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Emma Jonas family collection

Collection
Collection Summary
The collection consists of two armbands, mica flakes, six Theresienstadt scrip, a Star of David badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Emma Jonas and her family in Berlin, Germany, before and during the Holocaust and to Emma's experiences in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the Holocaust and in Deggendorf displaced persons camp after the war.
Provenance
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Helga Carden, the daughter of Emma Jonas.
Date
1939-1948
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Martin and Emma Jonas papers

Document | Accession Number: 2004.230.1

Date
1939-1948

Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate

Object | Accession Number: 2004.230.2

Geography
issue: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
received: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Date
issue:  1943 January 01
received:  1944 November-1945 May

Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, issued to German Jewish inmate

Object | Accession Number: 2004.230.3

Geography
issue: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
received: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Date
issue:  1943 January 01
received:  1944 November-1945 May

Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, issued to German Jewish inmate

Object | Accession Number: 2004.230.4

Geography
issue: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
received: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Date
issue:  1943 January 01
received:  1944 November-1945 May

Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note, issued to German Jewish inmate

Object | Accession Number: 2004.230.5

Geography
issue: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
received: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Date
issue:  1943 January 01
received:  1944 November-1945 May

Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note, issued to German Jewish inmate

Object | Accession Number: 2004.230.6

Geography
issue: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
received: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Date
issue:  1943 January 01
received:  1944 November-1945 May

Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note issued to German Jewish inmate

Object | Accession Number: 2004.230.7

Geography
issue: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
received: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Date
issue:  1943 January 01
received:  1944 November-1945 May

Star of David badge printed Jude worn by a German Jewish woman

Object | Accession Number: 2004.230.8

Geography
use: Berlin (Germany)
use: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Date
use:  approximately 1942
Star of David badge printed Jude worn by a German Jewish woman

Handmade white armband inscribed Terezin worn by a female German Jewish inmate

Object | Accession Number: 2004.230.9

Geography
use: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Date
use:  1944 November-1945 May
Handmade white armband inscribed Terezin worn by a female German Jewish inmate

Handmade white armband embroidered K.Z.L. Terezin and worn by a female German Jewish inmate

Object | Accession Number: 2004.230.10

Geography
use: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Date
use:  1944 November-1945 May
Handmade white armband embroidered K.Z.L. Terezin and worn by a female German Jewish inmate

Mica flakes cut by a German Jewish female slave laborer

Object | Accession Number: 2004.230.11

Geography
received: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
Date
received:  after 1944 November-1945 May
 
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