The button was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Shelley Falik and Imy Wax, the children of Leon and Giza Falik.
Round brass colored metal button with the word"U.S" Prongs for attaching to a uniform
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overall: | Diameter: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)
Round metal button with the word"U.S" Prongs for attaching to a uniform. The collection relates to the experiences of Mordche Lieb (Leon Falik), his wife Giza Sternchuss (later Falik), and Giza's sister Mildred Stern [Malka Sternchuss] in Poland before and during the Holocaust, when Leon fled Poland for the Soviet Union and Giza fled Tarnopol and became a partisan. Mildred left for the United States before the war where she joined the US Women's Army Corps.
Military button