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1. 40th Anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany bronze medal acquired by a Polish Jewish concentration camp survivor
2012.313.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.313.2
Date:
commemoration: 1945 May 07
…40th Anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany bronze medal acquired by a Polish Jewish concentration camp survivor…
2. From Holocaust to Rebirth commemorative bronze medal acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor of several concentration camps
2012.313.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.313.3
Date:
commemoration: 1981 June 14-1981 June 18
received: 1981 June
…From Holocaust to Rebirth commemorative bronze medal acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor of several concentration camps…
3. Medal of Deportation and Resistance for Acts of Resistance awarded to a French doctor
2003.351.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.351.2
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
issue: after 1950
… separated when Gaston was transferred to Neuengamme, a subcamp of Sachsenhausen. On October 8, 1944, he was sent to Flossenbürg concentration camp near the…
4. Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter [Cross of Honor of the German Mother] bronze medal acquired by a US soldier
2012.194.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.194.2
Date:
commemoration: approximately 1938 December 16
found: 1945 May
… Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945. The SS guards had fled and the prisoners had control of the camp, which held 21…
5. Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal, 1st Class, Gold, acquired by a US soldier
2003.272.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.272.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1938 December 16
found: approximately 1945 April-approximately 1946 March
… and liberated a group of adjacent subcamps of Buchenwald concentration camp. Following the liberation, Sidney’s commanding officer selected him to work…
6. Engraved silver trophy cup won by a Polish Jewish refugee in a sports tourney at Bergen-Belsen DP camp
2000.291.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.291.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1946 April
…Engraved trophy awarded to 21 year old Icek Krajcer in 1946 in the displaced persons camp on the site of the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp…
7. Republican Senatorial Medal of Freedom and presentation case awarded to J. George Mitnick
2006.11.40_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.40 a-b
Date:
issue: approximately 2000
… liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria and after the war in the United States.…
8. Engraved medallion presented to Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, head of the Jewish Council, by bakers in the Łódź ghetto
2010.74.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.74.1
Date:
issue: 1943
… destruction, was included and censored by Mordechai. Deportations to the concentration camps began in December 1940. Mordechai cooperated and fulfilled the…
9. Commemorative medal with pouch
2017.630.7 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.630.7 a-b
… deported to Westerbork transit camp in Netherlands and then in February 1944, to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. From there, in April 1945, they were…
10. German civilian war service medallion
1994.124.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.124.23
Date:
issue: 1939
… beachhead and the liberation of France in 1944, and then fought their way through Germany. On April 4, 1945, they liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp, a…