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1. Cloth work pass with an embroidered black W used to enter and exit the Lvov ghetto
2009.204.4 back
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.4
Date:
use: 1941-1943
… Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family…
2. Cloth work pass with an embroidered blue W used to exit and enter the Lvov ghetto
2009.204.3 back
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.3
Date:
use: 1941-1943
… Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family…
3. Arbeiter [Laborer] armband embroidered with a Star of David and a red letter "A" worn in the Lvov ghetto
2009.204.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.2
Date:
use: 1941-1943
… Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family…
4. Armband handstitched with a red cross and Star of David by a concentration camp inmate and nurse
2008.346.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.346.1
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… clinic in Sered and asked that she be permitted to help. She began working in the hospital and a few months later, a German SS Rottenfuhrer [Section Leader…
5. Plastic covered paper armband with a cut out Star of David worn in the Boryslaw ghetto
2004.706.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.706.4
Date:
use: approximately 1941 July-1943
… in a Ukrainian organized pogrom. This was followed by several joint German SS and Ukrainian attacks to eliminate the Jewish population. In March 1942…
6. 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
… September 1946. He Americanized his name to Mills. His wife Liesbeth’s entire family from Poznan, Łódź, and Warsaw perished in the Holocaust. David, 78…
7. 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
… infirmary building, the former SS men’s barracks. Upon learning that her father was living in Krakow, she left the camp and was reunited with Wiktor. They…
8. Plastic covered Arbeitsjude [Jewish worker] armband, number 102866 worn in the Boryslaw ghetto
2004.706.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.706.2a-c
Date:
use: 1942 November-1942 December
… in a Ukrainian organized pogrom. This was followed by several joint German SS and Ukrainian attacks to eliminate the Jewish population. In March 1942…
9. Arbeitsjude [Jewish worker] armband number 102616 worn in the Boryslaw ghetto
2004.706.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.706.3
Date:
use: 1942 November-1942 December
… in a Ukrainian organized pogrom. This was followed by several joint German SS and Ukrainian attacks to eliminate the Jewish population. In March 1942…
10. Blue and white armband with a red triangle marked P worn by a Polish Catholic political prisoner
2004.374.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.374.3
Date:
use: 1942 June-1945 April
… prewar Krakow, Poland, during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau concentration camps, and after the Holocaust when…
11. World Scout badge with a fleur-de-lis and star worn by a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2007.205.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.205.9
Date:
use: 1940-1945
emigration: 1939 February
… refugee in Shanghai, China, and of his family in Vienna, Austria, and Opole, Poland, during the Holocaust.…
12. World Scout badge with a fleur-de-lis and star worn by a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2007.205.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.205.8
Date:
use: 1940-1945
emigration: 1939 February
… refugee in Shanghai, China, and of his family in Vienna, Austria, and Opole, Poland, during the Holocaust.…
13. White badge with an inverted red triangle and number 1896 worn by a gay concentration camp inmate
2012.482.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.482.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940 May-approximately 1945 April
… political incorporation of Austria into the German Third Reich, was complete. Political opponents were purged and German laws were aggressively enforced by SS…
14. Unused forced labor badge, blue field with OST in white letters, to identify a forced laborer from the Soviet Union
2005.506.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.7
Date:
issue: 1942-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… camps that often had barbed wire and SS guards. They were treated as second class citizens and kept separate from the general population. After the war…
15. Unused forced labor badge, blue field with OST in white letters, to identify a forced laborer from the Soviet Union
2005.506.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.4
Date:
issue: approximately 1942-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… had barbed wire and SS guards. They were treated as second class citizens and kept separate from the general population. After the war ended in 1945…
16. Unused forced labor badge, blue field with OST in white letters, to identify a forced laborer from the Soviet Union
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.11
Date:
issue: 1942-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… that often had barbed wire and SS guards. They were treated as second class citizens and kept separate from the general population. After the war ended…
17. 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
… before, during, and after the Holocaust as a Kindertransport refugee from Munich, Germany, to the United Kingdom, and her 1944 emigration to the United…
18. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jood, belonging to a German Jewish refugee
1990.307.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.12
Date:
use: 1942 April 28-1942 August 09
… August, the SS staged a night raid on the Heppner’s block. Albert went to the roof to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they took Irene instead…
19. 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
… Trieste, Italy, and boarded the SS Conte Verde. In March, they arrived in Shanghai and a Jewish organization transported the family to a refugee boarding…
20. Red yarn tassels for a Boy Scout uniform worn by a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2007.205.13_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.205.13 a-b
Date:
use: 1940-1945
emigration: 1939 February
… refugee in Shanghai, China, and of his family in Vienna, Austria, and Opole, Poland, during the Holocaust.…