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Maud Michal Beer family collection

Collection
Collection Summary
The collection consists of a sewing box, two pillowcases, six tablecloths, correspondence, documents, photographs, and a siddur relating to the experiences of Käthe Steiner Stecklmacher, her daughters, Maud and Karmela, and her family before the Holocaust in Prostejov, Czechosloavakia, during the Holocaust in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp, as well as to the experiences of Shimon Beer and his family in Brno and Prostejov and his service in the Jewish Brigade before, during, and after the Holocaust.
Provenance
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 and 2015 by Maud Michal Stecklmacher Beer, the wife of Shimon Beer.
Date
approximately 1939-1950
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Maud Michal Beer papers

Document | Accession Number: 2012.342.1

Red leather sewing box recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish woman

Object | Accession Number: 2012.342.2

Geography
creation: Prostejov (Czech Republic)
recovery: Prostejov (Czech Republic)
Date
recovered:  1945 May
Red leather sewing box recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish woman
Book

Publication | Accession Number: 2012.342.3 a-b

Geography
publication: Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
received: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Date
publication/distribution:  1936
received:  1943 February
Book
White lace pillowcase returned to Czech Jewish concentration camp inmates postwar

Object | Accession Number: 2012.342.4

Geography
recovery: Prostejov (Czech Republic)
Date
use:  before 1942 July
recovered:  1945 May
White lace pillowcase returned to Czech Jewish concentration camp inmates postwar
White pillowcase with lace and an MS monogram returned to Czech Jewish concentration camp inmates postwar

Object | Accession Number: 2012.342.5

Geography
recovery: Prostejov (Czech Republic)
Date
use:  before 1942 July
recovered:  1945 May
White pillowcase with lace and an MS monogram returned to Czech Jewish concentration camp inmates postwar
Circular white tablecloth saved by a by Czech Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2012.342.6

Geography
use: Brno (Czech Republic)
Circular white tablecloth saved by a by Czech Jewish refugee
Rectangular white tablecloth saved by a by Czech Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2012.342.7

Geography
use: Brno (Czech Republic)
Rectangular white tablecloth saved by a by Czech Jewish refugee
White cotton tablecloth with floral motifs saved by a by Czech Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2012.342.8

Geography
use: Brno (Czech Republic)
White cotton tablecloth with floral motifs saved by a by Czech Jewish refugee
Square white tablecloth with floral motifs saved by a by Czech Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2012.342.9

Geography
use: Brno (Czech Republic)
Square white tablecloth with floral motifs saved by a by Czech Jewish refugee
Square white cotton tablecloth saved by a by Czech Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2012.342.10

Geography
use: Brno (Czech Republic)
Square white cotton tablecloth saved by a by Czech Jewish refugee
Square white cotton tablecloth saved by a by Czech Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2012.342.11

Geography
use: Brno (Czech Republic)
Square white cotton tablecloth saved by a by Czech Jewish refugee
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