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101. Ribbon bar award for construction of the German West Wall acquired by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.76 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.76
Date:
commemoration: after 1937-before 1940 May
received: after 1944 July-before 1946 June
…, before the Holocaust, in the United States Army in Europe during the war, including the liberation of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, and in New York…
102. Ribbon bar for Annexation of the Sudetenland acquired by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.75 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.75
Date:
commemoration: 1938 October 01
received: after 1944 July-before 1946 June
…, before the Holocaust, in the United States Army in Europe during the war, including the liberation of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, and in New York…
103. Pair of white leather Masonic gloves with button cuffs owned by a Hungarian Jewish emigre
2010.81.4_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.4 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1935 February
emigration: 1949 September 21
… of David armbands, move into designated buildings, and deportations to concentration camps began. Bela became ill and was admitted to the hospital on…
104. Great Seal of US lapel pin worn by a Jewish German US soldier
2003.149.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.10 a-c
Date:
use: after 1943 April-before 1946 July
…, before the Holocaust, in the United States Army in Europe during the war, including the liberation of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, and in New York…
105. Autobiographical painting by David Friedman of a woman in a brown dress resting on a bed
1987.114.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.114.4
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Sleeping Woman
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
106. 1st Anniversary commemorative pin for the victims of Theresienstadt acquired by a Czech Jewish survivor
2004.692.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.692.6
Date:
commemoration: 1945 September 16-1946 May 12
…First anniversary commemorative pin for the May 12, 1945, liberation of Theresienstadt concentration camp acquired by Frank Meissner, whose family…
107. Two-sided silk escape map of Western Europe acquired by German Jewish US soldier
2003.449.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.2
Date:
received: after 1944 June-before 1946 June
Title:
Belgium and Germany (New Frontier), Sheet C/43C- Sheet D/43D
…, before the Holocaust, in the United States Army in Europe during the war, including the liberation of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, and in New York…
108. Autobiographical tempera painting by David Friedmann of two men pumping water in the Łódź Ghetto
1988.173.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.1 a-c
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1941 October-1944 March
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Pumping Water in Łódźer Ghetto
Alternate Title:
Two Łódź Ghetto Inmates On A Water Pump
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
109. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
…-Belsen DP camp, formerly a concentration camp. He visited the British controlled DP camp, and with Joseph Rosensaft, organized the Central Committee of…
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 … of Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg near Berlin at the end of the month. The camp was evacuated on April 20th, and Wollheim fled his SS guards on the night of…
110. William and Bela Citron and Miriam Citron Burhans papers
2009.157.5 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2009.157.5
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2016
bulk: 1945-1983
… their families in Poland and in various concentration and labor camps before and during the Holocaust and of William, Bela, and their daughter Gela…
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 … DP camps, including the birth of their daughter Miriam in 1948, and their immigration to the United States via ship in 1949. Also depicted are William…
111. 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
… chief of Reich Security Main Office department IV B 4 (Jews). was responsible for organizing the mass deportations of Jews to concentration camps and…
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 … (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Czech Republic. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945), in art. Holocaust, Jewish (1939…
112. Karl Akiva and Ella Huppert Schwarz papers
2004.273.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image13
Document | Accession Number: 2004.273.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1981
bulk: 1939-1948
… Jews, who were just released from Dachau concentration camp joined them. In October 1940 a boiler on the ship exploded and the passengers of the ship…
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 … concentration camp, and their immigration to Palestine. The collection includes biographical materials such as birth, marriage, and death certificates…
113. Carl Atkin papers
2007.162 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2007.162
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1969
bulk: 1945-1946
… management of the DP assembly centers and camps in the French, British, and U.S. Zones in Germany and helped to repatriate millions of people. Carl joined…
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 … related to the his work as the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration director of the Deggendorf displaced persons camp between 1945 and…
114. Joseph and Josie Peretz papers
2011.278.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2011.278.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1957
… documents to obtain a French identification card after removing the Star of David from his Belgian papers. In 1944, during transfer to a different camp…
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 …. Joseph, after being released as a prisoner of war with the Belgian army was deported to a labor camp in northern France and escaped after procuring false…
115. Eva Baumohl papers
2007.190.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.190.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-2007
…Malines (Concentration camp)…
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 … four accounts of Eva’s experiences as a refugee in Belgium, at Auschwitz, on a death march, at Ravensbrück and Neustadt‐Glewe, and after liberation…
116. Peter Veres family papers
2010.81.1 Box 13 Folder 1 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 2010.81.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1844-2013
… David armbands, move into designated buildings, and deportations to concentration camps began. Since 1939, George had been in and out of forced labor…
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 … camp during various periods between 1940 and 1944. Béla Krausz was sent to a Nazi internment camp in May 1944, shortly after the German occupation of…
117. Regina and Halina Goldwag papers
2014.426.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.426.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1895-2008
bulk: 1944-1949
…. Halina obtained a job in the camp infirmary, dispensing medications. While in the camp, they asked one of the American soldiers stationed there to mail…
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 … concentration camps in Leipzig, immigration papers, and restitution documentation. Photographs include pre-war family photographs of the Zak and Goldwag families…
118. Lisette Lamon and Benjamin Soep papers
2006.145.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2006.145.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1980
… married Benno in October. In June 1941, Benno was arrested by the Germans, deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp, and murdered. Lisette joined the…
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 … squads, and hangings in the forest near the Buchenwald concentration camp. Languages: English, German, Dutch Administrative Information Access: Collection…
119. Ludwig Hiss collection
2017.124.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2017.124.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1961
bulk: 1945-1947
… the Płaszów concentration camp. Ludwig and his father were deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1943. Ludwig’s mother was later deported…
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 … of the DP camps, Ludwig’s immigration to the United States onboard the SS Marine Perch, and the Bellfaire orphanage he lived in after he arrived. There…
120. Rubin and Huntly families papers
2018.327.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 67
Document | Accession Number: 2018.327.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1928-2015
… Auschwitz. Both her parents perished in the camp. One of her sisters also survived Auschwitz but died shortly after liberation. She immigrated to the United…
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 … station and sent to a forced-labor camp. Several months later they were deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp. Ferenc arranged for his son Tibor…