Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of a Star of David badge, armbands, medals, a ribbon bar, cufflinks, certificates, correspondence, documents, photographs, and testimonies relating to the experiences of Menachem and Ita Blinbaum Konkowski and their families before the war in Poland, in the Jewish resistance and in hiding in Belgium during the war, and supporting the Jewish underground army in Palestine after the war.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 and 2013 by Claudine Davison and Renée Alalouf, the daughters, and Diane Leigh Davison, the granddaughter, of Menachem and Ita Blinbaum Konkowski.
Browse 14 Items In This Collection
Konkowski and Blinbaum families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.473.1
Yellow Star of David badge worn by a Belgian Jew
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.2
Belgian Nationalist Movement patch with an embroidered lion emblem worn by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.3
Commemorative armband resembling the Belgian flag worn by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.4
Belgian Nationalist Movement armband with an attached ribbon, BNB patch and star pin worn by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.5
Belgian Nationalist Movement armband stencilled M.N.B. issued to a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.6
Pair of pinwheel shaped cuff links with ribbon covering owned by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.7 a-c
Single pinwheel shaped cuff link with ribbon covering owned by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.8
Belgian Nationalist Movement enamel buttonhole pin with the golden lion emblem worn by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.9
Medal of Remembrance of the War 1940- 1945, ribbon, and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.10 a-d
issue: Brussels (Belgium)
Polish Organization for the Struggle for Independence medal, ribbon and box awarded to a Jewish member of the Belgian resistance
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.11 a-d
issue: Warsaw (Poland)
Medal of the Belgian Nationalist Movement 1940-1945, ribbon and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.12 a-d
manufacture: Brussels (Belgium)
Belgian Medal of the Armed Resistance 1940-1945, ribbon and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.13 a-d
issue: Brussels (Belgium)
Haganah War Ribbon bar awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter for his postwar support in Palestine
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.14
commemoration: 1920-1948
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