Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Box in which donor's mother, Louise, had kept correspondence along with a fragment from a garment.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Renée Rizzoni
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Classification
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Containers
- Category
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Boxes
- Object Type
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Storage boxes (aat)
- Physical Description
- Rectangular cardboard box and lid with an image of three angels
a: box
b: lid - Dimensions
- overall: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 7.625 inches (19.368 cm) | Depth: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
- Materials
- overall : cardboard, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The box was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Renée Rizzoni, the daughter of Albin Goldschmied and Louise Ohs Goldschmied.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:44:47
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn599260
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Also in Goldschmied (Gilbert) Family Collection
THe collection consists of family papers of Albin Goldschmied and Louise Ohs Goldschmied, their daughter Renée, and their parents Leopold and Katarina Pick Goldschmied, and Bernhard and Rosa Loewnthal Ohs. Includes correspondence, documents, photographs, books and publications, an autograph book, a notebook, a silk textile fragment, a cardboard box and related materials. Date range is late 19th century to the 1960s. Majority of the papers concern the emigration of Albin, Louise, and Renée Goldschmied from Prague through the efforts of Waitstill and Martha Sharp and their experiences as new immigrants to the U.S. Included as well are numerous letters from Rosa Ohs to Louise after the Goldschmieds left Prague in November, 1939. Unable to secure a visa, Rosa remained in Prague. She was deported to Theresienstadt on July 13, 1942 and on October 15, 1942 she was transported to Treblinka where she was killed.
Goldschmied family papers
Document
The Goldschmied family papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, and poetry documenting the Goldschmied and Ohs families of Prague, the Goldschmied family’s immigration to the United States with the help of Martha and Waitstill Sharp in 1939, their unsuccessful efforts to bring Rosa Ohs to America, and the lifelong friendship between the Goldschmieds and the Sharps. Goldschmied family materials include education, employment, and identification records documenting Albin and Louise Goldschmied, correspondence documenting Louise and Renée, poetry by Louise, immigration records, and Albin and Louise’s membership in the Religious Society of Czechoslovak Unitarians. This series also includes correspondence from Albin’s brother Josef about their conditions of life in Prague, Rosa Ohs’ health, and their efforts to immigrate. Ohs family materials include biographical material and correspondence documenting Bernhard and Rosa Ohs (Louise’s parents), immigration and tracing materials documenting the Goldschmied family’s efforts to locate Rosa and bring her to America, and notebooks containing original poems by Rosa. Bernhard Ohs’ material pre-dates his death in 1934 and primarily documents his successful diplomatic career. Rosa’s correspondence to her daughter’s family describes how much she misses them and wants to immigrate to America, her health, and her eye operation. Sharp family materials consists of correspondence from Martha and Waitstill Sharp to the Goldschmied family offering immigration assistance, welcoming them on their arrival in America, helping them get settled, describing both families’ postwar work in Czechoslovakia, and attesting to the families’ lifelong friendship.
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