Engraved sterling silver tea tray honoring recipient's service to the URO
- Date
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commemoration:
1948-1956
received: 1956
- Geography
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received:
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Language
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English
- Classification
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Household Utensils
- Category
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Tableware
- Object Type
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Tea trays (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Benjamin B. Ferencz
Sterling silver tea tray presented to Benjamin Ferencz from the staff of the JRSO, LAD, and URO (United Restitution Organization) commemorating his service from 1948-1956 in Nuremberg and Frankfurt, Germany.
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The collection consists of the personal papers of Benjamin B. Ferencz, Chief Prosecutor of the Einsatzgruppen at the Nuremberg Trials. Papers include biographical information pertaining to Ferencz and materials relevant to the Second World War, the Nuremberg Trials, Holocaust-related restitution and indemnification issues, war crimes justice, his activities in the formation of the International Criminal Court in The Hague; his teaching, research, and speaking activities, in particular as director of the Pace Peace Center, but also more generally in the subject areas of world peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The collection also includes an engraved sterling silver tea tray, commemorative tray, commemorative plate, Sculpture of Moses, commemorative desk set, a twenty-seven volume-set of US v. Ohlendorf materials, printing plate, plaque, and commemorative pen set. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
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Printing plate
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Plaque
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The collection consists of the personal papers of Benjamin B. Ferencz, Chief Prosecutor of the Einsatzgruppen at the Nuremberg Trials. Includes materials relevant to World War II, the Nuremberg trials, Holocaust-related restitution and indemnification issues, war crimes justice,and his efforts to establish a permanent international criminal court for war crimes. Series 1, Ferencz family biographical information, is cataloged separately as 1994.A.0037.21.
Benjamin B. Ferencz collection, Series 1
Document
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"War Crimes Trials: United States of America v. Otto Ohlendorf et al."
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