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521. Star of David badge printed Jude worn by a Jewish doctor
1993.153.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.153.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 March 31-1945 May
… of all Jews to concentration camps. On March 31, Jews older than six were required to wear yellow Star of David badges and many were relocated. On…
522. 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
… children, 10 year old Eva, 8 year old Alice, and 10 week old Uri Aron, were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. Phillip became head of the camp…
523. Allach porcelain figure given to a US Army doctor by recently liberated prisoners of Dachau
Sean P. Tully Collection Image, 2007.194.1
Object | Accession Number: 2007.194.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1943-1945
received: 1945 April 29-945 April 30
Artwork Title:
Musketier
Alternate Title:
Musketeer
… concentration camp. The Porzellan Manufaktur Allach (PMA) was founded in 1935 in the Munich suburb of Allach. It produced decorative porcelain pieces with the…
524. Yellow Star of David badge with the letter J worn by a Belgian Jewish boy
2003.348.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.348.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942-approximately 1944
… reunited. They learned that Rozia had been sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland and killed. All of Rozia and Cudyk’s family in Poland perished…
525. 1st Anniversary commemorative pin for the victims of Theresienstadt acquired by a Czech Jewish survivor
2004.692.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.692.6
Date:
commemoration: 1945 September 16-1946 May 12
…First anniversary commemorative pin for the May 12, 1945, liberation of Theresienstadt concentration camp acquired by Frank Meissner, whose family…
526. Cross of Merit medal, ribbons, and pins awarded to a Dutch Jewish soldier, Prinses Irene Brigade
2002.22.3_a-e front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.22.3 a-e
Date:
commemoration: after 1940 May-1945
manufacture: 1941-1945
… liberated on May 5, 1945. Most of Jack and his wife Hedi’s family were killed in German concentration camps.…
527. Pair of wool mid-calf socks worn by a Yugoslavian man
2017.609.9 a top
Object | Accession Number: 2017.609.9 a-b
Date:
creation: before 1941 April 06
… and joined her remaining family. In October, 1942, Mento, Lottie and Izzica were transferred to the concentration camp on the island of Rab, and…
528. German prisoner of war identification tag worn by a Jewish soldier in the Polish Army
2007.34.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.34.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945
…. Disease and hunger were rampant and killed thousands. Roza was next transported to Gellenau, a sub-camp of the Gross Rosen concentration camp. She worked in…
529. Watercolor painting of people in line for lunch acquired by an American internee
2018.426.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.20
Date:
creation: 1943
… published propaganda photos and press stories about Vittel to showcase it as representative of conditions in German camps. Despite these improved living…
530. Drawing of the stairway near her hiding place by Jewish teenager
2007.521.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.521.6
Date:
creation: approximately 1941-approximately 1944
Artwork Title:
Wagon by the Stairs, 1941-1944
… of the partisan and resistance groups, where she learned that her sister Susanna had been killed just before liberation. All of the registered Jews had…
531. Pair of leather slippers received from Oskar Schindler by a Jewish Polish worker
2004.702.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.702.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1945 May
… concentration camp. Schindler protected his workers from deportation, kept German camp personnel out of the camp, and did his best to provide food, although…
532. Plate 46, Herbert Sandberg series, Der Weg: uniformed prison inmates pull a wagonload of rocks
1988.12.46 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.12.46
Date:
creation: 1958
Series Title:
Der Weg 70 Aquatinta-Radierungen
Artwork Title:
Die singenden Pferde
Alternate Title:
The Singing Horses
… Museum in East Germany (now Germany) on the site of the concentration camp where he had been imprisoned during the Holocaust and incorporating work he had…
533. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of newcomers to the Łódź Ghetto pulling a carriage
1988.173.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.4
Date:
creation: 1964 January 04
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Newcomers to the Ghetto
Alternate Title:
2 Horseman pulling a carriage in Lodzer Ghetto
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
534. Leo Haas drawing of a blind witness identifying the guilty party at a trial
2002.490.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.490.5
Date:
creation: 1978
Artwork Title:
Keine Aufregung, Herr Klager, Ich Bestimme Schon Den Schuldigen (Zwischen Ihnen Beiden!)
… sent to Nisko labor camp near Lublin in German occupied Poland, where he drove supply wagons. He made portraits of SS camp personnel, in exchange for…
535. Autobiographical tempera painting by David Friedmann of two men pumping water in the Łódź Ghetto
1988.173.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.1 a-c
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1941 October-1944 March
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Pumping Water in Łódźer Ghetto
Alternate Title:
Two Łódź Ghetto Inmates On A Water Pump
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
536. Plate 42, Herbert Sandberg series, Der Weg: prisoner with a vision of Lenin
1988.12.42 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.12.42
Date:
creation: 1963
Series Title:
Der Weg 70 Aquatinta-Radierungen
Artwork Title:
Nicht Allein
Alternate Title:
Not Alone
…th anniversary of liberation. Sandberg was imprisoned for 11 years by the Nazi regime, 7 under brutal conditions in Buchenwald concentration camp. Der Weg is a…
537. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of naked women and children entering the showers at Auschwitz
1988.182.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.2
Date:
creation: 1964 March
depiction: after 1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Bathhouse Auschwitz
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
538. Portrait of her mother reading a book by a Jewish artist
2007.521.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.521.9
Date:
creation: 1942-1943
Artwork Title:
Mother reading a book, 1942-1943
… of the partisan and resistance groups, where she learned that her sister Susanna had been killed just before liberation. All of the registered Jews had…
539. Two-sided silk escape map of Western Europe owned by Captain Ralph M. Kopansky
2012.427.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.427.6
Date:
publication: 1943
Title:
Belgium and Germany (New Frontier), - Sheet C/43C- Sheet D/43D
… of Ralph Kopansky in the United States Army before, during, and after World War II, including the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp, where he…
540. Two-sided silk escape map of Western Europe carried by a US soldier
2013.318.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.318.2
Date:
use: 1945 May
Title:
Belgium and Germany (New Frontier), - Sheet C/43C- Sheet D/43D
… concentration camp, a subcamp in the Neuengamme system. Following the liberation, Leonard visited the camp and photographed the atrocities. In a May 6 letter to…