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1. Boy scout uniform tassel
2000.24.35_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.24.35 b
Date:
approximately 1939-1948
… active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco…
2. Boy Scout badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2000.24.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.24.17
Date:
1939-1948
… active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco…
3. Boy Scout Merit badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2000.24.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.24.16
Date:
1939-1948
… active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco…
4. 2nd Class Boy Scout badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2000.24.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.24.8
Date:
1939-1945
… active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco…
5. Boy Scout badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2000.24.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.24.11
Date:
1939-1945
… active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco…
6. Boy Scout badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2000.24.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.24.9
Date:
1939-1945
… active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco…
7. Boy Scout merit badge for home repairs issued to Jewish refugee
2000.24.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.24.13
Date:
1939-1945
… active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco…
8. Boy Scout badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2000.24.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.24.12
Date:
1939-1945
… active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco…
9. Boy Scout badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2000.24.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.24.10
Date:
1939-1948
… active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco…
10. Boy Scout shoulder board with RP and fleur de lis
2000.24.15_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.24.15 b
Date:
1939-1948
… active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco…
11. Boy Scout shoulder board with RP and fleur de lis
2000.24.15_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.24.15 a
Date:
1939-1948
… active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco…
12. Flag
2000.24.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.24.34
Date:
approximately 1939-1948
… active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco…
13. 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
… conducted in secret to avoid detection by the German occupation authorities. Andrzej also continued high school lessons with members of the Polish underground…
14. Haganah War Ribbon bar awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter for his postwar support in Palestine
2012.473.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.14
Date:
issue: 1958-1966
commemoration: 1920-1948
… in Belgium, after the war and provided a living for four families. Postwar, Menachem supported and supplied weapons to Haganah, the Jewish underground…
15. Leather luggage tag used by an Austrian Jewish refugee
2007.488.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.488.2
Date:
emigration: 1940 June
… March 1938, the Anschluss occurred and Austria became part of Nazi Germany. Sometime that year, Otto joined an underground vigilante group that planned to…
16. Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs Unionistes de France badge with fleur de lis cross
2003.191.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.191.2
Date:
issue: 1940
… the French collaborationist Vichy regime. In fall 1943, Germany occupied the south. In the Tarn region, members of an underground fighting EIF unit…
17. Air Raid Service warden armband used prewar by Dutch Jewish resistance member
Object | Accession Number: 2013.437.3
Date:
use: approximately 1936-1940 May
… arranged to have him rescued during transport to Westerbork transit camp. Members of the Underground blew up the train tracks and took children off the train…
18. Eclaireurs Israélites de France badge with Judean lions and tablets
2003.191.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.191.1
Date:
issue: 1940
… 1942, the Germans began large scale deportations of the Jewish population. In response, the EIF created a special underground unit called La Sixieme (The…
19. Star of David membership pin owned by a former concentration camp inmate
1993.90.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.90.4
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… named Henryk as part of the underground, and he had to flee. He lived in hiding outside the ghetto and briefly in the woods. In late 1941, Henryk was…