Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

You searched for: SS and the holocaust Remove constraint SS and the holocaust Objects Weapons Remove constraint Objects: Weapons
New Search

Search

Search Results

1. SS dagger and sheath
1992.107.1_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 1992.107.1 a-b
Date:
found: 1944 March
…The dagger and sheath were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by Burt Sherman.…
2. Waffen SS knife bayonet
1989.31.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.31.1
Date:
use: 1943
…The collection consists of a Waffen SS knife bayonet and a scrip receipt from Westerbork, Netherlands, transit camp used during World War II in…
3. Knife taken from a German soldier and acquired by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.10
Date:
received: approximately 1944
… August, the SS staged a night raid on the Heppner’s block. Albert went to the roof to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they took Irene instead…
4. 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
…The pistol and accessories were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988 by Milton Shurr.…
5. 75 mm artillery shell found in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1992.134.2
Date:
found: after 1960-before 1965
…, the SS established Warschau concentration camp on the ruins of the former Warsaw ghetto, which camp prisoners were assigned to demolish and clean up…
6. 75 mm artillery shell found in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1992.134.3
Date:
found: after 1960-before 1965
…, the SS established Warschau concentration camp on the ruins of the former Warsaw ghetto, which camp prisoners were assigned to demolish and clean up…
7. 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
… to hide from the SS officers who came through their neighborhood, while his father and brother were shielded at the factory. The following day, fearing…
8. Sword
1995.142.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.142.1
…The sword was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by John F. Bolton.…
9. Pistol holster used by a Yugoslavian partisan
1993.167.2 b front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.167.2 b
Date:
acquired: 1945
… joined the Narodnooslobodilački pokret (NOP, People's Liberation Movement). After the war, Lavoslav helped rehabilitate survivors of the Holocaust and…
10. Metal remains of a Karabiner wz.29 bolt-action Mauser-type rifle found in ruins of Warsaw Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1992.134.1 a-b
Date:
manufacture: after 1931-before 1939
found: after 1960-before 1965
… remaining inhabitants to forced-labor camps, and killing centers. On July 19, 1943, the SS established Warschau concentration camp on the ruins of the former…
11. Brass knuckles used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.5
Date:
use: 1941-1945
… had a girlfriend, Klara Tabak,who lived in a nearbv village, Ksawerowka, with her father, Josef Tabak, and her extended family on the estate of a Polish…
12. Rubber truncheon used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.3
Date:
use: approximately 1941 February-1945
… had a girlfriend, Klara Tabak,who lived in a nearbv village, Ksawerowka, with her father, Josef Tabak, and her extended family on the estate of a Polish…
13. Antiaircraft shell fragments found after an air raid on Bordeaux by a young Jewish refugee
2005.379.10_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.10 a-b
Date:
found: 1940 November 23
emigration: 1941 February 21
… from Nazi Germany to Belgium, then to France, Spain, Portugal, and finally the United States during the Holocaust.…
14. WWI anti-aircraft gun fuse fragment owned by a Jewish German soldier
2011.259.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.2
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1916
…. On April 11, 1940, Carl and Georg left on the SS Westernland from Antwerp, arriving in New York on April 25. On April 27, 1940 Carl married Hilde. They…
15. 6.35mm Mauser 1934 pocket pistol acquired by a Yugoslavian partisan
Object | Accession Number: 1993.167.2 a
Date:
acquired: 1945
… joined the Narodnooslobodilački pokret (NOP, People's Liberation Movement). After the war, Lavoslav helped rehabilitate survivors of the Holocaust and…
16. Haenel SA Sachsen M1933 service dagger with etched motto
1990.264.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.264.1
Date:
manufacture: 1933-1934
…The collection consists of a Star of David badge, a SS dagger, and an SA membership document.…
17. 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
… in 1905 and sponsored the family’s emigration. Walter traveled to Southampton, England, and sailed on SS Ile De France on June 30, 1938, arriving in…