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581. Hitler Youth armband with a swastika acquired by a US soldier
1988.99.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.4
Date:
found: approximately 1945
found: after 1944 June-before 1945 November
… Ruth’s paternal uncle Julius had been killed. A journalist, he had fled to Czechoslovakia after the Nazis came to power. He was caught and executed after…
582. Signed print of rabbi saved by German Jewish camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.5
Date:
received: 1943 June-1945 May
creation: before 1929
Artwork Title:
W. Guttmann, Rabbiner
… committed during the Holocaust. Eichmann was found guilty at the trial and executed in 1962. The trial experience was very difficult for Hildegard and she…
583. Knud Dyby papers
1989.297.341 Box 2 Folder 31 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1989.297.341
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1992
… Geneva Convention, resistance members could be considered guerillas and executed. After the war, Knud decided to keep the surname Dyby, and immigrated to…
584. Star of David badge imprinted Jude worn by a German Jew
2003.361.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.13
Date:
use: approximately 1941 September-approximately 1945 May
… committed during the Holocaust. Eichmann was found guilty at the trial and executed in 1962. The trial experience was very difficult for Hildegard and she…
585. Cigarette holder made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp
2003.64.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.64.1
Date:
creation: after 1945 May 02-before 1945 June
… executed on September 6. When Irma got back on the train, she overheard people from Lobsens talking about her. She was afraid they would hurt her, so she…
586. Morgenthau family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.255.1
Date:
inclusive: 1860-2005
bulk: 1930-1950
…Executive departments…
587. Mezuzah and tombstone pendants on a necklace made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp
2003.64.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.64.2
Date:
creation: after 1945 May 02-before 1945 June
… executed on September 6. When Irma got back on the train, she overheard people from Lobsens talking about her. She was afraid they would hurt her, so she…
588. Concentration camp striped uniform coat with yellow triangle worn by a Polish Jewish female inmate
2004.411.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.411.1
Date:
received: 1943 September 23
use: 1943 September 23-1945 January
…’s house. Vilna was liberated by the Soviet army in July 1944. Wilhelm went to the labor camp and learned that his mother and grandmother had been executed…
589. Star of David badge imprinted Jude worn by a German Jew
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.10
Date:
use: approximately 1941 September-approximately 1945 May
… committed during the Holocaust. Eichmann was found guilty at the trial and executed in 1962. The trial experience was very difficult for Hildegard and she…
590. Moritz and Hildegard Henschel papers
2003.361.1 Box 2 Folder 8 Image 116
Document | Accession Number: 2003.361.1 | RG Number: RG-24.021
Date:
inclusive: 1879-2001
… committed during the Holocaust. Eichmann was found guilty at the trial and executed in 1962. The trial experience was very difficult for Hildegard and she…
591. 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
…Execution sites--Poland--Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie).…
592. Blue felt belt with appliqued flowers found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Auschwitz
1988.99.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.1
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
… Ruth’s paternal uncle Julius had been killed. A journalist, he had fled to Czechoslovakia after the Nazis came to power. He was caught and executed after…
593. Piston head ashtray made for concentration camp commander found by US military aid worker
1988.112.59 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.59
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
… of war to be executed in an arena at the camp. In early April 1945, Allied forces advanced on the region and the SS feared Buchenwald would be…
594. Catholic, military, missal carried by Anthony Acevedo as a medic and POW
Object | Accession Number: 2010.440.4
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942
use: 1943-1945 June
Title:
My Military Missal
… 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…
595. Zbigniew Antonii Piotrowski papers
2014.469.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2014.469.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1983
… risked getting abducted for forced labor or executed in retaliation for the resistance’s killing of German officers. On August 1, 1944, the Polish Home…
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 … pretended to be his mother, his brother Staszek handed them a loaf of bread containing the family’s savings, and Zbigniew witnessed his father’s execution…
596. Mittelbau forced labor camp scrip, 2 Reichsmark, issued to a Czech Jewish prisoner
1989.303.29 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.29
Date:
received: approximately 1945 February-approximately 1945 March
…. After one report, Karel witnessed 7 men get executed for crimes including writing to a family member and possessing cigarettes. It was a large department…
597. Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers
2018.463.1 Box 2 Folder 17 Image 53
Document | Accession Number: 2018.463.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1906-1993
bulk: 1920-1944
… longer employed in an executive position with Shell Oil Company, Max took business courses at Northwestern University. He sold insurance and later went to…
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 …. No longer employed in an executive position with Shell Oil Company, Max took business courses at Northwestern University. He sold insurance and later…
598. Inverted red triangle patch with T made by a Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate
1989.303.27 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.27
Date:
creation: approximately 1945 February-1945 March
…. After one report, Karel witnessed 7 men get executed for crimes including writing to a family member and possessing cigarettes. It was a large department…
599. Mittelbau forced labor camp scrip, .10 Reichsmark, issued to a Czech Jewish prisoner
1989.303.30 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.30
Date:
received: approximately 1945 February-approximately 1945 March
…. After one report, Karel witnessed 7 men get executed for crimes including writing to a family member and possessing cigarettes. It was a large department…
600. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Jewish German man
1994.115.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.115.1
Date:
use: 1945 January-1945 March
… Latvian ghetto. The original Latvian Ordnungsdienst were executed. Josef worked 24 hour shifts, patrolling the ghetto and checking passes at the entrance…