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1. Bullet acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2010.507.17
Date:
found: approximately 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Trudy Stanton…
2. German military dagger and sheath acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2010.507.3 a-b
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Trudy Stanton…
3. Whip acquired by an American soldier
1990.107.85 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.107.85
Date:
1945
found: 1945-1946
…Captain Malcolm A. Vendig served in the 83rd Infantry Division, United States Army, in Europe during World War II. After the liberation of Dachau…
4. Smith and Wesson .32 revolver acquired by a US soldier
1996.4.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.4.8
Date:
received: approximately 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Erna Rothschild…
5. Billy stick owned by US soldier, Manfred Lewinnek
Object | Accession Number: 2021.261.9
Date:
use: approximately 1942-approximately 1945
…, Poland). Manfred had one brother, Isidor Lewinnek (later John). He primarily grew up in Stuttgart, Germany. Manfred immigrated to the United States in…
6. Mauser 1896 revolver, firing pin, and holster taken by a US soldier from a German prisoner of war
1996.4.9_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.4.9 a-c
Date:
received: approximately 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Erna Rothschild…
7. German dagger and sheath acquired by an American soldier
1995.39.2_a-b open
Object | Accession Number: 1995.39.2 a-b
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jesse and Ruby Goldman…
8. German knife bayonet acquired by an American soldier
1995.39.5_a-d closed
Object | Accession Number: 1995.39.5 a-d
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jesse and Ruby Goldman…
9. German dagger and sheath acquired by an American soldier
1995.39.4_a-d open
Object | Accession Number: 1995.39.4 a-d
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jesse and Ruby Goldman…
10. German dagger and sheath acquired by an American soldier
1995.39.3_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.39.3 a-d
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jesse and Ruby Goldman…
11. Yellow handled dagger with an engraved Reichsadler with sheath acquired by a US soldier
1989.10.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 1989.10.2
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April-1945 May
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dion Alden Holt…
12. Dagger embossed with a motto and Reichsadler with sheath acquired by a US soldier from German troops
1989.10.6 closed
Object | Accession Number: 1989.10.6
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April-1945 May
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dion Alden Holt…
13. Wooden handled dagger with an embossed SA emblem and sheath acquired by a US soldier from German troops
1989.10.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 1989.10.5
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April-1945 May
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dion Alden Holt…
14. Dagger with a serrated edge and sheath acquired by a US soldier from German troops
1989.10.3_a-b open
Object | Accession Number: 1989.10.3 a-d
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April-1945 May
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dion Alden Holt…
15. Dagger with grooved handle and sheath acquired by a US soldier from German troops
1989.10.4 open
Object | Accession Number: 1989.10.4 a-c
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April-1945 May
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dion Alden Holt…
16. Brass knuckles acquired by a Jewish American soldier
1989.4.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.4.2
Date:
found: after 1945 April 26-before 1946 January 23
… revoked because they were Jewish. They decided to emigrate to the United States. Walter’s paternal uncle Ludwig, now called Louis, had emigrated to New York…
17. Looped metal whip that may have been used at Auschwitz given to a Ukrainian journalist covering the Nuremberg Trials
2012.375.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.375.2
Date:
use: approximately 1943
received: approximately 1947 January-approximately 1947 April
…, Eugenia, and their son were granted visas for the United States. They emigrated from Germany, and lived in New York. In approximately 1949, the couple had a…
18. Antiaircraft shell fragments found after an air raid on Bordeaux by a young Jewish refugee
2005.379.10_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.10 a-b
Date:
found: 1940 November 23
emigration: 1941 February 21
… emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1939, they received immigration and transit visas. The family left for the Spanish border on December 14, 1940…
19. Semi-automatic Walther PPK pistol, holster, and magazines found at a concentration camp by Lt. Milton Shurr
1988.112.65_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.65 a-d
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
manufacture: 1943
… United States entered World War II on December 8, 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Milton was drafted into the US Army and enrolled in Officer…
20. Shanghai Volunteer Corps nightstick issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.274 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.274
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
… lived in Washington, D.C., sent an affidavit for the family, but the lengthy quota list made immigration to the United States impossible. The only other…
21. Knife taken from a German soldier and acquired by the Heppner family
1990.307.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.10
Date:
acquired: approximately 1944
… United States. Max got very sick, and had to be hospitalized in the spring of 1945. After the northern part of the Netherlands was liberated in early May…