Overview
- Brief Narrative
- 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.
- Geography
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use:
Majdanek (Concentration camp);
Lublin (Poland)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eve Rich Blumberg
- Contributor
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Subject:
Eve R. Blumberg
Physical Details
- Classification
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Clothing and Dress
- Category
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Women's clothing
- Object Type
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Blouses (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Hand-made with red and black flowers.
- Materials
- overall : cotton
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The blouse was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Eve Rich Blumberg.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:21:20
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn2946
Also in Eve Rich Blumberg collection
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.
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.
Prayer book
Object
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.
