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1. Ribbon for the SS-Hauptreitschule (SS Riding School) in Munich
1995.142.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.142.19
Date:
issue: after 1937 July-before 1945
…Black cloth strip with silver stitched borders and the words "SS-H.pt.-Reitfchule München" stitched in silver…
2. Waffen SS knife bayonet
1989.31.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.31.1
Date:
use: 1943
…The collection consists of a Waffen SS knife bayonet and a scrip receipt from Westerbork, Netherlands, transit camp used during World War II in…
3. Continental typewriter with a swastika and SS emblem key and a removable lid
2000.281.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.281.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1933-1945
…Continental typewriter with a swastika and SS emblem key and a removable lid…
4. Flemish SS Sturm Brigade recruitment poster
2016.184.661 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.661
Date:
publication/distribution: approximately 1943
Artwork Title:
Vlamingen Vaiie in de SS Langmarck!
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the…
5. Darning needle and case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.10 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.10 a- b
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… to New York on the transport ship, SS Marine Perch, in 1947, and settled in New York City. Felicia died in the Queens borough of New York City in 1983…
6. Bela Gondos family papers
1989.202. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1989.202.3
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1995
… Rezso Kasztner to get the German SS to allow a train of Jews to leave the country in exchange for money. Bela and his family reported to assembly camp in…
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 … Chase, Maryland, between 1989 and 1995 on topics including the Holocaust and Jewish communities in Hungary, the Kasztner train, and Jewish passivity…
7. Maerker and Behr families papers
2017.404.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2017.404.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1873-1983
…, the family sailed out of Hamburg on the SS President Roosevelt to the United States. They settled in Philadelphia, PA. Gerhard was drafted in 1943 and…
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 … Germany. Scope and content of collection The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Willy and Else (née Behr) Maerker, originally of Bernburg…
8. Drawing by Alexander Bogen of an SS officer
2005.181.57 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.181.57
Date:
creation: 1943
Artwork Title:
SS man
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund…
9. Metal dish inscribed for a matron of an SS Lebensborn
2001.204.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.204.6
Date:
commemoration: 1943 April
…The collection consists of artifacts, books, pamphlets, and photographs relating to the Lebensborn program in Nazi Germany which encouraged the birth…
10. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
…, they sailed on the SS Exeter on February 21, 1941. The Shadur family settled near Michel’s sister Gitta near St. Paul, MN, and Michel changed his name…
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 … the SS Exeter on February 21, 1941. The Shadur family settled near Michel’s sister Gitta near St. Paul, MN, and Michel changed his name to Michael…
11. Pencil and ink drawing
2010.502.51 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.51
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
… and Sonia were denied French citizenship, so they applied for US visas. They arrived in New York City aboard the SS Marine Falcon on October 21, 1947…
12. Ink and pencil sketch
2010.502.52 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.52
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
… and Sonia were denied French citizenship, so they applied for US visas. They arrived in New York City aboard the SS Marine Falcon on October 21, 1947…
13. Cloth work pass with an embroidered black W used to enter and exit the Lvov ghetto
2009.204.4 back
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.4
Date:
use: 1941-1943
… Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family…
14. Head tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.2
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
…, Benjamin and Feigele boarded the SS Marine Perch in Bremerhaven, arriving in New York on May 23. They settled in New York. Israel, Rivka, and Genia emigrated…
15. Red and yellow floral handkerchief carried by a young Hungarian Jewish girl on the Kasztner train
2003.198.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.10
Date:
received: approximately 1942
use: approximately 1942-1946
… of the Hungarian Zionist Association in Budapest to get the German SS to allow a train of Jews to leave the country in exchange for money. Judit and…
16. Hand tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.3
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
…, Benjamin and Feigele boarded the SS Marine Perch in Bremerhaven, arriving in New York on May 23. They settled in New York. Israel, Rivka, and Genia emigrated…
17. Childsize violin and case of a young Jewish Lithuanian boy killed in the Ponary massacre
2006.88.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.88.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1936-1943
use: before 1943 September
… made to stand at attention in the yard for hours; if you moved, you might be shot. Every Sunday, the SS guards would come by and make them walk naked…
18. Cloth work pass with an embroidered blue W used to exit and enter the Lvov ghetto
2009.204.3 back
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.3
Date:
use: 1941-1943
… Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family…
19. Brown tefillin pouch used by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.1
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
…, Benjamin and Feigele boarded the SS Marine Perch in Bremerhaven, arriving in New York on May 23. They settled in New York. Israel, Rivka, and Genia emigrated…
20. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.7
Date:
manufacture: 1870-1948
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…