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1121. Cross of Merit medal, ribbons, and pins awarded to a Dutch Jewish soldier, Prinses Irene Brigade
2002.22.3_a-e front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.22.3 a-e
Date:
commemoration: after 1940 May-1945
manufacture: 1941-1945
… Auschwitz concentration camp on February 5, 1943. Hedi’s sister Bertha Stern was killed in Minsk, Poland, in 1943. Erich and his wife Lissy tried to…
1122. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
… and kept them from four deportation transports. But the next month, they were sent to Rivesaltes camp where transports were loaded for Auschwitz. Ernst…
1123. Mixed media painting of Jewish children behind a ghetto fence, painted by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.4
Date:
creation: 1996
depiction: 1941 September-1943 September
Title:
Behind the Wooden Fence
… family was killed at Auschwitz. Harry immigrated to the Unites States in 1948, and waited until Judith and her family’s immigration quotas were selected…
1124. Kovary and Neuhaus families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2009.364.15
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2013
… family, visited Bratislava, and was able to locate one first cousin, Herta Fuchs, who survived Auschwitz. Ernest later became a notary public and…
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 … family, visited Bratislava, and was able to locate one first cousin, Herta Fuchs, who survived Auschwitz. Ernest later became a notary public and…
1125. Medal and a ribbon bar pin awarded to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.71_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.71 a-b
Date:
received: 1941-1945
… 1944, she was deported on transport Et to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, where she was killed. Heinz and his wife settled…
1126. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
… II ended in May 1945. Carl learned that his parents had been deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in 1942 and later to Auschwitz death camp…
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 … Gurs in October 1940. She was transferred to Rivesaltes on September 11, 1942 and three days later deported to Auschwitz and killed. Mina’s uncle, Julius…
1127. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.273 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.273
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
… 1944, she was deported on transport Et to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, where she was killed. Heinz and his wife settled…
1128. Wrought iron gates and related parts from the Jewish cemetery in Tarnow, Poland
Object | Accession Number: 1991.236.1 a-t
Date:
manufacture: 1920-1929
use: 1920-1990
… Auschwitz, Płaszów and Szebnia. From 1988-1990, the cemetery was renovated and the original gate was replaced with a replica commissioned by the USHMM, who…
1129. William and Bela Citron and Miriam Citron Burhans papers
2009.157.5 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2009.157.5
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2016
bulk: 1945-1983
… no other survivors. Her parents had been killed in Auschwitz and her brothers in other concentration camps in 1942. She then went to a displaced…
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 … family, but there were no other survivors. Her parents had been killed in Auschwitz and her brothers in other concentration camps in 1942. She then went to…
1130. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.272 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.272
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
… 1944, she was deported on transport Et to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, where she was killed. Heinz and his wife settled…
1131. Dutch Commemorative War Cross awarded to a Dutch Jewish soldier, Prinses Irene Brigade
Object | Accession Number: 2002.22.2
Date:
commemoration: after 1940 May-1945
manufacture: after 1948
… Auschwitz concentration camp on February 5, 1943. Hedi’s sister Bertha Stern was killed in Minsk, Poland, in 1943. Erich and his wife Lissy tried to…
1132. Wooden box with carved floral decorations used by a hidden child
2009.204.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.5
Date:
use: 1941-1944
… Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family…
1133. Ernest G. Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.243.322 | RG Number: RG-10.236
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1980
… 1944, she was deported on transport Et to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, where she was killed. Heinz and his wife settled…
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 … Heppner was deported to Theresienstadt in April 1943 and then to Auschwitz in 1944 where she was killed. Isidor Heppner is also believed to have been…
1134. Magda Lapedus papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.250 | RG Number: RG-10.396
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1946
… his sister Johanna Neumann Wurmer, her two sons Sandor and Laszlo, and their families were murdered in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Nearly her entire…
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 … Bindermichl, Austria, 1946. 8. 1 photoprint: b&w. Miklos Neuman, donor’s grandfather’s brother who perished in Auschwitz, n.d. 9. 1 photoprint: b&w. Johanna…
1135. Leather suitcase used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
Object | Accession Number: 2016.553.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1939 March 08-1941
… Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach while on an outing with friends. Sigrid had been deported to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland, and Bergen-Belsen…
1136. Pencil drawing
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.58
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
Deportation list Gurs 1943
…,000 people were deported to an unknown destination (most died in Auschwitz)"; in English; dated 1943; Gurs, France…
1137. 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
… 1944, she was deported on transport Et to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, where she was killed. Heinz and his wife settled…
1138. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers
2016.443.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2015
bulk: 1920-1950
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… (December 1940), from which he was deported in August 1942 to Auschwitz, and is presumed to have died there. Herta Wachs remained in Belgium, in hiding…
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 … (September 1940), Récébédou (December 1940), from which he was deported in August 1942 to Auschwitz, and is presumed to have died there. Herta Wachs remained…
1139. Zarembski-Ferst-Kostanski-Wierzbicki families photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2002.232.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-circa 1957
… ghetto uprising, Felicia was deported to Majdanek and on June 26, 1943 she was transferred to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Her prisoner…
1140. Cloth work pass with an embroidered blue W used to exit and enter the Lvov ghetto
2009.204.3 back
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.3
Date:
use: 1941-1943
… Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family…