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2001.62.5 front opened
Object | Accession Number: 2001.62.5 | 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…
2. 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
… for war service. Throughout the war, the Bergs had the status of enemy aliens and could leave their homes only with the permission of a police…
3. 1st Anniversary commemorative pin for the victims of Theresienstadt acquired by a Czech Jewish survivor
2004.692.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.692.6
Date:
commemoration: 1945 September 16-1946 May 12
… deported to a detention camp in Gurs in southern France. Margit was ordered to report in to the Paris police on a regular basis. In May1940, Germany invaded…
4. SS Totenkopf (Death’s head) ring taken from an SS officer by a liberator and later given to a Holocaust survivor
1992.206.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.206.1
Date:
issue: 1939 June 21
found: approximately 1945 April
received: 1992 October 24
… SS (Schutztaffel; Protection Squadron) controlled the police forces and the concentration camp system for the Nazi Reich. In 1939, they created the…
5. 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
…, who was a tailor for the police department. On November 28, the Germans ordered that all able bodied men older than 16 report to the assembly area…
6. 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
… who allowed Irma to stay in her basement. Irma worked the kitchen of the Jewish ghetto police, and got one meal a day for washing dishes and serving…