Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of a belt and two handkerchiefs relating to the experiences of Ruth Krautwirth, who was an inmate of Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and Malchow concentration camps during the Holocaust, and a Nazi armband and SA uniform shirt relating to the experiences of Harry Meyerowitz, a soldier in the United States Army in Europe during World War II.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988 by Ruth Krautwirth Meyerowitz.
Browse 7 Items In This Collection
Blue felt belt with appliqued flowers found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Auschwitz
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.1
use: Ravensbrück (Concentration camp); Ravensbrück (Germany)
use: Malchow (Concentration camp); Malchow (Germany)
Brown and yellow striped silk handkerchief found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Birkenau
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.2
use: Ravensbrück (Concentration camp); Ravensbrück (Germany)
use: Malchow (Concentration camp); Malchow (Germany)
Colorful plaid handkerchief found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Birkenau
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.3
use: Ravensbrück (Concentration camp); Ravensbrück (Germany)
use: Malchow (Concentration camp); Malchow (Germany)
Hitler Youth armband with a swastika acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.4
found: after 1944 June-before 1945 November
SA brown uniform shirt with Rottenfuhrer insignia acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.5
manufacture: after 1934-before 1945
Book
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.6
Exhibition catalog
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.7
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