Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of a safety razor and a photograph relating to the experiences of Denes-Deszo Herskovits, when he was a forced laborer in Hungary and an inmate in Gunskirchen concentration camp in Austria, and a lice comb belonging to Borbala (Babi) Nussbacher (later Herskovits), when she was deported from Szilagysomlyo ghetto in Hungarian annexed Romania to Auschwitz, then Riga, Stutthof, Guttau, and Neumark concentration camps.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Miriam Shelef, the daughter of Denes-Deszo and Borbala Nussbacher Herskovits.
Browse 3 Items In This Collection
Rotbart Mond-Extra safety razor with blade used by a Romanian Jewish prisoner
Object | Accession Number: 2012.453.1 a-b
use: Gunskirchen (Concentration camp); Gunskirchen (Austria)
manufacture: Berlin (Germany)
manufacture: approximately 1930
Brown plastic lice comb used by a Romanian Jewish woman concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2012.453.2
use: Kaiserwald (Concentration camp); Riga (Latvia)
use: Stutthof (Concentration camp); Sztutowo (Poland)
Denes-Deszo "Duzsi" Herskovits photograph
Document | Accession Number: 2012.453.3
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