Nina Kaleska collection
Collection
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of a handmade pin and two religious medallions relating to the experiences of Nelly Kalecka (later Nina Kaleska) in Rechlin concentration camp in Germany, one of several camps where she was imprisoned during the Holocaust, and to her postwar experiences in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 by Nina Kaleska.
- Date
- 1943-1946
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- Geography
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received :
Rechlin (Concentration camp);
Rechlin (Germany)
- Date
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1945 April 11
- Geography
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received :
Prague (Czech Republic)
- Date
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1946
- Geography
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found :
concentration camp transport;
Germany
- Date
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1943-1945
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Record last modified: 2018-08-22 16:03:35
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Handmade pin embroidered with her prisoner number made for a concentration camp inmate on her 16th birthday
Object | Accession Number: 2009.359.1
L'Enfant Jesus Miraculeux de Prague [Miraculous Infant Jesus of Prague] medallion given to an young Austrian Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2009.359.2
![L'Enfant Jesus Miraculeux de Prague [Miraculous Infant Jesus of Prague] medallion given to an young Austrian Jewish woman](https://www.ushmm.org/media/emu/get?irn=39863&mm_irn=16944&file=thumb "L'Enfant Jesus Miraculeux de Prague [Miraculous Infant Jesus of Prague] medallion given to an young Austrian Jewish woman")
Medallion with Moses and the S'hma prayer found by a young Jewish woman on a camp transport
Object | Accession Number: 2009.359.3
