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Carl Werner Lenneberg collection

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    Collection Summary
    The collection consists of World War I medals, ribbons, and shoulder boards, currency, a DRL sports badge, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Carl Werner Lenneberg and his family before the Holocaust in Germany, during their voyage on the MS St Louis in 1939, and emigration to the United States in 1940.
    Provenance
    The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Ron Lenneberg, the son of Carl Werner Lenneberg.
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    Carl Lenneberg papers

    Document | Accession Number: 2011.259.1

    Date
    inclusive:  circa 1913-1975
    bulk:  1939-1940
    Carl Lenneberg papers
    WWI anti-aircraft gun fuse fragment owned by a Jewish German soldier

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.2

    Geography
    manufacture: Germany
    Date
    manufacture:  approximately 1916
    WWI anti-aircraft gun fuse fragment owned by a Jewish German soldier
    World War I German issue dog tag worn by a Jewish soldier

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.3

    Geography
    issue: Germany
    Date
    use:  1916-1918
    World War I German issue dog tag worn by a Jewish soldier
    Commemorative Medal for World War I awarded to a Jewish German soldier

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.4

    Geography
    issue: Germany
    Date
    commemoration:  1914-1918
    Commemorative Medal for World War I awarded to a Jewish German soldier
    DRL Sport Badge, silver grade with swastika, owned by German Jewish refugee

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.5

    Geography
    manufacture: Jena (Germany)
    Date
    manufacture:  approximately 1935-approximately 1937
    DRL Sport Badge, silver grade with swastika, owned by German Jewish refugee
    Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 buttonhole double ribbon bar with swords awarded to Jewish soldier

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.6

    Geography
    issue: Germany
    Date
    commemoration:  1914-1918
    issue:  1934 July 13-1944
    Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 buttonhole double ribbon bar with swords awarded to Jewish soldier
    Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.7

    Geography
    manufacture: Pforzheim (Germany)
    issue: Germany
    Date
    commemoration:  1914-1918
    issue:  1934 July 13-1944
    Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier
    Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.8

    Geography
    issue: Germany
    Date
    commemoration:  1914-1918
    issue:  1934 July 13-1944
    Commemorative Medal for World War I ribbon awarded to a Jewish German soldier

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.9

    Date
    commemoration:  1914-1918
    Commemorative Medal for World War I ribbon awarded to a Jewish German soldier

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.10

    Date
    commemoration:  1914-1918
    Commemorative Medal for World War I wrapped ribbon awarded to a Jewish German soldier

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.11 a-b

    Date
    commemoration:  1914-1918
    WW I 61st Artillery gold shoulder boards with cannons owned by German Jewish soldier

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.12 a-b

    Date
    issue:  1914-1918
    WW I 8th Artillery gold shoulder boards with cannons owned by German Jewish soldier

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.13 a-b

    Geography
    issue: Germany
    Date
    use:  approximately 1914-1918
    WW I 8th Artillery gold shoulder board with cannons owned by German Jewish soldier

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.14

    Date
    use:  approximately 1914-approximately 1918
    WW I 61st Artillery gold shoulder board with cannons owned by German Jewish soldier

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.15

    Date
    issue:  approximately 1914-approximately 1918
    WW I 8th Artillery gray shoulder boards with 8 worn by German Jewish soldier

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.16 a-b

    Geography
    issue: Germany
    Date
    use:  approximately 1914-approximately 1918
    Airmail box used to store his war medals by a German Jewish refugee

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.17 a-b

    Geography
    manufacture: United States
    Date
    use:  after 1940
    Weimar Germany, 100 mark note, saved by German Jewish refugee

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.18

    Geography
    issue: Berlin (Germany)
    Date
    issue:  1920 November 01
    Weimar Germany, 100 mark note, saved by German Jewish refugee
    Weimar Germany, 10 billion mark note, saved by German Jewish refugee

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.19

    Geography
    issue: Berlin (Germany)
    Date
    issue:  1923 October 01
    Weimar Germany, 10 billion mark note, saved by German Jewish refugee
    Aachen District, 20 billion mark note, saved by German Jewish refugee

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.20

    Geography
    issue: Aachen (Germany : Landkreis)
    Date
    issue:  1923 October 12
    Aachen District, 20 billion mark note, saved by German Jewish refugee
    Remscheid 500 million mark note, saved by German Jewish refugee

    Object | Accession Number: 2011.259.21

    Geography
    issue: Remscheid (Germany)
    Date
    issue:  1923 August 11
    Remscheid 500 million mark note, saved by German Jewish refugee
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