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Judaica / Zionism - Medal in honor of Raymond Barr, a French Jew who was murdered in the Auschwitz extermination camp in the Holocaust, in 1944.
The medal was made by the French medalist in the area (signed on the back), around 1945. Raymond and his family were murdered in the Holocaust – Raymond Barr was murdered by a doctor in the camp The extermination Auschwitz, his wife was murdered in the gas chambers near their arrival at the camp and his only home that was transferred to the Bergen Belsen extermination camp, was beaten to death by a guard because she failed to get up for morning service, a few days before the liberation of the camp by the British in 1945. The medal is made of bronze