Overview
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Peter Sharlitt
Physical Details
- Classification
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Personal Equipment and Supplies
- Category
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Smoking paraphernalia
- Object Type
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Cigarette cases (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Cigarette box; hand carved image of leaf and pipe; "Minsk 1943"; Star of David patch with "Juif" stamped in center pasted at bottom of box; black ink inscriptions on the sides of the box: "Samuel Kimowitz"; "Ben Rav Ber" (son of Rabbi Ber); "Shlomo Yehuda."
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The cigarette case was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001 by Peter Sharlitt.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:23:50
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn14146
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Autograph album commemorating the birthday of Chaim Weizman signed by displaced persons
Object
Album; issued by Keren Kayemet L'Israel (Jewish National Fund) on the occassion of the 75th birthday of Chaim Weizman, first president of the State of Israel; each page is signed by a Displaced Person; dated December 2, 1949; Foehrenwald DP Camp, Germany.
