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21. Gold pendant with the initials of a girl and her parents from her aunt
2003.32.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.32.1
Date:
creation: 1923
received: 1923
… 1907, Inda’s sister Fejga immigrated to the United States and changed her name to Fanny. Inda married and lived in Warsaw. Inda and her husband Aaron…
22. Maccabi Sports Club lapel pin from prewar Berlin owned by a Jewish refugee boy
2005.379.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.8
Date:
received: 1934
emigration: 1941 February 21
… emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1939, they received immigration and transit visas. The family left for the Spanish border on December 14, 1940…
23. Silver locket with an engraved monogram and an infant's photo saved by an Austrian refugee family
2008.333.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.333.2
Date:
emigration: 1940 September
creation: approximately 1928 October
… diary during this time, and the entries show her efforts in trying to remember German. Her parents obtained visas for the United States with the help of…
24. Silver charm bracelet saved by a young German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.7
Date:
emigration: 1940 August
… family began attempting to leave Germany. Jella had three siblings living in the United States and they applied for a visa waiting number to the US, but…
25. 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
… and paid for her journey, she was able to immigrate to the United States in 1947. She settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where she married Manfred Lang in…
26. 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
…, Belgium, on September 26, 1946. In October, with the help of an uncle in Jacksonville, Florida, Franka emigrated to the United States with their infant…
27. Circular, geometric-patterned earring owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.3
Date:
emigration: 1939 February
… visa to the United States. On March 27, Herta married Leopold. Herta’s family members also applied for visas, but their quota numbers were very high…
28. 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
… culture and learned to speak flawless Polish. In 1939, Benjamin’s brother Mordecai planned to emigrate to the United States. Their parents were ashamed that…
29. 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
… by plane to the United States, arriving in Chicago on September 1, 1949; their daughter was born soon after. It was not until this time that she found…
30. 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
… by plane to the United States, arriving in Chicago on September 1, 1949; their daughter was born soon after. It was not until this time that she found…
31. 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
… by plane to the United States, arriving in Chicago on September 1, 1949; their daughter was born soon after. It was not until this time that she found…
32. 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
… by plane to the United States, arriving in Chicago on September 1, 1949; their daughter was born soon after. It was not until this time that she found…
33. 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
…, Belgium, on September 26, 1946. In October, with the help of an uncle in Jacksonville, Florida, Franka emigrated to the United States with their infant…
34. Gold bracelet made from melted-down coins owned by an Austrian Lutheran émigré
2018.363.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.363.1
Date:
designed: before 1939
emigration: 1939
creation: before 1939
… February 1940, the Steiners immigrated to the United States aboard the SS Britannic. Felix and Margarethe settled in Fargo, North Dakota, with the assistance…
35. Enameled stickpin for the Studiosorum World Congress owned by a former Czech Jewish soldier
2004.692.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.692.2
Date:
commemoration: 1946
… months after the Communist coup that February. He emigrated to the United States in January 1949. He attended Iowa State College and after receiving a…
36. 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
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jack Ratz…
37. 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
… months after the Communist coup that February. He emigrated to the United States in January 1949. He attended Iowa State College and after receiving a…
38. 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
… applied to go to the United States or Palestine. In January 1950, Izy, Irma, and Tonika emigrated to the US and settled in Dallas, Texas. In 1953, Izy and…
39. Miniature picture frame pendant made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.4
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… immigrate to the United States. While waiting for their US visas, Margerete sent Marietta to England in 1946, to pursue her studies. The following year…
40. Golem pendant made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.6
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… immigrate to the United States. While waiting for their US visas, Margerete sent Marietta to England in 1946, to pursue her studies. The following year…