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Israel – State Silver Medal “In Memory of the Concentration and Death Camps”, 5752 / 1992 – Silver 999, weight: 61.40 g, diameter: 50 mm - Israel – State Silver Medal “In Memory of the Concentration and Death Camps”, 5752 / 1992 – Silver 999, weight: 61.40 g, diameter: 50 mm Issue name: In Memory of the Concentration and Death Camps Year: 1992 / 5752 Country: Israel Metal: Silver 999 Weight: 61.40 g, diameter: 50 mm Description: State medal issued in memory of the victims of the concentration and death camps during World War II. The obverse depicts six children’s figures, symbolizing the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, with the Hebrew inscription “In Memory of the Concentration and Death Camps 1942–1992” and the English inscription: “In memory of the concentration and death camps 1942–1992”. The reverse depicts an electrified barbed-wire fence, a guard tower, barracks and rising smoke. On the side appear the names of the six extermination camps: Treblinka, Chełmno, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Sobibor and Bełżec, in Hebrew and English. Condition: AU