Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Shirt worn by Bernhard Press when he was a slave laborer for the Germans, "Small Ghetto" Riga. He continued to wear the shirt after he escaped from the ghetto.
- Date
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issue:
1941
- Geography
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use:
Riga (Latvia)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Bernhard Press
- Contributor
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Subject:
Bernhard Press
Physical Details
- Classification
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Clothing and Dress
- Category
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Men's clothing
- Object Type
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Shirts, Men's (lcsh)
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The shirt was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Bernhard Press.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:21:20
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn2889
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Sachs family tree
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Sachs family tree composed by Emma Sachs (a family friend of the donor) between 1925 and 1940. Hand lettered and illustrated with black and white photographs of family members.
Sachs family tree
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Sachs family tree composed by Emma Sachs (b. 1867) between 1925 and 1940. On painted cover: "STAMMTAFEL. / ELSABETH / HEIDEMANN."
Jacobsen family tree
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Family tree created by Emma Sachs (a family friend of the donor), between 1925-1940. Illustrated with black and white photographs of family members. On top of page "Familie Jacobsen / in Milan"
