Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Milk strainer used by the Weissner family, circa 1945.
- Date
-
use:
approximately 1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Nachman Salic
Physical Details
- Classification
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Tools and Equipment
- Category
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Farming equipment
- Object Type
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Milk strainers (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Metal strainer with a tapered spout and a round perforated base
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
- Materials
- overall : metal
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The milk strainer was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Nachman Salic.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:10:51
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515150
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Two wool blankets or "cergi" typical of Maramures region, formerly Transylvania; milk strainer used by 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
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
