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WWII CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVOR MEDALS & RELATED

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 700.00 USD
WWII CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVOR MEDALS & RELATED
POLITICAL PRISONER MEDALS. This poignant group of medals includes several examples of decorations awarded to survivors of the Holocaust. The medals include 1 cased Polish Auschwitz Cross with a raised, seal-signed award document to Antonina Wladyslawa. / 1 Cased Polish Warsaw Uprising Cross with a raised seal, signed award document to Antonina Wladyslawa. / 1 Cased Polish Auschwitz Cross with enamel lapel stickpin and enameled miniature medal with a raised seal, signed award document to Jan Jana. / 1 Cased Belgian Political Prisoner Cross given to prisoners held by the Germans during WWII. This medal has a black bar and sprig, indicating the recipient did not survive imprisonment. / 1 Cased Belgian Political Prisoner Cross with a silver bar bearing five stars, indicating a survivor of 2 1/2 years of German imprisonment. / 1 Cased Czechoslovakian medal for liberated political prisoners. This medal includes a ribbon bar with a central gilded wreath. / 1 Cased French medal for the 25th anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. The medal is complete with an enamel lapel pin. CONDITION: all cases show storage wear only. Medals show virtually no wear. (02-22644, 02-22645/BF). $400-700.