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41. Gold ring taken by a Jewish youth when he escaped Treblinka death camp
1995.72.1 side
Object | Accession Number: 1995.72.1
Date:
found: 1942 September
…. Losice was bombed during the September 1939 invasion of Poland by Germany. In August 1940, the Germans began conscripting Jews for forced labor. Yidl built…
42. SS insignia ring taken from a concentration camp guard by inmates to give to a US soldier
2007.126.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.126.2
Date:
received: 1945 April-1945 May
…, 1944, joined Patton's 3rd Army and fought across Northern France to Germany and Central Europe. He was at Dachau concentration camp near the time of its…
43. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.29
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
44. Silver brooch of a 3 masted ship given to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
1988.72.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.23
Date:
creation: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
45. Adjustable cuff bracelet made from gold marks with pouch owned by German Jewish refugee
2006.498.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2010.484.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938 September
…Sophia Jungheim was born on July 24, 1893, in Kassel, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Jacob and Emma Lorge Jungheim. Jacob was born on November 22, 1856…
46. Gold necklace, bracelet, and pendant received in a displaced persons camp
2008.228.11_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.11 a-c
Date:
received: 1945
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
47. Decorative leather charm owned by a female Hungarian Jewish slave laborer
2017.645.3 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2017.645.3
Date:
creation: 1944 June 13-1944 July
use: 1944 June 13-1945 April 25
… Czechoslovakia, and became a part of Hungary in approximately 1938. During the 1930s, Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany, and in 1938, Hungary’s fascist regime…
48. Triangular birth pendant given to Ruth Wermuth
Object | Accession Number: 2022.96.2
Date:
received: 1929
…Frankfurt am Main (Germany)…
49. Star of David stickpin worn postwar by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.18
Date:
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
50. Ring
2002.325.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.325.1
Date:
1944
…Created by Agnes Frankl while doing forced labor in a factory in Lippstadt, Germany. The donor had engraved on this ring, "Dum Spiro, spero" I hope…
51. Necklace of found materials made in a camp by an Austrian Jewish woman
2006.355.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.355.2
Date:
creation: 1945 May-1946
…Child concentration camp inmates--Germany.…
52. Handmade pin embroidered with her prisoner number made for a concentration camp inmate on her 16th birthday
2009.359.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.359.1
Date:
received: 1945 April 11
… schools. She and her sister also received music, dance, and drama lessons. In September 1939, after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the eastern…
53. Decorative pin with engraved initials CB made in Kenya for a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 2014.307.2
Date:
creation: after 1939 June-1945
…Decorative pin with engraved initials CB made in Kenya for a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany…
54. Engraved ring made from a spoon for a Jewish Latvian boy in Riga ghetto
2013.474.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.474.3
Date:
commemoration: 1941 December 08
use: 1942-1945
creation: 1942
… into the Soviet army. On July 1, 1941, Germany invaded Latvia. On July 4, the Germans grabbed Jewish men off the street and forced them to light the…
55. Commemorative pin worn postwar by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.17
Date:
commemoration: 1943 March-1945 April
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
56. Silver charm bracelet saved by a young German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.7
Date:
emigration: 1940 August
…Ruth Regina Karlsruher was born July 30, 1922, in Mannheim, Germany, to Nathan and Jella Furth Karlsruher. She had an older half sister, Irene…
57. Ring with a red heart and inmate numbers made from a spoon in a concentration camp
2006.467.1, ring with heart made from spoon, Solomon Goldstein Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2006.467.1
Date:
received: after 1943 October-before 1945 January
creation: after 1943 October-before 1945 January
…, had active Jewish organizations, including a Zionist group. On September 1, 1939, western Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany and a few weeks later…
58. Aluminum ring with a letter and prisoner number owned by John Bolé
2011.174.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.174.4
Date:
use: approximately 1945 April
…, French, and Serbo-Croatian. On April 6, 1941, the Axis powers, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria, invaded and divided Yugoslavia. Laibach was in the…
59. Ring hidden by a Polish Jewish girl while in a concentration camp
2015.465.1 top
Object | Accession Number: 2015.465.1
Date:
received: before 1942 September
…, Germany invaded Poland. Sala and her family began hearing the bombs in Radom that day, so they remained in their home until it stopped eight days later…
60. Engraved gold wedding ring acquired by an inmate while in Kaufering concentration camp
2006.444.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.444.2
Date:
received: before 1945 April
… owning businesses, Jeno and Elva signed over their property to a tenant, in exchange for promissory notes. In March 1944, Germany seized control of Hungary…