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1. Circular metal pin owned by a female Hungarian Jewish slave laborer
2017.645.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.645.4
Date:
acquired: 1944 August 02-1945 March
…. In mid-June, the family, was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied Poland. Their parents were taken to the gas chambers in the…
2. Numbered prisoner patch worn by a female Hungarian Jewish slave laborer
2017.645.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.645.2
Date:
use: 1944 September 19-1945 April 25
issue: 1944 September 19
…. In mid-June, the family, was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied Poland. Their parents were taken to the gas chambers in the…
3. Prisoner identification tag with attached charms issued to Bronia Eiger-Sitner
1989.173.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.173.1 a-b
Date:
Issued: after 1944 November 23-before 1945 March
… tailor or seamstress. Prior to late 1944, Bronia was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp in the German-occupied region of Poland. In November 1944…
4. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Juif, belonging to a Jewish family.
Object | Accession Number: 2014.230.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942 June-1944 August 25
… deported on convoy 8 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland. He arrived there on July 23 and was killed. In mid-September, Germany…
5. Yellow, rectangular patch on cloth backing worn by a German Jewish woman in a concentration camp
2016.496.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.2
Date:
use: 1944 December 10-1945 May 08
… German-occupied Poland and Irene never saw him again. A week later, on October 6, Irene was taken to Auschwitz on Transport Eo. Upon arrival, she survived…
6. Pin commemorating a Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor’s receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor
2018.327.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.327.2
Date:
commemoration: 2005 September 23
…, Marketa, who had survived Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, though their child had not. With forged identity papers acquired by Miklós…
7. White armband with a red cross worn by a concentration camp inmate
1993.90.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.90.5
Date:
use: approximately 1943-1945 January
…Oświęcim (Poland)…
8. 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
… transported to Drancy, a transit camp to the east. Four days later, Sioma was deported on convoy 18 to Auschwitz killing center in German-occupied Poland, where…
9. Armband handstitched with a red cross and Star of David by a concentration camp inmate and nurse
2008.346.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.346.1
Date:
use: 1942-1945
…Oświęcim (Poland)…
10. Prisoner badge likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.6
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
…. Abraham’s mother and siblings were also deported to Auschwitz and killed. None of Ryfka’s family members in Poland survived. Abraham was ill and lived in a…
11. Red triangle badge with a letter B owned by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.4
Date:
received: 1945 January
…. Abraham’s mother and siblings were also deported to Auschwitz and killed. None of Ryfka’s family members in Poland survived. Abraham was ill and lived in a…
12. Commemorative armband likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.7
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
…. Abraham’s mother and siblings were also deported to Auschwitz and killed. None of Ryfka’s family members in Poland survived. Abraham was ill and lived in a…
13. Star of David membership pin owned by a former concentration camp inmate
1993.90.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.90.4
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
…Concentration camp inmates--Medical care--Poland--Oswiecim--Biography.…
14. Star of David badge printed Jude owned by a Czech Jewish survivor
2001.3.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.3.5
Date:
undated: 
…, overcrowded train to Auschwitz in German occupied Poland. As they neared the camp, the inmates told new arrivals to throw their belongings to them over the…
15. Star of David badge on floral backing printed Jude owned by a Czech Jewish survivor
2001.3.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.3.4
Date:
use: after 1941 September
…, overcrowded train to Auschwitz in German occupied Poland. As they neared the camp, the inmates told new arrivals to throw their belongings to them over the…
16. Luggage tag used by a Czech Jewish survivor
2011.445.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.445.2
Date:
use: 1946 May 03
…, overcrowded train to Auschwitz in German occupied Poland. As they neared the camp, the inmates told new arrivals to throw their belongings to them over the…
17. 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
… from Łódź, Poland, that same year, following Tonia’s brief imprisonment for communist activities. Both Sioma and Tonia joined the M.K.P. (Palestinian…