Wood triangle
- Classification
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Tools and Equipment
- Category
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Measuring instruments
- Object Type
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Triangles (tools) (aat)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Renee Roll
Wood triangle used by Szyja Feldman for machine drawing.
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Also in Joshua and Fela Feldman collection
The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Szyja (Joshua) and Fela Winter Feldman after the Holocaust, during which Szyja was imprisoned in Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, in Switzerland and Sweden.
Pastilles au Menthol-Cocaine-Borax box
Object
Empty cardboard box that originally contained Menthol-Cocaine-Borax pastilles intended for medicinal use. The box was distribued by the Apotheke S. Geiger, Horlauben, Davos-Platz.
Mezuzah pendant
Object
Match brand razor blade
Object
Token depicting the bathhouse in a prison camp
Object
Token depicting the bathhouse in Bad Munder am Deister, Germany.
Brass tag with name Feldman
Object
Candle
Object
Metal implement
Object
Metal implement
Object
Metal implement
Object
Fountain pen nib
Object
Pencil
Object
Souvenir book of postcards of Marienheim Sanatorium
Object
Bound series of black and white postcards depicting the interior and exterior of Marienheim, a sanatorium in Bad Rehburg.
Pencil and ink drawing of geometric shapes
Object
Pencil and ink drawing done on the opposite side of a piece of lined notepaper.
Szyja (Joshua) Feldman collection
Document
Consists of photographs, papers, and artifacts relating to the post-war experiences of Szyja (Joshua) and Fela Winter Feldman. Includes letters from Szyja (also known as Salek) to family in the United States, official papers regarding restitution and emigration applications, photograph albums and papers from the Davos-Platz hospital in Switzerland, and a copy of "Letters to Salek," a biography of Mr. Feldman. "Letters from Salek" was written by a writer hired by Mr. Feldman's niece, Reneé Roll [donor]; the writer used Mr. Feldman's letters and papers to write his experiences as if it were his autobiography.
Set of cardboard templates
Object
English shorthand manual
Publication
Shorthand manual that belonged to the Judischen Gemeinschaft in Davos, Switzerland.
Machine drawing manual
Publication
Machine drawing handbook (a) with handmade cardboard measuring implement (b) and machine drawing (c) tucked inside. The manual was published by the Ort Union (Organization, Reconstruction, Travail), in Geneva. ORT is a Jewish trade organization that promoted the education and training of Jewish vocational and agricultural students and workers.
Handbook of regulations for sewer operation
Publication
Handbook on mechanical engineering
Publication
Handbook published by the Verein Schweizerischer Maschinenindustrieller (VSM), AKA the Standards Bureau of the Swiss Association of Machinery Manufacturers.
Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary
Publication
Published in 1945 in Tel-Aviv, Palestine. According to the donor this dictionary was given to her uncle, Szyja Feldman, when he arrived at Davos.
Mahzor book for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
Publication
Yizkor book for the Jewish community of Czestochowa
Publication
Yiddish language Yizkor (memorial) book about the Jews of Częstochowa, Poland. This book was published in 1947 by the United Czenstochover Relief Committee and Ladies Auxiliary.