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1. 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…
2. 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
… (Kazio) Szelest, organized a group and retaliated against the other group. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Henryk was at work. He headed…
3. Blue, white, and red striped patch with Cross of Lorraine acquired by German Jewish US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.71
Date:
received: after 1944 July-before 1946 June
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
4. Blue, white, and red striped patch with Cross of Lorraine acquired by German Jewish US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.72
Date:
received: after 1944 July-before 1946 June
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
5. 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…
6. Circular badge with number 21968 worn by a German Jewish forced laborer
2017.193.4 side A
Object | Accession Number: 2017.193.4
Date:
use: 1944 March-1945 May 09
…Lotte Zagorska (later Charlotte Pogel, 1920 - 2016) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to Leopold Leib (b.1891) and Sarah Friedlich…
7. Circular metal pin owned by a female Hungarian Jewish slave laborer
2017.645.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.645.4
Date:
acquired: 1944 August 02-1945 March
… Czechoslovakia, and became a part of Hungary in approximately 1938. During the 1930s, Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany, and in 1938, Hungary’s fascist regime…
8. Cloth patch printed Buchenwald over a red inverted triangle worn by a German Jewish man
1995.78.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.78.5
Date:
use: 1944 November 19-1945 April 11
…Alfred Fabian was born on May 24, 1910, in Neumark, Germany (now Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, Poland), to a Jewish couple. Alfred’s mother was Erna Leyser…
9. Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht armband with an Imperial eagle taken by a US soldier
2010.456.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.456.3
Date:
received: after 1945 March
use: approximately 1944 September-1945 May
… General George S. Patton. The unit fought its way through France and into Germany. James participated in the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp on…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. 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.…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. Forced labor badge worn by a Roman Catholic Polish youth
2014.469.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.469.2
Date:
use: 1944 August-1944 November
… school through the fourth grade. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. That day, Zbigniew was playing outside when the first German warplanes flew…
17. Forced labor badge worn by a Roman Catholic Polish youth
2014.450.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.4
Date:
use: 1944 August-1945 May 03
… 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…
18. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, to identify a Polish forced laborer
2005.83.12.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.83.12.2
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
…Germany…
19. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, to identify a Polish forced laborer
1997.67.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.67.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
…Germany…
20. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, to identify a Polish forced laborer
2001.204.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.204.2
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945
…Germany…