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481. Medal of the Belgian Nationalist Movement 1940-1945, ribbon and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.12 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
… September 1944. At the war’s end, Moliere Group had been reduced by deportation and execution by the Germans to 130 members. During the war, Menachem’s sister…
482. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
2018.448.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1950
… efforts in Europe. Some of this information was also transmitted to the British secret wartime organization, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). She…
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 … transmitted to the British secret wartime organization, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). She married Otto Pfister following his immigration to the United…
483. Drawing by Esther Lurie of the path behind the ghetto leading to the Ninth Fort
Object | Accession Number: 1996.3.6
Date:
creation: 1957
depiction: 1942
Series Title:
A Living Witness
Artwork Title:
Way to the Ninth Fort
… mass executions of 25,000 Jews from Kovno. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while interned in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and…
484. Yellow Star of David badge worn by a Belgian Jew
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.2
Date:
use: 1942-1944
… September 1944. At the war’s end, Moliere Group had been reduced by deportation and execution by the Germans to 130 members. During the war, Menachem’s sister…
485. Zbiór dr Stefana Uhmy dotyczacy historii PCK (Sygn.762)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.500.1 | RG Number: RG-15.561
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
Selected records of Dr Stefan Uhma related to history of Polish Red Cross
… thousands of individuals. Collected and recorded were also accounts of people who witnessed mass executions. Information and Tracing Office also led the…
486. Book
Object | Accession Number: 2004.661.4
Date:
publication/distribution: 1936
use: 1941-1945
Title:
The Casuarina Tree
… as a researcher. In 1959, she married Ross K. Donaldson, an ABC executive, and they had a son. After she and Donaldson separated in 1968, Sibylle…
487. Unused Star of David badge owned by a German Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.17
Date:
use: 1941 September 01-1945 May 09
… as an execution site for Jews. Ellen’s maternal grandparents Eduard and Dorothea were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia on…
488. Joodsche Raad armband worn by a German Jewish aide in a transit camp
2004.707.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.707.2
Date:
use: 1942 December-1943 March
… sales executive. Ruth was a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Eric and Ruth had two sons. In 1977, Jacoba and Frits Blom were…
489. Medal of Remembrance of the War 1940- 1945, ribbon, and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.10 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
… September 1944. At the war’s end, Moliere Group had been reduced by deportation and execution by the Germans to 130 members. During the war, Menachem’s sister…
490. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor
1997.30.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.30.2
Date:
issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September
…,000 Jews to Treblinka killing center, while another 3,700 Jews hiding in town and the surrounding forests were found and executed. Hinda and her family were…
491. Warsaw Ghetto photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2002.221.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
… neutral zone of vacated apartments, Jan and a group of approximately fifty Jewish boys were arrested during a raid. The Jews were executed, but Jan was…
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 … arrested during a raid. The Jews were executed, but Jan was released after his mother paid a substantial bribe to a Polish policeman. She claimed that her…
492. Belgian Nationalist Movement armband stencilled M.N.B. issued to a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.6
Date:
received: approximately 1942-1944
… September 1944. At the war’s end, Moliere Group had been reduced by deportation and execution by the Germans to 130 members. During the war, Menachem’s sister…
493. Belgian Nationalist Movement armband with an attached ribbon, BNB patch and star pin worn by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.5
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1944
… September 1944. At the war’s end, Moliere Group had been reduced by deportation and execution by the Germans to 130 members. During the war, Menachem’s sister…
494. Blue and white armband with a red triangle marked P worn by a Polish Catholic political prisoner
2004.374.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.374.3
Date:
use: 1942 June-1945 April
… told him nail guns were used in executions to save ammunition. One morning, the work leader asked who spoke German. Henryk raised his hand and was chosen…
495. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… could only comfort him as he died in his arms. Some tried to escape and were executed with wooden bullets; medics had to fill the holes with wax. They…
496. Autobiographical painting by David Friedman of a woman in a brown dress resting on a bed
1987.114.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.114.4
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Sleeping Woman
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
497. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a mother with two children in Lodzer Ghetto
1988.173.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.3
Date:
creation: 1964 January
depiction: approximately 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Mother with Two Children
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
498. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of newcomers to the Łódź Ghetto pulling a carriage
1988.173.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.4
Date:
creation: 1964 January 04
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Newcomers to the Ghetto
Alternate Title:
2 Horseman pulling a carriage in Lodzer Ghetto
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
499. Autobiographical tempera painting by David Friedmann of two men pumping water in the Łódź Ghetto
1988.173.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.1 a-c
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1941 October-1944 March
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Pumping Water in Łódźer Ghetto
Alternate Title:
Two Łódź Ghetto Inmates On A Water Pump
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
500. Blank identification card used by Gerry van Heel to forge documents
2010.441.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.441.24
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1944
…, imprisoned, and executed. Afterwards, Molly did not have the strength to say no to a German security officer who asked for a room in the house. She told him…