Blue and white United States Line luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish refugee
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English
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Identifying Artifacts
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Labels
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Luggage tags (aat)
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- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Annlee Herbstman, Bert Rosenberg, and Mark Rosenberg
Blue and white luggage tag used by Regina Zak Goldwag when she emigrated from Germany on the United States Line after the war. Regina and her daughter Halina were originally from Warsaw, Poland. Some time after the brutal German occupation of Poland began in in September 1939, Regina and Halina acquired false identities as non-Jewish Polish women, Jadwiga and Halina Orlowska. Around 1944, they were sent to Germany as forced laborers. After the war, they emigrated to the United States.
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Also in Regina and Halina Goldwag collection
The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Regina Zak Goldwag and her daughter Halina before and during the Holocaust in Poland during which they lived under false identities as non-Jews, and after the war in Germany.
Regina and Halina Goldwag papers
Document
The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Regina (née Zak) Goldwag and her daughter Halina (later Halina Rosenberg), both of Warsaw, Poland. Both women survived the war under the false identities of Polish non-Jews Jadwiga and Halina Orlowska. Documents of Halina Goldwag include wartime documents under the false identity used while she was a forced-laborer in several concentration camps in Leipzig, immigration papers, and restitution documentation. Photographs include pre-war family photographs of the Zak and Goldwag families, post-war photographs of Halina and Regina in the displaced persons camp in Göppingen, Germany, and depictions of Regina and Halina’s immigration to the United States onboard the SS Marine Flasher in 1946.
Metal pin badge with the letter G worn by a Polish Jewish woman living under a false identity
Object
Identification badge worn by Regina Zak Goldwag or her daughter Halina while working as forced laborers in Germany under a false identity as a Polish non-Jew named, Jadwiga or Halina Orlowska. The badges was issued when they worked for the German manufacturer Gaspary in Leipzig.
German 1 (Eine) Rentenmark note
Object
One German bank note, Eine Rentenmark, that was acquired by Regina Zak Goldwag and her daughter Halina, who survived the Holocaust in Poland by assuming the identities of Polish non-Jews, Jadwiga and Halina Orlowska.
Blue and white United States Line luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish refugees
Object
Blue and white luggage tag used by Halina Goldwag when she and her mother Regina they emigrated from Germany on the United States Line after the war. Regina and her daughter Halina were originally from Warsaw, Poland. Some time after the brutal German occupation of Poland began in in September 1939, Regina and Halina acquired false identities as non-Jewish Polish women, Jadwiga and Halina Orlowska. Around 1944, they were sent to Germany as forced laborers. After the war, they emigrated to the United States.
