Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Baby cap with blue chain stitch embroidery made for Hanna Berger, who was born on April 12, 1945, in Freiberg slave labor camp, a Flossenbürg subcamp. The cap was made from rehabilitated material in Mauthausen concentration camp. Her mother Priska was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. After she told Dr. Mengele that she was not pregnant. she was sent to Freiberg. In early April 1945, as Soviet and US troops advanced, the camp was evacuated. Hanna was born not long before she and her mother were loaded on a cattle car and sent to Austria, arriving at Mauthausen on April 29. The camp was liberated on May 5, 1945, by the 11th Armored Division. One of the American soldiers, Pete Petersohn, went into the women's camp and found Hanna with her mother. She had infected boils and Petersohn got her treated by the Division Medical Officer, Major Harold Stacy. Hanna and Priska later emigrated to the United States. Hanna reunited with her rescuer in 2005 at the 60th commemoration of the camp's liberation.
- Date
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creation:
approximately 1945 April
- Geography
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creation:
Mauthausen (Concentration Camp);
Mauthausen (Austria)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Hana Berger Moran
Physical Details
- Classification
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Clothing and Dress
- Category
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Children's clothing
- Object Type
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Baby bonnets (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Infant's white cloth cap with blue chain stitch embroidery.
- Materials
- overall : cotton, thread
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The cap was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Hana Berger Moran.
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- 2024-04-15 14:52:15
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Infant's cap and shirt relating to the experiences of Hanna Berger (later Hana Berger Moran) during the Holocaust when she was born while her mother Priska was a prisoner in a German concentration camp.
Date: approximately 1945 April
White blouse made for an infant born in a concentration camp
Object
Infant's shirt made for Hanna Berger, who was born on April 12, 1945, in Freiberg slave labor camp, a Flossenbürg subcamp. The shirt was made from rehabilitated material in Mauthausen concentration camp. Her mother Priska was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. After she told Dr. Mengele that she was not pregnant. she was sent to Freiberg. In early April 1945, as Soviet and US troops advanced, the camp was evacuated. Hanna was born not long before she and her mother were loaded on a cattle car and sent to Austria, arriving at Mauthausen on April 29. The camp was liberated on May 5, 1945, by the 11th Armored Division. One of the American soldiers, Pete Petersohn, went into the women's camp and found Hanna with her mother. She had infected boils and Petersohn got her treated by the Division Medical Officer, Major Harold Stacy. Hanna and Priska later emigrated to the United States. Hanna reunited with her rescuer in 2005 at the 60th commemoration of the camp's liberation.
