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1. 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
…: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, and so on. Salek feared discovery not only as a Jew, but also as a Communist. Since he had been called Tomek by his Polish…
2. Yugoslav Orden za Hrabrost medal, ribbon, box, and certificate awarded to a Macedonian Jewish partisan woman
2011.108.4_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.108.4 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1947 June 03
… Monastir (now Bitola), to Kalef and Djamila Kasorla Kolonomos. Isak’s family was Romaniote, Greek Jews that had lived in Ioannina (Yannina) Greece, since…
3. Yugoslavian Order of the Partisan Star awarded to a Macedonian Jewish partisan woman
2011.108.5 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.108.5 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1952 March 18
… Monastir (now Bitola), to Kalef and Djamila Kasorla Kolonomos. Isak’s family was Romaniote, Greek Jews that had lived in Ioannina (Yannina) Greece, since…
4. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
2004.388.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.388.3
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… against Jews. There was a boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933, and Leo began to lose customers. In 1937, new taxes were imposed upon Jews and the…
5. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier
2004.388.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.388.2
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… against Jews. There was a boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933, and Leo began to lose customers. In 1937, new taxes were imposed upon Jews and the…
6. French Croix de Guerre with bronze palm awarded to a German Jewish resistance fighter
2011.160.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.160.3
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
issue: 1960 May
… Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were passed that restricted every aspect of Jewish life. In the mid-1930’s, conditions worsened for Jews in Germany…
7. French Médaille de la Résistance with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish resistance fighter
2011.160.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.160.4
Date:
commemoration: 1940 June 18-1945
issue: 1960 May
… Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were passed that restricted every aspect of Jewish life. In the mid-1930’s, conditions worsened for Jews in Germany…
8. Order of Leopold II Knight class medal, ribbon and silver palm citation awarded to a Belgian resistance fighter
2005.25.10_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.25.10
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
issue: 1950 July 19
… Belge de Résistance], the Belgian Military Resistance Organization. He participated in sabotage actions and actively assisted Jews to go into hiding to…
9. City of Ghent Commemorative Medal 1940-1945 medal with ribbon awarded to a Belgian resistance fighter
2005.25.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.25.5
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
issue: approximately 1945
… Belge de Résistance], the Belgian Military Resistance Organization. He participated in sabotage actions and actively assisted Jews to go into hiding to…
10. Medal de la Resistance Armee 1940-1945 medal and ribbon awarded to a Belgian resistance fighter
2005.25.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.25.7
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
issue: 1947 December 31
… Belge de Résistance], the Belgian Military Resistance Organization. He participated in sabotage actions and actively assisted Jews to go into hiding to…
11. Commemorative Medal of the War 1940-1945 medal and ribbon awarded to a Belgian resistance fighter
2005.25.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.25.6
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
issue: after 1946 February 16
… Belge de Résistance], the Belgian Military Resistance Organization. He participated in sabotage actions and actively assisted Jews to go into hiding to…
12. Croix du Prisonnier Politique de la Guerre 1940-1945 medal with ribbon, 2 stars, awarded to a Belgian resistance fighter
2005.25.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.25.4
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
issue: 1949 July 23
… Belge de Résistance], the Belgian Military Resistance Organization. He participated in sabotage actions and actively assisted Jews to go into hiding to…
13. King Leopold III Croix de Guerre 1940-1945 medal, ribbon, and gold palm citation awarded to a Belgian resistance fighter
2005.25.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.25.9
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
… Belge de Résistance], the Belgian Military Resistance Organization. He participated in sabotage actions and actively assisted Jews to go into hiding to…
14. Medal of Remembrance of the War 1940- 1945, ribbon, and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.10 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
… confiscated and they were banned from certain professions. By 1942, all Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David. Belgian Jews and immigrant Jewish…
15. Belgian Medal of the Armed Resistance 1940-1945, ribbon and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.13 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
… confiscated and they were banned from certain professions. By 1942, all Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David. Belgian Jews and immigrant Jewish…
16. Polish Organization for the Struggle for Independence medal, ribbon and box awarded to a Jewish member of the Belgian resistance
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.11 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… confiscated and they were banned from certain professions. By 1942, all Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David. Belgian Jews and immigrant Jewish…
17. Medal of the Belgian Nationalist Movement 1940-1945, ribbon and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.12 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
… confiscated and they were banned from certain professions. By 1942, all Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David. Belgian Jews and immigrant Jewish…
18. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader
1990.23.240.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.240.8
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May-1945 May
… South America on May 11. On May 10, Germany invaded the Netherlands. After the SS arrived, they began implementing anti-Semitic restrictions. All Jews…
19. Pametni Medaile Ceskoslovenska Armada V Zahranici (Czechoslovak Army Abroad) awarded to a Czech Jewish soldier
2007.228.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.228.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 October
… Jews, only as Austrian citizens. When the authorities were interested in them, it was only as alien refugees, not as Jews. In September 1939, Germany…
20. 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
… with three or four Jewish grandparents as a Jew. Hans had only two Jewish grandparents from his father’s side, and he was not initially persecuted due to…