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Ruth Mondschein Zimbler collection

Collection

Collection Summary: The collection consists of three handkerchiefs, a cloth case, three children's books, Jewish prayer books, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ruth Mondschein and her family in Vienna, Austria, and as a Kindertransport refugee in the Netherlands with her younger brother before the Holocaust, as well as the family's separate journeys to the United States in 1939.
Provenance: The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 and 2011 by Ruth Mondschein Zimbler.
Date: 1934-1940

Geography: creation: Hague (Netherlands)
Date: creation: approximately 1939 January
Geography: received: Hague (Netherlands)
Date: commemoration: 1939 February 22
Geography: received: Hague (Netherlands)
Date: commemoration: 1939 February 22
Geography: received: Hague (Netherlands)
Date: received: 1939 January-1939 September
Geography: publication: Stuttgart (Germany)
Date: publication: 1912
Geography: publication: Stuttgart (Germany)
Date: publication: approximately 1930-approximately 1935
Geography: publication: Gotha (Germany)
Date: publication: approximately 1906
Geography: publication: Vienna (Austria)
manufacture: Bratislava (Slovakia)
Date: publication: 1894
Geography: publication: Vienna (Austria)
Date: publication: 1904
Geography: publication: Vienna (Austria)
Geography: publication: Vienna (Austria)
Date: publication: 1926
Geography: publication: Vienna (Austria)
Date: publication: 1912
Geography: publication: Vienna (Austria)
Geography: publication: Vienna (Austria)
manufacture: Bratislava (Slovakia)
Date: publication: 1883
Date: publication: 1894
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