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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. 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…
3. Ivory bracelet carved with gold painted swastikas and SS lightning bolts
2001.204.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.204.4
Date:
commemoration: 1933
…Ivory cuff bracelet presented to an SS member, engraved with swastikas and Munich, Germany, 1933. The SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons…
4. Stormtrooper badge worn by a high-ranking German SS Official
1995.32.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.32.2
Date:
use: 1930-1939
…Stormtrooper badge obtained by Frank Morris in Nazi-occupied Europe during his servicein the US military and brought to the USA.…
5. 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…
6. Black and white Sturmabteilung (SA) recruitment poster with a rifle over the British coastline
1990.333.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.11
Date:
publication/distribution: 1934
Title:
An’s Gewehr! Hinein in die Wehrmannschaften der SA
Alternate Title:
To the gun! Into the military men of the SA
… 1932, and by 1933 membership was at approximately two million. On The Night of Long Knives, June 30, 1934, Hitler and the Schutzstaffel (SS) carried out…
7. 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…
8. Pro-Nazi election poster with the faces of Hitler and Hindenburg
1990.333.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.14
Date:
publication/distribution: 1933
Title:
Nimmer wird das Reich zerstöret wenn ihr einig seid und treu
Alternate Title:
Never will the empire be destroyed if you are united and loyal
… rallies in Nuremberg in 1936 and 1937. In April 1938, Weidemann joined the Schutzstaffel (SS) number 293,074. After the war he went into hiding and later…
9. Broadside proclaiming public support for the declaration of Hitler as both Chancellor and President
1990.333.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.28
Date:
publication/distribution: 1934 August 02-1934 August 19
Title:
Am.19.August wird deutschen Volke folgende Frage vorgelegt
Alternate Title:
On August 19 the following question will be presented to the German people
… other political parties. On June 30, 1934, the Schutzstaffel (SS), acting on orders from Hitler, executed the party’s political enemies and rival members…
10. Poster advertising the flagships of the Hamburg-Amerika Line
1990.333.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1929-1935
Title:
St. Louis und Milwaukee
Alternate Title:
St. Louis and Milwaukee
…). He designed several political posters for the party, the Hitler Youth and the Waffen SS. During this time his posters were translated into several…
11. German marching compass in a case taken from an SS officer by a US soldier
2000.598.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2000.598.2
Date:
found: approximately 1945 May
manufacture: after 1930-before 1945
…, Hy was wounded and sent to France to recover. In December, Hy rejoined his unit, which relieved the 101st Airborne Division near Bastogne, Belgium. In…
12. Wooden awl haft with chuck and ferrule used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.7
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… United States. Prior to leaving, David learned English from a tutor. They left Bremerhaven on the SS General CH Muir and arrived in New York in March 1951…
13. Toy Nazi SS figurine in a black uniform with swastika armband acquired by a US family in Vienna
Object | Accession Number: 2006.265.5
Date:
received: 1937-1938
…Black uniformed Nazi SS toy figure acquired for the sons of Ross and Helen Baker in prewar Vienna, Austria. Black shirts were worn by the SS [Schutz…
14. Very large Henckels fabric shears from the family capmaking business brought to the US by a Jewish refugee
2004.704.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.704.5
Date:
creation: after 1900-before 1938
… Frieda were too elderly to leave. David, Regina, Edgar, and Robert traveled to Antwerp, Belgium, in early September 1938. They boarded the S.S. Pennland…
15. Cup and saucer from a café run by Jewish Austrian family
2017.259.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.259.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1919-1938
manufacture: after 1918 September-1937
… Hamburg, Germany, and boarded the SS President Harding which left for New York on May 23. Once they arrived in New York the children were taken to the Brith…
16. Brown leather billfold used by a Latvian Jewish refugee and aid worker from Nazi Germany
2005.379.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.5
Date:
use: 1935-1947
emigration: 1941 February 21
… York on the SS Exeter. The family settled in St. Paul, Minnesota, near Gitta and other family members. The spelling of the family surname was changed to…
17. Small handsewn stuffed brown and yellow dog brought by a German Jewish girl to Theresienstadt
1996.76.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.76.2
Date:
received: approximately 1935-1943
… Luneburg for six months. They were fed well and educated in English and Hebrew. On December 9, Jutta and Kaethe sailed on the SS Marine Marlin to America…
18. Plaubel R O,1 clear camera lens and case used by German Jewish German US soldier
2003.149.36_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.36 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1933-approximately 1939
… for the United States aboard the SS Berengaria. He arrived In New York City on May 26, and moved in with his aunt and uncle, Ida and Moe Blum. Later…
19. Gold ring with engraved initials and date owned by German Jewish refugee
2003.149.67 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.67
Date:
commemoration: 1936 July 11
… for the United States aboard the SS Berengaria. He arrived In New York City on May 26, and moved in with his aunt and uncle, Ida and Moe Blum. Later…
20. Pink and black floral patterned chiffon dress owned by a Jewish refugee from Austria
2004.628.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.628.6
Date:
emigration: 1939
received: 1933
… for Italy and on January 20, they sailed on the SS Esperia from Genoa, arriving on January 26 in Haifa, Palestine. They lived in a small room in a…