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1501. Our Lady of Czestochowa medal given to a Polish Jewish woman hiding as a Catholic laborer
1988.154.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.2
Date:
received: 1943 June
commemoration: 1932
… Polish Catholic named Maria Kowalczyk from the Polish underground. Jan Majewski, a resistance member, hid Raszka in his refugee camp for displaced Polish…
1502. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of two Jewish couples and their children huddled on a Ghetto street
1993.165.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.165.2
Date:
creation: 1963
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Hunger im Łódźer Ghetto 1941 - 1945
Alternate Title:
Hunger in Łódź Ghetto
… his persecutors, Friedmann saw his art as a form of resistance that diminished the power of evil and gave him the will to survive. Conditions in the…
1503. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
1999.296.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.296.3
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
… sought their support against anti-Polish, Ukrainian resistance forces in the area. For 23 months, Shmuel lived as a partisan in the forests, surviving by…
1504. Silver-plated table knife with Nazi emblem acquired by a former concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.316.6
Date:
found: 1945 April
…front, handle, stamped : R H front, blade, stamped : WELLNER / NICHT / ROSTEND [rust resistant] back, handle, stamped, maker’s marks : 90 / 27…
1505. Wooden comb and handmade paper case given to a prisoner by a friend in Kaiserwald concentration camp
2012.310.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.310.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1944 December 27
… of the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto in May 1943 reached Vilna and resistance groups organized. Esther attended a few meetings but she felt it was…
1506. Slide rule used by Mayer Altarac whose family fled from German occupying forces
2002.438.4 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.4 a-b
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… register with the police. Jewish men, including Mayer, were taken for forced labor. The Germans took hostages to prevent any resistance, and Jewish hostages…
1507. Oil portrait of her grandmother by a Jewish teenager in hiding
2007.521.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.521.5
Date:
creation: 1941
Artwork Title:
Portrait of my Grandmother, 1941
… of the partisan and resistance groups, where she learned that her sister Susanna had been killed just before liberation. All of the registered Jews had…
1508. Czech lion coat of arms cap badge owned by a Jewish veteran of the Czech Air Force in exile
2004.692.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.692.3
Date:
commemoration: 1944-1945
… for him. With the aid of a friend with connections to the underground resistance movement, Frank was smuggled on a fishing boat to Sweden, where he…
1509. Etched print created by David Friedman of a man kneeling in despair a few seconds before execution
1998.80.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.80.2
Date:
creation: 1967
depiction: 1944 August-1945 January
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Jew Crying Out in Fear in a Concentration Camp
… his persecutors, Friedmann saw his art as a form of resistance that diminished the power of evil and gave him the will to survive. Conditions in the…
1510. Czech Air Force pilot badge issued to a Jewish veteran
2004.692.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.692.4
Date:
commemoration: 1944-1945
… for him. With the aid of a friend with connections to the underground resistance movement, Frank was smuggled on a fishing boat to Sweden, where he…
1511. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
1999.296.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.296.10
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
… sought their support against anti-Polish, Ukrainian resistance forces in the area. For 23 months, Shmuel lived as a partisan in the forests, surviving by…
1512. Eyeglasses and case used Mayer Altarac whose family fled from German occupying forces
2002.438.5 b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.5 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1948
… register with the police. Jewish men, including Mayer, were taken for forced labor. The Germans took hostages to prevent any resistance, and Jewish hostages…
1513. Polish paratrooper badge given to a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.8
Date:
received: after 1945-before 1967
…, which left Andrzej living in Soviet-occupied Poland. Many Polish people initially fought against the occupation, and later joined resistance groups, or…
1514. Postwar visionary painting commemorating the first deportation of Jews from Drancy by a Turkish Jewish woman who witnessed the event
2004.662 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.662.1
Date:
commemoration: 1942 March 27
creation: 2003 June 18
Artwork Title:
The First Deportation of the Jews from Paris, France from the train station at Le Bourget-Drancy March 27, 1942
… soldiers, who started heading toward her. A train engineer, Jean-Louis Loiret, connected to the resistance, driving a train in quay two and stopped to allow…
1515. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
1999.296.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.296.2
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
… sought their support against anti-Polish, Ukrainian resistance forces in the area. For 23 months, Shmuel lived as a partisan in the forests, surviving by…
1516. Concentration camp uniform likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
2012.441.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
…Jewish resistance.…
1517. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note
1992.62.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.62.6
Date:
issue: after 1943 January 01
… her sisters deported to a concentration camp and presumed killed. Raszka escaped and went into hiding. A resistance member, Jan Majewski, helped her…
1518. Wreath shaped badge owned by a Jewish veteran of the Air Force for the Czech government in exile
2004.692.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.692.5
Date:
commemoration: approximately 1944-1945
… for him. With the aid of a friend with connections to the underground resistance movement, Frank was smuggled on a fishing boat to Sweden, where he…
1519. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of despairing and hungry Jews in the Łódź Ghetto
1988.182.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.1
Date:
creation: 1963 December
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Hunger in Lodzer Ghetto
Alternate Title:
Despairing and hungry Jews in Lodzer ghetto
… his persecutors, Friedmann saw his art as a form of resistance that diminished the power of evil and gave him the will to survive. Conditions in the…
1520. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
1999.296.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.296.11
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
… sought their support against anti-Polish, Ukrainian resistance forces in the area. For 23 months, Shmuel lived as a partisan in the forests, surviving by…