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1. Krzyz Walecznych (Cross of Valor) medal and presentation box awarded to a Jewish conscript in the Soviet Army
2009.196.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.196.3 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1944
… Germany invaded Poland in June 1941, Kalman Barakan was a 30 year old lawyer in Bialystok. His home was destroyed and he had to move into a Jewish ghetto…
2. Medal for Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 awarded to a Jewish Polish veteran of the Soviet Army
2009.196.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.196.5
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
… had to move into a Jewish ghetto and do rough manual labor. He escaped in 1943 and lived in hiding, constantly on the move. In August 1943, the ghetto…