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781. Tefillin worn by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.3 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.3
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
…. Nachman once tried to smuggle in sacks of potatoes, but was caught and arrested by the police. They decided to execute him but an SS officer, for whom…
782. Armband with a royal coat of arms issued to a Danish resistance member
1989.297.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.297.4
Date:
issue: 1945 May 04-1945 May 05
… Geneva Convention, resistance members could be considered guerillas and executed. After the war, Knud decided to keep the surname Dyby, and immigrated to…
783. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1995.57.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.2
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
use: approximately 1944-1945 April 22
… in one of 30 forced labor camps in the region carrying out road construction projects. Beginning in 1943, in conjunction with the execution of the Nazi…
784. Portrait of a Jewish Lithuanian partisan, drawn by Alexander Bogen
2005.181.98 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.181.98
Date:
creation: 1944 April 04
Artwork Title:
Partisan - Tevko Szeres
… mass executions of Vilna Jews in the Ponary forest; thousands of Jews were massacred. Jews were drafted for forced labor, and had to wear yellow badges…
785. Belgian Nationalist Movement enamel buttonhole pin with the golden lion emblem worn by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.9
Date:
use: 1942-1944
… September 1944. At the war’s end, Moliere Group had been reduced by deportation and execution by the Germans to 130 members. During the war, Menachem’s sister…
786. Polish Union of Swimming red felt badge with an eagle awarded postwar to a Polish Army swim coach
2004.374.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.374.2
Date:
received: approximately 1950
… told him nail guns were used in executions to save ammunition. One morning, the work leader asked who spoke German. Henryk raised his hand and was chosen…
787. Commemorative FNDIRP button cover engraved 178284 acquired by a Jewish Polish refugee
2005.257.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.257.1
Date:
received: approximately 1945 June
… day, a Belgian girl was caught trying to escape. All the inmates were called to see her execution by hanging; someone slipped her a razor blade and she…
788. White tea towel with yellow stripes used by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.10
Date:
emigration: 1939 July 25
… as an execution site for Jews. Ellen’s maternal grandparents Eduard and Dorothea were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia on…
789. German military identification tag given to a Danish resistance member
1989.297.2.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.297.2.1
Date:
acquired: 1944-1945
… Geneva Convention, resistance members could be considered guerillas and executed. After the war, Knud decided to keep the surname Dyby, and immigrated to…
790. Underground Danish periodical circulating news from the United Kingdom
Object | Accession Number: 1989.297.66
Date:
publication/distribution: 1944 April 29
Title:
Nyheder fra storbritanien
Alternate Title:
News from the UK
… Geneva Convention, resistance members could be considered guerillas and executed. After the war, Knud decided to keep the surname Dyby, and immigrated to…
791. Pink ribbon garter owned by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.6
Date:
emigration: 1939 July 25
… as an execution site for Jews. Ellen’s maternal grandparents Eduard and Dorothea were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia on…
792. Blue striped white damask handkerchief used by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.9
Date:
emigration: 1939 July 25
… as an execution site for Jews. Ellen’s maternal grandparents Eduard and Dorothea were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia on…
793. White tea towel with green stripes used by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.11
Date:
emigration: 1939 July 25
… as an execution site for Jews. Ellen’s maternal grandparents Eduard and Dorothea were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia on…
794. 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
… September 1944. At the war’s end, Moliere Group had been reduced by deportation and execution by the Germans to 130 members. During the war, Menachem’s sister…
795. U.S. Army tailor made, short waisted officer's jacket worn by a Signal Corps photographer for the war crimes trials
Object | Accession Number: 2013.458.5
Date:
use: approximately 1945 September-1949
… / WORKERS OF AMERICA / 242 / REGISTERED [illegible logo] interior, left breast pocket, label, black and red ink : GENERAL EXECUTIVE / ORG. / April 12th / 1891…
796. Book of sketches printed postwar and acquired by a former Polish Jewish prisoner
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.5
Date:
publication/distribution: 1947
received: approximately 1947
Title:
Tsurik fun Gehenem : 22 tseykhenungen fun Berl Fridler
Subtitle:
miṭ a for-ṿorṭ un ṭeḳsṭ fun Pol Ṭrepman.
Alternate Title:
Back from Hell : 22 collected sketches by Berl Friedler
… in one of 30 forced labor camps in the region carrying out road construction projects. Beginning in 1943, in conjunction with the execution of the Nazi…
797. Pair of pinwheel shaped cuff links with ribbon covering owned by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.7 a-c
Date:
use: after 1945
… September 1944. At the war’s end, Moliere Group had been reduced by deportation and execution by the Germans to 130 members. During the war, Menachem’s sister…
798. Colorful plaid handkerchief found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Birkenau
1988.99.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.3
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
… Ruth’s paternal uncle Julius had been killed. A journalist, he had fled to Czechoslovakia after the Nazis came to power. He was caught and executed after…
799. Blue envelope with German censorship marks mailed to the US by a Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2005.376.4
Date:
postmark: 1940 October 24
… next day, she watched as her father was taken to the hill to dig a hole and then executed. Her brother-in-law was shot and killed. Bernard was beaten and…
800. Brown cloth and leather trimmed suitcase used by an American internee
2018.426.2 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945 December
…top, sticker, printed, black ink : Lot No. / EC11997 / 253 / PIECE NO. / executive / CLASS…