Suitcase
Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Suitcase used by Carl and Flora Wertheim to escape Nazi Germany in September 1938 to come to the United States.
- Date
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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
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Containers
- Category
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Luggage
- Object Type
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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
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- 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:
- 2022-07-28 18:21:22
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn3285
Also in Carl and Flora Wertheim collection
The collection consists of 2 suitcases used by Carl and Flora Wertheim when they emmigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938.
Date: 1938
Suitcase
Object
Suitcase used by Carl and Flora Wertheim to escape Nazi Germany in September 1938 to come to the United States.
