Hommage de Reconnaissance Medal awarded posthumously

Object | Accession Number: 1997.20.3

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Hommage de Reconnaissance Medal awarded posthumously

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Hommage de Reconnaissance Medal awarded posthumously

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1997.20.3 back
Hommage de Reconnaissance Medal awarded posthumously

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Hommage de Reconnaissance Medal awarded posthumously

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Date: commemoration: 1940-1945
Geography: issue: Brussels (Belgium)
Language: French
Classification: Military Insignia
Category: Medals
Object Type: Medals, Belgian (lcsh)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Janine Brittin. In Memory of Jacques Goldstein from his family.

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Physical Description: a: Medal
b-c: Case consisting of lid and base not attached to each other
Dimensions: overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm)
Materials: overall : paper, adhesive, cloth, metal
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The medal was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997 by Janine Brittin, the daughter-in-law of Sonia Goldstein Halpern Volpe.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2020-06-30 09:23:12
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Also in Janine Brittin collection

Contains a photograph (unidentified, but likely Jacques Goldstein), and a letter to "Madame Veuve Goldstein" (likely Sonia Goldstein) from the "Fonds d'Entr'Aide," Brussels, November 1945, discussing a ceremony in memory of those lost and presumed dead in German captivity. The collection also includes a Hommage de Reconnaissance Medal awarded posthumously to Jacques Goldstein.