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1. 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
… except for his shoes and issued uniform pants, a jacket, and a shirt. Frank was assigned to a work group destined for Buchenwald concentration camp in…
2. US Army captain's Eisenhower jacket worn by a soldier
2006.11.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.18
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
… captured the city of Regensburg. On April 13, George arrived at the recently liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany. There he saw the abysmal living…
3. Medal de la Resistance Armee 1940-1945 medal and ribbon awarded to a Belgian resistance fighter
2005.25.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.25.7
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
issue: 1947 December 31
… concentration camp. His prisoner number was 60481. He may have been released on June 17, 1944, due to ill health pursuant to a prisoner release agreement…
4. City of Ghent Commemorative Medal 1940-1945 medal with ribbon awarded to a Belgian resistance fighter
2005.25.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.25.5
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
issue: approximately 1945
… concentration camp. His prisoner number was 60481. He may have been released on June 17, 1944, due to ill health pursuant to a prisoner release agreement…
5. 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
… Kristallnacht pogrom, Rudolph’s father, Ernst, was arrested, marched down the street with his hands up in the air, and taken to Buchenwald concentration camp. He…
6. 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
… Kristallnacht pogrom, Rudolph’s father, Ernst, was arrested, marched down the street with his hands up in the air, and taken to Buchenwald concentration camp. He…
7. ATA (Air Transport Auxiliary) lapel badge owned by a Jewish member of the French resistance
2004.248.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.248.4
Date:
received: approximately 1945
… June 30, she and thirty seven other prisoners were deported on convoy 76 to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. She was tattooed with…
8. Commemorative Medal for World War I ribbon awarded to a Jewish German soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.9
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
… to the United States in May 1937. Carl and Georg were arrested during Kristallnacht in November 1938 and sent to Dachau concentration camp. They were…
9. US 46th Armored Medical Battalion pin that belonged to a US soldier
2005.416.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.416.13
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1946
… battalion is known for its role in the Battle of the Bulge and for the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald, in Germany…
10. Sterling US 46th Medical Battalion pin that belonged to a US medic
2005.416.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.416.11
Date:
received: after 1942 February 12-1946
… battalion is known for its role in the Battle of the Bulge and for the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald, in Germany…