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Box 1

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Contains 4 Results:

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

Link bracelet with inscriptions: "In Eiserner Zeit 1916" and "Gold zur Wehr, Eisen zur Ehr", 1916

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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: 1916

Iron Cross, First Class, for Dr. Reich, 1914

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Content

In original delivery package, labeled: Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse, Nur von dem Beliehenen zu oeffnen. With handwritten additions.

Dates: 1914

Pocketbook/Wallet inscribed "1813-14 M. Gad", ca. 1813-1814

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 42
Scope and Content

Contained the papers that are now in folders 1.37 - 1.41.

Dates: ca. 1813-1814