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1. Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes Christmas fund raising pin

2016.471.2 front

Date:: issue: 1933

2. Hitler Youth Saar Westmark Koblenz pin

2016.471.4 front

Date:: commemoration: 1934 June 16-1934 June 17

3. Tag Der Arbeit commemorative pin

2016.471.3 front

Date:: commemoration: 1935 May 01

4. Nazi flag acquired by a US soldier

2016.471.8 side a

Date:: found: 1945

5. German Marksmanship aiguillette

2016.471.7 side a

Date:: found: 1945

6. Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal, 1st Class, Gold, acquired by a US soldier

2003.272.2_a front

Date:: commemoration: 1938 December 16
found: approximately 1945 April-approximately 1946 March

7. Binoculars thrown at US soldier during concentration camp liberation

2016.471.5 3/4 view top

Date:: found: 1945 April 11

8. DDAC car pennant with swastika acquired by a US soldier

2016.471.6 side a

Date:: found: 1945

9. Silver pea whistle taken from an SS officer by a US soldier

2000.598.1 front

Date:: found: approximately 1945 May

10. 60th anniversary medallion, liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora issued to US soldier / liberator

Date:: received: 2005 April
commemoration: 1945 April 11

11. Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter [Cross of Honor of the German Mother] bronze medal acquired by a US soldier

2012.194.2 front

Date:: commemoration: approximately 1938 December 16
found: 1945 May

12. Fragment of a blanket acquired by Olga Rosenberger Horak following liberation of a concentration camp

Date:: acquired: approximately 1945 April 15

13. Brodie pattern MK II green steel helmet worn by a Belgian officer

2012.229.1 front

Date:: use: 1945

14. German marching compass in a case taken from an SS officer by a US soldier

2000.598.2 closed

Date:: found: approximately 1945 May
manufacture: after 1930-before 1945

15. Large red Nazi garrison swastika banner signed by soldiers of the 80th Infantry

Date:: found: 1945 April 03
commemoration: 1945 May 10

16. Pair of leather boots given to a US liberator by a concentration camp inmate

2014.479.1 a front

Date:: received: approximately 1945 April 27

17. Curtain that was used as a towel found by a Polish Jewish forced laborer

Date:: found: 1944 August-1945 April
Title:: Dash family collection

18. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note issued to a Polish Jewish woman

2018.31.2 front

Date:: issue: 1940 July-1944 August 21

19. Carved inscribed walking stick given to an American soldier

Date:: received: 1945 May 05

20. Wooden plaque with the Hashomer Hatzair emblem given to a US soldier

1996.38.1 front

Date:: received: 1946

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