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Edgar Gaerber collection

Collection

Collection Summary: The collection consists of one paper note and five coins from the Łódź ghetto, an antisemitic calendar, seventeen false identification documents, and a publication relating to the experiences of Edgar Gaerber and his parents, Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber, during the Holocaust in Lvov, Poland (L'viv Ukraine) and in hiding in nearby towns and after the Holocaust in Łódź, Poland.
Provenance: The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Ed Gaerber.
Date: 1937-1945

Date: inclusive: 1937-1944
Geography: issue: Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland); Łódź (Poland)
Date: issue: 1940 May 15
Geography: issue: Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland); Łódź (Poland)
Date: issue: 1940 May 15
Geography: manufacture: Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland); Łódź (Poland)
Date: issue: 1943
Geography: manufacture: Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland); Łódź (Poland)
Date: issue: 1943
Geography: manufacture: Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland); Łódź (Poland)
Date: issue: 1943
Geography: manufacture: Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland); Łódź (Poland)
Date: issue: 1943
Geography: manufacture: Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland); Łódź (Poland)
Date: issue: 1943
Geography: publication: Poland
received: Poland
Date: publication/distribution: 1943
Geography: publication: Łódź (Poland)
Date: publication/distribution: 1945
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