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1. 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…
2. 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…
3. 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)…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. Hitler Youth flag
Object | Accession Number: 1992.201.1
Date:
use: 1922-1945
…Germany.…
19. 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…
20. 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…