Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of two Russian ruble coins and a HIAS pin relating to the experiences of Shanke (Sonia) Minuskin, her husband Shlamke, and their two children, Henikel and Kalmanke, while living in hiding in Bialowieza Forest in Poland and Belarus during the Holocaust and in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Harold Minuskin, the son of Sam and Sonia Minuskin.
Browse 3 Items In This Collection
Souvenir pin with the words HIAS and Bremen and two boxes given to a young Jewish Polish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.416.1 a-c
Imperial Russia, gold 10 ruble coin saved by a Jewish Polish family living in hiding with partisans
Object | Accession Number: 2010.416.2
use: 1942-1944
Imperial Russia, gold 5 ruble coin saved by a Jewish Polish family living with partisans
Object | Accession Number: 2010.416.3
use: 1942-1944
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- 2023-02-24 11:21:30
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