number owned by John Bolé
2011.174.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.174.4
Date:
use: approximately 1945 April
… a radio transmitter across the border and was arrested by the German SS security force in Trieste. John was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp…
11. Silver UNRRA pin worn by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.16
Date:
use: 1946 March-1947 June
emigration: 1949 August 26
…). Many prisoners were killed and SS guards deserted their posts. The transport group stayed in Gleiwitz for a few days before being marched to the train…
12. 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
… shop near the port. She once tried to smuggle in butter, but was caught. She convinced the SS officer not to execute her. Instead he shaved her head and…
13. 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
… husband, Manes Wysoki, who survived the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, accompanied by Irena's parents Jakub and Laura, immigrated to Israel. In 1990, Jan…
14. France Forever laminated pin with a V and US & French flags owned by a Jewish French resistance member
2004.248.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.248.7
… family before and during the Holocaust in France, until she was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, and after the Holocaust when she emigrated to the…
15. 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
… SS officer in charge made Irma camp elder because she spoke German. Irma made the work designations and assigned Tauba to the kitchen. The SS officer…
16. 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…
17. 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
… Auschwitz concentration camp on August 2, 1943. In July 1950, Herta and Evy left Germany on the SS General ML Hersey for the US. Herta married Henry Long, a…
18. Bar Kochba Jewish Sports Club stickpin (BKB) with blue enamel decoration owned by a Czech Jewish refugee to the US
2009.364.11, stickpin with blue enamel decoration and initials BKB, Tom T. Kovary Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2009.364.11
Date:
received: approximately 1935
emigration: 1940 February
…, and family papers documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Kovary family from Bratislava and the Neuhaus family from Hamburg.…
19. 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…
20. World Congress of Esperanto medallion with an image of woman and a view of Budapest owned by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.364.12, medal from an Esperanto conference, with a woman and a view of Budapest, Tom T. Kovary Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2009.364.12
Date:
commemoration: 1929
emigration: 1940 February
…, and family papers documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Kovary family from Bratislava and the Neuhaus family from Hamburg.…