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1. 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…
2. Commemorative concentration camp pendant owned by a German Jewish woman
2018.70.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.70.7
Date:
creation: after 1945 May
…Margret (Miriam) Hantman (née Simon) (b. 1926) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Willy Simon (1896-1944) and Ella Anita Stahl Simon (1901-1944). She…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. Handmade Star of David pendant given to an American liberator by a Polish Jewish slave laborer
1992.164.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.164.1 b
Date:
received: 1945 April
… Mildred (later Borgerson, 1921-?), as well as a younger sister, Estelle (later Rosenberg, 1928-2006). While Britain and France declared war on Germany in…
11. Metal pin made for a former concentration camp inmate with her prisoner number and the camps where she was held
1993.27.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.34
Date:
creation: approximately 1945 April-1945 May
commemoration: 1943-1945
… daughter next went to live with the Sojka's, an uncle's family in Zawiercie. When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the Sojka's fled east to Russian…
12. Mezuzah and tombstone pendants on a necklace made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp
2003.64.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.64.2
Date:
creation: after 1945 May 02-before 1945 June
…, 1899, in Łódź, to Aron and Frieda Pytowski. The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I (1914-1918) separated Danzig and West Prussia from Germany…
13. 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.…
14. Opaque glass bead necklace found at Lüneburg
2004.721.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.721.6
Date:
use: approximately 1945
…Luneburg (Germany)…
15. Pin embroidered with a Star of David given to an inmate at Bergen Belsen for her birthday
1988.126.27 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.126.27
Date:
received: 1940-1945
…Belsen (Bergen, Celle, Germany)…
16. Pin issued to a camp survivor with Buchenwald memorial Bell Tower and flags
2005.567.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.5
Date:
commemoration: 1945 April 11
received: 1969
…, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia and made Riga the capital of the Latvian SSR. In the spring of 1941, Germany launched a surprise attack on the Soviet…
17. 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…
18. Silver pin with floral engraving found by a German Jewish survivor while imprisoned by the Soviet Army
2004.658.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.658.2
Date:
found: 1945 February
…Evelyn (Evy) Goldstein was born on June 26, 1938, in Berlin, Germany, to an assimilated Jewish couple, Ernst and Herta Loschinski Goldstein. Herta…
19. 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…
20. Star of David pendant with a prisoner number made by a former concentration camp inmate
2003.436.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.436.1
Date:
creation: after 1945 April-before 1947
received: 1947
…Paul Rosenberg was born in Krakow, Poland, to a Jewish couple. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and occupied Krakow. At an unknown date…