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1. Medallion with Moses and the S'hma prayer found by a young Jewish woman on a camp transport
2009.359.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.359.3
Date:
found: 1943-1945
…Nina Kaleska (Nelly Kalecka) was born on April 11, 1929, in Grodno, Poland, to Zelig Chaim and Rachiel Kalecka. Her older sister Sala was born in…
2. Łódź Ghetto grave marker for a Jewish woman recovered by her daughter
2003.176.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.176.1
Date:
commemoration: 1943 January 28
recovered: 1946
…. In early 1941, Ala and Antonii moved to Grodno (Hrodna, Belarus), and were in Luniniec (Luninets, Belarus) by May. In early June, Ala received a…
3. Medal for Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 awarded to a Jewish Polish veteran of the Soviet Army
2009.196.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.196.5
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
… Soviet occupied the eastern part of Poland where he had been living. Kalman married Pauline Pajes in 1949. She had survived the war in hiding in Grodno…
4. Set of two cuff links worn by a medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2008.208.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.208.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… States in 1970. Anna lived and worked in New York as a pharmacist until 1986 when she married Abraham Cheszes, a survivor from Grodno, Poland, and moved to…
5. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Juif, acquired by a Jewish Lithuanian artist
2003.357.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.357.1
Date:
use: 1942 June 07-1944 August 25
…/1903-1936?), and Rubin (1908-1993). Abraham came from a wealthy family in the city of Grodno, while Rachael was the daughter of a rabbi and had lived her…
6. German Rentenbank, 1 Rentenmark note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.3
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
… three children near Chicago. On January 17, 1947, Regina married William Epstein (1876-1950), a Russian immigrant from Grodno (now in Belarus), who moved…