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1. Name tag
Object | Accession Number: 2013.442.44
Date:
use: approximately 1944 November-approximately 1945
manufacture: approximately 1944
commemoration: 1939-1945
…, as part of the Third Army. James was made commanding officer of C Company, 21st Armored Infantry Battalion. The unit was deployed in September to Great…
2. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.273 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.273
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
… SVC was a militia under the command of British officers that reinforced the International Settlement’s municipal police. Though he had no prior driving…
3. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.272 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.272
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
… SVC was a militia under the command of British officers that reinforced the International Settlement’s municipal police. Though he had no prior driving…
4. Large red Nazi garrison banner signed by Paul Mercer and soldiers of the 80th Infantry
Object | Accession Number: 2012.436.1
Date:
found: 1945 April 03
commemoration: 1945 May 10
… American commander but it could not be found. Paul had slipped behind the troops and removed the flag without anyone's noticing. The banner was later signed…
5. 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…
6. Armband stamped Jewish Police Schwandorf acquired by a US soldier
2009.401.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.401.3
Date:
received: 1945 May-1945 September
… Joseph. However, army command decided not to use it for bureaucratic reasons. For Christmas 1944, Joseph suggested that they broadcast greetings from 1…
7. 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…