1-2. Two medals issued on behalf of the Jewish congregation in Milano (Italy) to commemorate the defeat of the Nazis, 1945.
The medals were designed by the Italian sculptor Aurelio Mistruzzi. Two identical medals. One is silver-plated.
Obverse: A lightning bolt striking and splitting an axe bearing a swastika which is stuck in a broken tree, with a young tree growing in the background, surrounded by the inscription (in Latin, from Seneca): "Sequitur superbos ultor a tergo deus" ["The avenging god follows in the steps of the proud"]. Reverse: Menorah with the word 'Israel' in Hebrew, surrounded by the Latin legend "Numquam exstinguetur" ["Never suppressed"].
Diameter: 32 mm.
3. Bronze medal commemorating holocaust victims.
Obverse: a man raising the Tablets of the Law with bodies at his feet surmounted by a legend: "In Memory of the 6 Million Victims". Marked: "E. Monti". Reverse: Menorah on the background of a cemetery and the legend "Yizkor" in Hebrew. Marked: "S. Johnson, inc. / Italy".
Diameter: 60 mm.