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1. Unused factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Juif, owned by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.2
Date:
issue: after 1942 June 07-1944 August
…Jacob Judey (later Barosin, 1906-2001) was born in Riga, Russia (now Latvia), to Lazar Hirsch (later Hermann, 1878-1959), and Olga Elka (née…
2. Handmade prisoner badge worn by a Latvian Jewish concentration camp inmate
2005.567.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.4
Date:
use: 1944 August-1945 April
…Elja Heifecs was born December 5, 1912, to Samuel and Zilla Epelajtis in Riga, Latvia. His mother’s family was from Lithuania. He had one brother…
3. 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
…Isaak Racs was born on December 26, 1927, in Riga, Latvia, to Moses and Tema Schusterman Racs. He had four brothers: Mendel, born on December 26…
4. Handmade prisoner badge worn by a Latvian Jewish concentration camp inmate
2005.567.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.3
Date:
use: 1944 August-1945 April
…Elja Heifecs was born December 5, 1912, to Samuel and Zilla Epelajtis in Riga, Latvia. His mother’s family was from Lithuania. He had one brother…
5. White patch with prisoner number 82609 worn by German Jewish inmate
1995.A.0274.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0274.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1945 May
…, 1941. On January 27, 1942, Frieda and Hermann were deported to the ghetto in Riga in German occupied Latvia. People were beaten as the train unloaded…