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1. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note issued to a Polish Jewish woman
2018.31.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.31.2
Date:
issue: 1940 July-1944 August 21
… that Germany had invaded Poland. One week later, the German army occupied Łódź and immediately instigated violence and anti-Semitic policies. Jews were…
2. Zeiss Ikon camera filter, case, and box used by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.39_d front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.39 a-d
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1926-approximately 1945
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
3. Yellow warning skull and crossbones pennant found by a concentration camp inmate after liberation
2014.461.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.461.4
Date:
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 September
use: 1941 July-1945
… 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Czestochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the ghetto after it was…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. Woven pin
2019.512.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.512.5
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1944
…. Hilda was a nurse and survived the war in the Netherlands. Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, and by 14 February 1942 Pieterdina, Katherine…
7. Woven pin
2019.512.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.512.9
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1944
…. Hilda was a nurse and survived the war in the Netherlands. Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, and by 14 February 1942 Pieterdina, Katherine…
8. Woven napkin ring
2019.512.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.512.3
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1944
…. Hilda was a nurse and survived the war in the Netherlands. Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, and by 14 February 1942 Pieterdina, Katherine…
9. Woven napkin ring
2019.512.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.512.4
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1944
…. Hilda was a nurse and survived the war in the Netherlands. Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, and by 14 February 1942 Pieterdina, Katherine…
10. Woven miniature hat
2019.512.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.512.8
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1944
…. Hilda was a nurse and survived the war in the Netherlands. Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, and by 14 February 1942 Pieterdina, Katherine…
11. Woven hatpin
2019.512.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.512.7
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1944
…. Hilda was a nurse and survived the war in the Netherlands. Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, and by 14 February 1942 Pieterdina, Katherine…
12. Woven hat pin
2019.512.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.512.6
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1944
…. Hilda was a nurse and survived the war in the Netherlands. Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, and by 14 February 1942 Pieterdina, Katherine…
13. Woven bar pin
2019.512.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.512.10
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1944
…. Hilda was a nurse and survived the war in the Netherlands. Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, and by 14 February 1942 Pieterdina, Katherine…
14. World War II Victory ribbon bar awarded to German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.88 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.88
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
15. World War II Victory Medal with ribbon and box awarded to a US soldier
2011.75.11_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.75.11 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
issue: 1946-2010
…, he enlisted in the US Army and was assigned to the 102nd Combat Infantry Division, nicknamed the Ozarks Division. He was deployed to Germany in…
16. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1948
issue: after 1914 August 05
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
17. World War I Honor & Iron Crosses buttonhole ribbon bar with Combatant’s swords awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.1
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: after 1934 July 13-1944
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
18. Wooden sliding lid pencil box with a rose decal used by a student in Nazi Germany
1990.44.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 1990.44.3
Date:
use: 1933-1945
…Wooden sliding lid pencil box with a rose decal used by a student in Nazi Germany…
19. Wooden school bench with desk and 3 inkwells used in German classroom
Object | Accession Number: 2005.350.2
Date:
use: 1933-1945
…Aschach (Germany)…
20. Wooden drafting triangle used by a Czech Jewish camp inmate
1989.303.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.16
Date:
use: 1941 December-1945 May
… transportation expert, whom he thought of as an uncle. Karel was a draftsman at a design company. On September 29, 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border…