Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Knapsack carried by Ruth Berkowicz when she was fleeing from Warsaw, Poland, to Japan during the Holocaust.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ruth Berkowicz Segal
Physical Details
- Classification
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Containers
- Category
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Luggage
- Object Type
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Backpacks (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Square body of light gold canvas and a drawstring opening with a canvas flap that fastens to the body by a leather-metal buckle. Attached near the bottom of the body are two canvas pockets with canvas flaps that fasten by leather-metal buckles. Attached on the verso of the body at the upper center is a metal ring with two leather straps that attach to leather-metal buckles at the bottom corners of the body.
- Materials
- overall : leather, metal
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The knapsack was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by Ruth Berkowicz Segal.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:28:22
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511002
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