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1. Nazi armband acquired by Hans Praschkauer
2006.398.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.2
Date:
received: approximately 1935
emigration: 1939
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
2. Reichsadler (Imperial Eagle) shaped patch acquired by a US soldier
1992.104.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.104.2
Date:
found: approximately 1945 May
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
3. Reichsadler insignia found by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate after liberation
2014.461.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.461.5
Date:
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 September
… 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Czestochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the ghetto after it was…
4. SS badge acquired by a Signal Corps photographer
2016.401.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.401.2
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany--Dachau--Liberation--Personal narratives, American.…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. Identification tag that exempted a Jewish child from deportation
2006.446.2 back
Object | Accession Number: 2006.446.2
Date:
use: 1942 September 05-1942 September 12
…. Germany invaded and occupied Poland in early September 1939. In February, the families were forced into a Jewish ghetto. Bella and Marek lived with their…
8. Metal pin attached to a note owned by Gerd and Alice Fischl Gerstmann
Object | Accession Number: 2020.319.6
… Gerstmann, Gerd Gerstmann, and their families in Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Palestine before, during, and after the Holocaust.…
9. Armband to identify a worker
1989.298.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.298.1
…Organisation Todt (Germany)…
10. Handmade white armband embroidered K.Z.L. Terezin and worn by a female German Jewish inmate
2004.230.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.230.10
Date:
use: 1944 November-1945 May
…Emma Pariser was born on December 14, 1889, in Inowraclaw, Germany (now Poland) to Albert and Rosalie David Pariser. Albert was born on March 10…
11. Identification tag worn by a young boy on a Kindertransport
Object | Accession Number: 2014.206.2
Date:
use: 1938 December
…Frankfurt am Main (Germany)…
12. 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…
13. Unused Star of David badge with Juif acquired by a Jewish chaplain, US Army
1990.54.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.54.2
Date:
received: approximately 1944 August-1944 September
…’Elysee night club. In Paris, and later in Germany, Nadich provided help to the Bricha organization in its efforts to assist Jewish refugees to emigrate, often…
14. Yellow civilian Deutsche Wehrmacht armband acquired by a US soldier
2011.425.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.425.2
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
15. Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht armband
1989.113.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.113.3
…Germany--Armed Forces--History--World War, 1939-1945.…
16. Nazi armband with a swastika acquired by a US soldier
1993.59.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.14
Date:
received: 1945
… 1942. After the war ended in May 1945, he was stationed in Munich, Germany, and was recruited by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation…
17. Hitler Youth armband with a swastika acquired by a US soldier
1988.99.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.4
Date:
found: approximately 1945
found: after 1944 June-before 1945 November
… Army. On April 6, 1945, Harry and his unit entered Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany, following its April 4 liberation by the US 4th Armored Division…
18. Theresienstadt armband with prisoner number worn by a liberated German Jewish prisoner
2018.427.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.427.6
Date:
use: approximately 1945 May 08-approximately 1945 June 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…
19. 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
…Josef Wechsler was born on September 28, 1919, in Nuremberg, Germany, to an Orthodox Jewish couple, Jacob and Flora Goldschmidt Wechsler. Josef had…
20. Black patch with a gold-colored eagle and swastika acquired by George John Meade
Object | Accession Number: 2019.629.4
… experiences of George John Meade in Germany as a United States soldier during and after World War II (1939-1945).…