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1. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1948
issue: after 1914 August 05
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
2. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.11
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
3. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.12
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
4. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.13
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
5. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.9
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
6. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.10
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
7. Prisoner id tag issued to a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.2
Date:
issue: 1939 September-1940 April
use: 1939 September-1945 May
… landowner, whose land they rented. On September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. Salek was mobilized into the 19th Infantry Battalion, Polish Army…
8. Ribbon bar award for construction of the German West Wall acquired by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.76 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.76
Date:
commemoration: after 1937-before 1940 May
received: after 1944 July-before 1946 June
…Germany, Armed Forces…
9. Ribbon bar with 3 campaign ribbons issued to a Jewish German US soldier
2003.149.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.9
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
10. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2012.337.4
Date:
issue: 1936-1945
emigration: 1939 March
…Hans Horst Hirschfeld was born on July 26, 1919, in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), to Dr. Alfred and Maria Kraushaar Hirschfeld. Alfred, who was…
11. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2012.337.2
Date:
issue: 1936-1945
emigration: 1939 March
…Hans Horst Hirschfeld was born on July 26, 1919, in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), to Dr. Alfred and Maria Kraushaar Hirschfeld. Alfred, who was…
12. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2012.337.3
Date:
issue: 1936-1945
emigration: 1939 March
…Hans Horst Hirschfeld was born on July 26, 1919, in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), to Dr. Alfred and Maria Kraushaar Hirschfeld. Alfred, who was…
13. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2012.337.6
Date:
issue: 1936-1945
emigration: 1939 March
…Hans Horst Hirschfeld was born on July 26, 1919, in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), to Dr. Alfred and Maria Kraushaar Hirschfeld. Alfred, who was…
14. Pressed tin cap badge of a Reichsadler acquired by a US soldier
2011.75.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.75.8
Date:
found: 1945-1946
issue: 1936-1945
…, he enlisted in the US Army and was assigned to the 102nd Combat Infantry Division, nicknamed the Ozarks Division. He was deployed to Germany in…
15. Hitlerjugend [Hitler Youth] enamel membership pin acquired by a US soldier
2011.75.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.75.9
Date:
found: 1945-1946
manufacture: after 1939 January-before 1945 May
…, he enlisted in the US Army and was assigned to the 102nd Combat Infantry Division, nicknamed the Ozarks Division. He was deployed to Germany in…
16. Iron Cross, 1st class, medal from WWII acquired by a Jewish German emigre and US soldier
2003.149.77 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.77
Date:
commemoration: 1939
received: after 1944 July-before 1946 June
…Germany, Armed Forces…