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1. Star of David badge printed Juif worn by a Jew in France
2004.331.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.331.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942 June-1944 August 25
… surrounded by Nazi soldiers and all members were killed. On September 15, 1942, Witek was sent to a resistance unit commanded by Pole Franchisek, in the…
2. Israeli postage stamp commemorating the Warsaw ghetto uprising
2005.357.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.357.1
Date:
issue: 1968 April 24
…’s Commission on the Holocaust (1978–79) and on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council from 1980 through 1988. In 2006, he received the Knight Commander…
3. Polish Order of Virtuti Militari 5th Class Silver medal awarded posthumously to a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising hero
1994.109.1_b closed
Object | Accession Number: 1994.109.1 a-b
Date:
issue: 1944 February 18
received: 1946
… inhabitants. The ZOB had been preparing for their arrival, and the Warsaw ghetto uprising began. Michal fought in the brush factory district under the command…
4. Pastel portrait of a young Polish Jewish boy
Object | Accession Number: 2004.569.2
Date:
depiction: 1937
creation: 1937
Artwork Title:
Portrait of Kazik
… from Jurek’s group were put on a train heading east. German soldiers tossed them tin cans of jam and meat and the commanding officer said they would not…
5. Envelope fragment with two stamps acquired by a Roman Catholic Polish youth
2014.450.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.5
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May
issue: 1943 September 01
…, it commanded the largest underground army of the war, the Armia Krajowa (the Polish Home Army). In 1942, reports about the mass murder of Jews in…
6. White cloth armband worn by a Roman Catholic Polish firefighter in Warsaw
2014.450.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.3
Date:
use: 1939 September 27-1944 August 07
…front, left and right sides, hand stamped, dark blue ink : * Kommando der Schutzpolizei * / Abschnitt / S[?] / im Warschau [Police Command…