Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of three musical instruments: two violins with fitted cases and a saxophone with a fitted case, as well as instrument accessories, relating to the experiences of Henry Baigelman and his family before and during their incarceration in the Łódź Ghetto in Poland, prior to their deportation to various concentration camps during the Holocaust and to Henry's recovery of the instruments and their use in his band, The Happy Boys, that toured displaced persons camps after the war.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Riva Berelson and Simon Baigelman on behalf of the Estate of Henry Baigelman.
Browse 3 Items In This Collection
Violin, bows, case and accessories recovered from Łódź ghetto and played in DP camps by a Polish Jewish musician
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.1 a-t
use: displaced persons camps; Germany
recovered: after 1945 February
Violin, bows, case and accessories recovered from Łódź ghetto and played in DP camps by a Polish Jewish musician
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.2 a-u
recovery: Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland); Łódź (Poland)
recovered: after 1945 February
Saxophone, case and accessories used by a Polish Jewish musician in a band that toured DP camps
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.3 a-ah
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