Mother's Cross medal collection

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Collection Summary: The collection consists of a Mother's Cross medal with its envelope and documentation, a medal instituted and issued during the government of the Third Reich in Germany, 1933-1945.
Provenance: The collection was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001.
Date: 1939-1944

Date: publication/distribution: 1939-1944
Geography: issue: Germany
Date: commemoration: 1938 December 16
: Record last modified: 2020-06-17 09:29:22
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn512988

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