Overview
- Brief Narrative
- One of three round wooden pins hand painted by Felix D'Ancona.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Estate of Hetty d'Ancona de Leeuwe
Physical Details
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Badges
- Object Type
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Pin-back buttons (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Round wooden pin with metal backing. Depicts soldier with words "Friesland", the date "15 April 1945" and the words "Oranje" (or similar) and the letters "N.B.S."
- Dimensions
- overall: | Diameter: 2.130 inches (5.41 cm)
- Materials
- overall : wood, metal, paint
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The pin was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by the Estate of Hetty D'Ancona de Leeuwe.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-23 16:50:40
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn594808
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Also in Hetty d'Ancona de Leeuwe collection
Three pins painted by Felix d'Ancona. Photographs of the D'Ancona family before the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Baby announcement of Hetty, two letters written postwar, "rapportboekje" or report card booklet.
Hetty d'Ancona de Leeuwe papers
Document
Contains photographs of the d'Ancona family before the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands; a birth announcement for Hetty d'Ancona (donor); two postwar letters; and a "rapportboekje" or report card booklet.
