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1. Medallion, box, pamphlet, and bar pin awarded to a Macedonian Jewish partisan woman
2011.108.23 a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.108.23 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
received: 1965 May 09
… Monastir (now Bitola), to Kalef and Djamila Kasorla Kolonomos. Isak’s family was Romaniote, Greek Jews that had lived in Ioannina (Yannina) Greece, since…
2. Commemorative medallion with box awarded to a Macedonian Jewish partisan woman
2011.108.24 a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.108.24 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1942-1982
received: 1982 September 12
… Monastir (now Bitola), to Kalef and Djamila Kasorla Kolonomos. Isak’s family was Romaniote, Greek Jews that had lived in Ioannina (Yannina) Greece, since…
3. Medal and a ribbon bar pin awarded to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.71_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.71 a-b
Date:
received: 1941-1945
… school, and was prohibited from participating with sports teams and class excursions. In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were passed, mandating the total…
4. Commemorative silver plaque presented to a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.12
Date:
received: 1927-1943
… modeled after German laws in 1938, and then joined the Axis alliance in November 1940. Young males were conscripted into forced labor battalions to support…
5. Commemorative plaque presented postwar to a Belgian Catholic rescuer
2007.14.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.14.10
Date:
commemoration: 1942-1945
received: 1963 March 17
… 1940, Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. They instituted anti-Jewish laws and regulations, and new classroom curriculum was designed to spread their…
6. Commemorative medallion awarded to a Macedonian Jewish partisan woman
2011.108.18 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.108.18 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1942-1977
… Monastir (now Bitola), to Kalef and Djamila Kasorla Kolonomos. Isak’s family was Romaniote, Greek Jews that had lived in Ioannina (Yannina) Greece, since…
7. Orszagos Leventeverseny medal owned by a Hungarian Jewish family
1990.245.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.4
Date:
issue: 1942
…. Things became worse for the Jewish population as Hungary began instituting anti-Jewish policies modeled after German laws in 1938, and then joined the Axis…
8. Military service medallion awarded to a Macedonian Jewish partisan woman
2011.108.21 a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.108.21 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
received: 1998 November 11
… Monastir (now Bitola), to Kalef and Djamila Kasorla Kolonomos. Isak’s family was Romaniote, Greek Jews that had lived in Ioannina (Yannina) Greece, since…
9. Life Saving Cross with a striped ribbon and presentation box awarded to a Lithuanian rescuer
2013.503.1.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.503.1.2 a-b
Date:
issue: 2009
commemoration: 1942-1944
…, often assisting German mobile killing squads, in which thousands of Jews were murdered. Kaunas was occupied on July 24. Rosian's paternal grandfather…
10. Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands 1898-1948 miniature medal owned by a former hidden child
2003.419.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.419.2
Date:
received: 1898-1948
…. Walter was an electrical engineer and they owned two stores that repaired and sold electrical appliances. They were observant Jews. In January 1933…