Medal Issued to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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The reverse has a picture of a Star of David made out of barbed fencing wire with a living branch growing out of the upper right portion of the star where the wire has been broken, symbolic of the continued life and growth of the Jews despite the Nazis’ attempt to exterminate them. Inset in the star is “TOGETHER FROM HOLOCAUST. . . TO NEW LIFE!”. In the upper left field is “AMERICAN GATHERING OF JEWISH HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS”. Curved around the lower rim is “WASHINGTON D.C. APRIL 11-14, 1983”. The edge is stamped with the number 01038.
Identifer: CJF-RFC2015067
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Description
This medal was issued in 1983 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on the occasion of a gathering of American Holocaust Survivors. The medal is plated with a gold colored material and is 50 mm in diameter.
The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors is an organization that seeks to commemorate the Holocaust and combat anti-Semitism through programs, articles, assemblies, teacher education, and a speakers' bureau. It was established by Benjamin and Vladka Meed, two survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, who were committed to finding a record of every Holocaust survivor. In 1981, they began what is now known as the Registry of Holocaust Survivors. The Registry is an attempt to locate and record as much biographic information as possible about Holocaust survivors world-wide.
The Registry was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April of 1993. The Registry database contains information relating to approximately 180,000 Holocaust survivors and their family members worldwide. It serves as a memorial to the victims of Nazism and facilitates contact between survivors and assists survivors and their families in tracing missing relatives.
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