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Hommage de Reconnaissance Medal awarded posthumously

Object | Accession Number: 1997.20.3
1997.20.3 open front Hommage de Reconnaissance Medal awarded posthumously Click to enlarge 1997.20.3 open back Hommage de Reconnaissance Medal awarded posthumously Click to enlarge 1997.20.3 front Hommage de Reconnaissance Medal awarded posthumously Click to enlarge 1997.20.3 back Hommage de Reconnaissance Medal awarded posthumously Click to enlarge 1997.20.3 closed Hommage de Reconnaissance Medal awarded posthumously Click to enlarge

Medal awarded posthumously to Jacques Goldstein.

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.

About This Object

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

Administrative History

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.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use

 
Record last modified: 2020-06-30 09:23:12
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn12231

Also in This Collection

Janine Brittin collection

Document

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.

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