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1. Fork given to a Polish Catholic forced laborer by liberating US troops

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Date:: received: after 1945 May

2. Star of David badge with word Jude issued to an inmate of Łódź ghetto

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Date:: use: 1939-1945

3. Soap bar acquired postwar by an Austrian Jewish refugee working for the WJC

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Date:: found: after 1945 May-1946

4. Public School Athletic League Winged Victory achievement badge received by a German Jewish teenage refugee

Date:: received: approximately 1945-approximately 1950

5. Brown leather belt worn by a Jewish Polish inmate at Buchenwald concentration camp

Date:: use: 1945 January-1945 April

6. Japanese invasion banknote, 10 pesos, acquired postwar by an Austrian Jewish refugee

Date:: issue: approximately 1942
received: approximately 1945-1946

7. Japanese invasion money, half gulden, acquired postwar by an Austrian Jewish refugee

Date:: issue: after 1942 March
received: approximately 1945-1946

8. Japanese invasion banknote, 5 centavos, acquired postwar by an Austrian Jewish refugee

Date:: issue: approximately 1942
received: approximately 1945-1946

9. Engraved ring made from a spoon for a Jewish Latvian boy in Riga ghetto

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Date:: commemoration: 1941 December 08
use: 1942-1945
creation: 1942

10. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport

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Date:: use: after 1938-approximately 1997
manufacture: 1938-1939
emigration: 1939 June

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