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1. 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…
2. 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
… brothers, Rafael, Chona, and Aron, in a group of over 14,000 people to Rumbula and executed them. Isaak and other young men were forced to return to the…
3. Signet ring with an engraving of the Łódź ghetto bridge owned by a ghetto resident
2005.96.1 side
Object | Accession Number: 2005.96.1
Date:
received: 1943
…, Schwind, a deputy to the administrator of the ghetto, ordered a roll of the labor camp. Worried there would be an execution, Julian used his key to the…
4. Brass bracelet with cutout designs of scenes of daily life made in Łódź Ghetto
2007.45.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.3
Date:
creation: 1943
found: approximately 1944 July
… point, the inmates were ordered to dig mass graves at the Jewish cemetery, which they took as a sign that the Germans were planning to execute everyone…
5. Silver brooch of a 3 masted ship given to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
1988.72.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.23
Date:
creation: 1947
…. From 1944 to 1945, he was the executive secretary of the Combined Pulp and Paper Commission of the Combined Raw Materials Board. The war in Europe ended…
6. Brooch with a cut-out design of the fence and Jewish quarters sign made in Łódź Ghetto
2007.45.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.2
Date:
creation: 1943
found: 1944 July-1945 January
… point, the inmates were ordered to dig mass graves at the Jewish cemetery, which they took as a sign that the Germans were planning to execute everyone…
7. Silver ring with red glass inset found near a mass Jewish grave site
Object | Accession Number: 2008.76.4
Date:
use: 1942-1943
found: 2006
…mass execution and grave site…
8. Plain gold wedding band stamped with letters JH found near a mass Jewish grave site
Object | Accession Number: 2008.76.3
Date:
use: 1942-1943
found: 2006
…mass execution and grave site…
9. Silver ring with engraved flowers found near a mass Jewish grave site
Object | Accession Number: 2008.76.5
Date:
use: 1942-1943
found: 2006
…mass execution and grave site…
10. Fake diamond ring bartered to save the life of a Jewish family
2013.312.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.312.1
Date:
creation: 1942
use: 1943-1944
… took Bumek’s wife and child, and the other protected worker families, to the Brunica forest and executed them. Bumek decided to turn himself in during…
11. Plain gold wedding band with engraved text found near a mass Jewish grave site
Object | Accession Number: 2008.76.2
Date:
use: 1942-1943
found: 2006
…mass execution and grave site…
12. Gold wedding band with engraved names found near a mass Jewish grave site
Object | Accession Number: 2008.76.1
Date:
use: 1942-1943
found: 2006
…mass execution and grave site…
13. 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
… day, a Belgian girl was caught trying to escape. All the inmates were called to see her execution by hanging; someone slipped her a razor blade and she…
14. 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
… day, a Belgian girl was caught trying to escape. All the inmates were called to see her execution by hanging; someone slipped her a razor blade and she…
15. Pair of pinwheel shaped cuff links with ribbon covering owned by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.7 a-c
Date:
use: after 1945
… September 1944. At the war’s end, Moliere Group had been reduced by deportation and execution by the Germans to 130 members. During the war, Menachem’s sister…
16. Plastic amber bead bracelet worn by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.4
Date:
received: 1935
… as an execution site for Jews. Ellen’s maternal grandparents Eduard and Dorothea were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia on…
17. Single pinwheel shaped cuff link with ribbon covering owned by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.8
Date:
use: after 1945
… September 1944. At the war’s end, Moliere Group had been reduced by deportation and execution by the Germans to 130 members. During the war, Menachem’s sister…
18. 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
… executed on September 6. When Irma got back on the train, she overheard people from Lobsens talking about her. She was afraid they would hurt her, so she…