Textile with embroidered names

Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.3

Date: 1865-2001 (inclusive)
1901-1957 (bulk)
Classification: Decorative Arts
Category: Needlework
Object Type: Wall hangings (lcsh)
Genre/Form: Photographs.
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Estate of Anita and Rudolf Fellner

Physical Description: piece of fabric, possibly burlap, with a series of names and the dates 1940-1946 embroidered in several different colors.
Dimensions: overall : 17.000 x 23.500 in. (43.18 x 59.69 cm.)
Materials: overall : cloth, thread
Topical Term: Kindertransport (Rescue operations)--Great Britain.
Jewish children in the Holocaust--Germany.
Jewish musicians--Austria--Vienna.
Jewish families--Austria--Vienna.
Jewish families--Germany.
United States--Army.
Restitution and indemnification claims (1933-)--Germany.
Emigration and immigration--United States.
Emigration and immigration--Palestine.
Geographic Name: Vienna (Austria)
Cardiff (Wales)
Palestine.
Italy.
Personal Name: Fellner, Rudolf, 1913-2011.
Fellner, Anita, 1925-2011.
Fellner, Eugen, 1888-1942.
Fellner, Stefanie, 1887-1974.
Corporate Name: Ferramonti (Concentration camp)
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The embroidered wall hanging was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by the children of Anita and Rudi Fellner on behalf of the Estate.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2017-08-17 11:46:07
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Also in Rudolf and Anita Heufeld Fellner collection

The collection consists of a handkerchief, an embroidered textile, a pendant, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Rudolf Fellner and Anita Heufeld (Fellner) and other family members in Austria and Germany during and after the Holocaust, when Rudolf emigrated from Vienna to the United States and then served in the United States Army, his parents Eugen and Stefanie were shipwrecked during their 1940 emigration and interned, and Anita left Fischach, Germany, on a Kinderstransport. Accretion: Correspondence between Anita Heufeld and her family Correspondence between Rudolf Fellner and his family Correspondence between Anita Heufeld and Rudolf Fellner Documents related to the Fellner family in Slovakia prior to boarding the Pentcho Misc. documents and photographs related to the experiences of the Fellner and Heufeld families Book compiled by Jane Fellner describing the experiences of Stefanie Fellner

Fellner family papers

Document

The Fellner family papers document the immigration experiences of Rudolf and Anita Fellner, along with other family members, trying to escape Nazi persecution Austria and Germany in 1938-1939. The papers include identification papers, immigration papers, and photographs related to Rudolf’s emigration from Vienna, Austria to the United States, his conducting career, and his service in the United States Army; Anita Fellner’s emigration from Fischach, Germany via a Kindertransport; and the emigration difficulties Rudolf’s parents Eugen and Stefanie faced when leaving Vienna on the SS Pentcho, which shipwrecked near Greece in 1940, their time in makeshift refugee camps at Rhodes, Greece and the Ferramonti concentration camp in Italy.