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1. 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 Totenkopf (Death’s head) ring taken from an SS officer by a liberator and later given to a Holocaust survivor…
2. 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…
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
…). Many prisoners were killed and SS guards deserted their posts. The transport group stayed in Gleiwitz for a few days before being marched to the train…
4. 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
… a radio transmitter across the border and was arrested by the German SS security force in Trieste. John was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp…
5. 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
… to the United States on the SS Marine Perch and settled in New York City. Irena graduated from Hunter College in 1956. She has two children and runs an…
6. Friendship ring engraved GG made from silver spoons in the Riga ghetto
2003.407.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.407.1
Date:
creation: 1943 March 13
use: 1943 March-1945 March
… shop near the port. She once tried to smuggle in butter, but was caught. She convinced the SS officer not to execute her. Instead he shaved her head and…
7. 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
… SS officer in charge made Irma camp elder because she spoke German. Irma made the work designations and assigned Tauba to the kitchen. The SS officer…
8. 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
… Auschwitz concentration camp on August 2, 1943. In July 1950, Herta and Evy left Germany on the SS General ML Hersey for the US. Herta married Henry Long, a…
9. 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
… Verwertung chemischer Erzeugnisse. The laborers lived in barracks on the edge of the local town, and marched under SS supervision, an hour and a half each way…
10. 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
… aboard the SS Usambara and arrived in Mombasa, Kenya, in late summer 1939. Karl and Josef Berg arrived from Germany in August. In September 1939, Germany…
11. 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
… ghetto. In the fall of 1944, he was sent to Kaufering concentration camp in Germany. He worked in the SS Lager and carried in food supplies from transports…
12. 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
… family had perished in the Holocaust. Isaak sailed from Bremen on the SS Marine Flasher on October 29, 1947, arriving in New York on November 10. He…