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1. Manhole housing from the Miła Street neighborhood in the former Warsaw ghetto
1990.293.1 a-b
Object | Accession Number: 1990.293.1 a
Date:
use: 1940 October 12-1943 May 16
… another 35,000 Jews were killed inside the ghetto. In January 1943, Schutzstaffel (SS) and police units returned to take the Jews to forced labor camps…
2. Manhole cover from the Miła Street neighborhood in the former Warsaw ghetto
1990.293.1 a-b
Object | Accession Number: 1990.293.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1940 October 12-1943 May 16
…,000 Jews were killed inside the ghetto. In January 1943, Schutzstaffel (SS) and police units returned to take the Jews to forced labor camps. However the…
3. Painted metal sign with a blue Star of David from a tailor workshop in the Warsaw ghetto
2004.483.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.483.1
Date:
use: approximately 1941
… with resistance and withdrew. On April 19, SS and police units returned to liquidate the ghetto. They were met with armed, organized resistance, the…
4. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, worn by a Polish Jewish woman in hiding as a Catholic
1989.285.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.285.2
Date:
use: 1943 June-1945 April
… caught without it on a trip to Esslingen and was severely beaten by a police officer. In September 1944, she forgot to wear it a second time and was taken…
5. False tooth with a cavity for a poison capsule
Object | Accession Number: 2016.561.1
Date:
acquired: approximately 1939-approximately 1945
… the local police station to prove her Polish identity. After an interrogation, the German police concluded she was not Jewish, but decided to send her…
6. Child’s coat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.1
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
…. Soviet prisoners of war had dug the pits for the mass graves in advance. The shootings were carried-out by Police Battalion 33 (Ostland) and Police…
7. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.2
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
…. Soviet prisoners of war had dug the pits for the mass graves in advance. The shootings were carried-out by Police Battalion 33 (Ostland) and Police…
8. 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
… police officer for helping other people sneak out of the ghetto. Initially, Rose and Irena went into hiding with an older Polish couple in the village of…
9. 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
… transportation department. Jan had been in the military police during World War I (1914-1918), and as a result, was a strict disciplinarian. Although Wojciech…
10. Italian poster for the film “Ulica Graniczna” (1949)
2018.590.159 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.159
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1949 June 23
distribution: 1952
….FORD] front, bottom left margin, printed, black ink : Autorizzazione Questura di Milano Settembre 1952 [Authorization of the Milan Police Headquarters…
11. Tefillin pair kept through the war by a Jewish Polish man
2003.418.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.418.2 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1930
… hoped he could reapply to medical school. In 1940, the NIKD, the Soviet secret police, deported him to a lab or camp in Siberia where he spent the next…
12. SS Totenkopf (Death’s head) ring taken from an SS officer by a liberator and later given to a Holocaust survivor
1992.206.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.206.1
Date:
issue: 1939 June 21
found: approximately 1945 April
received: 1992 October 24
… SS (Schutztaffel; Protection Squadron) controlled the police forces and the concentration camp system for the Nazi Reich. In 1939, they created the…
13. Forced labor badge worn by a Roman Catholic Polish youth
2014.450.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.4
Date:
use: 1944 August-1945 May 03
… transportation department. Jan had been in the military police during World War I (1914-1918), and as a result, was a strict disciplinarian. Although Wojciech…
14. Public transport pass and identification tag issued to a Roman Catholic Polish youth
2014.450.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.2
Date:
issue: 1944 July
… transportation department. Jan had been in the military police during World War I (1914-1918), and as a result, was a strict disciplinarian. Although Wojciech…
15. 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
…). The unit attacked police guardhouses, raided Nazi council meetings, and destroyed the lists of names of farmers obligated to provide food and other…
16. 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
… transportation department. Jan had been in the military police during World War I (1914-1918), and as a result, was a strict disciplinarian. Although Wojciech…
17. Hand-colored glass slide
Object | Accession Number: 2003.214.88 | RG Number: RG-10.479
Date:
1939 September
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 … with a police officer next to his car, which has a cracked windshield. 15. Contact booklet of photographs labeled “P-16-1939” including 31 images of…