Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Kato Ritter in Hungary and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Peterswaldau concentration camps and Gyorgy Frankfurter in Hungary and forced labor battalions before and during the Holocaust, and of Kato and Gyorgy in Feldafing displaced persons camp in Germany until their immigration to the United States in 1951.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by George and Katie Frankfurter.
Browse 19 Items In This Collection
George and Katie Frankfurter papers
Document | Accession Number: 2010.442.1
bulk: 1944-1951
undated:
Silver-plated cup made in a slave labor camp and later engraved with Kato Ritter's name
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.2
creation: approximately 1989
manufacture: 1944 May-1945 April
Small linen square with an embroidered boy and a bird recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.3
recovery: Vilmany (Hungary)
recovered: 1945 July
Small linen square with an embroidered girl recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.4
recovery: Vilmany (Hungary)
recovered: 1945 July
Challah cover with an embroidered blue flower recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.5
recovery: Vilmany (Hungary)
Table covering with elaborate whitework embroidery and a crocheted border recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.6
recovery: Vilmany (Hungary)
creation: 1910
Embroidery sampler depicting a woman and a cat recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.7
recovery: Vilmany (Hungary)
recovered: 1945 July
Large embroidered white pillowcase with scalloped edges recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.8
Large embroidered white pillowcase with scalloped edges recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.9
Large embroidered white pillowcase with scalloped edges recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.10
Large white pillowcase embroidered with a floral design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.11
Large white pillowcase embroidered with a floral design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.12
Large white pillowcase embroidered with a floral design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.13
Apron embroidered with a multicolored, floral garland recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.14
recovery: Vilmany (Hungary)
recovered: 1945 July
Tablecloth embroidered with a blue bird and flower design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.15
recovery: Vilmany (Hungary)
recovered: 1945 July
Fringed apron embroidered with a blue and orange geometric band recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.16
recovery: Vilmany (Hungary)
recovered: 1945 July
Table runner with a tatted and red embroidered design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.17
recovery: Vilmany (Hungary)
Tablecloth embroidered with a multicolored floral design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.18
recovery: Vilmany (Hungary)
Crocheted lace tablecloth with a rose and scrollwork design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.19
recovery: Vilmany (Hungary)
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