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1. Lithograph of Arthur Szyk's portrait of the Polish general Sikorski in uniform
Object | Accession Number: 2002.113.2
Date:
publication/distribution: 1946
Artwork Title:
General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Commander in Chief of the Polish Forces, Prime Minister
…General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Commander in Chief of the Polish Forces, Prime Minister…
2. National Society of Colonial Daughters essay award with case won by a Polish Jewish refugee
1989.277.18_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.277.18 a-b
Date:
issue: 1949
…. The group commander, Sydor Artemovych Kovpak, a World War I hero, with one of the oldest and most effective partisan fighting units, was sympathetic to…
3. War Medal 1939-1945, ribbon and box awarded to a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.17_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.17 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1990
… government to form a Polish Army in the East, commanded by General Wladyslaw Anders. After his release, Edward traveled south to Tatischewo (now Turkmenbasy…
4. Defence Medal 1939-1945, ribbon and box awarded to Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.20_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.20 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1990
… government to form a Polish Army in the East, commanded by General Wladyslaw Anders. After his release, Edward traveled south to Tatischewo (now Turkmenbasy…
5. 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…
6. Book
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.3
Date:
publication/distribution: 1840
use: approximately 1944-1945 May
Title:
Horaz' Sammtliche Werke. In metrischen Uebersetzungen. Ausgewahlt von Dr. Th. Obbarius.
Alternate Title:
Quinti Horatii Flacci, opera omnia
… elected to the Judenrat (Jewish Council). The chairman of the Judenrat reported to the German camp commandant and administered the camps for the Germans. He…
7. Great Seal of US lapel pin worn by a Jewish German US soldier
2003.149.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.12 a-c
Date:
use: after 1943 April-before 1946 July
… Rudolph as Chief Interrogator and second in command of Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13. In July 1944, Rudolph landed on Utah Beach in France. In…
8. Belgian Medal of the Armed Resistance 1940-1945, ribbon and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.13 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
… resistance organization, and Menachem held the rank of Commanding Major. He also worked with CDJ (Comité de Défense des Juifs) and other resistance…
9. Great Seal of US lapel pin worn by a Jewish German US soldier
2003.149.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.13 a-c
Date:
use: after 1943 April-before 1946 July
… Rudolph as Chief Interrogator and second in command of Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13. In July 1944, Rudolph landed on Utah Beach in France. In…
10. Catholic, military, missal carried by Anthony Acevedo as a medic and POW
Object | Accession Number: 2010.440.4
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942
use: 1943-1945 June
Title:
My Military Missal
… suffering from diphtheria; the camp commander, Erwin Metz, denied the request and hit Tony with his rifle butt. They walked for three weeks and over 150…