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1. 2nd Lieutenant's insignia pin worn by a Jewish German US soldier
2003.149.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.15
Date:
use: 1945 May 09-approximately 1946 June
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
2. 2nd Lieutenant's insignia pin worn by a Jewish German US soldier
2003.149.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.14
Date:
use: 1945 May 09-approximately 1946 June
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
3. 6.35mm Mauser 1934 pocket pistol acquired by a Yugoslavian partisan
Object | Accession Number: 1993.167.2 a
Date:
acquired: 1945
…, descendants of Jews who had lived in Germany and France who were forced to migrate due to religious persecution. Lavoslav was named after his deceased…
4. 11th Armored Division, US Army, after action poster reporting battle events of March 1945
2012.227.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.227.1
Date:
depiction: 1945 March 03-1945 March 15
publication/distribution: 1945 May 13
Artwork Title:
G-2 After Action Report March 1945
…The collection consists of two after action report posters depicting the movements of the 11th Armored Division, United States Army, across Germany…
5. 40th Anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany bronze medal acquired by a Polish Jewish concentration camp survivor
2012.313.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.313.2
Date:
commemoration: 1945 May 07
…40th Anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany bronze medal acquired by a Polish Jewish concentration camp survivor…
6. 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…
7. 4711 glass perfume bottle carried by a Jewish refugee searching for her family
2008.228.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.21
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
8. Abridged prayer book for Jews in the armed forces of the United States used by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.204.3
Date:
publication: 1943
use: after 1943 April 06-approximately 1946 March 17
Title:
Prayer Book Abridged for Jews in the Armed Forces of the United States
…Berthold Meier (1911-1999) was born in Littfeld, Germany, to Toni (neé Heumann, 1880-?) and Seligmann Meier (1878-1920). Seligmann was born in…
9. Adolf Hitler-Strasse street sign acquired by a US soldier
1986.17.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1986.17.1
Date:
found: 1945 May
…Germany…
10. Albert Speer's Nuremberg war crimes trial headphones
1996.36.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.36.17
Date:
use: 1945 November 20-1946 October 01
…Nuremberg (Germany)…
11. Album
Object | Accession Number: 2002.341.1
Date:
1944-1945
…Concentration camps--Germany--Schwarzheide.…
12. Alfred Rosenberg's Nuremberg war crimes trial headphones
1996.36.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.36.14
Date:
use: 1945 November 20-1946 October 01
…Nuremberg (Germany)…
13. Allach gold-ringed porcelain vase with presentation box found in the Reichstag, Berlin
2008.341.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.341.1 a-b
Date:
found: 1945
…Dachau (Germany)…
14. Allach porcelain figure given to a US Army doctor by recently liberated prisoners of Dachau
Sean P. Tully Collection Image, 2007.194.2
Object | Accession Number: 2007.194.2
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1943-1945
received: 1945 April 29-1945 April 30
Artwork Title:
Offizier d.Schlosswache
Alternate Title:
Seydlitz Kurassier
Officer of the Castle Guard
Garde du Corps
…. There his team joined the 10th Field Hospital, supporting the 70th Infantry Division as the Allies fought to break through the Siegfried Line into Germany…
15. Allach porcelain figure given to a US Army doctor by recently liberated prisoners of Dachau
Sean P. Tully Collection Image, 2007.194.1
Object | Accession Number: 2007.194.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1943-1945
received: 1945 April 29-945 April 30
Artwork Title:
Musketier
Alternate Title:
Musketeer
…. There his team joined the 10th Field Hospital, supporting the 70th Infantry Division as the Allies fought to break through the Siegfried Line into Germany…
16. Allach porcelain figurine found by a US Army nurse in Dachau concentration camp post-liberation
1994.46.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.46.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1942-1945
found: 1945 April 29-1945 July
… into France and Germany. Helen’s team accompanied the Seventh Army. On April 29, 1945, the 42nd Infantry Division, the 45th Infantry Division, and the…
17. Allegorical, autobiographical drawing of a train transport to Auschwitz created by Alfred Glück in Hasenhecke DP camp
1993.59.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.6
Date:
creation: after 1945 May-1946
…Alfred Glück was born in 1921 in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish family. Following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938, Alfred left…
18. Allied Military, 1 mark note, acquired by American soldier assigned to Nuremberg Trials
2017.226.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.226.7
Date:
received: 1945-1946
issue: 1944
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
19. Allied Military, 1 mark note, acquired by American soldier assigned to Nuremberg Trials
2017.226.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.226.3
Date:
received: 1945-1946
issue: 1944
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
20. Allied Military, 1 mark note, acquired by American soldier assigned to Nuremberg Trials
2017.226.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.226.2
Date:
received: 1945-1946
issue: 1944
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…