us-005578-irn513635-irn513644
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1945-12-31
biographical history: Salomon (Shalom) Wlodzimierz Slowes was born November 20, 1909, in Grajewo, Poland, to Mosze Dow and Malka Jezierska Slowes, who married in 1907. Mosze was born in 1872 in Shmerinka, Belarus, Russia, and had a brother Israel, married to Riwa Guterman and two sisters. Salomon’s mother Malka was born in 1886 in Suwalki, Russia, later Poland, to Abraham Yehuda and Mera Kijanowska Jezierski. She had several siblings: Jose, married to Dora, Michal, married to Rachel Slowetycka, Fania, married name Serok, Gitl, married name Oblaska, with two daughters, Lipka-Luba, who married Moszes Kremer and had a son Abram, and Zeidke. Both of Salomon’s parents were dentists; his father, a surgeon, was educated in Odessa and his mother in Warsaw. Salomon had an older sister Dina Beila, born 1908, and a younger brother Abraham, born 1913. The family was Jewish, kept a kosher home, spoke primarily Yiddish, and it was a closeknit, extended family. The Slowes family moved to Vilna in 1914, where his father Mosze became head of the dentistry school at Vilna University. Salomon’s youngest sister Roza was born in 1917 in Vilna. In 1920, Vilna was annexed by Poland. Salomon graduated from a Tarbut school, a secular Hebrew language school in 1923, then attended a Jewish high school to prepare for state exams. In 1928, he enrolled at Stefan Batory University in Vilna where he studied dentistry and medicine. He joined the Jordania Club, Union of Zionist Revisionists. His brother Abraham had joined Tiferet Bachurim, a religious Zionist movement, in reaction to the growing antisemitism in Poland. In 1930, Abraham left for Palestine where he studied engineering at the Technion in Haifa. Also in 1930, Salomon’s sister Dina married Miron Rubinowicz; they were both teachers and later had a son Elchanan. Salomon’s maternal uncle Josef and his wife Dora left for the United States sometime prior to 1939. Salomon graduated with a specialty in surgery in 1934. He went to Vienna for advanced training and was…
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archival history: The ribbon bar was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by Salomon Slowes.
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title: Red, white and blue ribbon bar for distinguished service awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
has or had holder: us-005578
record resource extent: overall: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)
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has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1939-01-01
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identifier: irn513644
scope and content: Striped service distinction ribbon bar worn by Dr. Salomon Slowes who served as a medical officer in the Polish Army and 2nd Polish Corps, British Army, from 1939-1945. Slowes was called up shortly before Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Three weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded. Slowes was captured by the Soviets and interned in Kozel'sk, Pavlishchev Bor, and Gryazovets prisoner of war labor camps. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Slowes was released as part of an amnesty granted to Polish prisoners to aid the Soviet war effort. He joined the Polish Army of the East, known as Anders Army, a volunteer military unit. Slowes, who was an oral and facial surgeon, set up clinics in every place the Army made camp. In August 1942, the unit left Soviet territory and became the 2nd Polish Corps, British Army. In February 1944, his unit deployed from North Africa to join the British 8th Army in the Italian Campaign. The Corps fought its way north and was honored for heroism in the May 1944 Battle of Monte Cassino. The Corps was in Italy on May 7, 1945, when the war ended. Slowes was awarded several medals by the British and Polish governments for his service. He settled in Palestine after the war.
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physical characteristics and technical requirements: Gold colored, slotted metal bar wrapped with a satin grosgrain ribbon with 9 vertical stripes: wide blue, narrow white, narrow blue, narrow white, center red, narrow white, narrow blue, narrow white, wide blue. The long edges are crimped and there are 2 pin posts with clutchback clasps on the back. clutch backs, engraved : BALLOU REG'D