Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of a blanket, a pin, a pouch, a towel, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of Franka Rosenblum and Julian Hirshfeld and their families in Poland and several concentration camps during the Holocaust and in a displaced persons camp in Paris, France, where they married after the end of World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 by Frances Rosenbum Hirshfeld, the wife of Julian Hirshfeld.
Browse 13 Items In This Collection
Book
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.1
received: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
received: 1945 April
Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1993.27.2
Small white bag with a button saved from the coat of a young Jewish girl deported to Auschwitz
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.5
received: 1945 June
Life (New York, New York) [Magazine]
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.31
Bath towel acquired by Polish Jewish woman after her escape during a forced march from Ravensbrück
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.32
use: 1945 May-1946
Wool blanket with a black, red, and cream plaid pattern acquired by a Polish Jewish woman after her escape during a forced march from Ravensbrück
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.33
found: 1945 April-1946
Metal pin made for a former concentration camp inmate with her prisoner number and the camps where she was held
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.34
commemoration: 1943-1945
Frances Hirshfeld photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1993.147
Commemorative FNDIRP button cover engraved 178284 acquired by a Jewish Polish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.257.1
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