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801. US Army Victory Medal, two ribbon bars and presentation box awarded to a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.364.3a back, World War II Victory Medal, Tom T. Kovary
Object | Accession Number: 2009.364.3 a-d
Date:
issue: 1945 July 06-1946 December 31
commemoration: 1941-1945
emigration: 1940 February
… assisted with the release and helped the family to go underground. On December 12, 1939, the family crossed illegally into Hungary. They stayed in Budapest…
802. All Our Yesterdays [Book]
Object | Accession Number: 2004.661.2
Date:
use: 1941-1945
publication/distribution: 1940
Title:
All Our Yesterdays
… underground network that provided hiding places and assisted Jews to escape Germany. On July 23 and 25 1944, Sibylle and her father were arrested by the Gestapo…
803. Brassiere made for a German Jewish woman in a forced labor camp
2018.70.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.70.3
Date:
creation: after 1944 November-before 1945 May
…, seeking retribution against members of the Jewish community who had gone underground, deported a group to Rīga, Latvia. Eva, who was working for the Jewish…
804. 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
… drain for Kazio to use in the Polish underground. The kitchen was located near the front entrance and Henryk could hear the screams as incoming families…
805. Wooden spinning wheel used while in hiding in Belgium
2005.523.2 a-i front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.523.2 a-i
Date:
use: 1942-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium.…
806. Rosenszajn, Herszkowicz, and Dworzecka families papers
1999.271.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.271.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-1948
… women were killed by members of the Narodowe Siły Zbrojne (NSZ), a nationalist and anti-Semitic underground military organization. Afterwards, Bela was…
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 …. In November 1943, the two Polish women were killed by members of the Narodowe Siły Zbrojne (NSZ), a nationalist and anti-Semitic underground military…
807. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, worn by a Polish Jewish woman in hiding as a Catholic
2008.227.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.227.2
Date:
use: 1943-1944
… they contacted a friend of Edward’s, Alfred Zbik, whose parents were involved in the Polish underground. They gave them refuge in their home for two…
808. Drimmer and Gruber families papers
2011.143.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2011.143.2
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1960
… later, during the winter, in an underground dugout. The Soviet Army liberated Drohobycz and the Boryslaw area on August 7, 1944. Only about 600 Jews…
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 … underground dugout. The Soviet Army liberated Drohobycz and the Boryslaw area on August 7, 1944. Only about 600 Jews, from a population of nearly 50,000, were…
809. Kurt and Hennie Reiner papers
2018.299.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2018.299.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1996
undated: 
… contribution to the war effort by reporting that he had seen the Nazis building an underground hangar during the time he was at Fischamend. The American military…
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 … he had seen the Nazis building an underground hangar during the time he was at Fischamend. The American military used that knowledge to eventually bomb…
810. Embroidered pink slip worn while in hiding in Poland
2004.437.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.437.2
Date:
use: 1942-1944
… eventually reached Humniska, Poland, where former neighbors of Sarah's parents, Anna and Voitek Gutonski, hid them in a barn with an underground hiding place…
811. Safe conduct pass for Berend Slingenberg created by Gerry van Heel, a document forger
2010.441.33 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.441.33
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1944
issue: 1943 March 01
…World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands.…
812. Child’s white dress with embroidered flowers and hearts worn by a little girl while living in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2005.175.5
Date:
use: approximately 1943-1945
… Grinberg de Silva Rosa, a German Protestant married to a Portuguese Jew, was active in the Dutch underground. While working at the Jewish Council, Walther…
813. Multi-colored crocheted sweater received in a forced labor camp
2007.176.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.176.2
Date:
use: 1944-1945 November 20
… murdered in Treblinka in 1942. Stanislaw, active in the underground resistance, was killed during the Warsaw ghetto uprising in 1943. Irene became friendly…
814. 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…
815. Book
Object | Accession Number: 2004.661.3
Date:
publication/distribution: 1933
use: 1941-1945
Title:
Lover's Leap
… underground network that provided hiding places and assisted Jews to escape Germany. On July 23 and 25 1944, Sibylle and her father were arrested by the Gestapo…
816. Jamila Kolonomos collection
Document | Accession Number: 2009.180
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2004
… collected discarded weapons. Jamila joined other members in forming small underground resistance groups, creating 3 for youth and another for women. On…
817. Portrait of a German Jewish girl in a handmade burlap frame
Object | Accession Number: 2018.70.5
Date:
received: before 1942
creation: after 1944 November-before 1945 May
…, seeking retribution against members of the Jewish community who had gone underground, deported a group to Rīga, Latvia. Eva, who was working for the Jewish…
818. Simon Jeruchim papers
2001.328.41 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2001.328.41
Date:
inclusive: 1930-circa 2011
bulk: 1930-1956
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… underground who placed the boys with a man named Ernst and Alice was sent to live with Madame Ledauphin. Ernst slaughtered steers and sold the meat on the black…
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 …. and Mrs. Bonneau, members of the underground, who placed the boys with a man named Ernst in Normandy while Alice was sent to live with Madame Ledauphin…
819. Brown cloth bag with a red, white, and blue stripe carried by a hidden Dutch Jewish woman
1990.23.198 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.198
Date:
use: 1942 June-1945 May
…World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands--Personal narratives.…
820. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… drain for Kazio to use in the Polish underground. The kitchen was located near the front entrance and Henryk could hear the screams as incoming families…