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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. 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…
3. SS Auschwitz album
2007.24 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2007.24
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
… and office worker at banks in Lubbecke. He joined the SS in 1933 and the Nazi party in 1937. He married in 1937, had a daughter in 1939 and a son in…
4. Waffen-SS ladle
2000.562.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.562.1
Date:
found: 1945
…Large metal ladle with "Waffen-SS" engraved on the back and "Neoveda-Rust Free."…
5. 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…
6. Confessions of Franz Ziereis, last commandant of Mauthausen
1994.A.0065 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0065 | RG Number: RG-04.049
Date:
creation: 1945
…Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this…
7. Waffen SS red fez acquired by a US soldier following the liberation of Dachau concentration camp
1992.73.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.73.1
Date:
received: 1945 April 29
…Waffen SS red fez acquired by a US soldier following the liberation of Dachau concentration camp…
8. Engraved wooden box presented to a Lieutenant General of the SS by his troops
2005.525.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.525.2
Date:
found: after 1945 May-1946
commemoration: 1944 August-1945 February
… was corrupt and became a self-employed businessman. During these years, he became friends with Kurt Daluege, commander of the SS (Schutzstaffel…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. Leather belt taken from an SS storeroom at a concentration camp and worn by a Hungarian Jewish inmate after liberation
2002.175.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.175.2
Date:
use: 1945 May 05-1945 May 07
… 1945. Steven Vogel took the shirt and belt from an SS storeroom housing clothing and supplies at the camp. Letter: handwritten by Tomi Baratod [sic] in…
12. Shirt taken from an SS storeroom at a concentration camp by a Hungarian Jewish inmate and worn after liberation
2002.175.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.175.1
Date:
use: 1945 May 05-1945 May 07
… 1945. Steven Vogel took the shirt and belt from an SS storeroom housing clothing and supplies at the camp. Letter: handwritten by Tomi Baratod [sic] in…
13. Waffen SS green fez given to a US officer by his soldiers after the liberation of Dachau concentration camp
1991.196.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.196.1
Date:
received: 1945 May
…Waffen SS green fez given to a US officer by his soldiers after the liberation of Dachau concentration camp…
14. 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…
15. Waffen SS red fez acquired by a US soldier
2003.173.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.173.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
…Red fez that was part of the dress uniform of a Waffen-SS military detachment composed of Muslims from Bosnia, Croatia, and Herzegovina in occupied…
16. SS badge acquired by a US Army nurse
2014.299.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.299.2
Date:
received: 1945
…The collection consists of labels, a Red Cross patch, and an SS armband and patch, notebooks, and a pass relating to the experiences of Margaret…
17. 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…
18. 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…
19. Wooden box, insert, and welding torch tips from the Dora Mittelbau V2 factory
2007.486.28_a-o closed
Object | Accession Number: 2007.486.28 a-p
Date:
acquired: 1945 April-1945 July 05
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dave Johnson and the Boone Family…
20. 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…