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1. French Croix de Guerre with bronze palm awarded to a German Jewish resistance fighter

2011.160.3 front

Date:: commemoration: 1939-1945
issue: 1960 May

2. 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

Date:: commemoration: 1939-1945

3. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier

Date:: commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944

4. War Merit Cross

1995.142.5_a front

Date:: 1939

5. Ceskoslovenskou Medaila za Chrabrost [Medal of Valor] awarded to a Czech Jewish soldier

2004.643.2 front

Date:: issue: 1946 March 06
commemoration: 1939-1945

6. Polish Organization for the Struggle for Independence medal, ribbon and box awarded to a Jewish member of the Belgian resistance

Date:: commemoration: 1939-1945

7. War Medal 1939-1945, ribbon and box awarded to a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps

2012.471.17_a-c front

Date:: commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1990

8. German civilian war service medallion

1994.124.22 front

Date:: issue: 1939

9. Two place service distinction ribbon bar awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

2002.477.8 front

Date:: commemoration: 1939-1945

10. Red, white and blue ribbon bar for distinguished service awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

2002.477.6 front

Date:: commemoration: 1939-1945

11. 1939-1945 Star Medal and ribbon awarded to an Austrian Jewish woman for service in the British Auxiliary Territorial Division

2009.294.4_a front

Date:: commemoration: 1939-1945

12. Riband bar with seven ribbons awarded to a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps

2012.471.23 front

Date:: commemoration: 1939-1945

13. Defence Medal 1939-1945 and ribbon awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

1999.180.2 front

Date:: commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1948

14. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal

2017.404.2 a-b front

Date:: commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944

15. Yugoslav Orden za Hrabrost medal, ribbon, box, and certificate awarded to a Macedonian Jewish partisan woman

2011.108.4_a front

Date:: commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1947 June 03

16. Riband bar with three ribbons awarded to a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps

2012.471.24 front

Date:: commemoration: 1939-1945

17. Political medal awarded for service in the partisan war and other military actions in Tito's army

1990.118.15 front

Date:: approximately 1938-1945 April

18. WWII Iron Cross 2nd Class medal taken from the body of a dead German soldier by an American soldier

1993.151.2_a front

Date:: commemoration: 1939

19. War Medal 1939-1945 with ribbon awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

1999.180.3 front

Date:: commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1948

20. Fighter against the Nazis Medal and box awarded to Jewish Brigade veteran

2003.361.17 a front

Date:: commemoration: 1939-1945

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