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1. 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
… control of Gestapo chief SS Obersturmfuhrer Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon. Prisoners lived in overcrowded conditions and were regularly tortured and…
2. Typed Nazi SS tax memo about assets confiscated from a Jewish woman
2016.184.572 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.572
Date:
creation: 1938 July 09
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the…
3. Ribbon commemorating the Pentcho refugee ship
2017.588.4.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.588.4.2
Date:
commemoration: 1980
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection. The acquisition of portions of this collection was made possible by the Philip and Janet Levin…
4. Labor card from the Kovno ghetto
1995.89.301 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.89.301
Date:
issue: 1944 June 01
…The collection consists of artifacts, drawings, documents, and scrip relating to life in the Kovno (Kaunus) ghetto in Lithuania before and during the…
5. Ribbon commemorating the Pentcho refugee ship
2017.588.4.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.588.4.3
Date:
commemoration: 1980
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection. The acquisition of portions of this collection was made possible by the Philip and Janet Levin…
6. 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.…
7. Small brass sign from the family capmaking business brought to the US by a Jewish refugee from Vienna
2004.704.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.704.4
Date:
creation: before 1938
… Frieda were too elderly to leave. David, Regina, Edgar, and Robert traveled to Antwerp, Belgium, in early September 1938. They boarded the S.S. Pennland…
8. 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
…, Hela Wargon and her husband Karl, in New York a letter explaining the deportation of the family. The SS discovered that Symcho was Jewish. He was also…
9. Two-sided silk escape map of Western Europe owned by US soldier and liberator
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
…Ralph Morris Kopansky was born on May 23, 1912, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was the second of three children born to Sam and Ida Goseman Kopansky…
10. Map of Italy and Southeast Europe owned by a Dutch Jewish boy while living in hiding
1991.226.55 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.226.55
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942-1943
… August, the SS staged a night raid on the Heppner’s block. Albert went to the roof to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they took Irene instead…
11. Map of the Far East owned by a Dutch Jewish boy while living in hiding
1991.226.54 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.226.54
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942-1943
… August, the SS staged a night raid on the Heppner’s block. Albert went to the roof to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they took Irene instead…
12. Illustrated postcard with finger holes owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.8
Date:
emigration: 1939-1949
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
13. Map of the Eastern front in Europe owned by a Dutch Jewish boy while living in hiding
1991.226.53 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.226.53
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942-1943
… August, the SS staged a night raid on the Heppner’s block. Albert went to the roof to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they took Irene instead…
14. 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…
15. Map of the Western Front in Europe owned by a Dutch Jewish boy while living in hiding
1991.226.52 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.226.52
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942-1943
… August, the SS staged a night raid on the Heppner’s block. Albert went to the roof to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they took Irene instead…
16. Antisemitic postcard issued by the Nazi Party
Object | Accession Number: 1996.17.1
Date:
approximately 1939-1945
…The postcard was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by John and Melanie Balzer in 1996.…
17. Large land ownership map of the medieval town Brandys, Czech Republic
Object | Accession Number: 1989.2.142
Date:
undated: 
… German occupied Czechoslovakia. The camp opened in November 24, 1941 and was in operation about 3.5 years, until May 2, 1945. The German SS imprisoned…
18. Map of Theresienstadt drawn by an inmate while in the camp
Object | Accession Number: 1990.181.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1943
…The map was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Johanna E. and Max K. Liebmann.…
19. 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
… for the United States aboard the SS Berengaria. He arrived In New York City on May 26, and moved in with his aunt and uncle, Ida and Moe Blum. Later…
20. Souvenir program for film Victory of the Faith
Object | Accession Number: 2010.192.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1933
Title:
Der Sieg des Glaubens: Der film vom Reichsparteitag der NSDAP
… as an honorary member of the SS and became friends with Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Later, Schweitzer…