Overview
- Brief Narrative
- French resistance printing machine. This wooden printing machine was made for the French resistance who used it to falsify documents.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
- Contributor
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Artisan:
Maurice Bursztyn
Physical Details
- Classification
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Tools and Equipment
- Category
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Printing equipment and supplies
- Object Type
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Printing presses (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- brown wooden case; wooden rollers and mechanisms inside; large metal crank attatched to outside; reinforced metal corners
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 5.310 inches (13.487 cm) | Width: 10.120 inches (25.705 cm) | Depth: 9.880 inches (25.095 cm)
- Materials
- overall : wood, metal, felt, leather
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The printing press was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:21:33
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn4369
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Also in David Diamant collection
The David Diamant collection includes papers documenting members of the French Resistance, a poster, and a printing press.
Date: 1943-1944
David Diamant papers
Document
The David Diamant papers include Diamant’s forged identity card and work certificate under his alias Alexandre Nagy, a forged identity card under the alias Marc Sylvain Camus for another member of the French Resistance, and the last letters of French Resistance members Henri Bajtsztok and Maurice Fingercwajg before their executions.
Poster
Object
Political poster of the French resistance group Manouchian network. In February of 1944, this poster appeared all over France. The Gestapo executed these men. Their leader was an Armenian name Missak Manouchian. The Poster was meant to make an example of these ten partisans whose faces appear.
