Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Prayer book given to Eva Rich along with a cross necklace. The nuns gave it to her and asked that she memorize it in case of captured by the German police.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eve Rich Blumberg
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Classification
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Books and Published Materials
- Category
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Books and pamphlets
- Object Type
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Prayer books (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Catholic prayer book
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 3.270 inches (8.306 cm) | Width: 2.130 inches (5.41 cm) | Depth: 0.630 inches (1.6 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink, adhesive, cloth, plastic
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The prayer book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Eve Rich Blumberg.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:43:45
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn2945
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Necklace with two pendants, a cross and the Virgin Mary
Object
Given to Eve Rich by a group of nuns who put it on her neck and told her that it would save her life.
Blouse
Object
The nuns gave this blouse to Eva Rich after they could no longer hide her. They sought to make her appear to be a Polish peasant rather than a Jew. She wore the blouse under her clothes while in Majdanek. Given to Eve Rich by nuns who had hid her during the Holocaust.
Eve Rich Blumberg Collection
Document
Contains a photograph of Eve Rich as a child; two photographs of a camp after liberation; a postwar photograph of Eve Rich with Nathan Rich, the man who would become her husband; two telegrams received by the donor aboard the "S.S. Marine Flasher," June 1948; and an obituary for Col. Bernard McKahon, who helped liberate Majdanek, where Eva Rich was imprisoned.
