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1. Luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.4
Date:
use: 1946 May 10-1946 May 20
… Poles and were put on a crowded cattle train with no food or water. On October 2, Regina and Halina arrived at a labor camp near Leipzig, Germany. They…
2. Commemorative armband likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.7
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
… Yiddish. Natan attended private school and was a good student. He did not experience anti-Semitism. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The Chorowicz…
3. Luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.5
Date:
use: 1946 May 10-1946 May 20
… was not aware of the rise of Nazism and persecution of Jews in Germany until the German army invaded Poland on September 1. In response, Ludwik and…
4. Prisoner badge likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.6
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
… Yiddish. Natan attended private school and was a good student. He did not experience anti-Semitism. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The Chorowicz…
5. Betar epaulet worn by an internee at a displaced persons camp
1992.169.11_c front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.11 c
Date:
use: 1946
… after Germany launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union. The Jewish residents were harassed and humiliated by the soldiers. Moshe, who was a member…
6. Nazi Party pin for Labor Day 1934 given to Jack Wheelis by Herman Göring
Object | Accession Number: 2014.309.1
Date:
commemoration: 1934
received: after 1945 November 26-before 1946 October 15
issue: 1934
…Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946) was born in Rosenheim, Germany, to Heinrich Ernst (1839-1913) and Franziska (Fanny) Tiefenbrunn (1859-1923). He…
7. Unused yellow stripe concentration camp prisoner patch found by US forces
1991.198.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.198.4
Date:
found: 1945 April 22
use: 1947 April-1947 August
…Langenstein (Halberstadt, Germany)…
8. Betar patch with an embroidered menorah worn by an internee at a displaced persons camp
1992.169.11_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.11 a
Date:
use: 1946
… after Germany launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union. The Jewish residents were harassed and humiliated by the soldiers. Moshe, who was a member…
9. Betar logo patch worn by an internee at a displaced persons camp
1992.169.11_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.11 b
Date:
use: 1946
… after Germany launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union. The Jewish residents were harassed and humiliated by the soldiers. Moshe, who was a member…
10. Blue and silver HIAS badge acquired by a Polish Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.467.2
Date:
received: after 1947-before 1950 December
… and had two children, Jentle and Basha. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. German troops occupied Hrubieszow, located just west of the Bug…
11. Beige patch embroidered with Czechoslovakia owned by a Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.431.2
Date:
received: approximately 1948-approximately 1950
…Ruth Rappaport (1923-2010) was born in Leipzig, Germany to Chaja Helene Rubenstein (1885-1943) and Mendel Rappaport (1877-1944). Helene was born in…
12. Unused yellow stripe concentration camp prisoner patch found by US forces
1991.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.198.3
Date:
found: 1945 April 22
use: 1947 April-1947 August
…Langenstein (Halberstadt, Germany)…
13. Betar epaulet worn by an internee at a displaced persons camp
1992.169.11_d front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.11 d
Date:
use: 1946
… after Germany launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union. The Jewish residents were harassed and humiliated by the soldiers. Moshe, who was a member…
14. Unused red triangle concentration camp prisoner patch with a black letter I found by US forces
1991.198.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.198.10
Date:
found: 1945 April 22
use: 1947 April-1947 August
…Langenstein (Halberstadt, Germany)…
15. Unused green triangle concentration camp prisoner patch with a black letter S found by US forces
1991.198.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.198.5
Date:
found: 1945 April 22
use: 1947 April-1947 August
…Langenstein (Halberstadt, Germany)…
16. Blue, white and yellow Jewish Relief Unit Star of David badge worn by a German Jewish nurse
Object | Accession Number: 2000.285.2
Date:
use: 1946-approximately 1948
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
17. Red UNRRA patch worn by a former concentration camp inmate and DP aid worker
2005.579.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.8
Date:
use: 1946 March-1947 June
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Hans Finke was born on August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany. His father, Julius Finke (1882-1943), was a merchant from Petrzkowitz, Poland…
18. ORT shoulder badge owned by the Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
1988.72.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.7
Date:
use: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
19. Unused white concentration camp prisoner patch found by US forces
1991.198.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.198.1
Date:
found: 1945 April 22
use: 1947 April-1947 August
…Langenstein (Halberstadt, Germany)…
20. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.9
Date:
found: 1945 April-1946 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…