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1. Ribbon for the SS-Hauptreitschule (SS Riding School) in Munich
1995.142.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.142.19
Date:
issue: after 1937 July-before 1945
…Black cloth strip with silver stitched borders and the words "SS-H.pt.-Reitfchule München" stitched in silver…
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
… multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt, during the Holocaust, and to their postwar experiences in displaced persons…
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
…, 1910, in Aignes-Vives. They had another child, who moved to Madagascar with thier spoused and son Jean before the war. The family was Catholic and lived…
4. Medallion from the Financial Institutions Sports Union League awarded to a Hungarian Jewish athlete
2018.286.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.286.4
Date:
received: 1936
… by posing as a Christian seamstress. On December 13, German S.S. surrounded the Festetich Street building, searched for Jews, and took them to the…
5. Medal honoring soldiers killed during the invasion issued to a Dutch resistance leader
1990.23.240.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.240.3
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May
commemoration: 1940-1945
… set up a civil occupation administration under the auspices of the SS. Piet and Dina joined the resistance. Piet arranged hiding places for Jewish…
6. 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
… Norman was with the troops that entered the camp that day. The SS guards had fled and the prisoners were in charge of the camp, which held 21,000 survivors…
7. Shooting medal presented to a Hungarian Jewish man by the Budapest Metropolitan Municipal Financial Institution Sports Association
2018.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.286.2
Date:
received: 1935
… by posing as a Christian seamstress. On December 13, German S.S. surrounded the Festetich Street building, searched for Jews, and took them to the…
8. 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
… multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt, during the Holocaust, and to their postwar experiences in displaced persons…
9. Medal issued to a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.17
…. On April 20, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners marched under SS guard towards an undisclosed location. On the night of May 2, Wollheim fled to…
10. Medal issued to a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.11
…. On April 20, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners marched under SS guard towards an undisclosed location. On the night of May 2, Wollheim fled to…
11. 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
… to hide from the SS officers who came through their neighborhood, while his father and brother were shielded at the factory. The following day, fearing…
12. Award issued to a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.13
…. On April 20, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners marched under SS guard towards an undisclosed location. On the night of May 2, Wollheim fled to…
13. 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
… after Jeanne’s birth. She had a younger sister, Yvonne-Odile (later Broadhurst, 1921-?). Léon-Pierre became a custodian at a school, and the family lived…
14. FNDIRP engraved commemorative medal with box awarded to a French Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 2004.248.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1950 January 11
… family before and during the Holocaust in France, until she was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, and after the Holocaust when she emigrated to the…
15. National Society of Colonial Daughters essay award with case won by a Polish Jewish refugee
1989.277.18_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.277.18 a-b
Date:
issue: 1949
… of the village seemed to switch from one armed faction to another. Soon, SS personnel arrived and harsh anti-Jewish measures were enacted. Nechama and…
16. Handcrafted commemorative coin medallion created for a US crew member on an illegal immigrant ship
2001.25.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.25.1
Date:
commemoration: 1947 May 18
creation: 1947 May 18-1947 July 22
… France where he worked with their underground unit. In 1948, Paul returned to New York and became the engineer on another ship, the S.S. Director, a…
17. Award issued to a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.14.1
…. On April 20, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners marched under SS guard towards an undisclosed location. On the night of May 2, Wollheim fled to…
18. WWI Red Cross medal ribbon awarded to German Jewish woman
2003.361.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.19
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
… German SS. Moritz had secret contacts in the railroad and they soon realized that they were being lied to about the destination of the transports. They…
19. Award issued to a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.20
…. On April 20, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners marched under SS guard towards an undisclosed location. On the night of May 2, Wollheim fled to…
20. Polish Order of Virtuti Militari 5th Class Silver medal awarded posthumously to a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising hero
1994.109.1_b closed
Object | Accession Number: 1994.109.1 a-b
Date:
issue: 1944 February 18
received: 1946
… Klepfisz family lived was raided. Rose’s mother, Rikla, and Michal’s parents, Miriam and Jakob, were taken during the raid by the SS and transported to the…