Overview
- Brief Narrative
- WWI German cross of honor medal 1914-1918
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Physical Details
- Classification
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Military Insignia
- Category
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Medals
- Object Type
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Medals, German (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Bronze colored iron cross medal.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)
- Materials
- overall : metal
- Inscription
- front, center: 1914 / 1918
back, top: L. / NBG.
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- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Record last modified:
- 2025-01-02 11:09:36
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn531283
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Also in Martha Salm Oppenheimer collection
The collection consists of documents relating to the experiences of Martha Salm Oppenheimer during the Holocaust and two Iron Cross medals and sketches drawn in 1941 by a friend of Martha Salm's friend in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
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Part of the sketches drawn in 1941 by Martha Salm's friend while in a concentration camp.
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Part of the sketches drawn in 1941 by Martha Salm's friend while in a concentration camp.
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Part of the sketches drawn in 1941 by Martha Salm's friend while in a concentration camp.
Sketch
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Part of the sketches drawn in 1941 by Martha Salm's friend while in a concentration camp.
Sketch
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Part of the sketches drawn in 1941 by Martha Salm's friend while in a concentration camp.
Sketch
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Part of the sketches drawn in 1941 by Martha Salm's friend while in a concentration camp.
Sketch
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Part of the sketches drawn in 1941 by Martha Salm's friend while in a concentration camp.
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Part of the sketches drawn in 1941 by Martha Salm's friend while in a concentration camp.
Sketch of female concentration camp inmates bathing
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Sketch drawn by a friend of Martha Salm in 1941 while imprisoned in a concentration camp. The group of drawings depict aspects of daily camp life, such as bathing, doing chores, fantasies about food, sleeping quarters and kitchen, and dreaming of freedom beyond the barbed-wire fence.
Sketch
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Part of the sketches drawn in 1941 by Martha Salm's friend while in a concentration camp.
Oppenheimer family papers
Document
Documents related to Martha Salm Oppenheimer, including a German Reich passport (Reisepass) issued to Martha Sara Salm; a photograph of Martha Salm with two friends; a certificate issued to Sally Oppenheimer; and two U.S. Certificates of Naturalization issued to Martha Salm Oppenheimer and Salaman Frankel Oppenheimer.
