Overview
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the family of Henry and Inge Oertelt
Physical Details
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Armbands
- Object Type
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Armbands (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Rectangular red cotton armband with a central woven horizontal white stripe. Sewn to the center is a 2.5 inch white cotton square, en pointe, with a woven black canted swastika. The armband is sewn closed along the short ends with a machine finished seam and finished side edges.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm)
- Materials
- overall : cotton, thread
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The armband was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Corey L. Samuels, granddaughter of Henry and Inge Oertelt and daughter of Stephanie Oertelt-Samuels, on behalf of the the family of Henry and Inge Oertelt.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-09-06 11:36:12
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Also in Henry Oertelt and Inge Fromm Oertelt families collection
The collection consists of a Star of David badge, Hitler Youth armband, photographs, copy prints, identity card, written testimony and presentations relating to the experiences of Henry Oertelt during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Flossenburg, his postwar marriage to Inge Fromm in Germany, as well as materials used and received by Henry Oertelt and his daughter Stephanie Ortelt-Samuels during presentations about his experiences.
Date: 1924-2008
Oertelt and Fromm families papers
Document
The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Henry Oertelt of Berlin, Germany. Included are presentation scripts of his story authored by Henry and his daughter Stephanie Oertelt Samuels, pre-war photographs of his wife Inge Fromm’s family, an identification card of Inge’s mother Erma Fromm, copy prints of liberation camp photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and video recordings of presentations done by Henry.
