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1. Brown leather luggage tag used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport
Object | Accession Number: 2012.454.7
Date:
use: 1939 June
…Franziska (Ruth) Danzig was born on July 12, 1932, in Munich, Germany, the only child of Emanuel and Gerda Winter Danzig. Emanuel was born on July 29…
2. Brown leather luggage tag used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport
Object | Accession Number: 2012.454.8
Date:
use: 1939 June
…Franziska (Ruth) Danzig was born on July 12, 1932, in Munich, Germany, the only child of Emanuel and Gerda Winter Danzig. Emanuel was born on July 29…
3. Chesterfield cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.19
Date:
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
4. Death certificate for a Jehovah's Witness preacher executed by the Germans
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.3
Date:
issue: 1939 December 07
… attended a Catholic school but in 1934, he began to assist his father with his missionary work. Nazi Germany banned the Watchtower Society, the Jehovah…
5. Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [German Red Cross] flag with a black eagle with a swastika and a red cross on a white field
Object | Accession Number: 2004.299.1
Date:
use: approximately 1938-1945
… private charity sector. By July 1933, the DRK was one of only four non-state aid organizations left in Germany. Its new president was a Nazi Party official…
6. Embroidered Fürth patch saved by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee
2016.203.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.203.3
Date:
use: before 1939 August
…Norbert Müller (later Norman A. Miller) was born on June 2, 1924, in Tann in der Rhön, Germany, to Sebald and Laura Jüngster Müller. Sebald was born…
7. Enameled stick pin bearing a swastika retrieved by US soldier Harry S. Kent
Object | Accession Number: 2017.690.5
Date:
issue: 1933-1945
acquired: after 1944
…Germany…
8. Five dragon cigarette package cover collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.16
Date:
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
9. Garbor cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.15
Date:
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
10. German prisoner of war identification tag worn by a Jewish soldier in the Polish Army
2007.34.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.34.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… imprisoned in the Oflag XI, a prison camp in Altengrabow, Germany. In 1941, the Germans established a ghetto in Krakow and all Jewish inhabitants were forced…
11. Girl Guide enrollment promise trefoil badge received by a young German Jewish girl rescued on the Kindertransport
Object | Accession Number: 2012.454.5
Date:
received: after 1939 June-before 1944
…Franziska (Ruth) Danzig was born on July 12, 1932, in Munich, Germany, the only child of Emanuel and Gerda Winter Danzig. Emanuel was born on July 29…
12. Golden Circles cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.18
Date:
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
13. Hitler Youth flag
Object | Accession Number: 1992.201.1
Date:
use: 1922-1945
…Germany.…
14. Knight cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.13
Date:
use: 1939 March-before 1947 March
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
15. Leather luggage tag used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport
Object | Accession Number: 2012.454.9
Date:
use: 1939 June
…Franziska (Ruth) Danzig was born on July 12, 1932, in Munich, Germany, the only child of Emanuel and Gerda Winter Danzig. Emanuel was born on July 29…
16. Lux cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.14
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
17. Million cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.17
Date:
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
18. National Fascist Party of Italy (PNF) membership badge owned by Jewish female refugee from Nazi Germany
2005.379.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.7
Date:
use: 1931-1938
emigration: 1939 September
…National Fascist Party of Italy (PNF) membership badge owned by Jewish female refugee from Nazi Germany…
19. Nazi armband acquired by Hans Praschkauer
2006.398.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.2
Date:
received: approximately 1935
emigration: 1939
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
20. Nazi banner retrieved by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1995.39.1
Date:
approximately 1933-1945
…Nazi banner retrieved from Germany at end of Second World War; brought back after the war by Ruby Goldman's father, Germany.…
21. Nazi pennant bearing a Parteiadler retrieved by US soldier Harry S. Kent
Object | Accession Number: 2017.690.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1933-1945
acquired: after 1944
…Germany…
22. NSDAP membership badge found by Zaro Calabrese
1994.124.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.124.1
Date:
acquired: 1944-1945
manufacture: 1933-1945
… 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…
23. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.4
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
24. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.3
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
25. Reich service flag with a swastika and Nazi eagle captured by an uknown soldier
2000.610.1 detail
Object | Accession Number: 2000.610.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1936-1945
…Königsberg (Germany)…
26. Small paper label with a Star of David to identify a Jewish doctor
Object | Accession Number: 2004.407.2
Date:
issue: after 1933-before 1945
…Germany…
27. Square paper label with a Star of David to identify a Jewish doctor
Object | Accession Number: 2004.407.3
Date:
issue: after 1933-before 1945
…Germany…
28. SSB blue enamelled badge with a snowflake acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2013.453.35
Date:
found: 1945
creation: 1907-1945
… following day the United States declared war on Japan, and on December 11, Germany declared war on the United States. On October 31, 1942 Harold was drafted…
29. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center
2002.204.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.204.2
Date:
use: approximately 1939
… concentration camps in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland during the Holocaust and after liberation.…
30. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center
1988.64.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.64.1.3
Date:
1939-1945
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.…
31. Star of David badge with word Jude issued to an inmate of Łódź ghetto
1990.31.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.31.9
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… to Gräben a subcamp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Germany. In 1944, she was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She was liberated in…
32. White cloth armband worn by a Roman Catholic Polish firefighter in Warsaw
2014.450.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.3
Date:
use: 1939 September 27-1944 August 07
… countryside villa with his mother and brother when Germany invaded western Poland on September 1, 1939. They could hear bombs being dropped, and decided to…
33. Yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with the word Jude
1989.208.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.208.3
Date:
use: 1939-1945
…David Mielzynski (later David Mills) was born in 1910 in Schwersenz, Posen (Swarzędz, Poland). He lived in Berlin, Germany, with his wife Liesbeth…