Cap worn by a young girl in a concentration camp

Object | Accession Number: 1991.111.1

Overview

Brief Narrative: Cap was given to Ruth Blocher upon arrival in Stuthoff Concentration Camp.
Date: issue: approximately 1944
Geography: issue: Stutthof (Concentration camp); Sztutowo (Poland)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ruth Blocher
Contributor: Subject: Ruth Blocher
Biography: Ruth Blocher was born Rochelle Bolber in Wilno, Poland in 1925. In 1941, when the Germans occupied Wilno, she and her family (her parents and her two sisters) were interned in the Wilno ghetto for two years. After the ghetto, they were sent to Poland and Estonia to different camps. One of the camps was Stutthof concentration camp in Poland where Ruth's father and younger sister perished.

Classification: Dress Accessories
Category: Headgear
Object Type: Caps (Headgear) (lcsh)
Physical Description: Dark greenish/gray skull cap; single ribbed knit fabric stitched together at back, top; black fabric chin strap, right side [appears to be a later addition] with small fragment of the left-side chin strap.
Dimensions: overall: Height: 8.270 inches (21.006 cm) | Width: 7.640 inches (19.406 cm)
Materials: overall : wool, cotton

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The cap was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by Ruth Blocher.