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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Ring, inscribed with "Gold gab ich fuer Eisen", 1914

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series: The artifacts series contains items that indicate important milestones in the lives of the members of the Kohnstamm-Reich family. The pocketbook belonged to an earlier generation of the family, perhaps a parent of patriarch and pioneering neurophysiologist Johannes Gad. The ring, link bracelet, and Iron Cross are all from the WWI era, when the family changed permanently, gaining some (Joseph Reich) and losing others (Rudi Kohnstamm, Oskar Kohnstamm, and Johannes Gad Jr.). The war ration book...
Dates: 1914