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1. ATA (Air Transport Auxiliary) lapel badge owned by a Jewish member of the French resistance
2004.248.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.248.4
Date:
received: approximately 1945
… Barbara. She had adapted her diary of her experiences into a memoir, and it was published in 2010 as Survivre: Souvenir d’une réscapée d’Auschwitz.…
2. Janina Birenstam papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.95
Date:
1935-1946
… Epstein, and they had a son, Edward, born in 1939. Janina’s brother and his family were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp where they all perished…
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 … Epstein, and they had a son, Edward, born in 1939. Janina’s brother and his family were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp where they all perished…
3. Knit cardigan with decorative buttons and lining owned by Lilly Brust Gach
2018.409.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-2001
… nearly 440,000 Jews, likely including Elek’s parents and extended family members, were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland…
4. French Médaille de la Résistance with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish resistance fighter
2011.160.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.160.4
Date:
commemoration: 1940 June 18-1945
issue: 1960 May
… Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. On August 7, 1944, Henri was arrested for acts of resistance and imprisoned at Montluc Prison, which was under the…
5. War Medal 1939-1945 and ribbon awarded to an Austrian Jewish woman, British Auxiliary Territorial Division
2009.294.2_a back
Object | Accession Number: 2009.294.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… to the Łódź ghetto, then to Auschwitz death camp where she was murdered. On December 30, 1963, the Austrian government issued Lilly a check for $348…
6. Belgian Medal of the Armed Resistance 1940-1945, ribbon and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.13 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
… Sonja and her husband were killed in Auschwitz. His wife Ita’s parents were hidden by an employee, Jeanne de Bruyn, and her family. During the war…