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1. Hashomer Hatzair white and blue banner for Kibbutz Safiac acquired by a British officer
Object | Accession Number: 2003.465.10
Date:
received: after 1947 March-approximately 1948 June
… mandate. He served as a commanding officer at H.Q. 1, overseeing internees at the British detention camp at Caraolos. The majority of the internees held at…
2. Borochov Group white flag with 2 blue stripes, yellow Star of David and fleur-de-lis acquired by a British officer
2003.465.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.465.9
Date:
received: after 1947 March-approximately 1948 June
… mandate. He served as a commanding officer at H.Q. 1, overseeing internees at the British detention camp at Caraolos. The majority of the internees held at…
3. Kibbutz Safiach red banner with a Star of David and fleur-de-lis acquired by a British officer
Object | Accession Number: 2003.465.8
Date:
received: after 1947 March-1948
… mandate. He served as a commanding officer at H.Q. 1, overseeing internees at the British detention camp at Caraolos. The majority of the internees held at…
4. 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
… 1922, and joined the Nazi Party. In December, Hitler appointed Göring to command the Sturmabteilung (SA) Brownshirts, the party's paramilitary wing. On…
5. German State criminal police warrant disc acquired by a Jewish American soldier
1989.4.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.4.1
Date:
found: after 1945 April 26-before 1946 January 23
…, guards, and commanders. He also questioeed German civilians, some of whom told him about seeing US Air Force personnel who parachuted from disabled planes…
6. 2nd Polish Corps Syrenka patch with the Warsaw Mermaid worn by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.477.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.477.4
Date:
use: after 1942 December-approximately 1947
… between the Polish Government in Exile and the Soviet government to form a Polish army under the command of General Wladyslaw Anders, who had been a POW in…
7. POA button cover with a Roman she-wolf owned by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.7
Date:
commemoration: 1947
… government to form a Polish Army in the East, commanded by General Wladyslaw Anders. After his release, Edward traveled south to Tatischewo (now Turkmenbasy…
8. 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
… the day after Patton's 3rd Army liberated Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945. Buchenwald was then transferred to the command of the 1…
9. Unused forced labor badge, yellow and purple P, acquired by German Jewish US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.70
Date:
received: after 1944 July-before 1946 June
… Rudolph as Chief Interrogator and second in command of Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13. In July 1944, Rudolph landed on Utah Beach in France. In…
10. 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
… Rudolph as Chief Interrogator and second in command of Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13. In July 1944, Rudolph landed on Utah Beach in France. In…
11. 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
… resistance organization, and Menachem held the rank of Commanding Major. He also worked with CDJ (Comité de Défense des Juifs) and other resistance…
12. Blue and white Zionist flag with a Star of David from the ship Exodus 1947
2016.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.1.1
Date:
acquired: 1947 July 18
use: 1947 July 18
… survivors from Europe to Palestine. He was a boatswain-carpenter on the ship, which was under the command of Haganah, an underground Jewish paramilitary…
13. 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
… Rudolph as Chief Interrogator and second in command of Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13. In July 1944, Rudolph landed on Utah Beach in France. In…
14. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2008.319.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.2
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-before 1947 December
… loaded in the cattle truck when the camp commander felt pity for her two small children and let them get off the truck. They returned to Limoges to hide in…
15. Blue and silver HIAS pin worn by a Jewish Latvian youth postwar
2013.474.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.474.2
Date:
use: 1947 October-1947 November
… commander about taking extra food, but another inmate saved him. One night they were forced to get up and their heads were shaved. They were afraid they would…
16. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2008.319.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.1
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-before 1947 December
… when the camp commander felt pity for her two small children and let them get off the truck. They returned to Limoges to hide in the children’s home…