Blanket
- Classification
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Furnishings and Furniture
- Category
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Household linens
- Object Type
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Blankets (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Nachman Salic
Wool blanket or "cergi" typical of Maramures region, formerly Transylvania composed of dark brown and light brown stripes. Blankets were taken to Auschwitz with Abraham Weissner (donor's wife's grandfather) and his daughter Gizela Naday. Abraham died of starvation in Auschwitz and Gizela took both blankets to an airplane factory in Mittelstein and to Weisswasser where she was liberated. She returned to Baia Mare after the war. The shorter blanket belonged to Abraham
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Record last modified: 2022-10-17 08:45:06
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Two wool blankets or "cergi" typical of Maramures region, formerly Transylvania; milk strainer used by Weissner family; circa 1945
Metal milk strainer used by a farm family
Object
Milk strainer used by the Weissner family, circa 1945.
Blanket
Object
Wool blanket or "cergi" typical of Maramures region, formerly Transylvania composed of dark brown and light brown stripes. Blankets were taken to Auschwitz with Abraham Weissner (donor's wife's grandfather) and his daughter Gizela Naday. Abraham died of starvation in Auschwitz and Gizela took both blankets to an airplane factory in Mittelstein and to Weisswasser where she was liberated. She returned to Baia Mare after the war. The shorter blanket belonged to Abraham
