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481. 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
…, which drew him into the ranks of the resistance fighters. Jan worked in the transportation department until the summer of 1942, when German authorities…
482. 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
…, which drew him into the ranks of the resistance fighters. Jan worked in the transportation department until the summer of 1942, when German authorities…
483. 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
…, which drew him into the ranks of the resistance fighters. Jan worked in the transportation department until the summer of 1942, when German authorities…
484. Poster for the 10th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
1990.305.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.305.8
Date:
commemoration: 1945 January 27
publication/distribution: approximately 1954 April 11
Artwork Title:
10 ème anniversaire de la libération des camps Auschwitz
Alternate Title:
10th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Auschwitz Camp
… Internationale / des Résistants [Edited by the International Federation of Resistance Fighters] front, bottom, left margin, black ink : Eigentümer, Herausgeber…
485. Pencil sketch of a seated man created by Boris Taslitzky in Buchenwald concentration camp
2009.344.1, Pencil drawing of a seated man in Buchenwald, Boris Taslitzsky Artwork Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2009.344.1
Date:
creation: 1945 January-1945 April
Artwork Title:
En attendant de passer la visite
Alternate Title:
Waiting to pass the visit
… joined the Resistance, but was recaptured in November 1941. He was sentenced to two years in prison by a military tribunal for creating drawings for use in…
486. Portrait photograph by Judy Glickman of Jewish man sitting rescued as a boy
2010.206.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.206.12
Date:
creation: 1992
Artwork Title:
Herbert Pundik
… and violent acts of resistance against the occupation, the Germans declared martial law. Herbert joined the resistance movement. Sixteen year old…
487. Warsaw Ghetto postal card, denomination 50, never issued
2016.184.841 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.841
Date:
creation: 1941 April
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Warsaw ghetto stamp marked 50 issued by the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization (Żydowski Zwia̜zek Wojskowy). The Warsaw Ghetto in Poland existed…
488. Hand-embroidered child's vest made by a Polish Jewish woman
2019.302.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.302.2
Date:
creation: after 1931 May-before 1942 September
… administration quickly enacted anti-Jewish laws and policies that restricted civil rights and confiscated property. Chana and Icek took part in resistance…
489. Unused ballot for the referendum to dissolve the Prussian state parliament
Object | Accession Number: 2004.659.4
Date:
publication/distribution: approximately 1931 August 09
… largest and most powerful in Germany and the most resistant to Nazi Party candidates. There was a saying that whoever controls Prussia, controls the Reich…
490. Phonograph record
2013.281.2 a-d closed
Object | Accession Number: 2013.281.2 a-d
Date:
publication/distribution: after 1940-before 1949
Title:
Murder of Lidice (sound recording) : abridged / Edna St. Vincent Millay
… resistance members. A hand grenade exploded under Heydrich's vehicle on May 27, 1942, and he died of his injuries on June 4. The German reprisal was brutal…
491. Star of David pin made from a Dutch coin worn to protest the German occupation and persecution of the Jews
2005.360.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.360.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
… protest and resistance to the German occupation of May 10, 1940 - May 5, 1945. The pin suggests the yellow Star of David badge that Jews were ordered to…
492. US Army 65th Infantry Division shoulder sleeve patch with a white halberd on a blue field
2004.749.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.749.17
Date:
unavailable: 
… captured the towns of Langensalza and Struth, conquering strong German resistance. On April 20-21, the 65th liberated Hersbruck, a subcamp of Flossenbürg…
493. Medal for service as a Yugoslav partisan fighter
1990.118.14_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.118.14 b
… interrupted by the war, and he joined the Partisan resistance movement in Croatia. He saved Torah portions and other sacred objects from the Split Synagogue…
494. Brown cloth bag with a red, white, and blue stripe carried by a hidden Dutch Jewish woman
1990.23.198 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.198
Date:
use: 1942 June-1945 May
… summons to report to the train station. On her way there, she was stopped by Piet Brandsen, a Christian who was active in the resistance movement. He…
495. Portfolio
Object | Accession Number: 2005.368.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1946
Title:
Tanusagtetel / Sraga Weil rajzai
… and resistance member in Budapest during the war, depicting scenes of concentration camp inmates, camp life, and atrocities. The original drawings were…
496. Dark gray velvet drawstring Georg Jensen jewelry bag used to hold pins commemorating the birthday of King Christian X of Denmark
Object | Accession Number: 2010.417.15
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 September 26-1945 September 26
…, and solidarity. Germany permitted the democratic government to retain control over domestic affairs until August 1943, when the growing resistance…
497. Postcard
Object | Accession Number: 1988.68.1.5
… German. He assisted the resistance by collecting information. He also helped commit acts of sabotage, and became an expert at derailing trains. Beno…
498. Dark gray velvet drawstring Georg Jensen jewelry bag used to hold pins commemorating the birthday of King Christian X of Denmark
Object | Accession Number: 2010.417.16
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 September 26-1945 September 26
…, and solidarity. Germany permitted the democratic government to retain control over domestic affairs until August 1943, when the growing resistance…
499. Bible received by a Jewish girl while in hiding at a Catholic school
1997.63.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.63.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1943 December
… administration quickly enacted anti-Jewish laws and policies that restricted civil rights and confiscated property. Chana and Icek took part in resistance…
500. Beno Helmer scrapbook
Object | Accession Number: 1988.68.1
… German. He assisted the resistance by collecting information. He also helped commit acts of sabotage, and became an expert at derailing trains. Beno…