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1. Medal with word Arosa and an image of St. Bernard owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai
2006.19.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.19.17
Date:
received: approximately 1925-1930
… was a German Jew living abroad. Fritz had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years before the refugees started arriving from Europe. Thus he was in a…
2. Silver medallion with Mary enthroned holding Jesus given to a Jewish girl living in hiding
2002.410.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.410.1
Date:
received: 1944
… to the ghetto. In 1942, the ghetto was made smaller and they had to relocate again. They were required to wear armbands identifying them as Jews and…
3. Our Lady of Czestochowa medal given to a Polish Jewish woman hiding as a Catholic laborer
1988.154.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.2
Date:
received: 1943 June
commemoration: 1932
… briefly worked with the Judenrat in food distribution. In April 1943, the Germans lined up the Jews for a selection. Moshe and Fela, emaciated and weak…
4. Embroidered priest's stole owned by a German Jewish refugee
1990.223.1.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.223.1.5
Date:
undated: 
… lived in Dresden. In January 1933, Hitler came to power in Germany and established an antisemitic Nazi dictatorship that persecuted Jews. Richard and his…
5. Rosary beads with cross given to Jewish child baptized as Catholic while in hiding
2001.223.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.223.1
Date:
received: 1942
… long afterwards, Dr. Kleinman escaped from a transport and joined his family in Pinsk. In order to avoid the deportations of Jews to the Soviet interior…