Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Purse made while interned in Gurs camp
- Geography
-
creation:
Gurs (Concentration camp);
Gurs (France)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ruth Saffro
- Contributor
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Artisan:
Johanna Z. Neumann
Physical Details
- Classification
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Dress Accessories
- Category
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Carried dress accessories
- Object Type
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Handbags (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Braided reeds wrapped in circles to form sides of purse and handles.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 4.490 inches (11.405 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 0.240 inches (0.61 cm)
- Materials
- overall : reed
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The purse was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Ruth Newmann Saffro, the daughter of Johanna Zwang Neumann.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-10-03 11:44:10
- This page:
- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn3832
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