Overview
- Date
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use:
after 1945 April 25
- Geography
-
use:
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp);
Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
manufacture: Paris (France)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eva Deutsch
- Markings
- reverse, maker's mark, engraved : Apollo Nox
- Contributor
-
Subject:
Eva Moskovits Deutsch
Manufacturer: Apollonox
- Biography
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Eva Moskovits (later Deutsch) was deported from Targu Mures to Auschwitz concentration camp on May 28, 1944. She was assigned prisoner number 54993. After four months, she was sent to a slave labor camp near Teplice, where she worked from October 4, 1944, to April 25, 1945. She was then sent to Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia where she was liberated by Soviet troops on May 8, 1945.
Physical Details
- Classification
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Household Utensils
- Category
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Flatware
- Object Type
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Forks (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Four pronged iron alloy metal fork with a ridged handle and a maker's mark engraved on the back.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)
- Materials
- overall : metal
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 fork was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Eva Deutsch.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-10-07 11:10:34
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn520271
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