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81. Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter [Cross of Honor of the German Mother] bronze medal acquired by a US soldier
2012.194.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.194.2
Date:
commemoration: approximately 1938 December 16
found: 1945 May
… Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945. The SS guards had fled and the prisoners had control of the camp, which held 21…
82. Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal, 1st Class, Gold, acquired by a US soldier
2003.272.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.272.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1938 December 16
found: approximately 1945 April-approximately 1946 March
… and liberated a group of adjacent subcamps of Buchenwald concentration camp. Following the liberation, Sidney’s commanding officer selected him to work…
83. Charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a Jewish man from a suburb of Prague waiting for deportation
1987.121.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.121.1
Date:
creation: 1963
depiction: approximately 1941 October
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Awaiting deportation
Alternate Title:
Before Evacuation to the Ghetto
… 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…
84. Colored pencil portrait of the wife and child of a US soldier created for him by a POW
2004.126.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.126.2
Date:
creation: 1945 November
Artwork Title:
Claire and Sandy
… in February 1945 and at the end of the war on May 7 was near Salzburg, Austria. Some units participated in the liberation of Dachau concentration camp…
85. Litke family papers
2015.547.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.547.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1981
bulk: 1945-1981
… Ganacker concentration camp, Ganacker, Germany. He was liberated in May, 1945 by the United States Army. After liberation, he went to the Eggenfelden…
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 …‐2126 Abstract: The Litke family papers document the experiences of Chaim Litke and Frida Hoffmann Litke in concentration camps during the Holocaust…
86. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note acquired by a Jewish Czech woman
1992.132.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.132.20
Date:
issue: after 1943 January 01
…, Reinhard Heydrich, SS Chief of Security for the Reich, became Reich Protector, and prioritized the expulsion of Jews to concentration camps. Regular…
87. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, belonging to a German Jewish inmate
2016.496.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.7
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
use: 1943 January 01-1945 May 09
… Gestapo. Jakob and the other men were transported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, lined up against a brick wall, and shot. Within the week, unaware of…
88. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, belonging to a German Jewish inmate
2016.496.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.8
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
use: 1943 January 01-1945 May 09
… Gestapo. Jakob and the other men were transported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, lined up against a brick wall, and shot. Within the week, unaware of…
89. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate
2005.522.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.522.3
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
received: 1944
… sent directly to the gas chamber. In October 1944, Marion was deported to Oederan, a subcamp of Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany. Marion was put…
90. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate
2005.522.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.522.2
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
received: 1944
… sent directly to the gas chamber. In October 1944, Marion was deported to Oederan, a subcamp of Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany. Marion was put…