Resistance Bracelet

The Hague, the Netherlands, 1941

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A bracelet made of 27 Dutch ten-cent coins linked together with clasps on either end. The bracelet is placed with the coins head side up and the clasps closed.
Bracelet made by the Dutch underground out of coins for Emmy Krell.
A bracelet made of 27 Dutch ten-cent coins linked together with clasps on either end. The bracelet is laid flat, unclasped, with the coins head side up.
Bracelet made from 27 ten-cent coins.

This bracelet is made of Dutch silver coins that belonged to Emmy Krell. Emmy survived the Holocaust in hiding with the help of the Dutch resistance.

When the Nazis occupied the Netherlands, they ordered Dutch citizens to hand over their copper and silver coins. The Dutch coins were engraved with a portrait of the exiled Queen Wilhelmina. Under Nazi rule, the Dutch were forbidden to display the Queen's image. As an act of resistance against the Nazis, some Dutch citizens had their coins made into bracelets. 
 

Donated to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre by Emmy Krell. 1996.035.002

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