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1. World War II Victory Medal with ribbon and box awarded to a US soldier
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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…
2. Quilted wall hanging made postwar by a survivor to honor family members killed in Chelmno
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Object | Accession Number: 2004.530.1
Date:
creation: 2002
commemoration: 1942 April
Artwork Title:
We Never Said Good Bye
… experienced anti-Semitism regularly, they lived a comfortable and happy life. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Ozorkow was bombed on September 5…
3. Pin commemorating a Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor’s receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor
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Object | Accession Number: 2018.327.2
Date:
commemoration: 2005 September 23
… Hungarian government began aligning its policies with those of Nazi-controlled Germany. On September 1, 1939, Germany started World War II by invading Poland…
4. Mixed media painting of Jewish children behind a ghetto fence, painted by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.4
Date:
creation: 1996
depiction: 1941 September-1943 September
Title:
Behind the Wooden Fence
… accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and partitioned Poland. Vilna was in the Soviet zone, but was exchanged with…
5. Medallion for the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps received by a former child inmate
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Object | Accession Number: 2010.453.2
Date:
commemoration: 2010 April 11
…Meissen (Saxony, Germany)…
6. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport
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Object | Accession Number: 2003.352.1 a-b
Date:
use: after 1938-approximately 1997
manufacture: 1938-1939
emigration: 1939 June
…Hilde Lotte Anker was born on May 29, 1926, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg Jakob Willie Anker and Gertrud Gottschalk Anker. She had two older sisters…
7. Commemorative ribbon for the 50th anniversary of Dachau concentration camp
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Object | Accession Number: 2004.705.14
Date:
commemoration: 1945-1995
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
8. Collage painting of a Jewish man’s beard being cut off created by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.1
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
Anguish
… accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and partitioned Poland. Vilna was in the Soviet zone, but was exchanged with…
9. Collage painting of a crying woman created by a Polish Jewish artist after the Holocaust
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.2
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
My Mother's Tears
… accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and partitioned Poland. Vilna was in the Soviet zone, but was exchanged with…
10. 60th anniversary medallion, liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora issued to US soldier / liberator
Object | Accession Number: 2013.464.1
Date:
received: 2005 April
commemoration: 1945 April 11
… of his hearing. His unit then advanced into Germany, capturing a great deal of territory an entering Cologne on March 5. Forrest’s platoon followed the…