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1. Joseph Taler papers
1996.51 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1996.51
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1954
…, originally of Rozwadów, Poland, including his survival during the Holocaust living under the false identity of Józef Skwarczyński and his life after the end…
2. Theresa Cahn-Tober papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.45.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1946
… survived the Holocaust in Warsaw. Szymon lived under the name Mieczyslaw Ladislaus Teodorowicz and his wife was Pelagia Kaliszewska-Teodorowicz. After…
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 … Lighton (previously Szymon Licht) and Elizabeth Lighton (previously Esther Licht), all of whom survived the war in Warsaw under false-identities and lived…
3. Polish Order of Virtuti Militari 5th Class Silver medal awarded posthumously to a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising hero
1994.109.1_b closed
Object | Accession Number: 1994.109.1 a-b
Date:
issue: 1944 February 18
received: 1946
… snuck back into the ghetto with a revolver he had obtained. Two days later, German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport the surviving…
4. National Society of Colonial Daughters essay award with case won by a Polish Jewish refugee
1989.277.18_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.277.18 a-b
Date:
issue: 1949
… jump out of a window. She ran off and hid in the woods. In the morning, Nechama encountered her paternal uncle Josef Szuster. They survived for weeks…
5. French Médaille de la Résistance with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish resistance fighter
2011.160.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.160.4
Date:
commemoration: 1940 June 18-1945
issue: 1960 May
…, Lucie, survived in hiding and later immigrated to the United States. Margot married, and later she and her husband immigrated to the US. In 1960, the…
6. French Médaille Militaire with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish resistance fighter
2011.160.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.160.2
Date:
issue: 1960 May
commemoration: approximately 1942-1944 August 18
…, Lucie, survived in hiding and later immigrated to the United States. Margot married, and later she and her husband immigrated to the US. In 1960, the…
7. Defence Medal 1939-1945 and ribbon awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
1999.180.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.180.2
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1948
… in Landsberg displaced persons camp near Munich, Germany. They had survived the war by living under false identities as Polish Catholics in Milanowek…
8. War Medal 1939-1945 with ribbon awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
1999.180.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.180.3
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1948
… in Landsberg displaced persons camp near Munich, Germany. They had survived the war by living under false identities as Polish Catholics in Milanowek…
9. Pope Pius XI medal, ribbon and case worn to disguise the identity of a Jewish woman in hiding
2008.117.2_a closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.117.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1943-1945
… alive and is permitted to join them in Romania. Samuel had survived the Holocaust by being placed on Oskar Schindler’s list. In 1946, the family emigrated…
10. Certificate for a French Médaille Militaire awarded to German Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2011.160.5
Date:
commemoration: approximately 1942-1944 August 18
issue: 1960 May
…, Lucie, survived in hiding and later immigrated to the United States. Margot married, and later she and her husband immigrated to the US. In 1960, the…