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1. 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…
2. Casting of Auschwitz entrance arch
Object
Date:
manufacture: after 1989 August 15-before 1991 March 18
…Signs and signboards--Germany--History.…
3. Collage painting of a crying woman created by a Polish Jewish artist after the Holocaust
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.2
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
My Mother's Tears
… accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and partitioned Poland. Vilna was in the Soviet zone, but was exchanged with…
4. Collage painting of a Jewish man’s beard being cut off created by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.1
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
Anguish
… accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and partitioned Poland. Vilna was in the Soviet zone, but was exchanged with…
5. Colorful watercolor of the house where the painter lived as a hidden child
Object | Accession Number: 2006.170.2
Date:
creation: 1994-2000
depiction: 1940 May-1940 September
Artwork Title:
Sainte Lizaigne (Indre), France
…Alfred Moritz was the son of Ludwig David Moritz and Klara Kaufman. He was born on June 13, 1930, in the small town of Becherbach, Germany, where his…
6. Commemorative armband likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.7
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
… 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…
7. Commemorative ribbon for the 50th anniversary of Dachau concentration camp
2004.705.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.705.14
Date:
commemoration: 1945-1995
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
8. Concentration camp uniform likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
2012.441.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
… 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…
9. Handkerchief
2015.563.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.4
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Jewish children in the Holocaust--Germany.…
10. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport
2003.352.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.352.1 a-b
Date:
use: after 1938-approximately 1997
manufacture: 1938-1939
emigration: 1939 June
…Hilde Lotte Anker was born on May 29, 1926, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg Jakob Willie Anker and Gertrud Gottschalk Anker. She had two older sisters…
11. Inscribed Siddur carried through hiding and slave labor by a Jewish Polish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 2018.369.3
Date:
use: approximately 1921-approximately 1998
…-?), Samuel (1916-?), Lana (later Lena Mandelkorn, 1916-?), Etta (1918-?), and Chaia (later Chust, 1920-?). On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded and occupied…
12. Late 20th-Century poster criticizing a court acquittal of Holocaust deniers
1995.96.162 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.96.162
Date:
publication/distribution: 1995
Title:
Auschwitz-Mythos
Alternate Title:
Auschwitz Myth
…Germany…
13. Medal commemorating the October 1, 1938, annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany
2009.361.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.361.1
Date:
commemoration: 1938 October 01
found: 2007
…Medal commemorating the October 1, 1938, annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany…
14. Medallion for the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps received by a former child inmate
2010.453.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.453.2
Date:
commemoration: 2010 April 11
…Meissen (Saxony, Germany)…
15. Medal presented to former inmates of the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the 50th anniversary of its opening
2018.228.2 a-b 3/4 view open
Object | Accession Number: 2018.228.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1941
received: 1991
… Pact, Germany annexed the Sudetenland, a border region of Czechoslovakia. By May of 1939, Germany, Hungary, and Poland had partitioned Czechoslovakia and…
16. Miniature porcelain bust of Adolf Hitler
2008.242.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.242.8
Date:
found: approximately 2000
Artwork Title:
Miniature bust of Hitler
… efforts of the Nazi Party in Germany from 1933-1945.…
17. Mixed media painting of Jewish children behind a ghetto fence, painted by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.4
Date:
creation: 1996
depiction: 1941 September-1943 September
Title:
Behind the Wooden Fence
… accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and partitioned Poland. Vilna was in the Soviet zone, but was exchanged with…
18. Occupation credit treasury note, 50 Reichspfennig, issued by Nazi Germany
2010.443.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.443.9
Date:
issue: 1939-1944
found: 2005
…Occupation credit treasury note, 50 Reichspfennig, issued by Nazi Germany…
19. 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…
20. Prisoner badge likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.6
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
… 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…