2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Silver Tie tack, 1/2” x 1-1/2”, fine. The award is a silver Greek cross with wide arms. The obverse shows barbed wire and camp poles, the year 1939 on the left 1945 on the right arm. In the center there is a red enameled triangle with the letter P, as worn by Polish nationals imprisoned in the camps. The reverse bears the inscription "PRL / WIEZNIOM / HITLEROWSKICH / OBOZÓW KONCENTRACYJNYCH" ( Peoples Republic of Poland to prisoners of Nazi concentration camps). The Holocaust in Poland was the ghettoization, robbery, deportation, and murder of Jews in occupied Poland, organized by Nazi Germany. Three million Polish Jews were murdered, primarily at the Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz II–Birkenau extermination camps, representing half of all Jews murdered during the Europe-wide Holocaust. It is estimated that about 350,000 Polish Jews survived the Holocaust. Some 230,000 of them survived in the USSR and the Soviet-controlled territories of Poland, including men and women who escaped from areas occupied by Germany. The Auschwitz Cross instituted on 14 March 1985, was a Polish decoration awarded to honour survivors of Nazi German concentration camps, including Auschwitz. It was awarded generally to Poles, but it was possible to award it to foreigners in special cases. It could be awarded posthumously.
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