Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of a set of bookends,a glass bowl, brooch, case, cigarette lighter, gameboard, portfolio cover, shoulder badge, and stickpin relating to the experiences of Louis J. Walinsky while he was Director of the World ORT vocational schools in displaced persons camps in Germany in 1947.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988 by Louis J. Walinsky.
Browse 12 Items In This Collection
Handmade wooden checkers set presented to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.1
received: ORT School, DP camp; Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone)
received: 1947
Hand cast ORT bookends presented to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.2 a-b
received: ORT School, DP camp; Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone)
received: 1947
Glass bowl etched ORT presented to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.3
received: Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp), ORT School; Landsberg am Lech (Germany))
received: 1947
Black leather case presented to the Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.4
received: DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen, ORT school; Belsen (Bergen, Celle, Germany)
received: 1947
Cigarette lighter with Polish coins given to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.5
received: Ansbach (Displaced persons camp), ORT school; Ansbach (Mittelfranken, Germany)
received: 1947
ORT stickpin presented to Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.6
received: ORT School, DP camp; Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone)
received: 1947
ORT shoulder badge owned by the Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.7
Book
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.20
Women's American ORT reporter (New York, New York) [Newspaper]
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.21
Monogrammed leather binder made for Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.22
received: Esslingen (Displaced persons camp), ORT school; Esslingen am Neckar (Germany)
received: 1947
Silver brooch of a 3 masted ship given to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.23
received: Ebelsberg (Displaced persons camp), ORT school; Ebelsberg (Austria)
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