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1. Yellow warning skull and crossbones pennant found by a concentration camp inmate after liberation
2014.461.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.461.4
Date:
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 September
use: 1941 July-1945
…Yellow warning skull and crossbones pennant found by a concentration camp inmate after liberation…
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2. Russian army propaganda leaflet
2001.254.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.254.8
Date:
publication/distribution: approximately 1941-1945
…The Paul Tauchner collection includes a numbered badge from a concentration camp prisoner's uniform, a Buchenwald concentration camp badge, a Russian…
3. Blue envelope with German censorship marks mailed to the US by a Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2005.376.3
Date:
postmark: 1941 July 28
… concentration camp. Upon arrival, the camp commandant asked for someone who knew German to work in the office. Regina was the only person who volunteered. The…
4. Blue envelope with American and German censorship marks mailed to the US by a Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2005.376.2
Date:
postmark: 1941 August 12
… concentration camp. Upon arrival, the camp commandant asked for someone who knew German to work in the office. Regina was the only person who volunteered. The…
5. Printed map of Theresienstadt Ghetto obtained by a Jewish Czech woman
Object | Accession Number: 1992.132.1
Date:
creation: 1941 November 24-1945 May 09
…, Reinhard Heydrich, SS Chief of Security for the Reich, became Reich Protector, and prioritized the expulsion of Jews to concentration camps. Regular…
6. Forbidden for Jews sign in Dutch displayed during the German occupation of the Netherlands
Object | Accession Number: 2000.292.1
Date:
use:  1941-approximately 1945
… census was ordered for all people with Jewish blood. Within the next month, the first deportations of Jewish men to concentration camps began. The…
7. Tool used to classify hair color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 a
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
… medical experiments carried out in euthanasia killing centers and concentration camps. In 1940, Dr. Fischer became an official member of the Nazi party…
8. Tool used to classify eye color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 2017.355.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1930-1945
use: approximately 1930-1945
… (1946), other doctors were presented as manipulated by the SS and various Nazis, and were not considered affiliated with the concentration camps or…
9. Nameplate from the home of the Altarac family who fled from German occupying forces
2002.438.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.2
Date:
use: before 1941 September
… occupation territory. This area was preferred because Italian authorities generally refused to deport Jews to German-run concentration camps. The permits were…
10. Book of musical compositions transcribed by a female Jewish musician
Object | Accession Number: 2013.311.5
Date:
creation: 1937-1941
recovered: approximately 1945 June
…Concentration camp inmates--Germany--Torgau--Biography.…