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1. 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
…Star of David stickpin worn postwar by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker…
2. 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
…Mezuzah and tombstone pendants on a necklace made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp…
3. Globe-shaped UNRRA pin worn by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.14
Date:
use: 1946 March-1947 June
emigration: 1949 August 26
… cars, arriving the next day in Buna-Monowitz concentration camp, the largest subcamp of Auschwitz. Hans was beaten, stripped, shaved, and washed in…
4. 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
… cars, arriving the next day in Buna-Monowitz concentration camp, the largest subcamp of Auschwitz. Hans was beaten, stripped, shaved, and washed in…
5. Finger ring with a monogram received by a US soldier at a concentration camp
1995.105.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.105.7
Date:
received: approximately 1945 May
… Germany, including the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in spring 1945.…
6. Silver UNRRA pin worn by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.16
Date:
use: 1946 March-1947 June
emigration: 1949 August 26
… cars, arriving the next day in Buna-Monowitz concentration camp, the largest subcamp of Auschwitz. Hans was beaten, stripped, shaved, and washed in…
7. 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
…. During the summer of 1943, Sol was transferred to Janinagrube concentration camp, first building the camp’s electric fence and later, working in a coalmine…
8. 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…
9. Copper finger ring with a monogram received by a US soldier at a concentration camp
1995.105.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.105.8
Date:
received: approximately 1945 May
… Germany, including the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in spring 1945.…
10. 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
… arrived at Auschwitz concentration camp, Sala noticed that nearly all of the 2500 passengers were being sent to one side; she told her sister to join the…
11. 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
… the liberation of Dachau concentration camp.…
12. 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
… 1943. Elja was sent to Kaiserwald concentration camp, then to a smaller sub-camp, Muhlgraben (Milgravis), and in the summer of 1944, to Stutthof. One of…
13. 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
…First anniversary commemorative pin for the May 12, 1945, liberation of Theresienstadt concentration camp acquired by Frank Meissner, whose family…
14. Commemorative pin
1994.124.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.124.13
Date:
issue: 1930
… beachhead and the liberation of France in 1944, and then fought their way through Germany. On April 4, 1945, they liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp, a…
15. Commemorative FNDIRP button cover engraved 178284 acquired by a Jewish Polish refugee
2005.257.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.257.1
Date:
received: approximately 1945 June
… honor the memory of Charles Oschkor, 178284 was his prisoner number. Oschkor was a former kapo of Blechhammer concentration camp who sacrificed himself to…
16. Commemorative pin for Martin Luther's Anniversary Day 1933
1994.124.12 back
Object | Accession Number: 1995.124.12
Date:
issue: 1933
… beachhead and the liberation of France in 1944, and then fought their way through Germany. On April 4, 1945, they liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp, a…
17. Gold ring with engraved initials and date owned by German Jewish refugee
2003.149.67 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.67
Date:
commemoration: 1936 July 11
…, before the Holocaust, in the United States Army in Europe during the war, including the liberation of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, and in New York…
18. France Forever laminated pin with a V and US & French flags owned by a Jewish French resistance member
2004.248.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.248.7
… Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943-1945. The paper pin has a graphic design with the Cross of Lorraine, a symbol of French resistance, a V for victory…
19. Masonic tie pin with a gold compass and square emblem owned by a Hungarian Jewish emigre
2010.81.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.10
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April 01
emigration: 1949 March 29
use: 2000
… and anti-Jewish decrees were put in place; Jews had to wear Star of David armbands, move into ghettos, and deportations to concentration camps began. On…
20. Ring given to a Jewish woman in the Łódź ghetto
1998.137.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.137.1
Date:
approximately 1939-1942
…Given to Mania Sendziszew in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by dying, unknown Jewish woman whom Mania was caring for, immeadiately following…