Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Red collection box with Nazi insignia used by the NSDAP [National Socialist German Workers' Party] to collect contributions during the Winter Hilfswerk, a charity campaign for the relief of the German people.
- Date
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use:
approximately 1935
- Geography
-
use:
Vienna (Austria)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Bloomfield-Oberholtzer Family
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Containers
- Category
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Metal containers
- Object Type
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Collection boxes (Fund raising equipment) (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Circular red metal box with a handle. It has a paper label imprinted with German text with the Nazi national insignia in background. There is a narrow slot for coins and a hole with a label for paper currency at the top.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Diameter: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm)
- Materials
- overall : metal, paint, paper, ink
- Inscription
- on paper label, black ink : Winter-Hilfswerk des Deutchen Volkes / Gau Wien [Winter Relief of the German People / Vienna District
top, on paper label, black ink : papier geld / Vienna, Austria(?)
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 collection box was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by the Bloomfield-Oberholtzer Family.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-01 09:31:12
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn516094
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