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1. Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [German Red Cross] flag with a black eagle with a swastika and a red cross on a white field
Object | Accession Number: 2004.299.1
Date:
use: approximately 1938-1945
…Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [German Red Cross] flag with a black eagle with a swastika and a red cross on a white field…
2. Belgian Red Cross medal, ribbon, and box awarded to a Jewish Russian nurse
2007.212.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.212.3 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
…Belgian Red Cross medal, ribbon, and box awarded to a Jewish Russian nurse…
3. Wall crucifix owned by an American internee
2018.426.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.3
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… lived in hotel-like accommodations with running water and heat. She was able to send and receive mail, and accept Red Cross packages. The Germans…
4. Bar of soap owned by an American internee
2018.426.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.7
Date:
received: 1942 September-1944 September
… lived in hotel-like accommodations with running water and heat. She was able to send and receive mail, and accept Red Cross packages. The Germans…
5. Pitcher made from an Eatonia Brand butter can and used by an American internee
2018.426.9 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.9
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… lived in hotel-like accommodations with running water and heat. She was able to send and receive mail, and accept Red Cross packages. The Germans…
6. Handmade birthday card given to an American internee
2018.426.18 open front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.18
Date:
received: 1942 October 28
… lived in hotel-like accommodations with running water and heat. She was able to send and receive mail, and accept Red Cross packages. The Germans…
7. Metal and glass rosary used by an American internee
2018.426.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.6
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… lived in hotel-like accommodations with running water and heat. She was able to send and receive mail, and accept Red Cross packages. The Germans…
8. Plastic rosary used by an American internee
2018.426.4 back
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.4
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… lived in hotel-like accommodations with running water and heat. She was able to send and receive mail, and accept Red Cross packages. The Germans…
9. Metal strainer used by an American internee
2018.426.11 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.11
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… lived in hotel-like accommodations with running water and heat. She was able to send and receive mail, and accept Red Cross packages. The Germans…
10. Metal and plastic rosary used by an American internee
2018.426.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.5
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… lived in hotel-like accommodations with running water and heat. She was able to send and receive mail, and accept Red Cross packages. The Germans…
11. Blue cross armband worn by a Jewish Russian nurse caring for refugee children
2007.212.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.212.2
Date:
use: 1940-1945
… in infant care and worked as a visiting nurse for the Belgium Red Cross, travelling around her region via ambulance. After Belgium was conquered by…
12. Kettle made from a can of Klim powdered milk and used by an American internee
2018.426.10 a-b side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.10 a-b
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… lived in hotel-like accommodations with running water and heat. She was able to send and receive mail, and accept Red Cross packages. The Germans…
13. Women’s blue cloth and wood sandals worn by an American internee
2018.426.12 a 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.12 a-b
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… lived in hotel-like accommodations with running water and heat. She was able to send and receive mail, and accept Red Cross packages. The Germans…
14. Framed portrait of a woman owned by an American internee
2018.426.8 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.8 a-c
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… lived in hotel-like accommodations with running water and heat. She was able to send and receive mail, and accept Red Cross packages. The Germans…
15. Brown cloth and leather trimmed suitcase used by an American internee
2018.426.2 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945 December
… lived in hotel-like accommodations with running water and heat. She was able to send and receive mail, and accept Red Cross packages. The Germans…
16. Medal and a ribbon bar pin awarded to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.71_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.71 a-b
Date:
received: 1941-1945
…International Committee of the Red Cross…
17. Watercolor of Rivesaltes internment camp created postwar by a nurse/rescuer who worked there
2006.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.154.1
Date:
creation: 1994
depiction: 1942
Artwork Title:
View of Rivesaltes
… home for refugee children, organized by the Secours Suisse aux Enfants [Swiss Aid to Children)], an affiliate of the Red Cross. In October, he was sent…
18. Antisemitic flyer acquired by a French Jewish child in hiding
1991.209.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.209.6
Date:
acquired: approximately 1942-approximately 1945
Artwork Title:
TUBERCULOSE SYPHILIS CANCER SONT GUÉRISSABLES…
Alternate Title:
TUBERCULOSIS SYPHILIS CANCER ARE CURABLE...
… the Red Cross. On June 6, 1944, the Allies landed in Normandy, beginning the liberation of France. The region surrounding Chambon was liberated by the…
19. Righteous Among the Nations medal awarded to a French children’s home director
1992.72.1 a-b open
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.1 a
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
… the direction of August Bohny, a Swiss school teacher and representative of the Swiss Red Cross. Collectively, the village housed around 200 refugee…
20. Pencil drawing of internment camp barracks created by a young German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1998.1.21
Date:
creation: after 1941 March 11-before 1942 March
… organizations. In November, Laure went to work in a home run by the Swiss Red Cross in Pringy. In February 1942, Manfred went to a children’s home at The Château…