Denes-Deszo and Borbala Nussbacher Herskovits collection

Collection

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.
Date: 1941-1943

Geography: use: Ditra (Concentration camp); Ditrau (Romania)
use: Gunskirchen (Concentration camp); Gunskirchen (Austria)
manufacture: Berlin (Germany)
Date: use: approximately 1941-1945
manufacture: approximately 1930
Geography: use: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Oświęcim (Poland)
use: Kaiserwald (Concentration camp); Riga (Latvia)
use: Stutthof (Concentration camp); Sztutowo (Poland)
Date: use: approximately 1944 May-1945 May
Date: creation: 1943
: Record last modified: 2022-07-28 18:26:49
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