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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

Date:: issue: 1939 June 21
found: approximately 1945 April
received: 1992 October 24

2. Silver charm bracelet saved by a young German Jewish refugee

Date:: emigration: 1940 August

3. Aluminum ring with a letter and prisoner number owned by John Bolé

2011.174.4 front

Date:: use: approximately 1945 April

4. Lapel pin owned by a German Jewish emigre

1995.A.0586.2 Front

Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0586.2

…Jewish refugees--New York (State)--New York--Biography.…

5. Mezuzah and tombstone pendants on a necklace made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp

2003.64.2 front

Date:: creation: after 1945 May 02-before 1945 June

6. Ring with etched iron cross design acquired by a US soldier

Date:: found: 1945

7. Gold ring taken by a Jewish youth when he escaped Treblinka death camp

Date:: found: 1942 September

8. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor

Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.36

…Concentration camp inmates--Biography.…

9. Fake diamond ring bartered to save the life of a Jewish family

2013.312.1 front

Date:: creation: 1942
use: 1943-1944

10. Silver brooch of a 3 masted ship given to Director, ORT schools, DP camps

1988.72.23 front

Date:: creation: 1947

11. Pin owned by a German Jewish displaced person and camp survivor

Object | Accession Number: 1999.100.37

…Concentration camp inmates--Biography.…

12. Decorative pin with engraved initials CB made in Kenya for a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany

Date:: creation: after 1939 June-1945

13. Friendship ring engraved GG made from silver spoons in the Riga ghetto

2003.407.1 front

Date:: creation: 1943 March 13
use: 1943 March-1945 March

14. Commemorative Star of David stickpin owned by a Dutch Jewish survivor

2002.140.2 front

Date:: commemoration: 1945-1955

15. Decorative medal with St. Bernard with a ski and a dog owned by a German Jewsh businessman in Shanghai

2006.19.16 complete

Date:: use: approximately 1925

16. Metal flower pin made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp

2006.363.3 front

Date:: received: 1942 November 20-1945

17. Star of David pendant with a prisoner number made by a former concentration camp inmate

2003.436.1 front

Date:: creation: after 1945 April-before 1947
received: 1947

18. Gold cross pendant worn by a Jewish child or his mother in hiding as Catholics

2002.420.24 front

Date:: use: 1943-1944

19. Horseshoe shaped stickpin with blue border owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai

2006.19.7 front

Date:: received: approximately 1928

20. Commemorative FNDIRP button cover engraved 178284 acquired by a Jewish Polish refugee

2005.257.1 front

Date:: received: approximately 1945 June

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