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1. Iron Cross medal
2016.565.40 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.565.40
… deported to Theresienstadt and then Auschwitz. Margarit and Karl-Heinz did not survive. Siegfried and Marion survived and immigrated to the United States…
2. Ribbon
2016.565.42 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2016.565.42
… deported to Theresienstadt and then Auschwitz. Margarit and Karl-Heinz did not survive. Siegfried and Marion survived and immigrated to the United States…
3. Ribbon
2016.565.41 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2016.565.41
… deported to Theresienstadt and then Auschwitz. Margarit and Karl-Heinz did not survive. Siegfried and Marion survived and immigrated to the United States…
4. British Defence Medal 1939-1945 ribbon awarded to Jewish Brigade veteran
2003.361.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.18
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… refugees desperate to know whether their family members had survived. The Brigade was established by the British in September 1944. It included more than…
5. World War I Austrian Order of the Iron Cross medal, ribbon, and presentation box
2016.458.4 a back
Object | Accession Number: 2016.458.4 a-c
… families, as well as the family of Eva Timar Adler before, during, and after the Holocaust, when Denes emigrated before the war and Eva and Janos survived…
6. 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
… snuck back into the ghetto with a revolver he had obtained. Two days later, German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport the surviving…
7. 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
… jump out of a window. She ran off and hid in the woods. In the morning, Nechama encountered her paternal uncle Josef Szuster. They survived for weeks…
8. Fighter against the Nazis Medal and box awarded to Jewish Brigade veteran
2003.361.17 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.17 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… their family members had survived. The Brigade was established by the British in September 1944. It included more than 5000 Jewish volunteers living in…
9. 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
… Brigade, a Palestinian unit within the British Army. No other members of his mother’s or father’s family survived. Icek learned that his mother, Golda, and…
10. 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
… arrested for her French resistance activities and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She survived the war and emigrated to the US in 1946.…
11. Silver basket with floral emblem presented for charitable work
2013.503.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.503.1.4
Date:
commemoration: 1930 February 06
… the Gestapo. Lyda then committed suicide. Paulius's brother Wolf has escaped to the Soviet Union where he survived the war. He eventually went to Israel…
12. 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
… the United States in 1947 with his grandfather Karl, his only surviving family member. Lieselotte arrived in New York in February 1949 and married…
13. 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
… the United States in 1947 with his grandfather Karl, his only surviving family member. Lieselotte arrived in New York in February 1949 and married…
14. Przodownikom Pracy [Socialist Hero of Labor] lapel medal issued to a Jewish official postwar
2009.196.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.196.4
Date:
issue: approximately 1955
… Soviet occupied the eastern part of Poland where he had been living. Kalman married Pauline Pajes in 1949. She had survived the war in hiding in Grodno…
15. WWI Red Cross medal ribbon awarded to German Jewish woman
2003.361.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.19
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
…, and disease and starvation were widespread. Moritz and Hildegard survived by receiving food parcels from Sweden and keeping a low profile. They were…
16. Silver plaque with an engraved inscription presented to a Jewish woman for charitable work
2013.503.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.503.1.3
Date:
commemoration: 1930 January 04
… the Gestapo. Lyda then committed suicide. Paulius's brother Wolf has escaped to the Soviet Union where he survived the war. He eventually went to Israel…
17. Commemorative silver plaque presented to a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.12
Date:
received: 1927-1943
… to death in a sanitarium after the nurse who was caring for her began stealing her food. Ferenc, his wife, and daughter survived the war in hiding and…
18. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader
1990.23.240.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.240.5
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May-1945 May
received: 1978
… camp. She knew she was going to be deported and believed she would not survive. Piet helped look for Alijda and went to Westerbork, where he learned that…
19. 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
… camp. She knew she was going to be deported and believed she would not survive. Piet helped look for Alijda and went to Westerbork, where he learned that…
20. 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
… City to let him know that he and his family had survived. Sidney wrote to his father, Joseph, and asked him to find the family. On May 7, 1945, Germany…