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1. Brown leather belt worn by a Dutch Jewish political prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau
2017.608.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.608.3
Date:
use: approximately 1941 October-approximately 1945 May 08
… to join the emerging underground Dutch resistance movement. He was often sent to infiltrate the German lines because he spoke German fluently. While…
2. Bible received by a Jewish girl while in hiding at a Catholic school
1997.63.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.63.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1943 December
… administration quickly enacted anti-Jewish laws and policies that restricted civil rights and confiscated property. Chana and Icek took part in resistance…
3. Brown enamel mug used by a Polish Jewish concentration camp prisoner
1996.5.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.1
Date:
issue: after 1943 January-before 1945 February
… volunteered to have the Jews in the ghetto make boots and other supplies for the German military. In the second half of 1942, an underground resistance formed…
4. Zentralbauleitung der Waffen-SS und Polizei Auschwitz (Fond 502)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.4 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.03
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
Alternate Title:
Waffen-SS and Police, Central Construction Office in Auschwitz
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 … those resisting labor conscription (correspondence with the Katowice branch of the Gestapo regarding the assignment and transfer to the correction camp at…