Round metal Star of David made in Theresienstadt concentration camp
- Date
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1942-1945
(creation)
- Geography
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creation :
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp);
Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
- Classification
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Jewelry
- Category
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Pins (Jewelry)
- Object Type
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Brooches (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Michael Gruenbaum
Badge or pin given to Margaret Gruenbaum in the Theresienstadt concentration camp by a fellow inmate who worked with her in the camp workshop. Margaret worked in the art studio making artificial flowers, toys, and stage sets for various Terezin productions. Her job in the workshop may have saved her family from deportation to the Auschwitz death camp. When the family received the orders for deportation, in the autumn of 1944, Margaret was able to help her boss, the Dutch artist, Josef Spier, convince a camp guard that her work - creating teddy bears and others toys for Germans for the Christmas season - was important enough to keep her, and her children, 14 year old Marietta, and 12 year old Michael, in Terezin. The guard removed them from the transport list. The Gruenbaum family were Czech Jews who had been deported from Prague to Theresienstadt on November 20, 1942. They were liberated from Theresienstadt on May 8, 1945, by the Soviet Army.
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Also in Margaret Gruenbaum family collection
The collection consists of six handcrafted metal artifacts, documents, a memory book, and a scrapbook album related to the experiences of Margaret Gruenbaum and her children, Marietta anda Michael, in Theresienstadt concentration camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.
Date: 1940-1945
Metal horse-shaped pin made in Theresienstadt concentration camp
Object
Pin given to Margaret Gruenbaum in the Theresienstadt concentration camp by a fellow inmate who worked with her in the camp workshop. Margaret worked in the art studio making artificial flowers, toys, and stage sets for various Terezin productions. Her job in the workshop may have saved her family from deportation to Auschwitz death camp. When the family received orders for deportation in the autumn of 1944, Margaret was able to help her boss, the Dutch artist, Josef Spier, convince a camp guard that her work - creating teddy bears and others toys for Germans for the Christmas season - was important enough to keep her, and her children, 14 year old Marietta, and 12 year old Michael, in Terezin. The guard removed them from the transport list. The Gruenbaum family were Czech Jews who had been deported from Prague to Theresienstadt on November 20, 1942. They were liberated from Theresienstadt on May 8, 1945, by the Soviet Army.
Metal flower pin made in Theresienstadt concentration camp
Object
Pin given to Margaret Gruenbaum in the Theresienstadt concentration camp by a fellow inmate who worked with her in the camp workshop. Margaret worked in the art studio making artificial flowers, toys, and stage sets for various Terezin productions. Her job in the workshop may have saved her family from deportation to Auschwitz death camp. When the family received the orders for deportation in the autumn of 1944, Margaret was able to help her boss, the Dutch artist, Josef Spier, convince a camp guard that her work - creating teddy bears and others toys for Germans for the Christmas season - was important enough to keep her, and her children, 14 year old Marietta, and 12 year old Michael, in Terezin. The guard removed them from the transport list. The Gruenbaum family were Czech Jews who had been deported from Prague to Theresienstadt on November 20, 1942. They were liberated from Theresienstadt on May 8, 1945, by the Soviet Army.
Miniature metal picture frame pendant made in Theresienstadt concentration camp
Object
Pendant given to Margaret Gruenbaum in the Theresienstadt concentration camp by a fellow inmate who worked with her in the camp workshop. Margaret worked in the art studio making artificial flowers, toys, and stage sets for various Terezin productions. Her job in the workshop may have saved her family from deportation to the Auschwitz death camp. When the family received the orders for deportation, in the autumn of 1944, Margaret was able to help her boss, the Dutch artist, Josef Spier, convince a camp guard that her work - creating teddy bears and others toys for Germans for the Christmas season - was important enough to keep her, and her children, 14 year old Marietta, and 12 year old Michael, in Terezin. The guard removed them from the transport list. The Gruenbaum family were Czech Jews who had been deported from Prague to Theresienstadt on November 20, 1942. They were liberated from Theresienstadt on May 8, 1945, by the Soviet Army.
Miniature metal landscape scene made in Theresienstadt concentration camp
Object
Miniature metalwork given to Margaret Gruenbaum in the Theresienstadt concentration camp by a fellow inmate who worked with her in the camp workshop. Margaret worked in the art studio making artificial flowers, toys, and stage sets for various Terezin productions. Her job in the workshop may have saved her family from deportation to the Auschwitz death camp. When the family received the orders for deportation in the autumn of 1944, Margaret was able to help her boss, the Dutch artist, Josef Spier, convince a camp guard that her work - creating teddy bears and others toys for Germans for the Christmas season - was important enough to keep her, and her children, 14 year old Marietta and 12 year old Michael, in Terezin. The guard removed them from the transport list. The Gruenbaum family were Czech Jews who had been deported from Prague to Theresienstadt on November 20, 1942. They were liberated from Theresienstadt on May 8, 1945, by the Soviet Army.
Michael Gruenbaum collection
Document
Collection consists of a large scrapbook with a burlap cover, small memory book, and several documents. Consists of one album created by Margaret Gruenbaum, mother of the donor, while imprisoned in Terezin. Includes cloth badges, receipts, notifications, flyers, stamps, artwork and other documents collected in wartime Terezin. Also includes one memory book, entitled "Pamatnik" created by Michael Gruenbaum and friends while living in Room 7, Building L 417 in Terezin. Includes translations of the memory book, of poetry written by Michael and the other children, and loose documents from Terezin.
Gold pendant made in Theresienstadt concentration camp
Object
Pendant given to Margaret Gruenbaum in the Theresienstadt concentration camp by a fellow inmate who worked with her in the camp workshop. Margaret worked in the art studio making artificial flowers, toys, and stage sets for various Terezin productions. Her job in the workshop may have saved her family from deportation to the Auschwitz death camp. When the family received the orders for deportation, in the autumn of 1944, Margaret was able to help her boss, the Dutch artist, Josef Spier, convince a camp guard that her work - creating teddy bears and others toys for Germans for the Christmas season - was important enough to keep her, and her children, 14 year old Marietta, and 12 year old Michael, in Terezin. The guard removed them from the transport list. The Gruenbaum family were Czech Jews who had been deported from Prague to Theresienstadt on November 20, 1942. They were liberated from Theresienstadt on May 8, 1945, by the Soviet Army.