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21. 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
… / FUNGEEREND GEWSTELIJK / DIRECTEUR VAN POLITIE / FEITSMA [The Attorney General Acting Regional Director of Police Feitsma] front, lower center, printed…
22. Cartoon
2012.483.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.483.16
… northern Italy, where Milan was located. The German SS took over the police functions and began preparations to deport the Jewish residents in Italy to…
23. Rosh Hashana card with a photo of a young woman made in Celle DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.22
Date:
commemoration: 1947 September 15
creation: approximately 1947 September
… could do to help them and they were to be taken away by the Germans. The police loaded them in wagons that took them to Irsava ghetto. They were crowded…
24. Painted steel sign from Sobibor railroad station
Object | Accession Number: 1990.291.4
Date:
use: after 1900-before 1946
… preparations for Operation Reinhard, the systematic extermination of all Jews living in German occupied Poland. In March 1942, SS and police authorities began…
25. Painted composition board sign from Belzec railroad station
1990.291.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.291.5
Date:
use: after 1945
… authorities began preparations for Operation Reinhard, the systematic extermination of all Jews living in German occupied Poland. In November, SS and police…
26. Painted metal sign with a blue Star of David from a tailor workshop in the Warsaw ghetto
2004.483.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.483.1
Date:
use: approximately 1941
… with resistance and withdrew. On April 19, SS and police units returned to liquidate the ghetto. They were met with armed, organized resistance, the…
27. Devotional keepsake
2001.62.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.62.11 | RG Number: RG-71.001.08
Date:
1945
… Berlin, Breslau and Freiburg. He became the senior legal adviser to the police in Prussia, and he opposed Nazism. After Hitler came to power, Hermann…
28. Rosh Hashana card with a photo of a family made in Celle DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.16
Date:
commemoration: 1947 September 15
creation: approximately 1947 September
… could do to help them and they were to be taken away by the Germans. The police loaded them in wagons that took them to Irsava ghetto. They were crowded…
29. Postcard with New Year's wishes and a drawing of a barracks sent from Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp
Object | Accession Number: 2005.61.2
Date:
creation: 1942 January
Artwork Title:
Bonne Annee 1942 from Beaune-la-Rolande
… was demobilized in Toulouse. He returned to Paris and registered with the police as required by law. On May 14, 1941, he was arrested and sent to the…
30. 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 Police in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and in the late 1950’s, becoming a Branch Manager in Clarksville, Tennessee. Ralph was an active member of several…
31. 1942 Hungarian Jewish calendar saved by a Hungarian Jewish family
Object | Accession Number: 1999.282.10
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942
Title:
Magyar zsidok naptara 1942 - 5702
… mid-May 1944, the Hungarian authorities, in coordination with the German Security Police, began to systematically deport the Hungarian Jews. In less…
32. 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
… working with the resistance. He had a trial and was released in February 1941. Mass deportations began in July 1942. On November 16, 1942, Dutch police…
33. Two-sided silk escape map of Western Europe owned by Captain Ralph M. Kopansky
2012.427.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.427.6
Date:
publication: 1943
Title:
Belgium and Germany (New Frontier), - Sheet C/43C- Sheet D/43D
… of Police in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and in the late 1950’s, becoming a Branch Manager in Clarksville, Tennessee. Ralph was an active member of several…
34. Envelope postmarked Warsaw and New York 1940 saved by a Jewish Lithuanian concentration camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1989.124.1
Date:
postmark: 1940 December 20
postmark: 1940 December 25
postmark: 1940 December 26
… units (einsatzgruppen), joined by Lithuanian police and military officials, massacred thousands of Jewish men and boys. Many were taken into the nearby…
35. Safe conduct pass for Berend Slingenberg created by Gerry van Heel, a document forger
2010.441.33 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.441.33
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1944
issue: 1943 March 01
… hiding with a different family, was out when German police conducted a search of the house. When questioned, the landlady disclosed that Otto was Jewish…
36. Jewish calendar book used postwar by a Czech youth
Object | Accession Number: 2010.174.2
Date:
publication/distribution: 1948
Title:
Luah Tav Shin Tet
Alternate Title:
Kalendar 1948 / 1949
… 16 and 30 had to register and Slovak police began gathering Jews in detention camps. Reline tried to get a job as a seamstress and her would-be…
37. Broadside from Tel-Aviv announcing closures to mourn the sinking of the refugee ship "Struma"
2018.10.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.10.6
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942 February 25
Title:
Notice to all members of allied troops in Tel Aviv today
… Turkish police on February 23, 1942. The next day, the ship sank. Initially it was believed to have been sunk after drifting into a minefield, but was…
38. Map of the former extermination camp at Chelmno compiled by archaeologists excavating the site
1989.308.32 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.32
Date:
creation: 1989
depiction: 1986-1989
Title:
PLAN BYŁEGO OBOZU ZAGŁADY w CHEŁMNIE NAD NEREM
Alternate Title:
MAP OF THE FORMER EXTERMINATION CAMP IN CHELMNO ON THE NER
… killing center operated by the German SS and police authorities in German-occupied Poland.…
39. Cloth map used by a Dutch Resistance member
2017.245.2 side A
Object | Accession Number: 2017.245.2
… became a member of the Special Police Force in Sittard. He then went to law school. He and Ingrid married in 1949, and immigrated to the United States in…
40. Blank safe conduct pass used by Gerry van Heel to forge documents
2010.441.42 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.441.42
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1944
… hiding with a different family, was out when German police conducted a search of the house. When questioned, the landlady disclosed that Otto was Jewish…