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Lebensborn collection

Collection
Collection Summary
The collection consists of artifacts, books, pamphlets, and photographs relating to the Lebensborn program in Nazi Germany which encouraged the birth rate among persons designated as racially pure Germans.
Provenance
The collection was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001.
Date
1935-1943
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Lebensborn papers

Document | Accession Number: 2001.204.1


Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, to identify a Polish forced laborer

Object | Accession Number: 2001.204.2

Geography
use: Germany
Date
use:  approximately 1940-1945
Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, to identify a Polish forced laborer

Teddy bear used in an SS Lebensborn home

Object | Accession Number: 2001.204.3

Geography
use: Lebensborn e.V. (Germany)
Date
use:  approximately 1940
Teddy bear used in an SS Lebensborn home

Ivory bracelet carved with gold painted swastikas and SS lightning bolts

Object | Accession Number: 2001.204.4

Geography
creation: Munich (Germany)
Date
commemoration:  1933
Ivory bracelet carved with gold painted swastikas and SS lightning bolts


Metal dish inscribed for a matron of an SS Lebensborn

Object | Accession Number: 2001.204.6

Geography
Lebensborn e.V. (Germany)
Date
commemoration:  1943 April
Metal dish inscribed for a matron of an SS Lebensborn
 
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