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41. ATA (Air Transport Auxiliary) lapel badge owned by a Jewish member of the French resistance
2004.248.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.248.4
Date:
received: approximately 1945
… family before and during the Holocaust in France, until she was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, and after the Holocaust when she emigrated to the…
42. 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
… prewar Krakow, Poland, during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau concentration camps, and after the Holocaust when…
43. World Scout badge with a fleur-de-lis and star worn by a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2007.205.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.205.9
Date:
use: 1940-1945
emigration: 1939 February
… refugee in Shanghai, China, and of his family in Vienna, Austria, and Opole, Poland, during the Holocaust.…
44. World Scout badge with a fleur-de-lis and star worn by a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
2007.205.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.205.8
Date:
use: 1940-1945
emigration: 1939 February
… refugee in Shanghai, China, and of his family in Vienna, Austria, and Opole, Poland, during the Holocaust.…
45. 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
… political incorporation of Austria into the German Third Reich, was complete. Political opponents were purged and German laws were aggressively enforced by SS…
46. Unused forced labor badge, blue field with OST in white letters, to identify a forced laborer from the Soviet Union
2005.506.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.7
Date:
issue: 1942-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… camps that often had barbed wire and SS guards. They were treated as second class citizens and kept separate from the general population. After the war…
47. Forced labor badge, blue field with OST in white letters, to identify a forced laborer from the Soviet Union
1995.107.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.107.2
Date:
found: 1945 April
… factories and other civilian labor details. They were housed in so-called residence camps that often had barbed wire and SS guards. They were treated as…
48. Unused forced labor badge, blue field with OST in white letters, to identify a forced laborer from the Soviet Union
2005.506.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.4
Date:
issue: approximately 1942-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… had barbed wire and SS guards. They were treated as second class citizens and kept separate from the general population. After the war ended in 1945…
49. Label from S.S Exodus
Object | Accession Number: 2014.201.8
…Unused label with adhesive on verso. Recto is decorated with British flag with swastika in the center, and words "S.S. Exodus 1947" at the top and…
50. Luggage tag owned by the Miodownik family
Object | Accession Number: 2022.24.2
Date:
use: 1947
… ship broke down and they were transferred to the SS Marine Marlin for the rest of the journey. They settled in New York, and Anne began taking piano…
51. 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
… for the United States aboard the SS Berengaria. He arrived In New York City on May 26, and moved in with his aunt and uncle, Ida and Moe Blum. Later…
52. 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
… for the United States aboard the SS Berengaria. He arrived In New York City on May 26, and moved in with his aunt and uncle, Ida and Moe Blum. Later…
53. German prisoner ID tag issued to a Jewish US soldier and POW
Object | Accession Number: 2011.398.2
Date:
use: 1945 January-1945 April
… sawdust, a cup of greasy liquid, and ersatz coffee. The guards were SS and regularly beat the prisoners with lengths of rubber hose or rifle butts. As…
54. Identification badge owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.19 a-b
…. On April 20, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners marched under SS guard towards an undisclosed location. On the night of May 2, Wollheim fled to…
55. 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
… for the United States aboard the SS Berengaria. He arrived In New York City on May 26, and moved in with his aunt and uncle, Ida and Moe Blum. Later…
56. Star of David badge owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.38
…. On April 20, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners marched under SS guard towards an undisclosed location. On the night of May 2, Wollheim fled to…
57. 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
…). Many prisoners were killed and SS guards deserted their posts. The transport group stayed in Gleiwitz for a few days before being marched to the train…
58. Maccabi sports club patch with a blue Star of David and Aachen worn by a Jewish youth
Object | Accession Number: 2012.433.2
Date:
use: approximately 1935
… Norway where, on December 14, he left Oslo on the SS Bergensfjord and arrived in New York on December 23. He and Markus moved in with Markus’s brother…
59. Brown leather luggage tag used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport
Object | Accession Number: 2012.454.8
Date:
use: 1939 June
… before, during, and after the Holocaust as a Kindertransport refugee from Munich, Germany, to the United Kingdom, and her 1944 emigration to the United…
60. Brown leather luggage tag used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport
Object | Accession Number: 2012.454.7
Date:
use: 1939 June
… before, during, and after the Holocaust as a Kindertransport refugee from Munich, Germany, to the United Kingdom, and her 1944 emigration to the United…