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1. Pin
2000.24.20.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.24.20.2
Date:
1946 April
… active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco…
2. 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
…-Litovsk (Brest, Belarus). His friend wanted to go home, so they returned to Warsaw in December. In early 1940, Benjamin joined the underground resistance…
3. 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
… active in destroying German propaganda. She distributed pamphlets and underground newspapers and aided men evading forced labor service to join the Maquis…
4. Star of David pendant with a prisoner number made by a former concentration camp inmate
2003.436.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.436.1
Date:
creation: after 1945 April-before 1947
received: 1947
… laborers for Project Riese, the construction of a new, underground, regional headquarters for Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Josef made friends with…
5. 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
… Jews first were hidden in the stable. Later during the winter, they hid in an underground dugout. The Soviet Army liberated Drohobycz and the Boryslaw…
6. Mother of pearl pendant
2005.209.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.209.1
Date:
received: approximately 1968
creation: approximately 1925
use: 1925
… Czech underground, on August 16, 1945. They emigrated from Czechoslovakia to the United States in November 1946 with their infant daughter, and settled in…
7. 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
…World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Personal narratives.…
8. 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
… Berlin, along with her aunt. She was assigned to work in the Schwartzkopf ammunition factory. In September 1944, Irena joined the underground resistance…
9. 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
… assisted with the release and helped the family to go underground. On December 12, 1939, the family crossed illegally into Hungary. They stayed in Budapest…
10. Gold bracelet made from melted-down coins owned by an Austrian Lutheran émigré
2018.363.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.363.1
Date:
designed: before 1939
emigration: 1939
creation: before 1939
… weeks or be sent to a concentration camp. Wilhelm managed to evade the Gestapo’s threat, and joined the underground. Seven months later, George Bell, the…