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Suitcase

Object | Accession Number: 1990.243.1

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    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Suitcase used by Carl and Flora Wertheim to escape Nazi Germany in September 1938 to come to the United States.
    Date
    use:  1938 September
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Flora Wertheim
    Contributor
    Subject: Flora Wertheim
    Subject: Carl Wertheim

    Physical Details

    Classification
    Containers
    Category
    Luggage
    Object Type
    Suitcases (aat)
    Physical Description
    Block shaped; bears "D.R. patent Simbox, serial number 22269, INTIMUS model," a stamp, "Cabin 500" and the boarding pass (which is indecipherable)
    Materials
    overall : plastic, ink

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The suitcase was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Flora Wertheim, the wife of Carl Wertheim.
    Record last modified:
    2024-10-03 11:46:49
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