Overview
- Description
- Contains a photograph of Eve Rich as a child; two photographs of a camp after liberation; a postwar photograph of Eve Rich with Nathan Rich, the man who would become her husband; two telegrams received by the donor aboard the "S.S. Marine Flasher," June 1948; and an obituary for Col. Bernard McKahon, who helped liberate Majdanek, where Eva Rich was imprisoned.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eve Rich Blumberg
- Collection Creator
- Eve R. Blumberg
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs. Telegrams.
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The Eve Rich Blumberg collection is arranged in a single series.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Eve Rich donated the Eve Rich Blumberg collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-08 07:30:25
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn548960
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Also in Eve Rich Blumberg collection
Necklace with two pendants, a cross and the Virgin Mary
Object
Given to Eve Rich by a group of nuns who put it on her neck and told her that it would save her life.
Blouse
Object
The nuns gave this blouse to Eva Rich after they could no longer hide her. They sought to make her appear to be a Polish peasant rather than a Jew. She wore the blouse under her clothes while in Majdanek. Given to Eve Rich by nuns who had hid her during the Holocaust.
Prayer book
Object
Prayer book given to Eva Rich along with a cross necklace. The nuns gave it to her and asked that she memorize it in case of captured by the German police.
