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1. Pin commemorating a Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor’s receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor
2018.327.2 front
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…
2. Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer
2017.661.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.3 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945
…Julius Löwenstein (later Loewenstein, 1913-1995) was born in Ortenberg, Germany, to Siegmund (1876-1942) and Sophie (1885-1942) Zimmermann Löwenstein…
3. Black beret owned postwar by Natan Caron who was interned in multiple concentration camps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.3
Date:
received: after 1945 April
… Yiddish. Natan attended private school and was a good student. He did not experience anti-Semitism. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The Chorowicz…
4. Book of sketches printed postwar and acquired by a former Polish Jewish prisoner
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.5
Date:
publication/distribution: 1947
received: approximately 1947
Title:
Tsurik fun Gehenem : 22 tseykhenungen fun Berl Fridler
Subtitle:
miṭ a for-ṿorṭ un ṭeḳsṭ fun Pol Ṭrepman.
Alternate Title:
Back from Hell : 22 collected sketches by Berl Friedler
… Yiddish and Hebrew. After finishing school, Jakob became a tailor like his father. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the army entered…
5. Drawing of a man at a spinning wheel done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.2
Date:
creation: 1944 January 10
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…
6. Drawing of black and white cows in a barn done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.3
Date:
creation: 1944 January 20
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…