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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…
2. Map of Munich
2018.64.2 side A
Object | Accession Number: 2018.64.2
Date:
publication/distribution: 1944
…The collection primarily consists of postwar photographs taken between 1945 and 1947 by Lt. Col. George R. Snyder documenting the liberation of the…
3. Silk escape map of France owned by Captain Ralph M. Kopansky
2012.427.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.427.5
Date:
publication: 1944 March
Title:
Zones of France – Second Edition
… of Ralph Kopansky in the United States Army before, during, and after World War II, including the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp, where he…
4. Two-sided silk escape map of Western Europe acquired by German Jewish US soldier
2003.449.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.2
Date:
received: after 1944 June-before 1946 June
Title:
Belgium and Germany (New Frontier), Sheet C/43C- Sheet D/43D
…, before the Holocaust, in the United States Army in Europe during the war, including the liberation of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, and in New York…
5. Certificate for the French Resistance and Cross of War medals awarded to a German Jewish resistance fighter
2011.160.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.160.1
Date:
issue: 1960 May
commemoration: 1944 August 07-1944 August 18
… Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. On August 7, 1944, Henri was arrested for acts of resistance and imprisoned at Montluc Prison, which was under the…
6. Nazi propaganda leaflet mimicking a US silver certificate given to a US soldier after the liberation of Paris
Object | Accession Number: 1992.71.1 a-c
Date:
received: 1944 August 25
… concentration camp liberated by US troops on April 4, 1945, that he was kicked out of his office. Weinstein had to get him there by a ruse, but afterwards…
7. 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…
8. Handmade 1944 calendar made by a hidden Dutch Jewish girl for her brother
2003.155.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.155.7
Date:
creation: 1944 January-1944 February
use: 1944 February-1944 June
…, they were reunited with Meijer and sent to Westerbork transit camp. On May 19, they were loaded into wagon 9 of a transport and sent to Auschwitz. When…
9. Rhine Army Ranges (Hohne) map with overprinting, acquired by an American soldier stationed in Germany during the 1980s
2018.389.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.389.2
Date:
publication: 1942-1953
Title:
RHINE ARMY RANGES (HOHNE)
… concentration camp in 1943. Following the liberation of Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, British forces took control of the area and set up 14,000 emergency…