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221. National Society of Colonial Daughters essay award with case won by a Polish Jewish refugee

1989.277.18_b front

Date:: issue: 1949

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

Date:: use: 1945 January-1945 April

223. Oak leaf wreath separated into sections awarded prewar to a Jewish youth for swimming across the Rhine River

2012.444.2 a front

Date:: received: 1933-approximately 1937

224. Brown strap wrist watch worn postwar by a former labor camp inmate and aid worker

1999.155.2 front

Date:: received: approximately 1945 July

225. US Army Victory Medal, two ribbon bars and presentation box awarded to a Czech Jewish refugee

2009.364.3a back, World War II Victory Medal, Tom T. Kovary

Date:: issue: 1945 July 06-1946 December 31
commemoration: 1941-1945
emigration: 1940 February

226. Pair of tefillin with blue velvet bag used by a Jewish refugee

1992.8.17 front

Date:: emigration: 1938
use: 1900-1943

227. Circumcision knife with inscription and agate handle with wooden case used by a mohel

1992.8.27_a front

Date:: emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938

228. Soviet Union, 10 chervonets note, kept by a Polish Jewish refugee to the US

Date:: issue: 1937
received: approximately 1946

229. Silver charm bracelet saved by a young German Jewish refugee

Date:: emigration: 1940 August

230. Brown leather luggage tag used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport

Date:: use: 1939 June

231. Soviet Union, 1 chervonets note, kept by a Polish Jewish refugee

Date:: issue: 1937
received: approximately 1946

232. Weimar Germany Reichsbanknote, 500 million marks, owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee

Date:: issue: 1923 September 01

233. Yellow metal badge with Croatian Z for Jew worn by a Sephardic Jew

1988.27.4 front

Date:: use: after 1941 April-before 1943

234. Calligraphy of Sukkot prayers and a personal inscription created by a sofer

1992.8.37 front

Date:: creation: 1933-1934
emigration: 1938
Artwork Title:: Welcoming Sukkot

235. Imperial Germany Reichsbanknote, 100 marks, kept by a Polish Jewish refugee

Date:: issue: 1908 February 07
received: approximately 1946

236. Striped bath towel embroidered with the inmate’s prisoner number and used in Buchenwald concentration camp

Date:: use: 1944 August 16-1945 April 11

237. Prayer book

1992.8.21 front

Date:: publication/distribution: 1880
Title:: Book of Lamentations for Tisha B'Av

238. Weimar Germany Reichsbanknote, 500 million marks, owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee

Date:: issue: 1923 September 01

239. Offset lithographic printing plate depicting Percy Brand holding his violin

2009.297.2 front

Date:: use: after 1949-1985 August 15

240. Light brown leather billfold used by a Polish Jewish refugee

2012.358.2 closed

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