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    Title

  • First Distinguished Service Medal, awarded to Alice Salomon by the International Club of the New York YMCA

  • Physical Description

    1 medal : gilt bronze, enamel, and cloth ; 3.3" x 1.5" ; 8.3 x 4 cm

  • Date

    1939

  • Summary

    Golden circular medal suspended from a red, white and blue striped ribbon, which is attached to a gold pin bar with text "Dr. Alice Salomon" engraved across it. Recto: at center are the initials "IC" for the International Club, surrounded by a border of red, white and blue enamel. Around the perimeter of the medal is the text, "The International Club, New York, May 28, 1939." Verso: Text only, "First Distinguished Service Award; In Recognition of Outstanding Service to Humanity." Kept in original box of navy leather with sild padding inside.

  • Depicted

    Salomon, Alice, 1872-1948

  • Subject

    YMCA of the USA

  • Medium

    Medals; Objects

  • Part Of

    Alice Salomon Collection,, AR 3875

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Biographical/Historical Information

Alice Salomon was born to Jewish parents in 1872 and converted to the Lutheran church in 1914. She earned her doctor diploma (Dr. phil.) as early as 1906 with a dissertation on unequal pay for equal jobs for men and women (‘Die Ursachen der ungleichen Entlohnung von Männer und Frauenarbeit’). She received an honorary doctorate in medicine in 1932 on occasion of her 60th birthday; at the same time, the Prussian government awarded her a silver medal for her services in social welfare, and the academy for social services, “Wohlfahrtsschule Pestalozzi-Froebelhaus” was renamed “Alice Salomon-Schule". When she returned from a trip to the United States to Germany in the spring of 1937, she was called for a lengthy interrogation by the Gestapo and was ordered to leave Germany within three weeks. She emigrated to England where she received her immigration visa to the United States. Her arrival in the USA was noted in the Herald Tribune and in the New York Times. Alice Salomon received further honors in the USA in 1939 and in 1942.

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Citation

First Distinguished Service Medal, awarded to Alice Salomon by the International Club of the New York YMCA, Leo Baeck Institute, 61.182.