Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of artwork, medals, Star of David badges, books, correspondence, documents, and musical scores relating to the experiences of Moritz and Hildegard Henschel before and during the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, and after the Holocaust in Israel.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Yoel Givol and Michal Lilli Kahani, the grandchildren of Hildegard and Moritz Henschel.
Browse 44 Items In This Collection
Moritz and Hildegard Henschel papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.361.1 | RG Number: RG-24.021
Book
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.2
use: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
use: approximately 1944-1945 May
Book
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.3
use: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
use: approximately 1944-1945 May
Drawing of Jewish Council member as circus ringmaster drawn by camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.4
creation: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Signed print of rabbi saved by German Jewish camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.5
creation: before 1929
Jo Spier watercolor of people dancing through a gate and given to another inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.6
received: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
received: approximately 1944 January 26
Watercolor of an oasis with animals made for a German Jewish camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.7
creation: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
creation: 1944 April 29
WWI Red Cross merit medal, 3rd class awarded to German Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.8
Iron Cross, 2nd class, 2 ribbons, and box awarded to a German Jewish soldier for bravery in WWI
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.9 a-d
received: Berlin (Germany)
commemoration: 1914-1918
Star of David badge imprinted Jude worn by a German Jew
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.10
use: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Star of David badge imprinted Jude worn by a German Jew
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.11
use: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Star of David badge imprinted Jude worn by a German Jew
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.12
use: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Star of David badge imprinted Jude worn by a German Jew
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.13
use: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Star of David badge imprinted Jude worn by a German Jew
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.14
use: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Drawing of woman scrubbing floor given to German Jewish inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.15
Portrait of a Theresienstadt inmate drawn by another inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.16
creation: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
received: 1943 June-1945 May
Fighter against the Nazis Medal and box awarded to Jewish Brigade veteran
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.17 a-b
British Defence Medal 1939-1945 ribbon awarded to Jewish Brigade veteran
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.18
WWI Red Cross medal ribbon awarded to German Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.19
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, 10,000 kronen scrip band owned by inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.20
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.21
issue: 1943 January
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.22
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.23
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.24
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.25
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.26
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.27
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.28
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, 5,000 kronen scrip band by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.29
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.30
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.31
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.32
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.33
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.34
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.35
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.36
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, 5,000 kronen scrip band owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.37
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.38
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.39
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.40
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.41
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.42
issue: 1943 January 01
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note owned by former inmates
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.43
issue: 1943 January 01
Watercolor of flowers given to German Jewish couple in camp
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.44
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