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1. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, belonging to a German Jewish prisoner
2018.427.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.427.4
Date:
use: after 1941 September 01-before 1945 February 14
…Hans Benjamin Marx (b. 1927) was born in Mannheim, Germany, to Elise (née Rihm, 1898-1976) and Ernest Marx (1895-1965). Ernest was born in Mannheim…
2. Large Nazi National War Flag acquired by a US Army concentration camp liberator
2018.230.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.230.2
Date:
found: 1945 May 09-1945 July
use: 1943 November 18-1945 May 06
manufacture: after 1938 February
…Germany. Wehrmacht…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Black plastic Star of David badge worn by a German Jewish forced laborer
2017.193.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.193.2
Date:
use: 1942 May-1944 March
…Lotte Zagorska (later Charlotte Pogel, 1920 - 2016) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to Leopold Leib (b.1891) and Sarah Friedlich…
6. 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…
7. Unused Star of David badge owned by a German Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.17
Date:
use: 1941 September 01-1945 May 09
…Marie Altmann was born on June 28, 1869, in Schrimm, Germany (now Srem, Poland), to a Jewish couple. She had a sister, Dorothea. Marie married…
8. Theresienstadt armband worn by a Jewish inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.12
Date:
use: approximately 1943 March 18-1945 May 09
…Marie Altmann was born on June 28, 1869, in Schrimm, Germany (now Srem, Poland), to a Jewish couple. She had a sister, Dorothea. Marie married…
9. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Juif, belonging to a Jewish family.
Object | Accession Number: 2014.230.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942 June-1944 August 25
… deported on convoy 8 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland. He arrived there on July 23 and was killed. In mid-September, Germany…
10. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, manufactured in Nazi Germany.
Object | Accession Number: 2014.194.2
Date:
manufacture: 1941 September 01-1945 May
…Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, manufactured in Nazi Germany.…
11. 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…
12. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, worn by a Catholic Polish soldier interned by the Germans
2013.397.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.397.2
Date:
use: after 1940 October 18-before 1945 April 04
…'s tailor shop. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland from the west and, three weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded from the east. Poland was…
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
… to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany near Berlin. He was assigned to forced labor in the Klinker brickworks. Josef later referred to…
14. 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…
15. Unused factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Juif, owned by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.2
Date:
issue: after 1942 June 07-1944 August
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. 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…
19. 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…
20. 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…