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801. Mauser HSc pistol, magazine, firing pin, and mainspring used by a Yugoslavian partisan
1992.230.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.230.1 a-d
Date:
manufacture: 1940 December-1945 May
acquired: 1941 April 06-1945 May
…, with whom he had a child. In 1936, he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY). Leo was arrested by the police later in the year for his communist…
802. 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
… German identification and work papers and returned to work at Freege. On May 30, 1942, Henryk was stopped by the German Security Police. Even though Henryk…
803. Eugeniusz and Irena Wojtas papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.397.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1968
undated: 
… and Irena returned and reported to the police so that her father could be released. In April 1943, Irena was deported, via Kielce, to Karlstadt am…
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 … arrested her father because she was not present to be taken. The family sent word to Częstochowa and Irena returned and reported to the police so that her…
804. Ribbon bar with British War Medal 1939-1945 and Polish Army Medal for War 1939-1945 awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.477.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.477.9
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… interrogated by the NKVD, the secret police. Salomon and another POW, Boleslaw Szarecki, worked in the camp clinic under the supervision of a female Soviet…
805. Set of two cuff links worn by a medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2008.208.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.208.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1942-1945
…, Marian, born on June 20, 1945. Tadeuesz eventually became police commissioner. Anna’s mother, Dora, did not survive the war. It is believed that she was…
806. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Hungarian Jewish prisoner
2011.449.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.449.1
Date:
issue: 1944 June 24-1945 April 11
…) and Esther Friedman (1900-1945) Karl. In early May 1944, the family was forced into the Kolozsvár ghetto by the Hungarian police, and deported to…
807. Two military ID tags on a cord worn by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.477.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.477.2
Date:
use: approximately 1939-approximately 1945
… interrogated by the NKVD, the secret police. Salomon and another POW, Boleslaw Szarecki, worked in the camp clinic under the supervision of a female Soviet…
808. Konkowski and Blinbaum families papers
2012.473.1 Oversize Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1960
… which engaged in several armed attacks against German military and police units to seize weapons. The arms and munitions were stored in two warehouses in…
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 … German military and police units to seize weapons. The arms and munitions were stored in two warehouses in Brussels. This unit also sabotaged German…
809. Set of US Army issue dog tags worn by a Jewish soldier and POW
Object | Accession Number: 2011.398.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1943 June 24-1945 September 28
… shoe store in Union, New Jersey. Norman served as an auxiliary police officer in Livingston, New Jersey. For nearly fifty years, Norman never talked…
810. Large black plastic comb used by a Polish Jewish girl living with an assumed identity
2010.465.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.465.4
Date:
use: 1941 December-1948 September
… they were eating, the police arrived and they were put in prison. They were interrogated for a week, all saying that they had gone to relieve themselves…
811. Star of David badge with Jude worn by Austrian Jewish woman
2013.515.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.515.2
Date:
use: approximately 1941 September-1945 April
… add the middle name Sara to their identification and men had to add the name Israel. On November 10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, the police came to…
812. Set of tefillin kept by a Polish Jewish man through the war
Object | Accession Number: 2014.197.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1941-1945
…, then to Katowice. Baruch earned money selling fabric, then cigarettes brought in from Budapest. The police arrested Baruch, but he had a pass from a…
813. Two place service distinction ribbon bar awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.477.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.477.8
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… interrogated by the NKVD, the secret police. Salomon and another POW, Boleslaw Szarecki, worked in the camp clinic under the supervision of a female Soviet…
814. Folding Fan owned by a Japanese aid coordinator for Jewish refugees in Shanghai
2003.464.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.464.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… restrictive Jewish polices. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the United States declared war and withdrew support for the Shanghai Jews. In 1943…
815. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp food ration coupon kept by a Dutch Jewish child
Object | Accession Number: 2010.129.6
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 June
… seize all Jews in Amsterdam, so that the city could be declared “free of Jews.” The family was picked up by the Dutch police and deported to Westerbork…
816. Two place service distinction ribbon bar awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.477.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.477.7
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… interrogated by the NKVD, the secret police. Salomon and another POW, Boleslaw Szarecki, worked in the camp clinic under the supervision of a female Soviet…
817. Red, white and blue ribbon bar for distinguished service awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.477.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.477.6
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… interrogated by the NKVD, the secret police. Salomon and another POW, Boleslaw Szarecki, worked in the camp clinic under the supervision of a female Soviet…
818. Ruth Miller papers
2006.473.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 109
Document | Accession Number: 2006.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1893-2003
… register with the local police, district number 214, and were recorded as Jews. On February 14, 1939, they each received a numbered Jewish identification…
819. Table knife with a swastika given to a Polish Jewish girl during forced labor farm service
1988.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.1
Date:
manufacture: 1938
received: 1945 April
… caught without it on a trip to Esslingen and was severely beaten by a police officer. In September 1944, she forgot to wear it a second time and was taken…
820. Maroon handkerchief with acorns used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.6
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945
… the bank was Aryanized. Henry then got a job with a luxury department store, Hirsch & Co. In October 1938, the family was taken to police headquarters…