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561. Two place service distinction ribbon bar awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.477.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.477.8
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… survived. His mother Malka and sisters Dina and Roza, and their families, were murdered in the massacres in Ponary near Vilna, probably in the fall of 1941…
562. Glass and silver keepsake box used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
2005.579.19_a-b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.19 a-b
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
563. Passport holder, carried to Ecuador by a German Jewish woman
2019.18.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.18.2
Date:
use: 1939 January 02-before 1942 June 13
… (later Price, b. 1927), joined them in Quito, having survived the war in France. Hedwig and Claire immigrated to the United States in November 1947…
564. German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939; CUs of Poles
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Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4190 | Film ID: 3027
Film Title:
Poland Neg/War 1939 Dupe R2602 Neg 1946
Date:
Event: 1939 September
Duration:
00:02:37
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…, surrounded by a group of Polish civilians who have survived an air attack on their homes. The camera pans the scene of the destruction as Bryan listens…
565. Ribbon bar with British War Medal 1939-1945 and Polish Army Medal for War 1939-1945 awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.477.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.477.9
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… survived. His mother Malka and sisters Dina and Roza, and their families, were murdered in the massacres in Ponary near Vilna, probably in the fall of 1941…
566. Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.6
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1940
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… August 14, Japan surrendered to the US. The Kupinski family learned that Slawa’s brothers had survived in France, but that her parents were killed in the…
567. Leo Haas sketch of SS labor camp guard Schrader
2002.490.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.490.2
Date:
creation: 1939 November 17
Artwork Title:
Schrader, Nisko, September 17, 1939
…, where he found all his hidden works, nearly 400, as well as many works by Fritta, Ungar, and Fleischmann. He reunited with his wife Erna, who had survived…
568. Needle packet used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.25
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
569. Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.26
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
570. Pouch and medical instruments used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.22 a-j
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
571. Bela Gondos family papers
1989.202. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1989.202.3
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1995
… Hungarian Labor Service and was presumed dead. His brother Zoltan, who had emigrated to the United States before the war, was his only surviving relative…
572. Pelikan fountain pen used by Mayer Altarac who fled German-occupied Belgrade with his family
2002.438.10
Object | Accession Number: 2002.438.10 a-b
Date:
use: 1935-1941
… by partisans. The Altarac family returned to Belgrade. They later learned that Mimi’s brother David and his family had survived. Shalom had served in…
573. Leo Haas sketch of SS labor camp guard Siemen
2002.490.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.490.4
Date:
creation: 1939 November 11
Artwork Title:
Siemen, Nisko, September 17, 1939
…, where he found all his hidden works, nearly 400, as well as many works by Fritta, Ungar, and Fleischmann. He reunited with his wife Erna, who had survived…
574. Inscribed Siddur carried through hiding and slave labor by a Jewish Polish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 2018.369.3
Date:
use: approximately 1921-approximately 1998
… and survived, but Szapse’s parents and three siblings, Mala, Yisrael, and Avrum, had been killed, possibly in 1941. His brother, Barrish, survived and…
575. Warsaw Ghetto photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2002.221.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
… survive apart from a few images he had given to friends. Jan's mother was determined to rescue the Wierzbicki family. However, she could arrange hiding…
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 … the transfer was made, and his archive did not survive apart from a few images he had given to friends. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…
576. Monique Joseph papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.595.1
Date:
inclusive: 1820-2007
bulk: 1920-1951
undated: 
… Colin. They received train tickets to Valence where they were reunited with Monique’s father. Monique survived the rest of the war in hiding under her…
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 … tickets to Valence where they were reunited with Monique’s father. Monique survived the rest of the war in hiding under her false identity with Jean…
577. Leo Haas sketch of SS labor camp guard Wolters
2002.490.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.490.3
Date:
creation: 1939 November 11
Artwork Title:
Wolters, Nisko, September 17, 1939
…, where he found all his hidden works, nearly 400, as well as many works by Fritta, Ungar, and Fleischmann. He reunited with his wife Erna, who had survived…
578. Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.27
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
579. Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families papers
2016.500.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.500.1
Date:
inclusive: 1886-2016
bulk: 1938-1945
… Curacao in 1943. Adolf’s parents were Chaim and Adele Fraenkel from Drohobycz (now Drohobych, Ukraine). Adolf’s brother Moritz (Moses, Maurice) survived the…
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 … (now Drohobych, Ukraine). Adolf’s brother Moritz (Moses, Maurice) survived the Holocaust, but most of the rest of the Fraenkel family perished. Hertha…
580. Münzer family papers
2005.291.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2005.291.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1935-2008
… experiences with many community and school groups. Gisele died in Bethesda, Maryland on May 24, 2001. Alfred’s sisters, Eva and Liane Münzer did not survive…
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 … experiences with many community and school groups. Gisele died in Bethesda, Maryland on May 24, 2001. Alfred’s sisters, Eva and Liane Münzer did not survive the…