Overview
- Description
- Image of older woman holding book; seated at table
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Melanie Spitta
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photograph.
- Physical Description
- Image of older woman holding book; seated at table
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 17.010 inches (43.205 cm) | Width: 12.010 inches (30.505 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, gelatin silver print
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Mrs. Melanie K. Spitta
- Record last modified:
- 2023-09-15 10:14:01
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1129
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The collection consists of clothing articles owned by German Sinti.
Apron bag given to a concentration camp survivor by a Sinti woman
Object
Apron style patchwork pocket given to Mrs. Keck, the mother of Melanie Keck Spitta, during the 1950s by a Sinti girlfriend frm Germany. Mrs. Keck was a survivor of Bergen Belsen and other concentration camps.
Apron worn by a German Sinti woman
Object
The apron belonged to Gampe Franzen, a Sinti who was interned in Marzahn, a Romani camp in Berlin.
Apron worn by a German Sinti woman
Object
The apron belonged to Gampe Franzen, a Sinti who was interned in Marzahn, a Romani camp in Berlin.
Hair comb worn by a German Sinti woman
Object
The hair comb belonged to an unnamed Sinti woman. The woman who owned this comb was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The comb was safeguarded by her family while she was in the camps.
