Bulgarian Jewish star button
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Badges
- Object Type
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Star of David badges (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Alec Tulkoff
Yellow plastic button in the shape of a Star of David.
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Record last modified: 2023-09-06 09:31:19
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Also in Alec Tulkoff collection
The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documenets, numismatics, maps, photographs, and publications relating to the history of the Jews and of the Holocaust in Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Germany.
Date: 1916-1945
Concentration camp uniform jacket for a Hungarian political prisoner
Object
Concentration camp uniform jacket belonging to a Hungarian political prisoner. A badge with the prisoner number 45501 is sewn on the jacket.
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin
Object
5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killing centers.
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin
Object
10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killing centers.
Cloth identification patch with prisoner number 10443
Object
White cloth badge with the number 10443 worn by Tadeusz Zdobysz. A photograph of him wearing the number and a red triangle on his concentration camp coat is included in 2015.586.1.
Cloth patch with a red triangle and number 73635
Object
Cloth patch owned by Zenon Puchalski. It has a red triangle and his prisoner number 73635. Puchalski, orginally from Łódź, Poland, was incarcerated from August 17 - May 2, 1943. His postwar identity card #840 is included in 2015.586.1.
Operation Bernhard counterfeit British 10 pound note
Object
Forged bank note made at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, dated March 16, 1935.
Operation Bernhard counterfeit British 5 pound note
Object
Forged bank note made at Sachsenhausen concnetation camp, dated March 16, 1935.
Alec Tulkoff collection
Document
Collection of photographs, documents, correspondence, maps, identification cards, and publications which document the Holocaust in Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Germany; dated circa 1916-1945; in Polish, German, Hungarian, and English.
Handbook
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Booklet
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