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1. 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
… suppression of the Warsaw uprising in the fall of 1944, the orphanage was relocated to the town of Kostowiec, outside the capital. Lida survived the war, and on…
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
… her real name with the Jewish committee in the hope of discovering surviving relatives. Krystyna had travelled to Lwow in April 1943 shortly before the…
3. L'Enfant Jesus Miraculeux de Prague [Miraculous Infant Jesus of Prague] medallion given to an young Austrian Jewish woman
2009.359.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.359.2
Date:
received: 1946
… family, had survived. The officials in Breslau wanted to put Nina in an orphan’s home, but she convinced them that she was eighteen. In June 1945, Nina…
4. Pope Pius XI medal, ribbon and case worn to disguise the identity of a Jewish woman in hiding
2008.117.2_a closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.117.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1943-1945
… alive and is permitted to join them in Romania. Samuel had survived the Holocaust by being placed on Oskar Schindler’s list. In 1946, the family emigrated…
5. Embroidered priest's stole owned by a German Jewish refugee
1990.223.1.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.223.1.5
Date:
undated: 
… Max survived and emigrated to New York in 1946. Hanna married Mr. Lewin and had children. Ruth’s husband Richard, 50, died on February 8, 1965. On…
6. Small, handmade, palm leaf cross carried by Anthony Acevedo as a medic and POW
Object | Accession Number: 2010.440.2
Date:
bulk: 1944 April-1945 June
… Reims, France. Prior to being sent back to the US for further care, Tony and some of the other surviving prisoners from the camp were ordered by the US…